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376 points by thunderbong | 148 comments
Blog post recounting how the author spent weeks hand-optimizing assembly for a Java platform, only to find the gains came from benchmarking on unrealistic random data.
433 points by qsantos | 192 comments
A blog post by Quentin Santos explaining dynamic programming as an approachable algorithmic technique rather than black magic.
5 points by jarmiaq | 0 comments
Daniel Temkin's page for Olympus, an esoteric programming language that reframes the programmer-computer power dynamic by having code petition gods.
77 points by jjba23 | 15 comments
Blog post walking through parsing Org mode documents with Parsing Expression Grammars using Guile Scheme's (ice-9 peg) module and converting them to HTML.
329 points by todsacerdoti | 182 comments
A blog post by David Teller recounting the programming languages that changed how he thinks about programming over his career.
424 points by yacin | 231 comments
Ian Henry's 2023 blog post arguing why programmers should try Janet, a small Lisp dialect, and promoting his free book about it.
398 points by MatthiasPortzel | 649 comments
An Ask HN thread asking why Python grew into a dominant programming language while Ruby, once similarly popular, stalled.
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.