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Ben Lynn

Personal blog · benlynn.blogspot.comprogrammingmath

Ben Lynn's personal blog at benlynn.blogspot.com covers programming and math. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Why laziness matters”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
15HN people?
2009–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Games, puzzles, coding, maths, etc.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why laziness matters
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-04
  2. UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. nkurz · 2011-04-07
    Judging by his blog ( http://benlynn.blogspot.com/ ) it looks like he has considerable affection for many languages beyond C. And I think you may have misinterpreted his comparison with Fortran: rather than showing how handily C beats Fortran (fish in a barrel), he seems to be saying that even with some C99 improvements, there still are places where Fortran has the advantage (refreshingly heretical). It's definitely…

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    on “C Craft: C is the desert island language.”
  2. mattyb · 2011-02-08

    Submitted UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad as a story · 117 points

    HN discussion
  3. qcassidy · 2009-12-18
    The author works for Google, and his most recent blog post is actually about the Go language: http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-go-time_6644.html

    Comment linking /2009/11/it-go-time_6644.html

    on “C Craft”
  4. fogus · 2011-04-08

    Submitted List Comprehensions in C as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  5. julian37 · 2011-02-27
    Appears to be mostly good information, though I'm surprised he paints UTF-16 in such a positive light ("optimized for languages residing in the 2 byte character range."). UTF-16 should be considered harmful: http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2011/02/utf-8-good-utf-16-bad.ht... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049947/should-utf-16-be-...

    Comment linking /2011/02/utf-8-good-utf-16-bad.html

    on “Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified”
  6. brewski · 2010-08-01

    Submitted The timeless beauty of shell scripts as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  7. gte910h · 2010-04-11
    > The SDK cames with a suite of command line tools that are far more easy to understand then the eclipse crud. I very much agree with this statement. Here are some resources: http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-android-witho... http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-android-tutorial http://blogs.nitobi.com/joe/2010/03/26/android-without-eclip...

    Comment linking /2009/01/developing-android-without-eclipse-or.html

    on “Ask HN: What would life be like as an Android Developer?”
  8. skorks · 2010-04-04

    Submitted Trees, Hash Tables and Tries as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  9. gte910h · 2010-10-25
    And the obligatory "Without Eclipse": http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-android-witho... http://www.anddev.org/novice-tutorials-f8/developing-android...

    Comment linking /2009/01/developing-android-without-eclipse-or.html

    on “Get Started Developing for Android with Eclipse”
  10. arman0 · 2011-02-16

    Submitted A really fundamental data structure as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  11. ky3 · 2013-05-10
    I think this is a cool project, but surely needs more of a preamble? Like what are crit-bit trees? [1,2,3,4] [1] http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2007/04/trees-hash-tables-and-tr... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree [3] http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html [4] http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/critbit.pdf

    Comment linking /2007/04/trees-hash-tables-and-tries_11.html

    on “Learn Haskell by hacking on crit-bit trees”
  12. jose_zap · 2018-07-09

    Submitted Why laziness matters as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. fanf2 · 2020-10-20

    Submitted Lambda the Penultimate as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. allenleein · 2020-06-25

    Submitted Laziness Is Next to Godliness as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. dedalus · 2017-06-11

    Submitted Solving the JavaScript problem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. tempodox · 2018-07-04

    Submitted Why Laziness Matters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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