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Mistral Contrastin
Personal blog · dodisturb.me/posts · on HN as matheticprogrammingmath
Mistral Contrastin writes Do disturb me, a personal blog at dodisturb.me about programming and math. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Essence of Datalog (2018)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on learning Haskell. The comment describes a hands-on project using Hackage packages (req, aeson, persistent) to learn real-world Haskell. It does not comment on the writing.
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?
- The Essence of Datalog (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, the goal was (rather, is---I'm still working on it!) to learn more about real-world Haskell by actually learning how to use packages and forcing myself to read the Hackage docs, so for this project I pretty liberally import a new library whenever I need something. The "req" package is very intuitive to use for requests, and plays nicely with "aeson" for parsing JSON. I'm also using "persistent" to manage a sql…
Comment linking /posts/2018-12-25-The-Essence-of-Datalog.html
on “Haskell for Beginners”Submitted The Essence of Datalog (2018) as a story · 154 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typed Programs Don't Leak Data as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goto Assignment: A better local Goto Definition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verifying the Titular Properties of a Leftist Heap as a story · 1 points
HN discussion