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Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM
Dave Ackley · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2015–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 19 other demo videos tagged Computer architecture & CPUs, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.5× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 1.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 15 minutes 3 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-09-08.
- Channel / speaker
- Dave Ackley
- Verified runtime
- 15m 3s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-09-08
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Computer architecture & CPUs. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAMCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 50% | — | 15m 3s | 2015-09-08 |
| NaN Gates and Flip FLOPSdemo · suckerpinch | 7 | 7 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 19m 8s | 2019-04-01 |
| Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)demo · Dave Ackley | 3 | 6 | 78% | 1 (50%) | 27m 13s | 2013-01-31 |
| Samsung SSD Awesomenessdemo · ssdawesome | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 4m 13s | 2009-03-02 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways”. Its short rationale: Robust-first philosophy applied to computing and LLM coding.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Demo of a network switch built from cells.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Robust-First Computing: Distributed City Generation (2015) [video]”. Its short rationale: Underlying project for programming with cellular automata.