Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 159 posts.

Programming Languages
141

IBM's “Think” Motto in Chinese

First we have to determine what IBM means by its famous slogan. Here are some of the many meanings of "think": "ponder; reflect (on); believe; consider; cogitate; feel; deem; hold; suppose; imagine; remember; recall; conceive; deliberate; recollect; evoke", etc. Thomas J. Watson , who led IBM from 1914 to 1956, first…

150

Porting Swift to Haiku

Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ’libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to …