Hackernews posts about Buttondown.com

  1. Email could have been X.400 times better (buttondown.com)
    239 points by maguay 11 days ago | 206 comments
  2. Refuse to let your doctor record you (buttondown.com)
    167 points by speckx 10 days ago | 225 comments
  3. Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com)
    129 points by ibobev 12 days ago | 38 comments
  4. Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)
    126 points by rfarley04 24 days ago | 93 comments
  5. Floyd's Sampling Algorithm (buttondown.com)
    51 points by ibobev 27 days ago | 4 comments
  6. A sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code (buttondown.com)
    6 points by BerislavLopac 19 days ago | 3 comments
  7. Illegal vs. Unwanted States (buttondown.com)
    2 points by azhenley 6 days ago | 1 comments
  8. Illegal vs. Unwanted States (buttondown.com)
    2 points by azhenley 4 days ago | discuss
  9. Where Optimizations Come From (buttondown.com)
    2 points by ibobev 6 days ago | discuss
  10. More tools for testing SQL dialects (buttondown.com)
    2 points by eatonphil 21 days ago | discuss
  11. More tools for testing SQL dialects (buttondown.com)
    1 points by ibobev 18 days ago | discuss
  12. Notes on Buttondown.com (jmduke.com)
    126 points by luu over 1 year ago | 89 comments
  13. Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (buttondown.com)
    679 points by mpweiher 8 months ago | 533 comments
  14. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.com)
    346 points by swyx 7 months ago | 171 comments
  15. How RSS beat Microsoft (buttondown.com)
    315 points by vidyesh 8 months ago | 181 comments
  16. Unusual Raku Features (buttondown.com)
    274 points by leontrolski over 1 year ago | 157 comments
  17. Why Not Comments (buttondown.com)
    261 points by ghewgill over 1 year ago | 277 comments
  18. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com)
    256 points by LinguaBrowse 9 months ago | 97 comments
  19. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
    222 points by maguay about 1 year ago | 165 comments
  20. Why did containers happen? (buttondown.com)
    208 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 280 comments
  21. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice (buttondown.com)
    184 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 113 comments
  22. Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate (buttondown.com)
    172 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 142 comments
  23. Adventures in Probability (buttondown.com)
    165 points by kiyanwang over 1 year ago | 40 comments
  24. What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com)
    156 points by BerislavLopac 11 months ago | 183 comments
  25. My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    155 points by azhenley 4 months ago | 102 comments
  26. The death of thread per core (buttondown.com)
    155 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 68 comments
  27. The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) (buttondown.com)
    154 points by BerislavLopac over 1 year ago | 84 comments
  28. In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com)
    142 points by rfarley04 2 months ago | 23 comments
  29. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization (buttondown.com)
    136 points by samuel246 10 months ago | 128 comments
  30. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT (buttondown.com)
    135 points by azhenley 11 months ago | 47 comments
  31. Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com)
    135 points by BerislavLopac about 1 year ago | 32 comments
  32. Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so (buttondown.com)
    134 points by brianyu8 over 1 year ago | 103 comments
  33. 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
  34. E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)
    120 points by rfarley04 12 months ago | 125 comments
  35. Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists (buttondown.com)
    120 points by foldU over 1 year ago | 15 comments
  36. I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) (buttondown.com)
    114 points by shlomo_z 9 months ago | 113 comments
  37. Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    110 points by Tomte about 1 year ago | 28 comments
  38. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com)
    108 points by BerislavLopac about 1 year ago | 114 comments
  39. When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com)
    108 points by atan2 5 months ago | 86 comments
  40. TLA from First Principles (buttondown.com)
    103 points by ingve over 1 year ago | 23 comments
  41. Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel (buttondown.com)
    100 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 26 comments