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Nathan Farlow
Personal blog · farlow.devprogrammingsecurityhardware
Nathan Farlow's personal blog at farlow.dev covers programming, security and hardware. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Running modern code on a 1960s UNIVAC computer via a RISC V emulator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked alongside a GitHub repo for the UNIVAC-1219 in a thread about programming that machine. The linked post is titled around running a Minecraft server. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Running modern code on a 1960s UNIVAC computer via a RISC V emulator4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
What Hacker News says?
https://github.com/TheScienceElf/UNIVAC-1219 https://farlow.dev/2026/04/17/running-a-minecraft-server-and...
Comment linking /2026/04/17/running-a-minecraft-server-and-more-on-a-1960s-univac-computer
on “Programming the Univac-1219 [video]”Submitted Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator as a story · 110 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encoding SAT in OCaml GADTs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time-Locked Cryptography as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting a Buggy Zilog C Compiler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Analysis of Poptropica's Mancala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running modern code on a 1960s UNIVAC computer via a RISC V emulator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser as a story · 1 points
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