Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (October 11, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for October 11, 2023 :</p>
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Bad Emacs Defaults
Summary: Emacs users often complain about its default settings, such as littering backup files, moving actual files for backups, and using double spaces between sentences. Solutions include creating separate directories for backups and autosaves, setting backup-by-copying to true, and disabling sentence-end-double-space. Other recommendations include using dtrt-indent for indentation, setting require-final-newline to true, and enabling show-trailing-whitespace. Users can also customize keybindings and line-killing behavior to improve their Emacs experience.
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Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
Summary: A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum revealed that Pascal coders are older than most coders. Despite this, Pascal remains a relevant language for new projects. A comparison of languages to implement a REST server showed that Pascal, with the help of the mORMot framework, can perform as fast as Go while using less memory. The article concludes that Pascal has a modern and capable ecosystem, making it a viable option for developers of all ages.