4B If Statements(andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)

1431 points by r4um 2 years ago | 451 comments

Blog post humorously exploring writing an even/odd checker using 4 billion if statements, inspired by a viral TikTok screenshot of beginner code.

PostgreSQL and FIPS Mode(peter.eisentraut.org)

65 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 23 comments

Summing ASCII encoded integers on Haswell at almost the speed of memcpy(blog.mattstuchlik.com)

114 points by iliekcomputers 2 years ago | 34 comments

Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3(seb-v.github.io)

112 points by skidrow 1 year ago | 22 comments

Understanding every byte in a WASM module(danielmangum.com)

167 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 32 comments

GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer(blog.alexellis.io)

188 points by petercooper 2 years ago | 72 comments

4B If Statements(andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)

1431 points by r4um 2 years ago | 451 comments

Blog post humorously exploring writing an even/odd checker using 4 billion if statements, inspired by a viral TikTok screenshot of beginner code.

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)(eloquentjavascript.net)

1159 points by vajdagabor 2 years ago | 208 comments

Website for Eloquent JavaScript, Fourth Edition (2024), a free online book by Marijn Haverbeke teaching JavaScript programming.

Zlib-rs is faster than C(trifectatech.org)

329 points by dochtman 1 year ago | 437 comments

Trifecta Tech Foundation blog post announcing zlib-rs 0.4.2 and benchmarking its decompression and compression speed against C implementations zlib-ng and zlib-chromium.

Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer(github.com)

391 points by whatever3 2 years ago | 102 comments

GitHub repository for Blitz, a high-performance HTML and CSS renderer from DioxusLabs powered by WGPU.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.