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Andreas Zwinkau
Personal blog · beza1e1.tuxen.de · on HN as qzncprogrammingwriting
Andreas Zwinkau's personal blog at beza1e1.tuxen.de covers programming and writing. Since 2009, 122 different Hacker News readers have linked it 267 times, most often “A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its 'lore' and 'accidentally Turing complete' lists of software folklore and bugs, and for pieces on Fortran, D and functional programming.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Called 'entertaining', 'interesting' and 'great'; one commenter 'highly recommend[s]' it; another says 'you might like' it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)31 people · 34 mentions · first linked 2013-10-19
- Accidentally Turing-Complete12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2020-11-09
- OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays (2009)9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-01-01
- Software Folklore5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-28
- Crash Cows4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27
- One Letter Programming Languages4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-21
- Crash cows (2013)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-10
- Interactive advice for an Open Source licence3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-01-25
- The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-12-12
What Hacker News says?
This is another classic from his list "We can't send mail more than 500 miles": https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/500mile_email.html
Comment linking /lore/500mile_email.html
on “Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash”Submitted Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories as a story · 370 points
HN discussionI LOVE stuff like this. Reminds me of "OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays" https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html
Comment linking /lore/print_on_tuesday.html
on “Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash”Submitted A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013) as a story · 244 points
HN discussionI think news aggregators are more responsible for a changed blogging culture than Google with its search results and Reader killing. I think the primary discovery mechanism should be blogrolls but few blogs have that today. My website does not have one either. Why? Because I don't follow my feed reader that deeply anymore. Instead I rely on Hacker News and other aggregators. The advantage of aggregators are that a h…
Comment linking /blogs_en.html
on “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs”Submitted The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it as a story · 196 points
HN discussionI think is the one you are looking for: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html Also posted on HN awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140 Edit: yep, here are your Crash Cows: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html
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on “The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining”Submitted How I feel about AI as a story · 166 points
HN discussion> The HTML email world is stuck with HTML 4.1, inline CSS and many corner cases (worse than the IE6 era!). It might be for the better, actually. HTML5 and CSS3 are Turing-complete[0] so I can imagine that the moment they would be allowed, some clever marketing company would figure out new and impressive ways to use the new features to scam people. Er. I meant, "provide value-added content". [0] - with user closing t…
Comment linking /articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html
on “How to Center in CSS”Submitted Software Folklore as a story · 149 points
HN discussionA while back, Andreas Zwinkau collected this kind of stories. Please post him if there is anything not yet listed. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html
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on “We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)”Submitted Accidentally Turing-Complete as a story · 148 points
HN discussionHave fun: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/
Comment linking /lore/
on “How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data”Submitted How to implement strings as a story · 138 points
HN discussionProductivity? Overrated. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/
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on “The 500-mile email (2002)”Submitted Model View Controller isn't as a story · 136 points
HN discussionhttp://beza1e1.tuxen.de/blog_en.html You probably should not read it. I don't have a topic but write all over the place from software engineering to fan fiction. The good articles were on the HN frontpage. That should suffice for most here.
Comment linking /blog_en.html
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted How a language can be faster than C as a story · 135 points
HN discussionThey are still out there. Probably even more than ever. You just don't find them because the SEO-sites drain away all traffic. I believe my own site would qualify? http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/
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on “Does anyone remember websites?”Submitted Accidentally Turing-Complete as a story · 108 points
HN discussion> What is your source on this? See "Trust the programmer" https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/spirit_of_c.html Also, a general belief among C++ programmers that better training is the answer to programming bugs. This belief is slowly fading, but it's got a long way to go. Scott Meyers' books on Effective C++ represent a lot of effort to educate programmers out of making mistakes. For example, from the table of content…
Comment linking /articles/spirit_of_c.html
on “U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says”Submitted Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers as a story · 105 points
HN discussionList of software folklore, including this, the 500 mile email, and the rest: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/
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on “Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)”Submitted C++ State Machines as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI call it "theorem-proof" style: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/theorem_proof_slides.html Sounds more serious than "meme pics" style. :)
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on “Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale”Submitted Accidentally Turing-Complete as a story · 85 points
HN discussion> That characterization isn't enough to distinguish a Turing complete interpreter from something that trivially manipulates an input datum. An interpreter is just a program containing code paths, which are activated in response to the input (the interpreted code). It is surprisingly simple to make an interpreter that is "accidentally" Turing complete (this IMHO so often happens by accident that I love to say that if…
Comment linking /articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html
on “Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features”Submitted Levels of configuration languages as a story · 75 points
HN discussionAny applications that is (by accident http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... ) turing complete is not allowed on AppStore?
Comment linking /articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html
on “About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store”Submitted How to generate Lua boilerplate with D as a story · 73 points
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