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Wejn.org is a personal blog at wejn.org about systems and programming. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Readers link Wejn.org's post on Urbit's technical details, which covers its Nock bytecode and its links to Paul Graham's Hundred-Year Language essay.
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.
Wejn’s corner on the interwebs, containing articles about computers (Linux), programming, system administration, and whatever else takes my fancy.
Most-linked posts?
- Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
What Hacker News says?
Seeing him back in the news made me think more about Urbit, his decentralized computing project. For a bit of a discussion of the technical parts of Urbit this is decent: https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/ I have this feeling that Nock, effectively the bytecode of Urbit, is inspired by Paul Graham's Hundred-Year Language essay: https://paulgraham.com/hundred.html – for instance Nock only defines minimal…
Comment linking /2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/
on “Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America”Submitted Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane as a story · 231 points
HN discussion> Urbit is an attempt to fix all of the major issues of networked computing in one single system. > > Security, spam, maintenance, up-time, software complexity, identity, network governance, etc. And yet, from an article from just a year ago [1]: "Nothing in Urbit is encrypted at rest. No, seriously, all the chat logs, events, everything… is dumped into a journal on disk7 in cleartext form. In other words, when host…
Comment linking /2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/
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