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Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
1•hunglee2•3m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

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1•chartscout•6m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•9m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
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Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

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2•tablets•15m ago•0 comments

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Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

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Bash parallel tasks and error handling

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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•20m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

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Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
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Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

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Economists vs. Technologists on AI

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Life at the Edge

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RISC-V Vector Primer

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A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

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3•goranmoomin•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

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https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
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OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

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4•myk-e•1h ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

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The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

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Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

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Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

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Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
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Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

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2•lembergs•1h ago•2 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How to trace a void recursive function?

1•shivajikobardan•5mo ago
I was going over [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66712061/how-do-i-trace-a-recursive-function-with-a-return-function-in-it) link. And suddenly I remembered a problem that I faced yesterday. It was related to tracing of a void returning recursive function with a printer.

Eg(pseudocode)

    func(int x)
    {
    if(x>0){
    
    print(before execution:x);
    
    func(x-1);
    
    print(after execution: x);
    }
    }

Call this function with x=5

    Before execution n=5 
    Before execution n=4 
    Before execution n=3 
    Before execution n=2 
    Before execution n=1 
    After execution n=1 
    After execution n=2 
    After execution n=3 
    After execution n=4 
    After execution n=5 
    
The output will appear like this.

Before execution part is not suprising. It is pretty obvious. But after execution part is noteworthy for me specially.

I can naively guess that it is a call stack that is being used. And it is just popping the value from the top of the stack that was pushed earlier. But I am not exactly sure of the architecture of data structure that is being used and methodologies that are being followed at code and hardware level. As a CS enthusiast, it is my basic need to understand this. Hope to get some insights here.

Comments

austin-cheney•5mo ago
The common answer is a stack trace. In JavaScript you can get that any time and any where with:

    new Error().stack;
Stack traces lose their helpfulness in applications with high frequency network traffic because the network buffer will likely not be the start of flow control but a stack trace cannot run deeper than that.
shivajikobardan•5mo ago
I realized I do not understand how function calls use stack (exactly and accurately I mean I can imagine some stack push pop happening). Any guidance for resources? I seeked in google but turns out most materials are related to assembly language programming which I have no idea about.
austin-cheney•5mo ago
A stack trace just lists the steps an application went through by calls to non primitive references. This varies pretty significantly by language. An item in the stack is a step in memory. That is about as much as I know.
brazukadev•4mo ago
// new Error().stack;

or just console.trace()