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Resurfaced independently across 6 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
10
submitters
6
observed span
2016–2026
peak thread · 19 comments
161 pts
latest 20+ return · 2026-05-20
161 pts

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2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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The small cyclic stack brings back 20-year-old memories of a stack machine for "genetic art" from random evolving programs. But random programs will underflow the stack -- what to do? Just wrap around, why not? It's not as if the programs have to make sense. https://www.deviantart.com/djb/gallery

See also "Coq: The world's best macro assembler?": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...

gue5t·122-point thread·

I used SBCL for an algorithmic trading framework for EXACTLY this reason. More precisely, this was SBCL/ANSI C application where most of the application was implemented in Common Lisp, some OS / low level stuff was written in ANSI C and same things were written in Lisp to compile to machine code and inserted into "C world". There would be no Common Lisp virtual machine on the critical, low latency path. Instead, the high level code would be used to…

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
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
512

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Total comments
36

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2016-06-23SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)First breakoutTomte1222
2020-01-19SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)tosh20
2020-06-10SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)tosh10
2021-08-24SBCL: The assembly code breadboard (2014)Tomte30
2021-08-29SBCL: The assembly code breadboard (2014)Tomte40
2021-09-07SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (2014)isaac212591344
2023-10-06SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboardmedo-bear20
2024-01-16SBCL: The assembly code breadboard (2014)Tomte20
2024-03-29SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboardmrh578119
2026-05-20SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnyacin16111