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Pun Intended Consequences

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Pun Intended Consequences is a personal blog at yawar.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “BuckleScript: An OCaml to JavaScript compiler”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN comment links this blog as a comparison to the Kaktovik numerals thread, citing its post on Birkana artificial hexadecimal numerals. The blog covers alternative numeral systems.

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.

In which the main character rambles on about stuff.

Most-linked posts?

  1. BuckleScript: An OCaml to JavaScript compiler
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. This reminds me of the Birkana artificial hexadecimal numerals: https://yawar.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-n...

    Comment linking /2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-number-symbols.html

    on “Kaktovik Numerals”
  2. Submitted BuckleScript: An OCaml to JavaScript compiler as a story · 154 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols as a story · 107 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Expressive Functional Programming with Continuations in Python as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted BuckleScript: a significant new OCaml to JavaScript compiler as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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