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New comment by alexisread in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

alexisread — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:38:22 +0000

This is the same Israel that has attacked Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Quatar and Sudan (https://youtu.be/pRxKltphg6c?si=bDSB_jA-KPM4Efzu) and globally trafficked children?

(https://youtu.be/RJhqGDZbqBI?si=MQFuah6er7TvHcaD)

Or is it the Israel that deliberately destroys crops (https://youtu.be/Lyp9Xfess3Q?si=1_4usvB1yjgYhKSb)?

Maybe it’s the Israel that ignores ceasefires (http://youtube.com/post/Ugkxn4SkyNfKESV6nPO_ZzgOhdaH8lb_FAkx...) or fills in wells (http://youtube.com/post/UgkxaPo3ERDtr5fQKPAHnFgxwYkMaEeMgdlo...)

Or it could be the Israel that shoots and kills 234 peaceful protestors (https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/)

Restraint is not really in Israeli vocabulary, and the story being sold is a lie.

New comment by alexisread in "Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about"

alexisread — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:13:58 +0000

Thanks! One last question is whether it can boot from external EEPROM? This is mainly with reference to Ken Thompson’s Reflections on Trusting Trust paper (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2324/R209/Reflections-Trus...).

What would be good is to be able to program the eeprom with hardware, boot the bao with the eeprom and then bootstrap the rest of the OS.

Lastly I was thinking on the inclusion of 4 bidirectional (transputer) links so to speak. I’m guessing you’ve thought about clusters of these chips?

Thanks

New comment by alexisread in "Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about"

alexisread — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:39:52 +0000

Great work on the chip, I’m really onboard with the trusted computing aim!

Is there a way to bootstrap binary code into the reram? I’m thinking being able to ‘hand-type’ in a few hundred byte kernel rather than use a flashing tool

New comment by alexisread in "The Om Programming Language"

alexisread — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:41:59 +0000

If you don't mind, could you drop some code? I'd be interested to see the result :)

New comment by alexisread in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

alexisread — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:52:49 +0000

Apart from transputers mentioned already, there’s https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php

Both the hardware and the forth software.

APIs in a B2B style would likely be much more prevalent, less advertising (yay!) and less money in the internet so more like the original internet I guess.

GUIs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS

Show that we could have had quality desktops and mobile devices

New comment by alexisread in "Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM"

alexisread — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:51:11 +0000

Very impressive demos! I did a quick look through the docs- it’s single threaded (in the cpu sense) and not multi process yes?

New comment by alexisread in "How Warhammer became one of Britain’s biggest companies"

alexisread — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:05:13 +0000

It was a massive shame the TV-toy project at Sinclair did not work out. It was a SOC/low cost computer based on the Inmos transputer (Called the T400, an M212 without dedicated link hardware) around 1983. That might have kept Inmos afloat- they were responsible for a lot of the RAM chip innovation, VGA standard, transputer etc. so the world would have looked very different. I do wonder what could have been with that chip paired with the Slipstream chip, oh well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer TV-toy

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/inmos-and-the-transputer TV-toy

https://www.transputer.net/tn/50/tn50.html M212 details

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/271372-flare-technology-an... 9.2mb/s bandwidth+sequencer_list

New comment by alexisread in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

alexisread — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:43:18 +0000

Tip of the hat there, it’s a very selfless thing to commit to caregiving. From a 50kft view, we have an aging demographic globally, and the bet seems to be robotics- hopefully they will get good enough to help meaningfully in this capacity. What happens to an economic system predicated around having more kids (GDP growth) is another concern.

New comment by alexisread in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

alexisread — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:23:11 +0000

I get the impression that the Atari AMY chip was an inspiration? Wonderful to see how the Alles speakers are implemented!

New comment by alexisread in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

alexisread — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:34:16 +0000

I agree you would need to specify the markdown to allow more implementations. https://github.com/jgm/djot Would make a good DSL inside languages, combine that with compile-time execution so that blocks can auto-recalculate and you have a more available mechanism than emacs/org in other languages.

New comment by alexisread in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

alexisread — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:20:44 +0000

I think this is the crux of the issue, use like this is like a real program, just built up incrementally in a notebook rather than a repl or shell-with-pipes, and with manual error handling. The STEPS project was all about this- a way of incrementally building blocks that can be composed.

With org mode in mind, ideally you would have language support for this ie. Comments are scoped metadata that can be formatted, tested, linked etc.

You need a well defined spec like djot as a DSL for this to work, so that parsers can be easily written for it. This level of language support allows many different views onto the source code. We’re not there yet.

New comment by alexisread in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

alexisread — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:29:43 +0000

Although it’s a bit weird, Able Forth has the explicit word ~

https://github.com/ablevm/able-forth/blob/current/forth.scr

I do prefer this as it keeps the language more regular (fewer surprises)

New comment by alexisread in "Super Mario 64 for the PS1"

alexisread — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:12:31 +0000

Related to this is the Atari Falcon port of Minecraft using a sparse voxel octree, might work for the GBA seeing as the Quake ports are similar performance-wise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHsgdZFk22M

New comment by alexisread in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"

alexisread — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000

There are many automatic memory management systems ranging from the simple clearup of immutable systems (https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/), to region allocation, to refcounting with cycle collection, and the full-fat tracing.

I'd have thought that allocating a block of memory per-GC type would work. As-per Rust you can use mainly one type of GC with a smaller section for eg. cyclic data allocated in a region, which can be torn down when no longer in use.

If you think about it like a kernel, you can have manual management in the core (eg. hard-realtime stuff), and GC in userland. The core can even time-slice the GC. Forth is particularly amenable as it uses stacks, so you can run with just that for most of the time.

New comment by alexisread in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

alexisread — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:24:28 +0000

Can this be used as a read-replica to a normal PG instance? I'm thinking synced browser cache here.

New comment by alexisread in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

alexisread — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:45:56 +0000

OOI how does the org-mode dev work? Are you tangling and then compiling in a hot-reload loop?

New comment by alexisread in "Radiant Computer"

alexisread — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:39:13 +0000

It looks like you've looked over a number of languages, but I don't see anything about Forth, Forsp, Ante, Steps, Austral, Wat or Vale? I'd suggest they all have useful components to steal from :)

https://github.com/ablevm/able-forth

https://xorvoid.com/forsp.html

https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/

https://tinlizzie.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419928

https://github.com/GiacomoCau/wat-js/tree/master

https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire

New comment by alexisread in "How A Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda videos"

alexisread — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:43:21 +0000

You replied to my comment about Lebanon. You could have replied to the OP with those links but chose not to, hence this discussion is about my comment. My comment is on the IDF lying about tunnels under hospitals in Lebanon, which is validated with the BBC link.

New comment by alexisread in "How A Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda videos"

alexisread — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:03:12 +0000

Those are not in Lebanon? Whataboutism isn't an answer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9818n8v7d8o

Is just one of the western media sources about Lebanon.

New comment by alexisread in "How A Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel's 3D propaganda videos"

alexisread — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:49:23 +0000

After all the lies from the IDF, I'm still surprised anyone takes their word anymore without corroborated supporting evidence. So many of these were debunked even by western media (eg. tunnels under hospitals in Lebanon). Now that Tiktok US has been bought, I guess we'll see more of this junk on there.