Why “write” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I don't like that phrase either, but do you have a direct replacement? Language usage tends toward efficiency, and sometimes I want to speak generally rather than specifically,…
by retsibsi · Sep 7, 2026
So how do we stop this? Laws? Who do we write to?
by CommanderData · Sep 7, 2026
I can appreciate the sentiments the author has to their own career, but personally it doesn't resonate with me. I'm a firm believer in the idea that systems you intend to be use…
by CorvusCrypto · Sep 7, 2026
Programming might be art, but being a career programmer isn't, the same way being paid to paint vases day in, day out for a living following specifications and the whims of your…
by sph · Sep 7, 2026
If the AI companies ever get the idea that it would make sense for the AI model to modify its KV cache, it would end up adding a write step to the KV cache per token (moderately…
by imtringued · Sep 7, 2026
We created a very simple platform for shipping internal-only static web apps that can talk to a document database for storage. There's a Claude skill that describes how to write…
by rossng · Sep 7, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "write" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "write" over time.
Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language. Historically, written languages have emerged as a way to record corresponding spoken languages. A particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language, is known as a writing system. In some rare cases, writing may be tactile rather than visual. Read more on Wikipedia