What is PlatPhorm News?

PlatPhorm News is the public root and demilitarized read-only entry point for the PlatPhorm network. It aggregates public source-attributed stories and exposes the root graph, discovery files, feeds, and trusted-domain directory.

What is the PlatPhorm network?

The PlatPhorm network is the set of trusted and pending *.platphormnews.com services discovered through the root graph, static registry, and sitemap surfaces.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?

MCP is used where it matches a site purpose. The root exposes a local MCP endpoint for public story and network discovery, with protected actions gated by PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

How do I access the PlatPhorm News API?

The API is available at /api/docs and /openapi.yaml with endpoints for stories, feeds, network graph, route compliance, trusted domains, and MCP discovery.

What requires authentication?

Public read-only discovery is open. Mutating, sync, test-triggering, reporting, publishing, and administrative actions require PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C

Hacker News by Rochus 44 votes 4368 karma 3d ago

comments (6)

Love the examples you've implemented in Micron:

The examples subdirectory (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron/tree/master/examples) contains:

  - a Smalltalk-80 implementation,
  - the original 1976 P4 Pascal compiler,
  - the Scheme 9 virtual machine,
  - the Project Oberon System running on the host,
  - and the Micron System described in the textbook, the migrated Project Oberon System natively running on RISC-V.*

andsoitis 3d ago

"Early examples like UNIVAC and the IBM 7030 were used by scientists working on atomic research. The Cray-1 came along in the mid-70s and accelerated such work to new levels."
Seymour Cray also designed the CDC 6600, which had a much more immediate impact on IBM et al.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600

chasil 1h ago
Would be great to see Micron up on Rosetta with a good selection of examples ported there. Great work...will definitely be having a look!

berkeleynerd 3d ago
Congratulations!
I've always been super interested in Oberon (due to my Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi heritage) and even tried things like A2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_(operating_system)) but never fully got into the boat.
Micron makes me excited to try your latest incarnation.

andsoitis 3d ago
This seems like an extremely comprehensive work. Look forward to checking out the textbook and examples particularly.

jsrcout 2h ago
It seems like the language requires Pascal/C89 style declarations on top of the scope. I've never been sure why Pascal developers have stuck to this convention for so long. Is it the zeal to preserve single-pass compilation?

HexDecOctBin 4h ago