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Laurent Le Brun
Personal blog · laurent.le-brun.eu/blog · on HN as laurentlbprogrammingculture
Laurent Le Brun's personal blog at laurent.le-brun.eu covers programming and culture. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “HiTex: A spam factory for AI-generated books”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers the history of IDEs at Google. One commenter cites it for the point that Cider, Google's most widely used internal IDE, is based on VS Code.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- HiTex: A spam factory for AI-generated books4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
- An Overview of the Starlark Language3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-03
- A History of IDEs at Google2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-09
- Evolving a Codebase at Google Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-21
What Hacker News says?
If anyone wants to try, I wrote a small game like this. Input is 3 (ordered) digits, output is a Boolean. http://laurent.le-brun.eu/games/rules/
Comment linking /games/rules/
on “Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming”Submitted Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011 as a story · 230 points
HN discussionA lot of Starlark code at Google is still tested using a Python framework. So the code is compatible with Python to a fairly large extent. A Starlark interpreter can easily be compiled to webassembly and run in a browser. I did it here: http://laurent.le-brun.eu/starlark/
Comment linking /starlark/
on “What is the core of the Python programming language?”Submitted An Overview of the Starlark Language as a story · 110 points
HN discussionI've restarted a blog one year ago. I think it's worth having a platform, but it's not necessarily worth spending much time on it. In my case, I enjoy having a personal space. I had multiple posts I really wanted to write and share with my friends. I don't want to spend time and energy promoting the blog and competing for attention. But I know some people enjoy following it. That said, I also shared a few posts on H…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?”Submitted A Viral Google Doc Experiment During Google Layoffs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInteresting project! When I looked into CYOA, I opted for Ink. It's using a nice text-based language, a bit like markdown. It worked well for me, and I think it's a good option if you want to use a text editor. I wrote about my experiments here: https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/my-adventures-with-narrative...
Comment linking /blog/my-adventures-with-narrative-engines
on “Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode”Submitted Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy personal website + blog: https://laurent.le-brun.eu Multiple of my blog posts have been shared here before
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted HiTex: A spam factory for AI-generated books as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe most widely used IDE inside Google to work on Google products, Cider, is based on VS Code. https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
Comment linking /blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
on “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch”Submitted A practical introduction to the Starlark language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project to add F-Sharp Intellisense to Emacs progressing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving a Codebase at Google Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Adventures with Narrative Engines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An overview of the Starlark programming language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Overview of the Starlark Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Duck typing in F# as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing a video game for language learners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolving a Codebase at Google Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building LingoStories: An Experimental Project for Language Learners as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A History of IDEs at Google as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hitex is a spam factory for tech books as a story · 1 points
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