Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more(orlp.net)

32 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 12 comments

Branchless Lomuto Partitioning(orlp.net)

26 points by killcoder 2 years ago | 14 comments

WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics(dthompson.us)

128 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 71 comments

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Making Python Less Random(healeycodes.com)

80 points by healeycodes 2 years ago | 34 comments

ViHN: Vim for Hacker News(qsantos.fr)

119 points by qsantos 2 years ago | 50 comments

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

Helping wikis move away from Fandom(weirdgloop.org)

1064 points by creatonez 2 years ago | 473 comments

Weird Gloop blog post explaining why it now hosts the official League of Legends Wiki and plans to help more game wikis leave Fandom.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow(agent-wow.sh)

43 points by almostlit 24 days ago | 26 comments

Blog post describing the agent-wow project, in which the GPT-6 Astra LLM plays World of Warcraft as an autonomous agent for the first time.

We're working on a new RuneScape MMO(play.runescape.com)

141 points by droidjj 22 days ago | 78 comments

Jagex teaser page announcing development of a new RuneScape MMO, showing a flaming "4" graphic behind a privacy consent dialog.