When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
When would you ever want bubblesort?
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
When would you ever want bubblesort?
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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When would you ever want bubblesort?
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
⚡ Hackernews Top story: When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311)
When would you ever want bubblesort?
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
December 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are plenty near-universal principle. Things like "Prefer composition over inheritance" are almost universal. I love finding rare situations where these principles don't apply,…
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are plenty near-universal principle. Things like "Prefer composition over inheritance" are almost universal. I love finding rare situations where these principles don't apply,…
When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are plenty near-universal principle. Things like "Prefer composition over inheritance" are almost universal. I love finding rare situations where these principles don't apply, such as where you want inheritance rather than composition. A similar almost universal principle is "don't use bubblesort". Some would even say this is a universal rule, with Donald Knuth writing "Bubble sort has nothing to recommend it, except a catchy name and the fact that it gives rise to some interesting theoretical problems". But Knuth has been wrong before, so let's see if this is a universal rule…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are plenty near-universal principle. Things like "Prefer composition over inheritance" are almost universal. I love finding rare situations where these principles don't apply,…
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are plenty near-universal principle. Things like "Prefer composition over inheritance" are almost universal. I love finding rare situations where these principles don't apply,…
📰 When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
💬 Quicksort quirks: use optimal 8-wide sort networks for tiny arrays. Mixed feelings on stability. 🤔 Overall, a “meh” vibe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
💬 Quicksort quirks: use optimal 8-wide sort networks for tiny arrays. Mixed feelings on stability. 🤔 Overall, a “meh” vibe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
📰 When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
💬 Quicksort quirks: use optimal 8-wide sort networks for tiny arrays. Mixed feelings on stability. 🤔 Overall, a “meh” vibe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
💬 Quicksort quirks: use optimal 8-wide sort networks for tiny arrays. Mixed feelings on stability. 🤔 Overall, a “meh” vibe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
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When would you ever want bubblesort?
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When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to inheritance" is…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to inheritance" is…
When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to inheritance" is near-universal. I love finding the rare situations where these principles don't hold, like where you do want inheritance over composition. A similar near-universal principle is "don't use bubblesort".
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When would you ever want bubblesort? • Buttondown
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to inheritance" is…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to inheritance" is…
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? | Discussion
When would you ever want bubblesort?
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? | Discussion
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
L: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
posted on 2025.12.10 at 16:45:11 (c=0, p=4)
L: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
posted on 2025.12.10 at 16:45:11 (c=0, p=4)
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort?
L: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
posted on 2025.12.10 at 16:45:11 (c=0, p=4)
L: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224311
posted on 2025.12.10 at 16:45:11 (c=0, p=4)
😱Seit 40 Jahren hoffe ich, dass dieser Algorithmus überhaupt nicht mehr gelehrt wird. So ein geistiger Irrweg. Insertionsort ist einfacher und besser, und wenn man dann Quick-, Heap-, Merge- und vielleicht Tim-Sort gelehrt hat, kann man Bubblesort immer noch als kurzen Witz bringen.
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
😱Seit 40 Jahren hoffe ich, dass dieser Algorithmus überhaupt nicht mehr gelehrt wird. So ein geistiger Irrweg. Insertionsort ist einfacher und besser, und wenn man dann Quick-, Heap-, Merge- und vielleicht Tim-Sort gelehrt hat, kann man Bubblesort immer noch als kurzen Witz bringen.
what if we collectively release a large quantity of extremely suboptimal code libraries implementing bogosort, bubblesort, etc., and label them as "LLM-optimized" with other assorted SEO-esque keywords, so that we can poison the vibe coding infrastructure?
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
what if we collectively release a large quantity of extremely suboptimal code libraries implementing bogosort, bubblesort, etc., and label them as "LLM-optimized" with other assorted SEO-esque keywords, so that we can poison the vibe coding infrastructure?
back from traveling and an injury, so the bubblesort storefront is open again!
78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
back from traveling and an injury, so the bubblesort storefront is open again!
78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
Ich frag mich ja wirklich, warum die IHK ihre Prüfungen so dermaßen primitiv gestaltet.
Bubblesort auf Papier in Pseudocode programmieren.l, Abfragen von gewissen Werten aus einem Array usw.
Ernsthaft?
Bubblesort auf Papier in Pseudocode programmieren.l, Abfragen von gewissen Werten aus einem Array usw.
