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20 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 2 stories, 18 comments · first 2019-01-12 · latest 2026-02-05

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  1. …https://kushview.net/element or something like Orca if you want to go off the deep end! https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by 4k93n2 · 2026-02-05 · in Ardour 9.0
  2. Almost an esolang, but orca is an amazing example of spatial programming for music production (GH https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFrBFBd7vY to see it in action)
    comment by azath92 · 2025-12-22 · in Programming languages used for music
  3. Looks great, I'll have to play with it this weekend! Has a scent of Orca https://github.com/hundredrabbits/orca
    comment by eggy · 2025-09-13 · in Show HN: CLAVIER-36 – A programming environment for generative music
  4. …https://github.com/iczelia/malbolge-lisp were mindblowing to me. And then there's the legendary https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca "Orca is an esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers, in which…
    comment by lordhumphrey · 2025-09-08 · in Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code
  5. You should run the terminal based version of Orca on this : https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by onewheeltom · 2024-08-01 · in An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding
  6. …And I've also seen it play well with ORCA and other livecoding tools: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by rwhaling · 2021-08-23 · in Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool
  7. I'm glad to see more of these things. It's like a different take on Orca ( https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca/ ) or SonicPi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ). All of these are super fun. But, it feels like we are missing an amazing EDITOR to…
    comment by xrd · 2021-08-16 · in Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
  8. …tools out there. I'm partial to Orca [2] myself. [1] https://github.com/overtone/overtone [2] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by smrq · 2021-05-25 · in Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?
  9. …YouTube. I highly recommend playing around with it if this is the kind of thing you find cool. [1]: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFrBFBd7vY
    comment by OskarS · 2021-05-21 · in A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
  10. …my brain have you seen Befunge [0] and/or Orca [1]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by philsnow · 2020-12-12 · in Understanding Minecraft Performance (2011)
  11. …of the era, some of it pushing today's micros or even beefy x86 systems to their limits. [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://library.vcvrack.com/?query=&brand=&tag=Random&licens...
    comment by vegadw · 2020-10-25 · in List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools
  12. …esoteric programming language and Pilot [2], which is a synth sometimes used together with Orca [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Pilot
    comment by zubspace · 2020-07-22 · in Open-Source Music Production Tools
  13. …it was a JavaScript implementation. It'll be interesting to see how it's been ported over to C! [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
    comment by disposedtrolley · 2020-05-10 · in Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding
  14. …in and be done, but they were sold out! I am sticking with Orca [1] and Extempore [2] for now. [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://github.com/digego/extempore
    comment by eggy · 2019-07-25 · in Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
  15. …A lot of it comes out of their living environment on a sailboat. [0] https://100r.co [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118951 [3] https://wiki.xxiivv.com
    comment by nonbirithm · 2019-07-06 · in Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)
  16. See also: ORCA https://github.com/Hundredrabbits/Orca https://twitter.com/nobodycarestrue/status/11307640497868718...
    comment by RickS · 2019-05-23 · in OP-Z Synthesizer
  17. …share how active he is on his software projects, and that environments really are a theme for him. https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca/tree/8cd3827fb6e01005... He's built a synthetic human language: Lietal, and his partner has a recipe…
    comment by angleofrepose · 2019-02-08 · in Orca – Live Programming Environment
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    Orca – Live Programming Environment
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  19. https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca https://100r.co/
    comment by based2 · 2019-01-19 · in ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding)
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