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Scott.mn
Personal blog · scott.mn · on HN as graueprogrammingsystems
Scott.mn is a personal blog at scott.mn about programming and systems. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott.mn for posts on Mastodon and the fediverse, and for an older post on semantic linewrapping, which is cited in a Vim-pencil discussion about writing in Vim.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
What Hacker News says?
I documented the tests on my project log: https://scott.mn/projects/luasynth.html#filter_effect In short, I ran C and Lua implementations of the same command, 6 times each, using the built-in "time" command in bash. Averaged the "user" time for each implementation and compared the results. As input, I used a 2m:38.040s long song, 44.1 KHz stereo, converted to a raw file with 32-bit float samples, and I redirected ou…
Comment linking /projects/luasynth.html
on “Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts”Submitted Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having as a story · 90 points
HN discussionAll of his complaints are intentional. * There is intentionally no global search. Mastodon is about conversation among people, not about searching out every single person in the entire fediverse who mentions your name or a topic you want to argue about so you can argue with them. * Mastodon instances can intentionally choose to not federate with other instances. This is why, even though people regularly bring up tha…
Comment linking /2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/
on “Whatever your fears for Twitter future are, Mastodon is already that”Submitted Rebuild code automatically with "watch" and a makefile as a story · 42 points
HN discussionhttps://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/
Comment linking /2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/
on “Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing”Submitted Coding in Notepad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reference types: separating identities and values as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SimpleHTTPServer considered harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussion