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HN comment orderThis was posted a while ago but didn't get much traction, an OS based on picolisp: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?PilOS
Check out the RC Simulator the creator programmed many years ago in assembler. It's all pixel pushing, no OpenGL, and no texture mapping, but still incredible. I posted about it on HN a year ago too [1,2]. Work has been done to run it on bare metal too - a sort of LISP Machine in PicoLisp! [1] http://picolisp.com/wiki/?rcsim [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954773
Other stacks I would love to try a startup with: happstack.com gnu clog aidaweb.si swi prolog werc.cat-v.org possibly use happroxy.org and varnish-cache.org for scaling.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 433
- Total comments
- 121
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-19 | PicoLisp: The Scalpel of Programming | networked | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-08-07 | Redesigned PicoLisp Wiki | simonpure | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-08-26 | PicolispFirst breakout | qwertyuiop924 | 166 | 64 |
| 2018-05-02 | PicoLispBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | kqr | 256 | 56 |
| 2024-07-24 | Picolisp Startups? | pipsquack_bird | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-02-06 | PicoLisp – A Pragmatic Programming Language | pabs3 | 2 | 0 |