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Ian Erik Varatalu

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Ian Erik Varatalu writes ian erik varatalu, a personal blog at iev.ee about programming and systems. Since 2026, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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phd student at taltech, working on automata theory, algorithms, fast search engines and solvers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-16
  2. What 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-13
  3. Symbolic derivatives and the rust rewrite of RE
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-08
  4. RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. ibobev · 2026-09-17

    Submitted Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  2. dmit · 2026-09-16

    Submitted Categorize Everything All at Once as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. g0xA52A2A · 2026-03-17

    Submitted Yes, all longest regex matches in linear time is possible as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. quasigloam · 2026-03-09

    Submitted Symbolic derivatives and the rust rewrite of RE as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. birdculture · 2026-09-18

    Submitted Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. todsacerdoti · 2026-03-08

    Submitted Symbolic derivatives and the rust rewrite of RE as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. birdculture · 2026-05-14

    Submitted What 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. lalitmaganti · 2026-03-19

    Submitted The quadratic problem nobody fixed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. nsm · 2026-03-09

    Submitted Why use F# for scripting and automation? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. exceptione · 2026-03-01

    Submitted RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. aw1621107 · 2026-05-13

    Submitted What 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. vismit2000 · 2026-03-24

    Submitted Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. algorithmsRcool · 2026-02-23

    Submitted RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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