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TECH NOTES is a personal blog at stanislaw.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on reentrant flex/bison parsers, which one commenter found via search and used to explain the required %option reentrant and %parse-param flags.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. A quick search for "reentrant flex bison" gets me this: https://stanislaw.github.io/2016/03/29/reentrant-parser-usin... which in turn links this: https://github.com/blynn/symple/tree/75aaea79141a18a234c94dc... The magic flags are: %option reentrant and %lex-param { yyscan_t scanner } %parse-param { yyscan_t scanner } %parse-param { val_callback_t callback } ... so ... it seems a reentrant flex/bison parser is easily…

    Comment linking /2016/03/29/reentrant-parser-using-flex-and-bison.html

    on “Why you should not use (f)lex, yacc and bison”
  2. Submitted Mutation Testing Meets Symbolic Execution as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Flex and Bison: tips for beginners as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Notes on Kent Beck's 'TDD by Example' as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Apple Could Improve Their Developer Tools as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted LLVM JIT, Objective-C and Swift on MacOS: Knowledge Dump as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Notes on Eschede Train Derailment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Mutation Testing and Symbolic Execution (Mull/KLEE) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Using mutation testing score to measure a reliability of a single function as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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