0.00 Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)
305 points by todsacerdoti 236 days ago | 226 comments on HN | Neutral ~lite vlite-1.4
Summary ~lite Technical Etymology Neutral
Etymology of function calls
EQ 0.50
SO 0.50
TD 0.50
Lite evaluation by llama-3.3-70b-wai · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 10 evals
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Audit Trail 24 entries
2026-03-01 18:05 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 18:05 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-03-01 17:03 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 17:03 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Editorial on etymology of 'call' in programming, no rights stance
2026-03-01 16:46 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 16:46 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-03-01 15:24 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 15:24 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Editorial on etymology of 'call' in programming, no rights stance
2026-03-01 15:18 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 15:18 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-03-01 15:13 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-03-01 15:13 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-02-28 09:17 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 09:17 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Editorial on etymology of 'call' in programming, no rights stance
2026-02-28 09:17 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 09:12 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 09:12 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 09:12 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Editorial on etymology of 'call' in programming, no rights stance
2026-02-28 09:10 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 09:10 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-02-28 09:10 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 09:05 eval_success Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 09:05 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Technical blog post on etymology
2026-02-28 09:05 rater_validation_warn Light validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -