Stories by ColinWright

The smallest positive integer that Google has never heard of

Coding in the Clink

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News

The only way is up: constructing the Heron Tower

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II

Jtalk: a Smalltalk implementation that runs on the JavaScript runtime.

Why Arabic is Terrific

Why numbering should start at zero (EWD 831) (HTML version)

What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?

This will mess with your mind - Non-Euclidean Level Design (Portal 2 Version)

Astronomer complains: The ISS passed through NGC7000

Simulating Harmonographs

Flipping 10 heads in a row - a small probability demonstration

An algorithm to ferret out fake reviews online

The Clock Frequency of our Universe

Ask HN: Does Twitter really limit your "Real Name" to 20 chars?

Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'

The Busy Beaver Problem

Transcription of Dybvig's simple Scheme interpreter to JS