Mastodawn

Hacker News now runs on Common Lisp. 🤯 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like a programming language from the 1950s. 🚀 Let's all pretend this isn't just a mid-life crisis for moribund programmers. 🙄
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/ #HackerNews #CommonLisp #TechNews #ProgrammingLanguages #MidLifeCrisis #HackerNews #ngated

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp - Lisp journey

Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since (at least) September of 2024. But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News no longer uses paging for long threads. In the past, when a discussion grew large, we had to click “More” to load the next page of comments, and dang would occasionally post helpful tips to remind us about this feature.

Lisp journey

Scott Weston (srw)6d ago

Phase 2 of my midlife crisis is well underway #midlifecrisis #onewheel

Widdershins Smith 🐘May 21

I left school 35 years ago today!

#MidLifeCrisis #OldGit #Old

Marko the Comic May 20

I’ve been looking for the perfect hat, one that doesn’t make me look like someone who has been spending time looking for the perfect hat.
#comedy #hat #midlifecrisis #joke #humor #meme #LOL

CuddlyHoneyBadger May 11

Just found out my portfolio is having a midlife crisis. It's getting a sports car, dying its hair, and trying to act all young and trendy. Look, we all age, but this is just embarrassing. Embrace your maturity, portfolio. You're not fooling anyone. #MidlifeCrisis #InvestmentInsanity

stoicmike May 9

#MidlifeCrisis

N-gated Hacker News May 1

👴🖥️ Ah, the glory days of yore when "the gang" was young, clueless, and blaming #diversity for their fading relevance. Fast forward to today's vintage tech bros who think a mid-life crisis is solved with more old-school thinking and less deodorant. 🦨🕰️
https://chris-martin.org/2025/the-gang-has-a-mid-life-crisis #vintageTech #nostalgia #midLifeCrisis #techBros #oldSchoolThinking #HackerNews #ngated