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Sid Shanker
Personal blog · squidarth.comprogrammingsystems
Sid Shanker's personal blog at squidarth.com covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Fear Not the Rust Borrow Checker”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sid Shanker's post on Clojure's approach to identity and state (2008), which HN readers discuss for its separation of values from identity and its case for immutability in imperative code.
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?
- Fear Not the Rust Borrow Checker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-13
- Attempting the TCP Reset Attack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-10
- Type Erasure in Scala2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Immutability is very helpful, and the connection between values and identity is illuminating. But there have been very important developments in programming languages since this post/page was written: notably, the introduction of "borrow checking" (exemplified by Rust's implementation). Borrow checking has a very significant positive effect on the sustainability of imperative code, which makes the claim that "impera…
Comment linking /rc/rust/2018/05/31/rust-borrowing-and-ownership.html
on “Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)”Submitted Intro to Congestion Control as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Attempting the TCP Reset Attack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ergodicity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congestion Control IV: Reinforcement Learning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Discrete Cosine Function in Action as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes: Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear Not the Rust Borrow Checker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type Erasure in Scala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congestion Control III: RED as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where do Rust threads come from? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classifying Developer Tools: Aids vs. Abstractions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Stable Diffusion about Myself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kingfig Solves the Worst Parts of Managing Settings Pages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned attempting the TCP Reset attack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes: The Tail at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review: Mindstorms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type Erasure in Scala as a story · 1 points
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