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siraben’s musings
Personal blog · siraben.dev · on HN as sirabenprogrammingsystemsmath
siraben’s musings is a personal blog at siraben.dev about programming, systems and math. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice (2042)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Writing proofs and programs.
Most-linked posts?
- The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice (2042)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
- Dirty Nix flake quality-of-lie hacks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-19
What Hacker News says?
Thought you might like this short story I wrote about exactly the same sequence of events, but with a lost daughter instead of a partner.[0] [0] https://siraben.dev/2022/12/13/returnai.html
Comment linking /2022/12/13/returnai.html
on “Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents”Submitted How to write a linter using tree-sitter in an hour as a story · 270 points
HN discussionA few years ago, I wrote a compiler for FRACTRAN written in Haskell[0] (translated from Common Lisp) with an associated blog post[1]. Using the tagless-final style you can write a simple program like this: sumTo :: FracComp repr => Integer -> [repr [Rational]] sumTo n = [addi "c" 0, addi "n" n, while (jge "n" 0) [adds "c" "n", subi "n" 1]] And the compiler would output this: λ> runAssembler (sumTo 10) -- Program len…
Comment linking /2020/02/26/translating_cl.html
on “Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language”Submitted How to write a tree-sitter grammar in an afternoon as a story · 112 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free monads from scratch as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting a Minecraft server without extra hardware with Tailscale and iptables as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted SekaiCTF 2022 – Matryoshka as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice (2042) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minecraft markets are inefficient as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dirty Nix flake quality-of-lie hacks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dirty Nix flake quality-of-life hacks as a story · 1 points
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