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Thanks, _why.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-07-16 · latest 2025-08-12

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  1. …programming. He specifically cites the preservability of code as a reason for his disillusionment. https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE Beautiful piece of writing, very weird, very excellent.
    comment by seydar · 2025-08-12 · in Weathering Software Winter (2022)
  2. …his "public print queue" on his site, hinting that the print queue would become active on April 18: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE/blob/master/PDF/DESO... A day or two before April 18, this page appeared containing a hand-written…
    comment by pailey · 2023-07-07 · in Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)
  3. From: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE/issues/3 -- vi commented on Sep 30, 2015 What is CLOSURE.PDF? Readme is not helpful. I don't even understand is it a scientific paper, a book, a program or a game. My first thought was "Fed up!…
    comment by kayodelycaon · 2023-07-07 · in Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)
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    Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)
    story by rchaves · 2023-07-07 · 137 comments
  5. …was already a part of the programming legendarium before he tried to murder that pseudonym.) [1] https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE/raw/master/CLOSURE.p...
    comment by WorldMaker · 2022-08-18 · in Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive
  6. …as well. This was actually done several years ago, but in an embarrassingly disorganized manner." - https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE/blob/master/PDF/DISC...
    comment by pailey · 2021-11-08 · in _why's Estate
  7. …goodbye (as a live-updating printer spool) which Steve Klabnik collected into a 95-page PDF here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE His blog contained many small snippets of code that were definitely meant to be consumed as poetry,…
    comment by SonOfLilit · 2020-02-18 · in Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
  8. …(and a few other potentially unrelated posts such as youtube videos), which can be found here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE - His estate, preserved as much as it can be, is here: https://viewsourcecode.org/why/ - A few months…
    comment by schwad · 2019-12-19 · in _why's interview with DHH was 15 years ago this week
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    story by big_chungus · 2019-10-07 · 0 comments
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    story by tosh · 2018-08-23 · 0 comments
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    story by sea6ear · 2015-07-16 · 0 comments