Hackernews posts about Buttondown.com

  1. In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com)
    142 points by rfarley04 16 days ago | 23 comments
  2. AI and the Illegal War (buttondown.com)
    49 points by interpol_p 13 days ago | 8 comments
  3. LLMs are bad at vibing specifications (buttondown.com)
    4 points by todsacerdoti 10 days ago | discuss
  4. Simulating Queueing 2 (buttondown.com)
    2 points by ibobev 10 days ago | discuss
  5. Simulating Queueing (buttondown.com)
    2 points by ibobev 16 days ago | discuss
  6. Edge Case Poisoning (buttondown.com)
    2 points by azhenley 20 days ago | discuss
  7. Expectation Again (buttondown.com)
    2 points by ibobev 24 days ago | discuss
  8. David Beazley: An End to Week-Long Immersion Courses (buttondown.com)
    2 points by kurinikku 26 days ago | discuss
  9. Solving Cryptic Crosswords with Egraphs (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 3 days ago | discuss
  10. How to Send Email to Space (buttondown.com)
    1 points by maguay 8 days ago | discuss
  11. How to Raise Children (buttondown.com)
    1 points by colinprince 28 days ago | discuss
  12. It's time to get rid of networked cameras (buttondown.com)
    1 points by leotravis10 29 days ago | discuss
  13. AI music is on a collision course (buttondown.com)
    1 points by mulhoon 29 days ago | discuss
  14. Notes on Buttondown.com (jmduke.com)
    126 points by luu over 1 year ago | 89 comments
  15. Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (buttondown.com)
    679 points by mpweiher 6 months ago | 533 comments
  16. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.com)
    346 points by swyx 5 months ago | 171 comments
  17. How RSS beat Microsoft (buttondown.com)
    315 points by vidyesh 6 months ago | 181 comments
  18. Unusual Raku Features (buttondown.com)
    274 points by leontrolski over 1 year ago | 157 comments
  19. Why Not Comments (buttondown.com)
    261 points by ghewgill over 1 year ago | 277 comments
  20. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com)
    256 points by LinguaBrowse 8 months ago | 97 comments
  21. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
    222 points by maguay 11 months ago | 165 comments
  22. Why did containers happen? (buttondown.com)
    208 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 280 comments
  23. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice (buttondown.com)
    184 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 113 comments
  24. Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate (buttondown.com)
    172 points by PaulHoule 6 months ago | 142 comments
  25. Adventures in Probability (buttondown.com)
    165 points by kiyanwang over 1 year ago | 40 comments
  26. What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com)
    156 points by BerislavLopac 10 months ago | 183 comments
  27. My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    155 points by azhenley 2 months ago | 102 comments
  28. The death of thread per core (buttondown.com)
    155 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 68 comments
  29. The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) (buttondown.com)
    154 points by BerislavLopac over 1 year ago | 84 comments
  30. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization (buttondown.com)
    136 points by samuel246 9 months ago | 128 comments
  31. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT (buttondown.com)
    135 points by azhenley 9 months ago | 47 comments
  32. Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com)
    135 points by BerislavLopac about 1 year ago | 32 comments
  33. Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so (buttondown.com)
    134 points by brianyu8 over 1 year ago | 103 comments
  34. It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons (buttondown.com)
    125 points by BerislavLopac over 1 year ago | 65 comments
  35. E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)
    120 points by rfarley04 10 months ago | 125 comments
  36. Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists (buttondown.com)
    120 points by foldU over 1 year ago | 15 comments
  37. I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) (buttondown.com)
    114 points by shlomo_z 7 months ago | 113 comments
  38. Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    110 points by Tomte 12 months ago | 28 comments
  39. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com)
    108 points by BerislavLopac 11 months ago | 114 comments
  40. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    108 points by atan2 3 months ago | 86 comments
  41. TLA from First Principles (buttondown.com)
    103 points by ingve over 1 year ago | 23 comments
  42. Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel (buttondown.com)
    100 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 26 comments
  43. How to Not Build the Torment Nexus (buttondown.com)
    91 points by p3_1080 7 months ago | 40 comments