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Perl Hacks is a personal blog at perlhacks.com about programming. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2014

Just another Perl Hacker's blog

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  1. MS(IE) had ActiveScript, of which VBS was just one implementation (although it was the bundled one that always existed). People have built integrations for stuff like Tcl, Python, or Perl, making them available to the browser. Example: https://perlhacks.com/2026/07/remember-perlscript-when-inter...

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  2. Submitted Dots and Perl as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Perl's Problems as a story · 50 points

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  4. Submitted The Long Death of CGI.pm as a story · 33 points

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  5. Submitted Blogs.perl.org hacked as a story · 7 points

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  6. Submitted Why Learn Perl? as a story · 6 points

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  7. Submitted Data Munging with Perl now freely available as a story · 6 points

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  8. Submitted Marketing Perl as a story · 6 points

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  9. Submitted Cultured Perl as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted You Must Hate Version Control Systems as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted Professional Programmer is Professional as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Review of “Penetration Testing with Perl” as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Perl Usage as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Saint Pierre and Miquelon - the biggest Island of Perl Mongers as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted Public Identifiers, UUIDs and a Tiny SEO Fix as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Subroutines and Ampersands in Perl as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Why Corporates Hate Perl as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Too Easy or Too Hard as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Adding Structured Data with Perl as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Build RPMs of CPAN Modules as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Installing Perl Modules as a story · 1 points

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