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I know that Lisp is very popular here on HN (Paul Graham!), but my gut feeling tells me that many Lisp related posts with hardly any upvotes / comments get push
by submeta 7y ago
I know that Lisp is very popular here on HN (Paul Graham!), but my gut feeling tells me that many Lisp related posts with hardly any upvotes / comments get pushed to the front page of HN. I wish there was a HN filter to hide certain keywords.
NB: I read SICP cover to cover twenty years ago, did many private projects with DrScheme (Racket) and was influenced by it's paradigms early on. I do appreciate Lispy topics, but why front page of HN?
- Jtsummers 7y agoYou can hide individual posts, which I find useful for a lot of non-technical content that's less interesting to me. It's manual, but it gets them off the home page and you can see content from the 2nd/3rd pages of material that may be of more interest to you.
- submeta 7y agoAppreciate your help. - Actually that's what I do. Hide manually.
- Jach 7y agoYou can always use greasemonkey/tampermonkey extensions, the HN markup is pretty straightforward... I think Common Lisp specifically is enjoying a bit of a spike in popularity (at least on HN, I've noticed a lot more front page stories over the last some years than previously) especially as more people realize it's out of the box way more powerful than what you find in SICP's Scheme. (A few offhand things one finds: type declarations with compile-time error checking in the most popular implementation + type info used to produced optimized assembly you can immediately inspect, non-braindead OOP, non-braindead error system, multi-million line software project existence proofs, long history of useful old code that still works like an inline arithmetic reader macro...)