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Lara Schenck
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Lara Schenck writes Lara (Schenck) Karki, a personal blog at notlaura.com about programming and web. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “CSS Is Turing Complete”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lara Schenck's post 'Is CSS Turing Complete?' when discussing CSS, Turing completeness and similar topics. Commenters cite it as support rather than evaluating its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software developer in Pittsburgh, PA who loves CSS and WordPress, creates cute monsters, and writes about programming.
Most-linked posts?
- CSS Is Turing Complete5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
What Hacker News says?
it's not programming Turns out, it is. CSS is Turing Complete: https://notlaura.com/is-css-turing-complete/
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on “CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text”Submitted Writing CSS Algorithms as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI'm not sure there's "a" distinction, but there's a couple I tend to think about. This isn't necessarily anything formal or official. One is just, could this be Turing complete if we gave it infinite resources in the obvious manner? e.g., in Life, an infinite grid, for a modern computer, hypothetically infinite RAM and disk and time, etc. I think this is the one most people are using. Another one I tend to think abo…
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on “Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete”Submitted Designer applies for JavaScript job, fails at FizzBuzz, then writes 5-page long rant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAny program can be compiled to a single `while` loop with a `switch`. I can think of two ways to "drive" this `while` loop: - If the program is meant to run forever, or as long as possible, then the system performing the computations can drive the loop. This might be useful for anytime algorithms (e.g. an AI/optimisation problem): e.g. "keep iterating this computation (unless my billing account runs out of credit),…
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on “IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption”Submitted CSS Is Turing Complete as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore on this: https://notlaura.com/is-css-turing-complete/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...
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on “CSS Turing Machine”Submitted How to write and run a shell script as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>doesn't specify what level of knowledge is expected of you. Familiarity? Proficiency? Master? Do you need to know how v8 interprets Javascript? It says "experienced with OO JS". That's vague, but not so vague that it can mean "I don't even know the basic operators of the language". And that from someone who claims they can "teach others to code". ( http://notlaura.com/services/teach-me-to-fish/ )
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on “Pure CSS FizzBuzz”To be trite; Jenkins is then equivalent? CSS can famously be made turing complete. https://notlaura.com/is-css-turing-complete/
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on “Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups”
