Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
- ID
- 32243
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 06 Oct 2026, 10:51 AM
- Fetched
- 06 Oct 2026, 7:28 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 1.0
- Created
- 06 Oct 2026, 7:28 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
The link titled "Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language" resolves to a spam page: the fetched text is nothing but a link farm of adult cam-site and porn-tube URLs with no Common Lisp argument, code, or benchmarks anywhere in it. The Hacker News submission did draw real attention — 205 points and 246 comments on thread 49973598 — but that discussion is the only substantive artifact; the article body itself is unusable. There is nothing here to summarize about Lisp, tooling, or language design.
Why it matters
Concrete decision for this segment: do not build a Lisp or language-design talking point from this item — the source text contains zero technical claims to cite, so anything said on air would be invented rather than sourced. If you want to use it at all, use it as a five-minute example of why the segment's sourcing step checks the fetched body, not just the headline and the HN point count.
Discussion angle
A 205-point, 246-comment HN thread sat on top of a page whose body is pure link spam — how much should a thread's engagement numbers count as evidence of substance when the linked text can't be verified?