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Nathan Ho
Personal blog · nathan.ho.name/postssciencemathculture
Nathan Ho's personal blog at nathan.ho.name covers science, math and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Ho's posts on experimental sound synthesis, such as pulsar and breakpoint synthesis, and on using L-systems and turtle programming in spreadsheets. One commenter says they enjoyed the pulsar synthesis sounds.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I really enjoyed the pulsar synthesis sounds: https://nathan.ho.name/posts/pulsar-synthesis/ Very Aphex twin.
Comment linking /posts/pulsar-synthesis/
on “An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems”Submitted An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems as a story · 90 points
HN discussionIn this case, web search with site:XX.name worked better than the LLM. Breakpoint synthesis https://nathan.ho.name/posts/nonstandard-oscillators/ Box tone isn't a term I'm familiar with, but from context the author seems to be talking about the sound contributed by an instrument's soundboard or cabinet. EDIT: Another possibility, https://gearspace.com/board/mastering-forum/1401491-box-tone...
Comment linking /posts/nonstandard-oscillators/
on “Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic”Submitted Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionpart 3 of "From Memex to Hypercard" commentary: "aligning/compressing planes" For the final installment, merge the diamond and square excel screens/sheets to align/line things (compress) using l-systems[0][1][2][3] / turtle programing[4][5][6] Basic execl l-system concept, is each cell in given square sheet column (highlighted with color of interest) has list of all corresponding similar diamond cells of same color.…
Comment linking /posts/sound-synthesis-with-l-systems/
on “Ask HN: Does anyone teach spreadsheet architecture?”Submitted Symmetric 7-Venn Diagrams as a Musical Interface as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Approach to Sound Synthesis with L-Systems as a story · 1 points
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