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Hasufell's blog
Personal blog · hasufell.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Hasufell's blog is a personal blog at hasufell.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Getting your Haskell executable statically linked without Nix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-28, 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 as a guide to string type options, in a thread about the Bend language and Haskell-style prelude String types. The linked post surveys many of those options.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting your Haskell executable statically linked without Nix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-25
- Guide to Haskell strings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-13
What Hacker News says?
“No options” simply isn’t true. Here’s a guide to many of the options: https://hasufell.github.io/posts/2024-05-07-ultimate-string-... Now if you’re asking why the basic prelude String type remains as it is, that’s because changing it would break more code than it’s worth, at least as far as prelude’s maintainers are concerned. This is no different from how standard C strings remain a null-terminated sequence of byt…
Comment linking /posts/2024-05-07-ultimate-string-guide.html
on “Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap”Submitted Guide to Haskell strings as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting your Haskell executable statically linked without Nix as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting your Haskell executable statically linked without Nix as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GHCup discontinued (or why you should use Nix) (2025) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic GHC Matrix in GitHub CI as a story · 2 points
HN discussion