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“It is close to 25 million lines of C code.” (comment) |
| recommended by 16 users | 2018 | oraguy on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever… | original thread | |
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“What if ‘data’ is a really bad idea?” (comment) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2016 | alankay on: Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today | original thread | |
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“git init --bare $HOME/.myconf” (comment) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2016 | StreakyCobra on: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? | original thread | |
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Four kinds of documentation (divio.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2019 | 717 points by arnsholt | original thread | |
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Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2016 | 225 points by vog | original thread | |
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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today |
| recommended by 4 users | 2016 | 1401 points by alankay | original thread | |
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The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2022 | 1068 points by huimang | original thread | |
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An oral history of Bank Python (calpaterson.com) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2021 | 864 points by todsacerdoti | original thread | |
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“I'm sorry, but no: Generics are a technical issue and are not a political one.” (comment) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2015 | rsc on: Go 1.5 max procs default | original thread | |
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“Here's a very quick dump of some things waiting to be read/digested/whatever” (comment) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2010 | hga on: Ask HN: Most applicable functional language to learn? | original thread | |
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“Be good. Be very good.” (comment) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2010 | coffeemug on: Ask HN: Current college student with big goals. | original thread | |
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“Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it's only 1 of 4 criteria that I consider” (comment) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2016 | curun1r on: The Wrong Abstraction | original thread | |
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Stop writing classes... (pyvideo.org) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2012 | 369 points by andybak | original thread | |
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2010 | 176 points by philwelch | original thread | |
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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2024 | 1484 points by darthdeus | original thread | |
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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (surma.dev) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2021 | 1290 points by todsacerdoti | original thread | |
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John Carmack on the importance of Static Code Analysis (altdevblogaday.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2011 | 408 points by plinkplonk | original thread | |
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Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) (compilers.iecc.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2010 | 196 points by aycangulez | original thread | |
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Smaller Code, Better Code (sacrideo.us) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2017 | 137 points by jpt4 | original thread | |
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"PSD is not my favorite file format" (code.google.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2009 | 131 points by iamelgringo | original thread | |
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A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013) (pomax.github.io) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2014 | 114 points by davidbarker | original thread | |
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I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 (blog.jenniferdewalt.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2013 | 1542 points by jenniferDewalt | original thread | |
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C Is Not a Low-Level Language (queue.acm.org) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2018 | 472 points by jodooshi | original thread | |
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John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2014 | 456 points by m0nastic | original thread | |
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video] (youtube.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2019 | 231 points by dmit | original thread | |
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Delphi – why won't it die? (2013) (stevepeacocke.blogspot.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2014 | 163 points by wx196 | original thread | |
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A Framework for Writing Better Documentation (documentation.divio.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2021 | 637 points by omginternets | original thread | |
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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing (bottosson.github.io) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2020 | 236 points by ingve | original thread | |
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Magic Ink (worrydream.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2009 | 109 points by cubicle67 | original thread | |
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“The must reads are Keny Dybvig's thesis, ‘Three Implementations of Scheme’.” (comment) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2009 | mahmud on: ACM 20 Most Influential Papers on Programming Languages… | original thread | |
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