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Varun Ramesh

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Varun Ramesh's personal blog at blog.varunramesh.net covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “An Introduction to Parser Combinators”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Updates on projects and musings about technology.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An Introduction to Parser Combinators
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Lua is an awesome language, but there are significant gotchas, especially with regards to the behavior of ipairs and the length operator - https://blog.varunramesh.net/posts/lua-gotchas/#the-behavior...

    Comment linking /posts/lua-gotchas/

    on “Tables”
  2. Submitted ChatGPT is Really Good at Roleplaying as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://blog.varunramesh.net/ Right now I'm working on posts with interactive code snippets that you can edit / re-run directly in the page (like a Jupyter notebook). It's based off this: https://github.com/rameshvarun/blog-cells

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted An Introduction to Parser Combinators as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Stackless vs. Stackful Coroutines as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Composable, Programmatic Animations for Games as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Evaluating Algebraic Expressions Using Parser Combinators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted An Introduction to Parser Combinators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted An Introduction to Parser Combinators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Boehm GC Feels Like Cheating (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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