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by zachbeane 4182 days ago
I think it's pretty unlikely that this will be made to work in a modern environment in a useful way. I think the primary benefit will be historical interest and possibly the reuse of some of the component parts.

http://lispblog.xach.com/post/107215169193/corman-lisp-sourc... has some more context. I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.
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jacquesm 4182 days ago
> I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.

Looks like this might be the cause:

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  <title>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</title>
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  <h1>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</h1>

  <p>What users on <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker
  News</a> have voting behaviors most similar to yours?

  <p>[dead]

  <p>You can fake votes on Hacker News if you know your     visitor's Hacker
  News username. An easy way to get it is to trick them into thinking
  they'll get a pretty graphic for providing it. I don't know if this
  issue will be fixed, but it's not a good idea to give out your Hacker
  News username to random websites until it is.
That probably set off some auto-blacklist based on the frequency of the upvotes you received.

Maybe ask dang to unblock you?

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lispm 4182 days ago
> I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.

Strange... should be changed...

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sctb 4182 days ago
The ban on xach.com was removed a few weeks ago.
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jacquesm 4182 days ago
Can we get the URL changed then please, the context really helps.
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dang 4182 days ago
Sure. Done.
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jacquesm 4182 days ago
Thanks!
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cpach 4182 days ago
Thank you!
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jarcane 4182 days ago
That's sad to hear, but I suppose it's understandable. Hopefully someone can at least get some use out of it, and kudos for encouraging him to release it nonetheless (And to Roger Corman of course for agreeing).
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