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by dang 4mo ago
Related: Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388741 - May 2022 (68 comments) Introduction to Compilers and Language Design - https://news.ycombinator.
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by dang 4mo ago
Related: Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525395 - March 2025 (49 comments) Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Goo
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by dang 4mo ago
This is pretty representative of what I'm calling the flamewar style: > repeating what the person said using different words that mean the same thing, to try to get them to see how ridiculous their argument is Especially when you do
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, we'll put that link in the toptext as well. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790689 .
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by dang 4mo ago
Related: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28812506 - Oct 2021 (24 comments) What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by dang 4mo ago
> I don't use AI; only edits to my posts are made by auto-spell checker I think you may find that this "auto spell checker" is making many more changes to your text than just spelling corrections. We've encountered th
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by dang 4mo ago
[stub for offtopicness] [[Come on you guys - you should know better than to post lazy internet ripostes to shallowly provocative titles. This is a fine and interesting historical article.]] [[[I've edited the title now so it starts few
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by dang 4mo ago
We can't know for sure, so it's best not to attack like this. All we can really say is that the posts were getting classified that way. There's also a large fuzzy area these days where people are using tools to edit, "po
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by dang 4mo ago
That makes sense! Of course the vast subtle spectrum of fuck you gets mostly truncated in this medium...
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by dang 4mo ago
Recent and related: Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268 - April 2026 (152 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
I've taken the liberty of correcting the typo in your GP comment. I hope that's ok!
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by dang 4mo ago
It's grammatical. I put a hyphen in 'open-source' in case that helps.
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by dang 4mo ago
Recent and related: Oh good, screwworms are back (2025) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475898 - June 2026 (79 comments) First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas - https://news.ycombinator.
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by dang 4mo ago
That's not allowed on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 .
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by dang 4mo ago
I realize you were provoked and FWIW your GP comment did not sound like genai to me (and we do a lot of pattern matching these days). Still, please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only ma
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by dang 4mo ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777916 .
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by dang 4mo ago
(previous title was "PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit", if anyone is wondering.) Thanks for updating it here as well!
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by dang 4mo ago
Done now! (Submitted URL was https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-l... .)
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by dang 4mo ago
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We've been having to ask you about this for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28364581 (Aug 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24
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by dang 4mo ago
" Don't be snarky. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " Not saying you owe $CEO better but rather that you owe this c
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? Rhombus Language 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633473 - June 2026 (113 comments) Summer Rhombus picture competition 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546270 -
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191763 - Dec 2025 (53 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 4mo ago
We're not doing any of those other things. We're just asking you to follow HN's rules, the same way we'd ask any other user* who was breaking them. (* assuming we happened to see it, which of course is far from always th
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks for the kind reply! I'll collapse this subthread since the GP comment is fine now.
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by dang 4mo ago
> Tell me you don't understand what you're saying without telling me you don't understand what you're saying. Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Yo
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 4mo ago
Would you please stop posting like this? You've been doing it repeatedly, and it degrades the threads. In fact the majority of your recent comments have been this sort of shallow, dimissive, snarky stuff. That is not what this site is

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