Comparing Integers and Doubles(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

19 points by pfent 11 months ago | 9 comments

C++ exception performance three years later(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

73 points by gpderetta 1 year ago | 51 comments

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

Fun with Char in SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

38 points by greghn 3 years ago | 13 comments

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

155 points by greghn 2 years ago | 67 comments

The Great CPU Stagnation(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

237 points by greghn 3 years ago | 197 comments

Advent of Code 2024(adventofcode.com)

1271 points by thinkingemote 1 year ago | 502 comments

The About page for Advent of Code 2024, an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles solvable in any language, with general tips for participants.

Advent of Code 2025(adventofcode.com)

1156 points by vismit2000 11 months ago | 369 comments

The About page for Advent of Code 2025, an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles solvable in any language, with general tips for participants.

Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time(adventofcode.com)

409 points by vismit2000 1 year ago | 199 comments

Advent of Code 2025 About/FAQ page, linked to the entry explaining the number of puzzle days dropping from 25 to 12.

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML(htmhell.dev)

677 points by soheilpro 10 months ago | 254 comments

An HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 article by Aaron T. Grogg on replacing JavaScript functionality with native HTML features.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)

83 points by KraftyOne 1 month ago | 26 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.

Lines of code got a better publicist(curlewis.co.nz)

417 points by RyeCombinator 4 months ago | 288 comments

A blog post by David Curlewis arguing that AI-era productivity metrics are repackaging lines of code as a measure of developer output.