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Zachary Rice

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Zachary Rice writes Looking at Computer, a personal blog at lookingatcomputer.substack.com about programming and ai. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Regex is almost all you need”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

Looking at Computer is a blog about open source and software engineering.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Regex is almost all you need
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Regex is almost all you need as a story · 13 points

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  2. Submitted Regex is almost all you need as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Rare Not Random Using Token Efficiency for Secrets Scanning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Regex is (almost) all you need (2025) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Rare Not Random – Using Token Efficiency for Secrets Scanning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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