Hackernews posts about Buttondown.com

  1. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    108 points by atan2 8 days ago | 86 comments
  2. Bad Opsec Considered Harmful (buttondown.com)
    36 points by anigbrowl 7 days ago | 3 comments
  3. This Month in Ladybird: November 2025 (buttondown.com)
    36 points by bpierre 15 days ago | 2 comments
  4. Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages (buttondown.com)
    6 points by goranmoomin 8 days ago | discuss
  5. Minimum Viable Complexity (buttondown.com)
    4 points by coloneltcb 6 days ago | discuss
  6. How to eat with others – Mike Monteiro (buttondown.com)
    2 points by thecosas 26 days ago | 3 comments
  7. Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition (buttondown.com)
    2 points by rfarley04 about 8 hours ago | 1 comments
  8. Information Literacy and Chatbots as Search (buttondown.com)
    2 points by walterbell 26 days ago | discuss
  9. Hardware Has Changed (buttondown.com)
    1 points by walterbell 1 day ago | discuss
  10. Hardware Powers of 10 (buttondown.com)
    1 points by walterbell 2 days ago | discuss
  11. Lightweight Cardinality Estimation with Density (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 3 days ago | discuss
  12. Predicate Decomposition (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 10 days ago | discuss
  13. Making the Solution Transparent (buttondown.com)
    1 points by surprisetalk 10 days ago | discuss
  14. The Third Day of Agents How Agents Work – Tools, Memory, and Plans (buttondown.com)
    1 points by mooreds 14 days ago | discuss
  15. More Data Independence and the History of the Relational Model (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 17 days ago | discuss
  16. I just wrote 'Global Agentic Night Berlin we are cooking' (buttondown.com)
    1 points by morisil 20 days ago | discuss
  17. USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads (buttondown.com)
    1 points by rfarley04 23 days ago | discuss
  18. Data Independence (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 24 days ago | discuss
  19. Notes on Buttondown.com (jmduke.com)
    126 points by luu over 1 year ago | 89 comments
  20. Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (buttondown.com)
    679 points by mpweiher 3 months ago | 533 comments
  21. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.com)
    346 points by swyx 2 months ago | 171 comments
  22. How RSS beat Microsoft (buttondown.com)
    315 points by vidyesh 3 months ago | 181 comments
  23. Unusual Raku Features (buttondown.com)
    274 points by leontrolski about 1 year ago | 157 comments
  24. Why Not Comments (buttondown.com)
    261 points by ghewgill over 1 year ago | 277 comments
  25. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com)
    256 points by LinguaBrowse 5 months ago | 97 comments
  26. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
    222 points by maguay 8 months ago | 165 comments
  27. Why did containers happen? (buttondown.com)
    208 points by todsacerdoti 2 months ago | 280 comments
  28. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice (buttondown.com)
    184 points by todsacerdoti 2 months ago | 113 comments
  29. Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate (buttondown.com)
    172 points by PaulHoule 3 months ago | 142 comments
  30. Adventures in Probability (buttondown.com)
    165 points by kiyanwang about 1 year ago | 40 comments
  31. What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com)
    156 points by BerislavLopac 7 months ago | 183 comments
  32. The death of thread per core (buttondown.com)
    155 points by ibobev about 2 months ago | 68 comments
  33. The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) (buttondown.com)
    154 points by BerislavLopac about 1 year ago | 84 comments
  34. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization (buttondown.com)
    136 points by samuel246 6 months ago | 128 comments
  35. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT (buttondown.com)
    135 points by azhenley 6 months ago | 47 comments
  36. Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com)
    135 points by BerislavLopac 10 months ago | 32 comments
  37. Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so (buttondown.com)
    134 points by brianyu8 over 1 year ago | 103 comments
  38. It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons (buttondown.com)
    125 points by BerislavLopac about 1 year ago | 65 comments
  39. E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)
    120 points by rfarley04 7 months ago | 125 comments
  40. Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists (buttondown.com)
    120 points by foldU about 1 year ago | 15 comments
  41. I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) (buttondown.com)
    114 points by shlomo_z 4 months ago | 113 comments
  42. Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    110 points by Tomte 8 months ago | 28 comments
  43. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com)
    108 points by BerislavLopac 8 months ago | 114 comments
  44. TLA from First Principles (buttondown.com)
    103 points by ingve about 1 year ago | 23 comments
  45. Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel (buttondown.com)
    100 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 26 comments
  46. How to Not Build the Torment Nexus (buttondown.com)
    91 points by p3_1080 4 months ago | 40 comments
  47. Email was the user interface for the first AI recommendation engines (buttondown.com)
    84 points by coloneltcb 3 months ago | 34 comments
  48. Decoupling design from engineering (buttondown.com)
    84 points by jwworth about 1 year ago | 34 comments