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In Search of Secrets
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In Search of Secrets is a personal blog at insearchofsecrets.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (2014)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on programming paradigms, such as the relation between state and behaviour, and on Lisp and Smalltalk. One commenter points to a 2014 post on those languages.
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.
Making a map of ways to get lost
Most-linked posts?
- Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (2014)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-13
What Hacker News says?
I agree 100%. I firmly hold the belief that the two paradigms are just different perspectives of looking at the same thing (state and behavior). Also see https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-...
Comment linking /2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/
on “WelsonJS: Build a Windows app on the Windows built-in JavaScript engine”Submitted Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (2014) as a story · 166 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014) as a story · 136 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014) as a story · 8 points
HN discussion