Hacker News with Generative AI: Technical Papers

A Retrospective on Region-Based Memory Management (2004) [pdf] (elsman.com)
Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels (bradrodriguez.com)
A selection of papers I have published, seminars I have presented, and computer programs I have written, that are available on this site. Please note that many of the papers include illustrations -- your browser should support GIF files. Detailed drawings are sometimes offered as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files.
The DeepSeek Series: A Technical Overview (martinfowler.com)
The appearance of DeepSeek Large-Language Models has caused a lot of discussion and angst since their latest versions appeared at the beginning of 2025. But much of the value of DeepSeek's work comes from the papers they have published over the last year.