Mastodawn

🚀🤯 Apparently, the secret to a faster asin() function was just chilling in plain sight—because who doesn't bury life-changing revelations in a blog cluttered with a thousand unrelated projects? 📚🔍 Congratulations on rediscovering the wheel and making it spin slightly faster. 🤦‍♂️🎉
https://16bpp.net/blog/post/faster-asin-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/ #fasterasin #rediscovery #blogtech #lifehacks #programminginsights #HackerNews #ngated

16BPP.net: Blog / Faster asin() Was Hiding In Plain Sight

Hacker News Mar 1

Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?

https://joelsiks.com/posts/cpp-emergency-pool-72kb-allocation/

#HackerNews #C++ #MemoryManagement #Allocation72KB #ProgrammingInsights #HackerNews

Why is my first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?

Why is my first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?? It’s the ’emergency pool’ for exceptions, here’s how I uncovered it using GDB and digging through the source code of libstdc++, glibc and Valgrind!

Hacker News Feb 22

Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering

https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/green-lumber-fallacy-in-software

#HackerNews #GreenLumberFallacy #SoftwareEngineering #TechMyths #SoftwareDevelopment #ProgrammingInsights

Chris Behan

Distinguishing the trees from the forest in software engineering and how not to conduct interviews.

Hacker News Jan 19

Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/

#HackerNews #PeepholeOptimisations #BytecodeOptimization #CompilerTechniques #SoftwareEngineering #ProgrammingInsights

Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

First optimizations I made while redesigning and semi-porting the purple-garden runtime from C to Rust

Hacker News Dec 31

The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It

https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it

#HackerNews #TheCompilerIsYourBestFriend #StopLyingToIt #CodingBestPractices #DeveloperTips #ProgrammingInsights

The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It - Daniel Beskin's Blog

The compiler is a powerful tool, yet many developers have a painful relationship with it. Can we do better?

Hacker News Dec 29

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

#HackerNews #RichHickey #ThanksAI #AIInnovation #TechCommunity #ProgrammingInsights

Hacker News Dec 29

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

#HackerNews #RichHickey #ThanksAI #AIInnovation #TechCommunity #ProgrammingInsights

N-gated Hacker News Nov 22

🎉 Breaking News: Tech Guru Discovers Personal Preference! 🚀 In a groundbreaking revelation, someone learned that 'satisfies' is their favorite #TypeScript keyword. Meanwhile, millions continue to use TypeScript without needing a favorite keyword. 🤔
https://sjer.red/blog/2024-12-21/ #TechNews #Discovery #CodingLife #DeveloperHumor #ProgrammingInsights #HackerNews #ngated