Ernsthaft?
October 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ich frag mich ja wirklich, warum die IHK ihre Prüfungen so dermaßen primitiv gestaltet.
Bubblesort auf Papier in Pseudocode programmieren.l, Abfragen von gewissen Werten aus einem Array usw.
Ernsthaft?
Bubblesort auf Papier in Pseudocode programmieren.l, Abfragen von gewissen Werten aus einem Array usw.
Ernsthaft?
this weekend, at bubblesort studios, we’re having a zine swap! bring zines you’ve made to trade with me, @watermeloncafe.bsky.social, and each other!
78 gough st., sf
1-6pm
9/25-9/26
78 gough st., sf
1-6pm
9/25-9/26
September 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
this weekend, at bubblesort studios, we’re having a zine swap! bring zines you’ve made to trade with me, @watermeloncafe.bsky.social, and each other!
78 gough st., sf
1-6pm
9/25-9/26
78 gough st., sf
1-6pm
9/25-9/26
Meine Theorie ist, der anfängliche Hype um diese "programmierenden" LLMs kam daher, dass die Leute den LLMs anfänglich die üblichen Aufgaben hingeworfen haben, die man Student:innen so gibt: Programmiere mir ein Hello World, Bubblesort...
Dazu gibt es haufenweise Beispielcode im Internet, auf den /
Dazu gibt es haufenweise Beispielcode im Internet, auf den /
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Meine Theorie ist, der anfängliche Hype um diese "programmierenden" LLMs kam daher, dass die Leute den LLMs anfänglich die üblichen Aufgaben hingeworfen haben, die man Student:innen so gibt: Programmiere mir ein Hello World, Bubblesort...
Dazu gibt es haufenweise Beispielcode im Internet, auf den /
Dazu gibt es haufenweise Beispielcode im Internet, auf den /
Here are all my frogs available Today and Tomorrow in SF! Come celebrate frogs and get some frog art at Bubblesort Studios, 78 Gough St.
#frogust
#frogust
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Here are all my frogs available Today and Tomorrow in SF! Come celebrate frogs and get some frog art at Bubblesort Studios, 78 Gough St.
#frogust
#frogust
Last weekend was Girly Gaming Weekend: Rhythm Game Edition with @sailorhg.com!!!! It was so much fun to introduce some cute and strange rhythm games to people. Thanks so much to you cuties who made it!
August 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Last weekend was Girly Gaming Weekend: Rhythm Game Edition with @sailorhg.com!!!! It was so much fun to introduce some cute and strange rhythm games to people. Thanks so much to you cuties who made it!
Here's how I express this in the markdown of my post. No hard-coded shenanigans going on, I could put any old code and array reference in and it would work.
![<s-array ref="a" debugger-id="bubble-sort-debugger">
<annotation name="i" color="var(--palette-red)" location="bottom"></annotation>
<annotation name="j" color="var(--palette-orange)"></annotation>
</s-array>
<s-debugger id="bubble-sort-debugger">
<pre>
function swap(a, i, j) {
const tmp = a[i];
a[i] = a[j];
a[j] = tmp;
}
</pre>
<pre main>
function bubbleSort(a) {
for (let i = 0; i < a.length - 1; i++) {
let swapped = false;
for (let j = 0; j < a.length - i - 1; j++) {
if (a[j] > a[j + 1]) {
swap(a, j, j + 1);
swapped = true;
}
}
if (!swapped) break;
}
return a;
}
</pre>
<pre>
bubbleSort([7, 2, 8, 4, 1]);
</pre>
</s-debugger>](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kcggckk55s6njoewaberea2l/bafkreiaem23lryj5gv3i7muxx5vjoort4t3ajn2k4ou3pxzkw6224exv6a@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Here's how I express this in the markdown of my post. No hard-coded shenanigans going on, I could put any old code and array reference in and it would work.
"AI", as a field of computer science, covers roughly one third of the entire field (the other two are searching and sorting). most of the things under its umbrella are wholly unrelated on an algorithmic level, in the same way that quicksort and bubblesort are related only in their goals
July 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"AI", as a field of computer science, covers roughly one third of the entire field (the other two are searching and sorting). most of the things under its umbrella are wholly unrelated on an algorithmic level, in the same way that quicksort and bubblesort are related only in their goals