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priyanshurajon What I Learned About Love When I Stopped Being Honest

Very well written article. After a long time, I read an article from top to bottom without losing focus.

priyanshurajon Ask HN: A great software you liked, but not supported anymore

Turbo C. I liked how it came with support libraries to develop programs with audio, graphics and normal text. It is really what got me into game programming. It was a much simpler world. No analysis paralysis about what which game ask to use. Can draw a point on a screen. Can draw a line. Can play a tone. After that it was all the programmer's imagination and creativity.

priyanshurajon In 1110, the Moon Vanished

The title is very clickbait

priyanshurajon Ask HN: What are your favourite Ask HN threads?

My own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441664 Got a lot of great advice and set me on the path for learning common lisp.

priyanshurajon Quantum computer makers like their odds for big progress

Are there any easy to use quantum computer as a service (qcaas?) I can try to learn this field?

priyanshurajon A Tiny Lispy Transpiler

Why did this get downvoted? This is correct description of the project. It is even written in readme.

priyanshurajon Getting started with C

The article uses nano throughout. Is nano a popularly used editor? I have not seen anyone around using nano. I see vim, atom, sublime, vs code but never nano. Just curious if nano is popular.

If nano is popular what are its pros and cons?

priyanshurajon Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

I forgot to ask in my main question. I can't edit it anymore.

I am seriously thinking of learnijg common lisp. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Is it possible to build web apps in common lisp or any lisp? Any frameworks available?

Is it possible to build multithreaded apps that use multiple CPU cores for performance? What is used? POSIX threads?

priyanshurajon Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

Why is common lisp ugly? Many people here suggested common lisp. I was considering it. I like to learn for fun but I am looking for something practical. I will want to build some useful apps in the end with it.

priyanshurajon Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

"If you mean Common Lisp, I'd say install SBCL and start playing with with the repl"

I meant any lisp. Common lisp, clojure, ccl. I am new to this so did not have a choice. But in this thread I get the feeling that common lisp is the most suggested.

priyanshurajon Ask HN: Where do you regularly discover interesting links on internet?

There is this orange outdated looking site where nerds hang out that I like - https://news.ycombinator.com/

priyanshurajon Ask HN: Why do so many people love Discord?

Yes, Twitter and Slack are proprietary.

priyanshurajon Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust

Thank you for the support. Yes it was a genuine question. I am not native English speaker. I was trying to understand the comment.

priyanshurajon How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser

Hacker news loads fine on w3m. w3m keybindings are also much better (vi like).

priyanshurajon Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?

Unix shell command languages by Ken Thompson

priyanshurajon Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust

Why it may be irrelevant that the project is active? Not sure I understood the point behind your last sentence. Can you explain please?

priyanshurajon Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained

Good post. Not a "show hn" though, is it?

priyanshurajon Docker's Second Death

Wonderfully written article. I like how it draws the distinction between Docker still possibly surviving in dev and ci/cd pipelines and Docker definitely being dead in production.

I wonder though if something simpler than Docker would arrive for dev and ci/cd and make Docker obsolete there too.