SIsigna11·Jul 30, 2026Submission
BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake
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bmake-extravaganza
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bmake-extravaganza
Pushing BSD-make to places it was not designed for.
2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
24GitHub stars
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What it is
Pushing BSD-make to places it was not designed for.
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Where it is used
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by day3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-07-07 01:12:25 UTC to 2026-07-30 13:17:20 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7 | 2026-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 8 | 2026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9 | 2026-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 10 | 2026-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 11 | 2026-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 12 | 2026-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2026-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 15 | 2026-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16 | 2026-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 17 | 2026-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 18 | 2026-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 19 | 2026-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 20 | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 21 | 2026-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 22 | 2026-07-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 23 | 2026-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 24 | 2026-07-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 2026-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 26 | 2026-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 27 | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 28 | 2026-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29 | 2026-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30 | 2026-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesShow HN: Mandelbrot set renderer written in pure [BSD] Makefiles
No calls to shell, no external binaries executed, just pure [BSD] Makefiles rendering my favorite fractal.
bmake (AKA BSD make) is the implementation of make(1) used by BSD operating systems.
It does not support basic arithmetic, it doesn't have infinite loops, no floating point support, but I forced it to render a fractal anyways :) .
To use BSD make on Linux, search your package manager for "bmake", install it, and run `bmake` inside the cloned repo instead of `make`.
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