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Christian, husband, programmer, blogger, in that order.

Blog: https://gavinhoward.com/

Contact: https://gavinhoward.com/contact/

Code: https://git.yzena.com/

Direct contact: gavin@yzena.com

  1. Ask HN: Where did the “unread” marker go?

    I've been using HN for a while and asked to be one of those with the "unread" marker (an orange vertical line to the left of unread posts). It stopped appearing today, or maybe yesterday. Where did it go? Did I miss…

    3 points 6
  2. Ask HN: What Do I Need to Know About Accounting for a Small Business?

    I am about to start a small software business, so when I read [1], which says, > Usually small businesses are terrible at accounting and finance, but even they typically have some idea where their bank accounts are and…

    7 points 6
  3. We Must Professionalize Programming to Preserve Society and Computing Freedom (gavinhoward.com)
    2 points 0
  4. Technical Debt Costs More Than You Think (gavinhoward.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Proprietary Environments Are a Trap (alexn.org)
    4 points 0
  6. Ask HN: How Much Do You Dislike Forward Declarations and Why?

    I'm working on a programming language. For various reasons, it is a one-pass language that requires forward declarations. However, [1] is criticizing Carbon's requirement for forward declarations, and it has many…

    1 points 4
  7. Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs (usenix.org)
    13 points 7
  8. Some thoughts on Go's unusual approach to identifier visibility (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    1 points 0
  9. Don't Write a Programming Language (write.as)
    152 points 133
  10. Goodbye, Kitty (gavinhoward.com)
    3 points 0
  11. 16 points 1

  12. No.

    2 points 0 pollopt

  13. Yes.

    1 points 0 pollopt
  14. Poll: Could You Convince Your Employer to Pay for Vetted Packaging?

    The idea comes from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868302 . Basically, epaulson says that their company would pay for a company to handle Linux packaging, vetting all of the packages, if some liability is…

    1 points 2 poll
  15. The Social Contract of Open Source (gavinhoward.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Ask HN: How Effective Is Copyleft with Commercial Licensing at Making Money?

    I'm currently building software that I would like to see turned into a business. However, there is plenty of evidence that companies will not pay for what software they use until they realize that there is a problem,…

    9 points 13
  17. “Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful (gavinhoward.com)
    4 points 0
  18. Ask HN: Classic Blog Posts About Computer Science

    While there are lists of important publications in Computer Science [1] [2] [3], it appears that there are few or no blog posts on those lists. What blog posts about Computer Science would you say are classics and…

    1 points 0
  19. Donald Knuth Explains “Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil” (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  20. Benefits of Dependencies in Software Projects as a Function of Effort (2017) (eli.thegreenplace.net)
    3 points 0
  21. Ask HN: Has Anyone Used SQLite as an Application File Format?

    I am considering using SQLite as an application file format, for many reasons, of which the first is "free" ACID semantics. (Actual cost paid in performance, of course.) My application could also be served well by using…

    4 points 2
  22. The Slippery Slope Is Not a Fallacy (gavinhoward.com)
    58 points 13
  23. Design Issues in LLVM OR (npopov.com)
    3 points 0
  24. Fork Is Not My Favorite Syscall (drewdevault.com)
    1 points 0
  25. CVE-2021-20226: A Bug in the Linux io_uring Subsystem (thezdi.com)
    4 points 1