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Urbit: an operating function

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2012-04-07 · latest 2024-08-23

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  1. …like Urbit, count me out. Doesn't matter if I'm called a "duke" in your "digital feudalism."[0] [0] https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/6ac688960687aa9c89d4d...
    comment by reducesuffering · 2024-08-23 · in 'Wartime CEO': Urbit's Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project
  2. …the hoon programming language, take a look (the top is all comments, scroll down a bit); I'll wait: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/aug/les/arvo/h... I submit that the line between genius and insanity is sometimes so fine as…
    comment by tsukikage · 2019-12-02 · in Urbit
  3. …Hoon also takes the approach of coming up with phonetics for ASCII symbols, which I find great. https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/3-syn...
    comment by hsribei · 2017-07-20 · in Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)
  4. …it is really very clever. I would recommend learning it if you are in the mood for a puzzle! Nock: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/1-noc... My project's nock VM: https://github.com/PeterReid/hoplight/tree/master/vm
    comment by PeterReid · 2017-02-08 · in Urbit in 2017
  5. …performed by normal human 11-year-olds. From the languages even more confusing documentation: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/0-int...
    comment by dmix · 2016-06-29 · in Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes
  6. …programmer intuition. [1]: https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progr... [2]: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/0-int...
    comment by Ruud-v-A · 2016-06-29 · in Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes
  7. There is what amounts to a direct claim of purposeful obfuscation here: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/1-noc... > We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's…
    comment by Camillo · 2016-06-07 · in Urbit is now in open developer beta
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    Crash course in Nock (2013)
    story by networked · 2016-01-09 · 9 comments
  9. …obfuscated. For example, take the specification of Nock, the lisp-like "assembly code": https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/1-noc... The symbol evaluation is designed to take whoever is trying to program in Nock in…
    comment by mjfl · 2015-10-22 · in Urbit user guide, hosted on Urbit
  10. This reminds me of Urbit: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit Which is at least as weird, more serious, further along, and orders of magnitude more ambitious.
    comment by samatman · 2013-05-30 · in Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck
  11. …claims require extraordinary evidence. That said, if you want to see some very odd-looking code: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/jupiter/sys/20... Scroll down to the RSA implementation around line 2500. You won't learn…
    comment by moldbug · 2012-04-07 · in How to leave academia (for science PhDs)
  12. …me to your "pure functional operating system" already, or I'm calling troll-post. Moldbug's system: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/ Its blog: http://moronlab.blogspot.com/
    comment by asciilifeform · 2012-04-07 · in How to leave academia (for science PhDs)