Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 247 posts.
By Robert Smith, Elias Lawson-Fox, Cole Scott Updated July 1, 2025 by Robert Smith. Introduction Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp. We can load it like a normal Lisp library. CL-USER> (asdf:load-system "coalton") CL-USER> (in-package #:coalton-user) COALTON-USER> This…
In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…
This post explains the project's motivation from several perspectives. Unix shell is an old and successful technology, so there are many ways of looking at it.
What is threaded code? What is it good for? What are the differences between the various threading techniques? How do I implement threaded code portably? How fast are various threading techniques?
A review of Javascript performance. Part 1 - Techempower Rankings.
The Modus themes for Emacs meet the highest accessibility standard for colour contrast. This is their official manual.
Watch Rob Pike's talk, _Concurrency is not parallelism._
I want terminal keypresses to Just Work. What do I mean Just Work? I mean programs in a simple orthogonal way, can determine the key that was pressed, and this model should easily map to the user's expectation.
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We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…
Summary: JWCC is a minimal extension to the widely used JSON file format with (1) optional commas after the final element of arrays and objects and (2) C/C++ style comments. These two features make it more suitable for human-editable configuration files, without adding so many features that it’s incompatible with…
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…
From JSON Files to etcd: A Tailscale Database Migration Story
A static site to link people to when their code is displaying Japanese wrong.
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar…
This information is provided for programmers familiar with Common Lisp or Scheme.
There now is a Winboard version that can handle bigger boards, and a Fairy-Max engine that can run under it ( download )
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
I’ve spent the last year building keyboards , which has included writing firmware for a variety custom circuit boards.
Hello, long time no see :) We obviously have a lot to talk about when it comes to the game changes we recently did, or plan to do, but we don't want to share any of it yet. Yet, there is currently a topic very relevant to us and we can share it without revealing any specific changes to the game. Today's post will be…
Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)
No matter what language you program in or what applications you use: everything you do with a computer today is powered at some level by a piece of C/C++ code.
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
printf machine. 2020 IOCCC entry carlini - Best of Show - abuse of libc
A mega-rant about all the things I find bad about Julia.
