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Darren Hobbs
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Darren Hobbs's personal blog at darrenhobbs.com covers programming and writing. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Tiny Types pattern”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on letting the type system do the work. The one comment names the 'Tiny Types' paradigm and cites the author's 2007 post on it as the origin of the idea.
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?
- The Tiny Types pattern2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-21
What Hacker News says?
I've seen this paradigm called "Tiny Types" before: http://darrenhobbs.com/2007/04/11/tiny-types/
Comment linking /2007/04/11/tiny-types/
on “Let the Type System do the Work”Submitted A bad citizen in Javaland (2006) as a story · 219 points
HN discussionSubmitted A bad citizen in Javaland (2006) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explain like I’m five: Bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tiny Types pattern as a story · 1 points
HN discussion