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Adi Shavit

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Adi Shavit writes Video Cortex, a personal blog at videocortex.io about programming. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Affine Space Types (2018)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
7HN people?
2017–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post is about how to read C type declarations. The only comment quotes K&R's declaration syntax and criticises that syntax, not the post, so HN readers say nothing about the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Affine Space Types (2018)
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-03
  2. The C++ Bestiary
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. delta_p_delta_x · 2024-05-17
    > There is a reason why K&R do it that way. This was and remains a bad decision, full stop. 'Pointer to something' should have been a parametrised type rather than C's weird syntax of overloading operator*. And I won't accept the argument that C was too old to have parametrised types: ML, Lisp, and many other functional-first languages developed alongside C and had them. We've just stuck with C because it got popula…

    Comment linking /2018/Affine-Space-Types/

    on “How to read C type declarations (2003)”
  2. matt_d · 2019-12-10

    Submitted Brain Unrolling: Generators and the Sweet Syntactic Sugar of Coroutines as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. signa11 · 2020-09-14

    Submitted The C++ Bestiary as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. aaron-santos · 2020-09-13

    Submitted The C++ Bestiary as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. ingve · 2019-08-15

    Submitted The Salami Method as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. ingve · 2017-10-19

    Submitted C++ Terminators as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. ingve · 2017-09-05

    Submitted The main() Course as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. signa11 · 2026-09-15

    Submitted Affine Space Types as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. tosh · 2026-06-04

    Submitted Affine Space Types (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. delta_p_delta_x · 2022-12-03

    Submitted Affine Space Types (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. arunc · 2017-11-01

    Submitted The C++ Bestiary as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. signa11 · 2017-10-31

    Submitted The C++ Bestiary as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. ingve · 2017-09-04

    Submitted The main() Course as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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