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glasnt.com is a personal blog at glasnt.com about programming and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on language oddities as a source for a Python quirk where `x is y` depends on whether the values are assigned on the same line.
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.
What Hacker News says?
There's a nice list here: https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat Here's another one. Compare "x = 256; y = 256; x is y" with "x = 257" (enter) "y = 257" (enter) "x is y" with "x = 257; y = 257; x is y". It makes a difference whether x and y are assigned on the same line or not. From here: http://glasnt.com/blog/2016/05/28/on-language-oddities.html
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