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Natepod
Personal blog · natecull.org/wordpressprogrammingsystemsculture
Natepod is a personal blog at natecull.org about programming, systems and culture. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Nate Cull's Dataspace series, an ongoing attempt at rethinking computation covering topics like S-expressions, graph serialization and in-memory data representation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This belongs to a series of blog posts [0] by Nate Cull. He subtitled it: "An attempt at rethinking computation. Periodically updated." A refreshing read. [0] http://natecull.org/wordpress/dataspace/
Comment linking /wordpress/dataspace/
on “Dataspace 3: It Came from the S-Expressions”Submitted Dataspace 3: It Came from the S-Expressions as a story · 60 points
HN discussionA free-form graph is hard to serialize. If the goal is to have the syntax close to the meaning, tree terms are simpler, and then graphs can be modeled on top of them. As for lists of lists, the most recent article uses them for an in-memory optimized representation: http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-arr...
Comment linking /wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/
on “Dataspace 0: Those Memex dreams again”Submitted Dataspace 0: Those Memex dreams again as a story · 55 points
HN discussion