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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived↗ foxscript.org · HN · 270 comments · 485 points · Sep 22, 2026
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think↗ lighthousenewsletter.com · HN · 218 comments · 516 points · Aug 26, 2026
OpenRA↗ openra.net · HN · 167 comments · 815 points · Jun 27, 2026
Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)↗ sandimetz.com · HN · 354 comments · 541 points · Jun 21, 2026
All elementary functions from a single binary operator↗ arxiv.org · HN · 298 comments · 858 points · Apr 13, 2026
20251,874 stories
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems↗ buttondown.com · HN · 533 comments · 679 points · Sep 12, 2025
Objects should shut up↗ dustri.org · HN · 362 comments · 490 points · Aug 04, 2025
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"↗ cs.utexas.edu · HN · 275 comments · 448 points · Apr 03, 2025
Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata↗ google-research.github.io · HN · 90 comments · 469 points · Mar 06, 2025
Succinct data structures↗ blog.startifact.com · HN · 105 comments · 588 points · Mar 06, 2025
20241,697 stories
That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection↗ fhur.me · HN · 225 comments · 599 points · Dec 25, 2024
Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 168 comments · 586 points · Sep 23, 2024
Terence Tao on O1↗ mathstodon.xyz · HN · 482 comments · 664 points · Sep 14, 2024
Structured Outputs in the API↗ openai.com · HN · 269 comments · 764 points · Aug 06, 2024
Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph↗ matheusportela.com · HN · 374 comments · 541 points · Apr 10, 2024
20231,590 stories
Decision Table Patterns (2020)↗ hillelwayne.com · HN · 11 comments · 73 points · Dec 31, 2023
The case for a pipe assignment operator in R↗ hughjonesd.github.io · HN · 73 comments · 67 points · Dec 30, 2023
A Core Calculus for Documents [pdf]↗ cs.brown.edu · HN · 21 comments · 126 points · Dec 29, 2023
Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf]↗ harmful.cat-v.org · HN · 126 comments · 89 points · Dec 27, 2023
TLA+ in Isabelle/HOL↗ davecturner.github.io · HN · 2 comments · 79 points · Dec 25, 2023
20221,350 stories
Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics↗ github.com · HN · 260 comments · 464 points · Oct 11, 2022
Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem↗ yuri.is · HN · 407 comments · 699 points · May 16, 2022
The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity↗ quantamagazine.org · HN · 198 comments · 439 points · Apr 06, 2022
Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes↗ justine.lol · HN · 63 comments · 568 points · Feb 27, 2022
Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)↗ boxbase.org · HN · 528 comments · 460 points · Feb 10, 2022
20211,512 stories
Go Replaces Interface {} with 'Any'↗ github.com · HN · 459 comments · 726 points · Dec 14, 2021
A terrible schema from a clueless programmer↗ rachelbythebay.com · HN · 450 comments · 842 points · Nov 07, 2021
Leaky Abstractions↗ textslashplain.com · HN · 111 comments · 480 points · Jun 02, 2021
Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome↗ devlog.hexops.com · HN · 131 comments · 351 points · Mar 10, 2021
The State of State Machines↗ googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · HN · 66 comments · 426 points · Jan 19, 2021
20201,810 stories
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)↗ sandimetz.com · HN · 240 comments · 654 points · Jul 05, 2020
The Next Step for Generics↗ blog.golang.org · HN · 664 comments · 673 points · Jun 16, 2020
Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees↗ shachaf.net · HN · 69 comments · 420 points · Apr 28, 2020
It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to↗ nibblestew.blogspot.com · HN · 339 comments · 493 points · Mar 26, 2020
C4: C in Four Functions (2014)↗ github.com · HN · 131 comments · 436 points · Feb 18, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived↗ foxscript.org · HN · 270 comments · 485 points · Sep 22, 2026
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5↗ github.com · HN · 205 comments · 462 points · Sep 21, 2026
Heretic removes restrictions from language models↗ heretic-project.org · HN · 110 comments · 279 points · Sep 21, 2026
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers↗ castle-engine.io · HN · 90 comments · 199 points · Sep 24, 2026
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?↗ reasonable.io · HN · 62 comments · 125 points · Sep 27, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

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Highest rated · the last 30 days

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived↗ foxscript.org · HN · 270 comments · 485 points · Sep 22, 2026
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5↗ github.com · HN · 205 comments · 462 points · Sep 21, 2026
Heretic removes restrictions from language models↗ heretic-project.org · HN · 110 comments · 279 points · Sep 21, 2026
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers↗ castle-engine.io · HN · 90 comments · 199 points · Sep 24, 2026
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?↗ reasonable.io · HN · 62 comments · 125 points · Sep 27, 2026
I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck↗ epestr.com · HN · 21 comments · 92 points · Sep 25, 2026
Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"↗ eli.thegreenplace.net · HN · 45 comments · 90 points · Sep 27, 2026
Object storage is all you need↗ tigrisdata.com · HN · 42 comments · 68 points · Sep 08, 2026
Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell↗ outdata.net · HN · 17 comments · 60 points · Sep 21, 2026
We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages↗ jimmyhmiller.com · HN · 36 comments · 57 points · Sep 25, 2026

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