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October 29, 2007 (18y ago)
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  1. Ask HN : How do I delete my account? Is HN evil?

    I dont see a "delete my account" button anywhere. If such an option does exist, shouldnt the link be more upfront? If it doesnt exist .. why not?

    10 points 12
  2. Ask YC : [Optionally] Statically typed languages on the JVM?

    I know of 2 statically typed languages on the JVM : Java and Scala. Any other interesting languages on the JVM which are more or less stable enough to use? I already know a lot of dynamic laguages run on the JVM like…

    2 points 3
  3. Parallel Python or Ruby?

    If you were to add some parallel language constructs to Python or Ruby or <insert your favourite language>, what would you add? Lets assume you are only allowed to add 1 or 2 constructs so you dont go changing…

    6 points 20
  4. Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm (theregister.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  5. New Breed Of Supercomputers Proposed To Improve Climate Change Prediction Accuracy (sciencedaily.com)
    3 points 0
  6. Ask News.YC : Optionally statically typed languages?

    I am trying to survey programming languages which have optional static type declarations. I know about CL and Dylan. Kawa Scheme and Clojure also appear to be using optional static typing. Are there any others?

    2 points 0
  7. "KDDI announces ER search" : Visual search coming to mobiles! (intomobile.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"

    It has been frequently commented by people outside the news.yc community that news.yc is too pandering to PG. To test this, I propose the following experiment which requires PG's co-operation. I propose that PG also…

    21 points 79
  9. Ask YC : java template engine for generating source code?

    Have any of you used stringtemplate, velocity, freemarker or others for generating structured text of any kind? Any experiences or thoughts? Stringtemplate seems to be purely functional and claims to enforce strict…

    2 points 3
  10. Google App Engine: Free and still barely worth it (tomstechblog.com)
    23 points 19
  11. Linux is hard. Or is it? (whycode.wordpress.com)
    2 points 0
  12. Sun close to buying Intel would-be competitor Montalvo (news.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Opinion : Silverthorne fails but PowerVR impresses (beyond3d.com)
    2 points 0
  14. Ask YC : Are multicores useful? What will you do with 32/64/128 cores?

    Before you remark that people need more than 640k, read this patiently. My parents run a 3-4 old year system on XP and it runs just fine. They are able to browse the web and run skype. Most of their meets are already…

    2 points 6
  15. Groovy's performance is not subjective (codecommit.com)
    3 points 0
  16. Motorola : Open letter from insider related to mismanagement on a grand scale (intomobile.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Interesting fact about linux file system (pyside.blogspot.com)
    1 points 0
  18. State of the X window system (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  19. Ask YC : x86 books?

    I have just started a compiler project targeting x86. Can you suggest some books which will get me upto speed on the the x86 instruction set? I have worked with other ISAs in the past so I am not an assembler noob. Just…

    2 points 2
  20. Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects?

    Does anyone know of a good project hosting site? Has anyone used cvsdude, svnrepository etc? Do you have any good/bad experiences with any of the sites? edit : Should have said something about requirements. I need…

    12 points 21