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Personal blog · ztoz.blog/postshistorysystems
ℤ→ℤ is a personal blog at ztoz.blog about history and systems. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Shared as a personal blog on programming topics with an emphasis on computing history. The other linked comment cites Nesbit's 1980s spellchecking papers and does not discuss this blog's writing.
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?
- Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-27
- Investigating MacPaint's Source Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-25
- COBOL's Map Reduce (2022)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-03
What Hacker News says?
A more quantitative approach can be found in a pair of papers from John C Nesbit, who analyzed ten algorithms in 1985/86 ( https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-computer-based-in... ; https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-computer-based-in... ). Generalized edit distance performed best, but also took the most time. The PLATO algorithm, which used a feature vector-esque approach, came in third in quality an…
Comment linking /posts/nesbit/
on “Computer Based Spellchecking Techniques”Submitted How user groups made software reuse a reality as a story · 118 points
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Investigating MacPaint's Source Code as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted COBOL's Map Reduce (2022) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating MacPaint's Source Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hero Code Examples for Programming Languages ... Trabb-Pardo-Knuth (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted COBOL's Map Reduce (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inventing ELIZA (Review) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plain Text Accounting and Financial Reporting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with John Bridges (PCPaint, Grasp, GL Pro) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investigating MacPaint's Source Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted COBOL's Map Reduce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Method of Differences as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci's Composed Fractions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from Emisari as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Connect Four Ply Dataset as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica as a story · 1 points
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