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matslina
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matslina is a personal blog at calmerthanyouare.org about programming and systems. Since 2013, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link matslina's 2015 post testing Betteridge's law of headlines against data, which is the post most commenters cite. Other links go to posts on C's qsort and Brainfuck optimization.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-03-19
- Brainfuck Optimization Strategies6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-01-07
- A libc qsort(3) shootout of sorts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-31
What Hacker News says?
Interesting, I found this article which backs you up http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Facebook gives money to America’s biggest news organizations”Submitted Algorithmic complexity attacks and libc qsort() as a story · 149 points
HN discussionThere's this: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html Delightfully, the article itself seems to assess the letter of Betteridge's Law while ignoring, and therefore embodying, its spirit. And also, naturally, deliciously, walks straight into the obvious trap in the end.
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It”Submitted Brainfuck Optimization Strategies as a story · 103 points
HN discussionFor further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references This appears to be the one I recall: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419 Additionally there wa…
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Is Sugar Killing Us?”Submitted Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct? as a story · 28 points
HN discussionCool! Seems to be citing this nice post here: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html I didn't realize the biggest reason against it is that the majority of headline questions aren't yes/no. Oh well, it's still funny to silently answer any (yes/no) headline question with "no!" before reading.
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?”Submitted Control flow in brainfuck as a story · 7 points
HN discussion"Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?" (brilliant title, given what follows) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html "In other words, it appears as if roughly a quarter of all headlines which end in a question mark can be answered by the word no. You can go ahead and call that Linander’s law of headlines, if you will." Don't miss the data: https://gist.github.com/matslina/64601f39ef12bd653be6
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Is nuclear fusion poised to deliver?”Submitted A libc qsort(3) shootout of sorts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe original post links to this page: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2013/05/31/qsort-shootout.html There is an explanation provided that may be the reason, but it is not entirely convincing. Smoothsort is a variation of heapsort that performs especially well on nearly sorted inputs. It’s a pretty complicated beast and it does take some effort to wrap one’s head around it. Keith Schwarz has posted a nice walkthrough th…
Comment linking /2013/05/31/qsort-shootout.html
on “Inspecting C's qsort Through Animation”Submitted Brainfuck Optimization Strategies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLibc qsort() isn't quicksort in several of the popular libc implementations. For example, it's (usually) a merge sort in glibc. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2013/05/31/qsort-shootout.html
Comment linking /2013/05/31/qsort-shootout.html
on “Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice? (2013)”Even basic optimizing compilers collapse consecutive + and - operations into a single constant size instruction and does a dozen other optimizations so in practice the instruction density is crazy high compared to naively executing every BF operation individually. It could have been interesting if they used an optimized ISA inspired by [1]. There's a reason why CPUs that can execute JVM bytecode directly never caugh…
Comment linking /2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html
on “Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf]”There is also some ability to explore optimization strategies. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.... As it’s such a limited language, it is something that may be more accessible (compare optimizing MIPS).
Comment linking /2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html
on “Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf]”http://calmerthanyouare.org/2014/09/30/brainfuck-java.html some of the issues encountered when writing a brainfuck-to-java compiler in brainfuck Yo dawg, etc
Comment linking /2014/09/30/brainfuck-java.html
on “Brainfuck Optimization Strategies”BrainFuck is a great place to start because it's pretty simple. I started with this post on the PyPy blog: http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/tutorial-writing-inte... This repository helped as well: https://github.com/thoughtpolice/bf-pypy Getting a basic interpreter working wasn't hard, but I attempted to add a few of the optimizations listed here[1], which meant adding some form of AST and stuff to manipulate…
Comment linking /2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html
on “PyPy 2.5.1 released”Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct? http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
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on “Is Elon Right?”Closest I could find to a recursive Betteridge's Law: ;) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
Comment linking /2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
on “Is it boring working in Web Development startups?”Writing a bf interpreter or compiler is the first thing I do in a new language. I have taken to representing the tape as a linked list which allows for a one-pass optimizing pass whereamong other things +++ is turned into +3 and [-] into tape[cur] = 0. I really liked reading the code since it is a problem I am familiar with. Edit: here is a link with some simple optimizations http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/o…
Comment linking /2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html
on “Show HN: A tiny brainfuck interpreter written in Rust”For the last few days I have been wondering if there is any analysis to see if this "law" is accurate. Is there anything other than this? > With 46% non-polar and 20% answered “yes”, at least two thirds of our headline sample violates Betteridge’s law. We conclude that it cannot be “mostly correct” either. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html#... .
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on “Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?”
