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Bounded-Error Log
Personal blog · blog.vero.siteprogramming
Bounded-Error Log is a personal blog at blog.vero.site about programming. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Noulith post about a programming language built to speed up Advent of Code solving, with comparisons to APL and J. The comments cite it as a source and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10
What Hacker News says?
this strat won advent of code in 2022. https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith
Comment linking /post/noulith
on “Advent of Code 2024”Submitted Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit as a story · 63 points
HN discussionYes (or so I thought too!), but apparently no: https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith (post title: "Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code", but starts off "The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out that the programming language I was working on fit the task remarkably we…
Comment linking /post/noulith
on “Advent of Code 2025”Submitted Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"I thought it was interesting and a bit underappreciated that the fraction of gold medalists at the 2025 IMO (72/630 = 11.4%) is the highest it’s been since 1981. Crudely, IMO gold medals are awarded to the highest-scoring 1/12 of contestants.1 However, because scores are integers up to 42 and there’s no provision for tiebreaking, it’s possible for a lot of contestants to be tied around the threshold. In that case,…
Comment linking /post/imo-2025
on “Maxproof”Submitted Introduction to Code Golf and Golflangs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.vero.site/post/noulith seems to be familiar with both APL and J, and draw some inspiration from them…
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on “A Personal History of APL (1982)”Submitted Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe post gives an example of how python doesn't have this feature in the section [ https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith#coding-with-and-without-... ] Python fails this criteria because if you type as you think through the process, you have to move the cursor to the beginning to prefix the 'map' around the input. For example this series of transforming the input: puzzle_input.split("\n\n") map(ints, puzzle_input.split…
Comment linking /post/noulith
on “Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code”Submitted Introduction to Puzzlehunts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Rvalue References (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A programming language for Advent of Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Code: How to Leaderboard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React and Redux the Hard FP Way as a story · 1 points
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