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The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 4,838 posts.

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An update on YC China

In the summer of 2018, Qi Lu joined [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/] Y Combinator to help create YC China, a localized version of our U.S. program. As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership [https://blog.ycombinator.com/geoff-ralston-for-president/]. With this, our strategy…

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Performance Matters

Last year I got certified as an EMT. As part of the training I shadowed an ambulance for a day and assisted with each run. For each patient we treated, we had to fill out a patient care report. A patient care report. (source) EMTs are just one part in a long chain. If they transport a patient to a hospital, the…

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Write your own Excel in F# (2018)

Use Fable, Elmish architecture, parser combinators and the magic of functional-first programming with F# to build a simple browser-based spreadsheet application! I have been teaching F# for 7 years now and while the libraries and examples change, the core ideas remain the same. In this blog post, I'll cover my latest…

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Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

By now, many of you have seen the Perl 6 Github issue "Perl" in the name "Perl 6" is confusing and irritating . The issue suggested renaming Perl 6. While some may think that the name of the issue is trolling, or offensive, the actual issue was created by Elizabeth (Liz) Mattijsen, one of the core Perl 6 developers, a…