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Paolo Amoroso

Personal blog · journal.paoloamoroso.com · on HN as pamorosoprogrammingsystems

Paolo Amoroso's personal blog at journal.paoloamoroso.com covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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38mentions?
16HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2024

Tech projects, hobby programming, and geeky thoughts of Paolo Amoroso

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pamoroso · 404 karma · member since 2020

Astronomy and space popularizer, Lisp and retrocomputing enthusiast. Blog: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-15
  2. Testing Practical Common Lisp Code on Medley Interlisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
  3. Reading Recursion via Pascal
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-26
  4. Why I Use a Chromebox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-06
  5. My Encounter with Medley Interlisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's the list of the tech and creator newsletters I subscribe to, I recommend all of them (each entry has a short description): https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-favorite-tech-and-creato...

    Comment linking /my-favorite-tech-and-creator-newsletters

    on “Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?”
  2. Submitted Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp" as a story · 197 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm the author of the shared post and I blogged about the reactions to it, thanks all for the feedback: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reactions-to-my-post-on-can...

    Comment linking /reactions-to-my-post-on-cancelling-the-replit-subscription

    on “I cancelled my Replit subscription”
  4. Submitted Rediscovering Turbo Pascal as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  5. > but I assumed Lisp hackers would be on something beefier. He’s using an “Intel CORE i7 ASUS Chromebox 3 with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage”. https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-use-a-chromebox Previously discussed here, oddly enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743576

    Comment linking /why-i-use-a-chromebox

    on “I cancelled my Replit subscription”
  6. Submitted Exploring Interlisp-10 and Twenex as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  7. I maintain a list of the tech and creator newsletters I subscribe to: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-favorite-tech-and-creato...

    Comment linking /my-favorite-tech-and-creator-newsletters

    on “Ask HN: What are some newsletters that you enjoy?”
  8. Submitted I cancelled my Replit subscription as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  9. Most popular post on my new blog: The challenges of picking a blogging platform for technical writing https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/the-challenges-of-picking-a... Most popular post on my old blog: How to Limit Data Usage on Tethered Android Devices https://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2020/02/how-to-limit-data-usag...

    Comment linking /the-challenges-of-picking-a-blogging-platform-for-technical-writing

    on “Ask HN: If you have a personal blog, what's the most popular post there?”
  10. Submitted Testing Practical Common Lisp Code on Medley Interlisp as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  11. > Topics I regularly blog about (append /feed/ to the uRL to get the RSS feed) https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/about I think I agree with your overall point, but it is mentioned on the site where to find the RSS feed.

    Comment linking /about

    on “Why your blog still needs RSS”
  12. Submitted Why I Use a Chromebox as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  13. Medley interlisp appeared on HN a few days ago. https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-encounter-with-medley-in...

    Comment linking /my-encounter-with-medley-interlisp

    on “Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment in Common Lisp”
  14. Submitted Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted My Encounter with Medley Interlisp as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Enjoying the Stability of Linux as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint: first impressions as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to Build Medley Interlisp as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted DandeGUI, a GUI Library for Medley Interlisp as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Building a GUI for Insphex as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Testing the Practical Common Lisp Code on Medley as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Managing pure Common Lisp files on Medley as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted My Common Lisp Setup on Linux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted My post on why I use a Chromebox went viral on Hacker News as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Why your blog still needs RSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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