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Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C

nullprogram.com

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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772832 (from same submitter - a retry after it didn't catch attention first time around?)

Correction: it's the 4th(!) post of this: also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757076 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753842

I've been curious about this author's stuff trending on HN despite being of average quality at best and seriously problematic at worst, now I'm suspicious if there's some kind of reputation farming being attempted here.

The submission history of posts from nullprogram.com is… let's say… "odd"… several instances of double or triple posts, including doubles from the same submitter… @dang is this something you care about?

As an avid reader of it myself, nullprogram.com really can very one of these sites whose articles can very plausibly get recurringly posted by its readers (it's one of those sites that, when you're getting into C, you keep ending up at) rather than its author github.com/skeeto who I really would think is probably not hunting for HN points. Just a hunch tho, never know =)

It's just mildly weird that the same reader posts it twice with a distance of 12 hours, I hope this "null program" doesn't cause amnesia by nulling out memory ;D

> despite being of average quality at best and seriously problematic at worst

What exactly is your objection?

> What exactly is your objection?

I've had to manually click backwards through my own comments, but the comments on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35271498 are a good illustration.

And that is the 3rd or 4th time posts on this domain have triggered some warning flags for me; if you can tell me how to search my own comments on HN by post domain I can give you more links (not going to do more manual backwards-paging…)

Fair enough, though I think the techniques that the author uses are perfectly adequate depending on the type and scale of software you're writing. Maybe it should be better labelled.

As for searching, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there's a search box, you can add your username to the query and it'll match.

> there's a search box, you can add your username to the query and it'll match.

That gives me the few submissions I've made, but not my comments, and not specifically my comments on posts from the domain nullprogram.com :/

… but it's probably time to leave this be, too.

Huh, I hadn't realized you can't search for submission domains, that seems like an oversight. To search for comments specifically there's a dropdown in the top left by the way.

The fact you have to implement these is a reason to use something other than C.

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