Top all-time · #9239
Posts on CyberShadow's blog
Personal blog · blog.thecybershadow.netprogrammingsystems
Posts on CyberShadow's blog is a personal blog at blog.thecybershadow.net about programming and systems. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Datamining Bandersnatch”. 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 this blog for its posts on D language compile times and design-by-introspection, and for a datamining map of Choose Your Own Adventure book structures.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Datamining Bandersnatch3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-02
- D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-21
- Functional Image Processing in D2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Recent article regarding D compile times: https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-...
Comment linking /2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/
on ““Modern” C++ Lamentations”Submitted D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler as a story · 251 points
HN discussionPerhaps are you referring to this article? https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/03/21/functional-image-... Vladimir has one hell of a blog.
Comment linking /2014/03/21/functional-image-processing-in-d/
on “D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler”Submitted Datamining Bandersnatch as a story · 173 points
HN discussion> I would have liked to hear more about what exactly made D so great This WIP article explains very well the USP of D: http://erdani.com/hopl2020-draft.pdf (section 3) This article highlight the value of "design-by-introspection" applied to a particular problem space: https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/03/21/functional-image-... This talk present a concrete example of such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vK…
Comment linking /2014/03/21/functional-image-processing-in-d/
on “Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System”Submitted One year with the Truly Ergonomic keyboard as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThey didn't fix all the warts, D's compile times are just as bad or maybe even worse [0][1]. [0]: https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-... [1]: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/pvseqkfkgaopsnhqecdb@forum.dl...
Comment linking /2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/
on “I still like C and strongly dislike C++”Submitted Functional Image Processing in D as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI made the only complete map to my knowledge: https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2019/08/02/datamining-bander...
Comment linking /2019/08/02/datamining-bandersnatch/
on “Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)”Submitted The template that does nothing (2015) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI don't know much Nimrod, but here's an article I wrote about a D package I also wrote, in which a number of D features have come together in an especially pleasing way: http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2014/03/21/functional-image-p... I'd be interested to know if the same expressiveness is possible in other languages without sacrificing speed.
Comment linking /2014/03/21/functional-image-processing-in-d/
on “D for the Win”Submitted Datamining Bandersnatch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Amazing Template That Does Nothing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Low-overhead components as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Btdu: Sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The amazing template that does nothing (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Datamining Bandersnatch as a story · 1 points
HN discussion