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Infinite Negative Utility
Personal blog · blog.infinitenegativeutility.comprogrammingphilosophy
Infinite Negative Utility is a personal blog at blog.infinitenegativeutility.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Celebrating Daemontools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on systemd versus shell-script init systems and on Hofstadter's MU puzzle from Gödel, Escher, Bach. Comments cite them as sources in those debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Last year I decided to use the Advent of Code to practice writing code using the Pony programming language, and the first few days I stru...
Most-linked posts?
- Celebrating Daemontools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-25
- The Rust Language and Special Cases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-04
- Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-15
- Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
What Hacker News says?
> Bash with it's multitude of annoying quoting and field splitting rules So don't use the Bourne Again shell. After all and to start with, if you live in the Debian or Ubuntu worlds, your van Smoorenburg rc scripts have not been using the Bourne Again shell for about a decade. There's no reason at all that run programs need be written in any shell script at all, let alone in the Bourne Shell script. Laurent Bercot p…
Comment linking /2015/2/celebrating-daemontools
on “Systemd Sucks, Long Live Systemd”Submitted Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach as a story · 578 points
HN discussionOpinions differ: https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2018/7/why-i-dont-l... Fwiw, I liked it but some parts of the book which is from 1979 hasn't aged too well. For example, Hofstadter didn't realize how well computer programs could simulate what he thought was intelligent behavior such as chess playing.
Comment linking /2018/7/why-i-dont-love-godel-escher-bach
on “MU puzzle”Submitted Some Notes About How I Write Haskell as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014) as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celebrating Daemontools – two tools for managing Unix services as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celebrating Daemontools as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rust Language and Special Cases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rust Language and Special Cases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural types and duck typing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
