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fdiv.net is a personal blog at fdiv.net about programming and culture. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Objectivist C”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link fdiv.net for its satirical Objectivist-C piece, which commenters call top-quality banter, and for a post on emulating defer in C and a rebuttal of claims about women and salary negotiation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Objectivist C5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-05-18
- The pseudo-science and pseudo-feminism of Women Don't Ask3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-27
- An Introduction to Objectivist-C3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-20
What Hacker News says?
gcc and llvm have a cleanup attribute you can use for this. Systemd uses it. https://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccbl...
Comment linking /2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
on “Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C”Submitted Objectivist C as a story · 221 points
HN discussionYes, definitely. This is a common hypothesis, and it gets some study. See, for instance, http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women_Don't_Ask http://geekfeminism.org/2011/06/17/quick-hit-one-reason-wome... http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminis... There is both the possible cause of women being socially conditioned (or biologically wired, or whatever causes this) to be less confrontational, and t…
Comment linking /2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-dont-ask
on “Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet”Submitted Emulating Swift's “defer” in C, with Clang or GCC+Blocks as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of Objectivist-C: http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c "In Objectivist-C, software engineers have eliminated the need for object-oriented principles like Dependency Inversion, Acyclic Dependencies, and Stable Dependencies. Instead, they strictly adhere to one simple principle: No Dependencies."
Comment linking /2012/04/01/objectivist-c
on “Kill Your Dependencies”Submitted An Unofficial History of Forms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat would be objectivist-c: http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c
Comment linking /2012/04/01/objectivist-c
on “Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance”Submitted An Introduction to Objectivist-C as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://fdiv.net/2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblo... The original link works.
Comment linking /2015/10/08/emulating-defer-c-clang-or-gccblocks
on “Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C”Submitted Some thoughts on gender and science/technology magazines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou've just reinvented Objectivist-C! http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c
Comment linking /2012/04/01/objectivist-c
on “Go func: Reducing cognitive load”Submitted “The never-ending notary nuisance,” or, “infinite loop at Infinite Loop” as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> See Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553383876/ For what it's worth, there's what looks to be a strong rebuttal of most of the things this book says here: http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminis... (I'd tend to think that your point stands anyway as being obviously true, but after reading the rebuttal again along with the link to this article I…
Comment linking /2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminism-women-dont-ask
on “Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? [pdf]”Submitted Emulating Swift's “defer” in C as a story · 3 points
HN discussion/me raises hand Of course, we all code in Objectivist C ( http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c ) ;) But seriously ... I'm actually surprised that there aren't more Objectivists on HN. There's a strong anti-authoritarian streak here, with an emphasis on rationality, independence and capitalism. Take a look at the list of objectivist virtues ( http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Virtues ): Rationality, Honesty, Inte…
Comment linking /2012/04/01/objectivist-c
on “Piketty’s Capital: Wrong Theory/Destructive Program”Submitted Some thoughts on gender and science/technology magazines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionObjectivist-C (satire): https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
Comment linking /2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
on “Funny programming languages”Submitted An Introduction to Objectivist-C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is some top quality banter, on par with C+Equality and Objectivist C. https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa... https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
Comment linking /2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c
on “We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C”Submitted The pseudo-science and pseudo-feminism of Women Don't Ask as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taxonomy views browser of arbitrary depth as a story · 1 points
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