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URCL

URCL Official Documentation

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URCL Official Documentation

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Location: Wales UK (Wales/England) Remote: Yes. Or I can drive anywhere within reason. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Python, Rust, OpenGL, Blender, URCL, Custom…

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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-06-08 23:36:03 UTC to 2026-06-02 15:38:13 UTC.

012025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20252026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2026

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Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ModPunchtree·Jun 2, 2026Recommendation phrase
Location: Wales UK (Wales/England) Remote: Yes. Or I can drive anywhere within reason. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Python, Rust, OpenGL, Blender, URCL, Custom Assembly Languages, Custom Hardware, Custom ISA Design, Custom Compilers, Custom Language Optimisers, Custom Register Allocator Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v6eri-Xt2d0mgD6CdUj9HLdTqmK... GitHub: https://github.com/ModPunchtree Email: modpunchtree@gmail.com I built computers in Minecraft. My latest is IRIS - a 16 bit computer with 8kB of RAM and half-precision floating point hardware. Using a fully custom RISC-like architecture and programming language that I designed. I programmed DOOM, Minecraft in Minecraft, Elite, Ray tracer, Bad Apple, Tetris, Space Invaders, Mandelbrot, BBP Pi and more. Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ModPunchtree I am the f
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ounder of URCL (universal assembly language): https://github.com/ModPunchtree/URCL/blob/main/Release/1.5/U... I have created my own full toolchain/development stack - from a custom high level C-like language all the way down to the hardware itself, all of which I designed myself. I manage a small open-source team of people maintaining URCL and developing programs for my Minecraft computers. I plan everything meticulously and am ruthlessly goal focused. Unlike most - I finish every project I start. I have no formal qualifications or experience as I am fully self-taught. My university degree is in Chemical Engineering. I didn't discover low level computer building and programming until halfway through my degree - else I would have chosen Electrical Engineering. While I love building computers and can talk for hours about them, IRIS does not pay rent. So I am open to any and all work if you think I will fit. Extremely flexible - I can work any hours, any day of the week.
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Retro_Dev·Jun 8, 2025
As far as I know, Zig has a bunch of things in the works for a better development experience. Almost every day there's something being worked on - like https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24124 just now. I know that Zig had some plans in the past to also work on hot code swapping. At this rate of development, I wouldn't be surprised if hot code swapping was functional within a year on x86_64. The biggest pain point I personally have with Zig right now is the speed of `comptime` - The compiler has a lot of work to do here, and running a brainF** DSL at compile-time is pretty slow (speaking from experience - it was a really funny experiment). Will we have improvements to this section of the compiler any time soon? Overall I'm really hyped for these new backends that Zig is introducing. Can't wait to make my own URCL (https://github.com/ModP
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unchtree/URCL) backend for Zig. ;)
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