HN: The Good Parts (2016)(danluu.com)

62 points by adletbalzhanov 2 months ago | 11 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)

326 points by greggyb 2 years ago | 617 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.

I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla(glandium.org)

252 points by sylvestre 2 years ago | 188 comments

Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)

31 points by lr0 1 year ago | 37 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later(muppetlabs.com)

50 points by Bluestein 1 month ago | 12 comments