Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/01/19/

by signa11 • 2 years ago

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eqvinox5• 1 year ago

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.

eqvinox5• 1 year ago

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?

dualogy• 1 year ago

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 =)

ropejumper3• 1 year ago

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

What exactly is your objection?

eqvinox5• 1 year ago

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…)

xyzzy9563• 1 year ago

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

Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C

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