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Ramkumar Ramachandra
Personal blog · artagnon.com · on HN as artagnonprogrammingwriting
Ramkumar Ramachandra's personal blog at artagnon.com covers programming and writing. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “A tour of the LLVM back end”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on proof assistants and theorem provers such as Lean and Coq, citing them as background for their own points. One bare link goes to a post comparing cities.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal website containing information about the author, creative writing, technical satire, technical articles on compilers and logic
Most-linked posts?
- A tour of the LLVM back end2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-05
- An introduction to auto-vectorization with LLVM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-04
- ReMarkable: The Perfect Tablet for Academics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-14
What Hacker News says?
I am still very new to proof theory. So please take this with a mountain of salt. At the core all these proof assistants, is a dependent total functional programming language. Total means all functions must be obviously be terminating. Dependent means types can dependent on values or more generally you can have quantifiers (sigma and pi). Both Coq and Lean have variants of a dependent type theory called “Calculus of…
Comment linking /articles/leancoq
on “Kind: A Modern Proof Language”Submitted An opinionated history of programming languages as a story · 104 points
HN discussionI've self-taught myself undergraduate-level Mathematics, and am currently enrolled in an advanced Masters program specialized in higher category theory at Université de Paris. Here are some thoughts: First, the amount I learnt on a day-to-day basis from self-studying in my free time pales in comparison to the amount I learnt from a structured course ending with an exam, in which you have to commit to studying 2~4 ho…
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on “Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?”Submitted Inside a register allocator as a story · 32 points
HN discussionOne place where the stash is really useful is pre-rebase. Unlike in merge, you need a clean worktree before you can rebase irrespective of whether or not those worktree changes will be affected by the rebase. A very common workflow on a topic branch: $ git stash $ git rebase master $ git stash pop To automate this workflow, there is a topic called rr/rebase-autostash that introduces the configuration variable rebase…
Comment linking /git-rebase.autostash
on “Stashing your work with git”Submitted Low-hanging fruit as a story · 24 points
HN discussionprobably chinese https://artagnon.com/art/xi
Comment linking /art/xi
on “An Opinionated Comparison of Cities”Submitted Modern Thoughts on Open Source as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI used to work as a compiler engineer in the US for several years, before deciding to try starting over at the age of 30, in pure mathematics. I moved from the US to Paris in pursuit of an affordable mathematics education, and spent two years in a Masters program. I did have a considerable amount of savings, but it was very risky nevertheless: if it didn't work out, I'd be out-of-touch with compilers, and it would b…
Comment linking /logic/%CE%BDType.pdf
on “Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?”Submitted An Opinionated Comparison of Cities as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLean is a great idea, especially the 4th version, a huge level up from the 3rd one, but its core still deficient[1] in some particular scenarious (see an interesting discussion[2] in the Rock (formerly Coq) issue tracker). Not sure if it might hinder the automation with the AI. [1] https://artagnon.com/logic/leancoq [2] https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/issues/10871
Comment linking /logic/leancoq
on “Lean 4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI”Submitted Is Open Source really Sustainable? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Age as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Capitalist Wet Dream as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tour of the LLVM back end as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deficiencies in LLVM's LoopVectorize as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, the Singularity isn't coming – machine learning and common sense as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted ReMarkable: The Perfect Tablet for Academics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incrementally updating the Dominator as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Git Sequencer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Inquiry into the Foundations of Mathematics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean versus Coq: The Cultural Chasm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I switched from Vim to Emacs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping Mechanical Correctness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Vectorization-Planner (VPlan) in LLVM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An introduction to auto-vectorization with LLVM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean versus Coq: The cultural chasm (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Deconstruction of Mathematical Reasoning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Great Mutator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conflating Ego with Intelligence as a story · 1 points
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