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kubuszok.com is a personal blog at kubuszok.com about programming. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “From string to AST: parsing (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It argues in a Tokio 1.0 thread that async and normal functions differ in type because they carry different side effects, a topic the linked posts may cover.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- From string to AST: parsing (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-29
What Hacker News says?
> An async function and a normal function are semantically the same But they are not, AsyncIO and BlockingIO are different side effects, thus you have different types of computation, that's exactly what I'm talking about. In languages with monads or algebraic effects these would have different types. You don't say that Lists and Arrays are semantically the same, despite being similar sequential collections, they sti…
Comment linking /2019/io-monad-which-why-and-how/
on “Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust”Submitted Algebras we love as a story · 175 points
HN discussionSubmitted From string to AST: parsing (2019) as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala: Understanding implicits as a story · 135 points
HN discussionSubmitted ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kinds of types in Scala: take type, return type or type parameters as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sanely-automatic derivation – fixing type classes derivation UX in Scala as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The F-words: functor and friends as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AST playground: recursion schemes and recursive data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to mathematical relations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IO Monad (in Scala) – which, why and how to how as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From String to AST: Parsing (Scala) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Different ways to understand a monad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the beginning, there was the empty set as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala FUD FAQ for newbies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kinds of types in Scala, part 3: embedding some more info in a type as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala: understanding types and type system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implicits, type classes and extension methods, part 3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implicits, type classes and extension methods, part 1: with type classes in mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Relearn your sbt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Relearn your sbt(Scala) as a story · 1 points
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