Top Hackernews posts from buttondown.email

1. Six programming languages I’d like to see (buttondown.email)
   481 points by johndcook almost 55 years | 441 comments
2. Reasons Kubernetes is so complex (buttondown.email)
   428 points by bumbledraven almost 55 years | 277 comments
3. Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” (buttondown.email)
   422 points by goranmoomin almost 55 years | 97 comments
4. Why do arrays start at 0? (buttondown.email)
   413 points by snikolaev almost 55 years | 674 comments
5. Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays (buttondown.email)
   399 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 345 comments
6. Raku: A language for gremlins (buttondown.email)
   393 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 249 comments
7. Excel is pretty dang cool (buttondown.email)
   376 points by todsacerdoti almost 55 years | 253 comments
8. Software engineering research is a train wreck (buttondown.email)
   372 points by martincmartin almost 55 years | 166 comments
9. Donald Knuth was framed (2020) (buttondown.email)
   358 points by goranmoomin almost 55 years | 131 comments
10. The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging (buttondown.email)
    349 points by goranmoomin almost 55 years | 354 comments
11. Maybe people do care about performance and reliability (buttondown.email)
    342 points by soopurman almost 55 years | 273 comments
12. I have complicated feelings about TDD (buttondown.email)
    323 points by jwdunne almost 55 years | 441 comments
13. Thoughts about what worked in math circles (buttondown.email)
    299 points by sberens almost 55 years | 44 comments
14. Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages (buttondown.email)
    297 points by Tomte almost 55 years | 531 comments
15. The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (buttondown.email)
    268 points by iamd3vil almost 55 years | 208 comments
16. Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering (buttondown.email)
    268 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 386 comments
17. Just use a monorepo (buttondown.email)
    263 points by jmduke almost 55 years | 277 comments
18. Problems harder than NP-Complete (buttondown.email)
    254 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 98 comments
19. Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason (buttondown.email)
    243 points by JNRowe almost 55 years | 70 comments
20. If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? (buttondown.email)
    198 points by harperlee almost 55 years | 376 comments
21. Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript (buttondown.email)
    195 points by anmonteiro90 almost 55 years | 54 comments
22. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.email)
    195 points by thunderbong almost 55 years | 65 comments
23. Software Mise En Place (buttondown.email)
    188 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 83 comments
24. The Case of a Curious SQL Query (buttondown.email)
    184 points by petercooper almost 55 years | 40 comments
25. Why UML “Really” Died (buttondown.email)
    182 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 198 comments
26. A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war (buttondown.email)
    180 points by MaysonL almost 55 years | 96 comments
27. Stop Building Closed Ecosystems (buttondown.email)
    158 points by LinguaBrowse almost 55 years | 166 comments
28. The Staggering Frontiers of CSS (buttondown.email)
    145 points by tambourine_man almost 55 years | 43 comments
29. Edge Case Poisoning (2020) (buttondown.email)
    142 points by jrmurray almost 55 years | 47 comments
30. Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more (buttondown.email)
    141 points by sdht0 almost 55 years | 41 comments
31. Programming AIs worry me (buttondown.email)
    137 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 181 comments
32. Read “Data and Reality” (buttondown.email)
    136 points by Tomte almost 55 years | 31 comments
33. The seven specification ur-languages (buttondown.email)
    132 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 67 comments
34. Dynamic types have the potential to be more than "no static types" (buttondown.email)
    123 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 293 comments
35. Not all graphs are trees (buttondown.email)
    117 points by g0xA52A2A almost 55 years | 50 comments
36. The Risks of Staying Put (buttondown.email)
    116 points by blueridge almost 55 years | 30 comments
37. I’ve been reading a whole lot about tomatoes (buttondown.email)
    115 points by feltsense almost 55 years | 132 comments
38. Tag Systems (buttondown.email)
    109 points by fagnerbrack almost 55 years | 57 comments
39. Creatively Misusing TLA+ (buttondown.email)
    104 points by iforgetlogins01 almost 55 years | 7 comments
40. Monorepos and Forced Migrations (buttondown.email)
    101 points by zdw almost 55 years | 79 comments
41. Use the wrong tool for the job (buttondown.email)
    97 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 60 comments
42. Agile is people, the rest is commentary (buttondown.email)
    94 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 72 comments
43. Was Javascript really made in 10 days? (buttondown.email)
    94 points by redbell almost 55 years | 84 comments
44. When would you ever want bubblesort? (buttondown.email)
    93 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 66 comments
45. Why UML “Really” Died (buttondown.email)
    88 points by onemoresoop almost 55 years | 122 comments
46. Buttondown is a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters (buttondown.email)
    78 points by memorable almost 55 years | 21 comments
47. Educational Codebases (buttondown.email)
    77 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 21 comments
48. More Control with Idempotency (buttondown.email)
    73 points by charlieirish almost 55 years | 17 comments
49. Alloy 6 First Impressions (buttondown.email)
    72 points by azhenley almost 55 years | 7 comments
50. Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic (buttondown.email)
    69 points by bookofjoe almost 55 years | 47 comments
51. Digging through the New York Times morgue (buttondown.email)
    65 points by secondary almost 55 years | 17 comments
52. Own Your Web – Issue 11: Welcome to the IndieWeb (buttondown.email)
    65 points by ecliptik almost 55 years | 4 comments
53. In Defense of No-Code’s Potential (buttondown.email)
    60 points by pgayed almost 55 years | 41 comments
54. What makes concurrency so hard? (buttondown.email)
    58 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 41 comments
55. Bugs that cost money (buttondown.email)
    55 points by luu almost 55 years | 14 comments
56. I Like Powershell (buttondown.email)
    55 points by BerislavLopac almost 55 years | 59 comments
57. Picat is my favorite new toolbox language (buttondown.email)
    53 points by Tomte almost 55 years | 4 comments
58. I "Blitzed" 50 Books in 50 Days – My Experiment in Language Learning (buttondown.email)
    51 points by fluentbyfire almost 55 years | 14 comments