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Lately, esoteric realms of computing have started trending on HN every day - lazy evaluator languages and concatenative languages and array languages and resear
by crq-yml 3y ago
Lately, esoteric realms of computing have started trending on HN every day - lazy evaluator languages and concatenative languages and array languages and research operating systems and standards that are no longer in use or died as a proposal.
It's been quite a few years since this was a daily feature so I assume something happened. Maybe layoffs.
- _benj 3y agoWhatever it is, a change of the usual “AI”/“GPT”/“LLM” barrage we’ve had for the last months is welcome! I miss coming to HN and seeing cool things that I wasn’t aware of!
- ahmedfromtunis 3y agoI don't know, but for me that's the second best feature of HN; learning about the edge of the digital universe. The best feature is, of course, discussing these things with the very people who made them. Such a cool place!
- avgcorrection 3y agoMy first instinct when people start talking about cool tech is also to ask if they are unemployed.
- lolinder 3y agoThe whole startup ecosystem that normally trends on here is substantially less interesting than it used to be now that interest rates are above zero (and the section 174 tax changes are definitely not helping). Layoffs are another symptom of the same root cause—in the absence of a thriving startup ecosystem neat tech can surface to the top again, not because people have more free time after layoffs, but because there's not much else to talk about.