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Paraprogramming Dispatches
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Paraprogramming Dispatches is a personal blog at blog.funcall.org about programming, ai and history. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Common Lisp and its use in practice, the history of AI systems such as Eurisko, AM and Cyc, and Lisp on vintage and microcontroller hardware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Programming blog of Eugene
Most-linked posts?
- The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-02
- Eurisko Lives2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
- The Loudest Lisp Program to the Rescue – Paraprogramming Dispatches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
- Some documents on AM and EURISKO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Related: https://blog.funcall.org//lisp/2024/03/22/eurisko-lives/
Comment linking //lisp/2024/03/22/eurisko-lives/
on “Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project”Submitted The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue as a story · 255 points
HN discussionSeems to be down, any mirrors? https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/... -> 404
Comment linking //lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/
on “The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue”Submitted EURISKO Lives as a story · 129 points
HN discussionIt looks like CL is all the rage for quantum computing (and some AI companies). https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl Thinking about recent feedback: - https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233736 ) (2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467269 (2022) "Common Lisp was a conscious decision because it allows a small team to be incredibly…
Comment linking //lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/
on “My mental model of setf was wrong”Submitted Serious Software SpecLisp for Sinclair ZX Spectrum as a story · 80 points
HN discussionstill, some use it professionally. And pick it as first choice. Like, is CL all the rage in quantum computing? https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ for some, prototyping goes to production: https://blog.funcall.org/lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/w... (this year example) Thriving as recognized by the general public, no, but do many implementations improve and are libraries released for practical matt…
Comment linking /lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/
on “Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard”Submitted Some documents on AM and EURISKO as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI happen to have three of those: one standalone NOS chip and two on Q-Bus SBCs. One however has a crack in its cerdip package. Here's what one of the boards looks like: http://blog.funcall.org/hadrware%20vintage%20pdp/2017/03/14/... Boards like these were used both in DVK systems and in different CNC controllers.
Comment linking /hadrware%20vintage%20pdp/2017/03/14/singleboard-pdp-clone/
on “The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)”Submitted Eurisko Lives as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThere's always http://blog.funcall.org/lisp/2015/10/30/zx-spectrum-lisp/
Comment linking /lisp/2015/10/30/zx-spectrum-lisp/
on “uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers”Submitted The Absent Narrator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNever met the guy but his work was one of my biggest inspirations in computing. I feel it's appropriate to link a blog post of mine from 2018. It's a quick recap of Lenat works on the trajectory that brought him towards Cyc, with links to the papers. http://blog.funcall.org//lisp/2018/11/03/am-eurisko-lenat-do...
Comment linking //lisp/2018/11/03/am-eurisko-lenat-documents/
on “Doug Lenat has died”Submitted Tweaking Slime Xref for Remote Images as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere isn't much in the way of sources. Page 53 of http://blog.funcall.org/docs/am-eurisko/Heuristics_I.pdf Page 12 of http://blog.funcall.org/docs/am-eurisko/Heuristics_II.pdf This old article: http://web.archive.org/web/20100123135422/http://www.aliciap... A mailing list discussion of the fleet composition: http://members.pcug.org.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/best_tml/Starsh...
Comment linking /docs/am-eurisko/Heuristics_II.pdf
on “Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work (1983) [pdf]”Submitted Vibecoding a Cyberpunk 3D GUI for System Commissioning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did a 3D GUI for an industrial system recently. Did a write up of my experiences here: https://blog.funcall.org/3d-commissioning-gui/
Comment linking /3d-commissioning-gui/
on “Ask HN: How are you using LLMs?”Submitted The Loudest Lisp Program to the Rescue – Paraprogramming Dispatches as a story · 1 points
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