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Personal blog · boxbase.org/entriesprogrammingsystems

Boxbase is a personal blog at boxbase.org about programming and systems. Since 2015, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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29mentions?
21HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Boxbase for its posts on type systems, including Hindley-Milner inference and string diagrams, and an argument against OOP. Commenters mostly link these posts as references.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-10
  2. Null references was a mistake, but what's the take-away?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-05
  3. /entries/2018/mar/5/hindley-milner/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. marginalia_nu · 2022-02-02
    Would you expect someone selling a product to give an accurate review? They have a conflict of interest. Give me a review from someone who does not have a conflict of interest. I'll show you what I'm looking for: https://labs.tomasino.org/mechanical-keyboards/ https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/vortex-vibe-keyboard https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Mechanical_keyboards https://www.vegard.net/the-ultimate-keyboard-part-…

    Comment linking /entries/2015/nov/30/ergodox/

    on “The web starts on page four”
  2. tejohnso · 2022-02-10

    Submitted Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020) as a story · 460 points

    HN discussion
  3. DaiPlusPlus · 2025-05-08
    > "Trait/Typeclass"-style compositional inheritance as in Rust and Haskell is sublime. It's similar to Java interfaces in terms of flexibility, and it doesn't enforce hierarchical rules. Yes-and-no. Interfaces still participate in inheritance hierarchies (`interface Bar extends Foo`), and that's in a way that prohibits removing/subtracting type members (so interfaces are not in any way a substitute for mixins). Comp…

    Comment linking /entries/2020/aug/3/case-against-oop/

    on “Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021)”
  4. adamnemecek · 2019-02-11

    Submitted Dialogical logic programming as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  5. adamnemecek · 2019-10-13
    https://boxbase.org/entries/2019/jul/15/chu-construction/ Strings is the canonical example for Chu spaces.

    Comment linking /entries/2019/jul/15/chu-construction/

    on “String Diagrams for Linear Algebra”
  6. pcmonk · 2017-03-04

    Submitted Syntax is the last thing you should design as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  7. nathanrf · 2024-06-25
    The quoted paragraph is correct as written. E.g. if f: ∀A, B. A -> B -> A Then we have poly type π = "∀A, B. A -> B -> A". The monotype μ = Str -> Int -> Str is a specialization of π, so we are also permitted to judge that f has type μ. The type specialization operator "looks backwards", where we write sorta "π ≤ μ" because there's a kind of "subtyping" relationship (though most HM type systems don't actually contai…

    Comment linking /entries/2018/mar/5/hindley-milner/

    on “A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)”
  8. mabynogy · 2017-07-03

    Submitted Easy text rendering with Vulkan as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  9. e12e · 2015-06-16
    From some searching, this apparently is easier said than done[1] (read: there doesn't appear to be a way to guarantee that the decorator wouldn't break due to various meta-programming etc). Relevant links: The RPython sub-set used to implement pypy (and other languages on the rpython run-time) has a decorator for @always_inline, and does automagic inlining: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-commit/2014-November…

    Comment linking /entries/2015/apr/20/rpython-jit-optimizations/

    on “Python's Web Framework Benchmarks”
  10. bediger4000 · 2025-11-15

    Submitted Unix Hater's Handbook Stinks as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  11. DaiPlusPlus · 2024-02-01
    I'll just leave this link right here: https://boxbase.org/entries/2020/aug/3/case-against-oop and wait for the lively informed debate to ensue... (The article was a popular link when it was posted to HN back in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293622 )

    Comment linking /entries/2020/aug/3/case-against-oop

    on “People Don't Understand OOP”
  12. adamnemecek · 2019-02-11

    Submitted Dialogical logic programming as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. codeismath · 2021-09-29
    https://boxbase.org/entries/2018/mar/5/hindley-milner/

    Comment linking /entries/2018/mar/5/hindley-milner/

    on “Ask HN: Accessible resources on making a modern static type system?”
  14. lr0 · 2025-11-17

    Submitted The case against OOP is understated, not overstated as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. alacombe · 2021-01-01

    Submitted Plan 9 on E-Paper as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. todsacerdoti · 2020-11-01

    Submitted Return to Plan 9 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. todsacerdoti · 2020-11-22

    Submitted “Porting” of kapow to Plan 9 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. todsacerdoti · 2020-08-02

    Submitted Case against OOP is understated, not overstated as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. todsacerdoti · 2020-08-05

    Submitted A Haskell programmer wrote a tris in PureScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. bibyte · 2019-03-11

    Submitted Contradiction in Divide by Zero as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. afiori · 2019-02-25

    Submitted RISC-V can be fun if they don't mess it up as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. g0xA52A2A · 2023-01-14

    Submitted Relational Parsing, part 0, recognizer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. gbrown_ · 2020-08-04

    Submitted How to read code: the next generation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. fredrb · 2019-03-10

    Submitted How to Stop/Help Progress as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. codetrotter · 2019-02-13

    Submitted Null references was a mistake, but what's the take-away? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. pplonski86 · 2019-02-05

    Submitted Null references was a mistake, but what's the take-away? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. mabynogy · 2017-06-14

    Submitted What programming language should a beginner learn in 2017 – 20XX? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. pcmonk · 2017-02-06

    Submitted Syntax is the last thing you should design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. btrask · 2016-08-13

    Submitted JavaScript continent and the callback pyramids of hell as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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