Hackernews posts about Buttondown.com

  1. Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch (buttondown.com)
    186 points by maguay 7 days ago | 128 comments
  2. A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
    108 points by rfarley04 11 days ago | 14 comments
  3. Vim wants you to control, VSCode wants you to consume (buttondown.com)
    17 points by speckx 28 days ago | 3 comments
  4. Newsletters should be the director's commentary of every creator (buttondown.com)
    3 points by Tomte 26 days ago | discuss
  5. It's OK. Do Your Thing. Some (reluctant) thought on our AI moment (buttondown.com)
    2 points by speckx 23 days ago | discuss
  6. Multiple Cursor Mode in LazyVim – LazyVim for Ambitious Developers (buttondown.com)
    1 points by DavideNL 3 days ago | discuss
  7. AI Ethics or Dog Whistling? (buttondown.com)
    1 points by usamasulaiman 3 days ago | discuss
  8. Deploy Your Fork (buttondown.com)
    1 points by bigsassy 11 days ago | discuss
  9. Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (buttondown.com)
    679 points by mpweiher about 1 year ago | 533 comments
  10. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) (buttondown.com)
    346 points by swyx 11 months ago | 171 comments
  11. How RSS beat Microsoft (buttondown.com)
    315 points by vidyesh about 1 year ago | 181 comments
  12. Unusual Raku Features (buttondown.com)
    274 points by leontrolski almost 2 years ago | 157 comments
  13. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com)
    256 points by LinguaBrowse about 1 year ago | 97 comments
  14. Email could have been X.400 times better (buttondown.com)
    239 points by maguay 5 months ago | 206 comments
  15. AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
    222 points by maguay over 1 year ago | 165 comments
  16. Why did containers happen? (buttondown.com)
    208 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 280 comments
  17. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice (buttondown.com)
    184 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 113 comments
  18. Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate (buttondown.com)
    172 points by PaulHoule 12 months ago | 142 comments
  19. Refuse to let your doctor record you (buttondown.com)
    167 points by speckx 5 months ago | 226 comments
  20. Adventures in Probability (buttondown.com)
    165 points by kiyanwang almost 2 years ago | 40 comments
  21. What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com)
    156 points by BerislavLopac over 1 year ago | 183 comments
  22. My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    155 points by azhenley 8 months ago | 102 comments
  23. The death of thread per core (buttondown.com)
    155 points by ibobev 11 months ago | 68 comments
  24. The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) (buttondown.com)
    154 points by BerislavLopac almost 2 years ago | 84 comments
  25. In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com)
    142 points by rfarley04 7 months ago | 23 comments
  26. Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization (buttondown.com)
    136 points by samuel246 about 1 year ago | 128 comments
  27. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT (buttondown.com)
    135 points by azhenley over 1 year ago | 47 comments
  28. Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com)
    135 points by BerislavLopac over 1 year ago | 32 comments
  29. What I love about Django (buttondown.com)
    134 points by j4mie about 1 month ago | 116 comments
  30. Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com)
    129 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 38 comments
  31. Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)
    126 points by rfarley04 5 months ago | 93 comments
  32. Stroustrup's Rule (2024) (buttondown.com)
    126 points by bmacho 3 months ago | 35 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 almost 2 years ago | 65 comments
  34. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
    122 points by rfarley04 about 1 month ago | 100 comments
  35. E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)
    120 points by rfarley04 over 1 year ago | 125 comments
  36. Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists (buttondown.com)
    120 points by foldU almost 2 years ago | 15 comments
  37. I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024) (buttondown.com)
    114 points by shlomo_z about 1 year ago | 113 comments
  38. Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog (buttondown.com)
    110 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 28 comments