We see something that works, and then we understand it(lemire.me)

198 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 77 comments

Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON(lemire.me)

55 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 8 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?(lemire.me)

85 points by chmaynard 7 months ago | 50 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?(lemire.me)

96 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 23 comments

How fast can browsers process base64 data?(lemire.me)

35 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 20 comments

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?(lemire.me)

61 points by zdw 4 months ago | 39 comments

Beautiful branchless binary search(probablydance.com)

342 points by ingve 3 years ago | 128 comments

Blog post by Malte Skarupke presenting a branchless C++ binary search based on Shar's algorithm that runs over twice as fast as std::lower_bound in GCC.

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language(vivienhenz.com)

242 points by misterchocolat 20 days ago | 306 comments

Blog post arguing Common Lisp is the best programming language now that LLMs write code, because its image-based, interactive model shortens the feedback loop.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

A search engine in 80 lines of Python(alexmolas.com)

564 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 88 comments

Blog post walking through building a simple search engine from scratch in about 80 lines of Python, motivated by small website discoverability.