SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX(pikuma.com)

134 points by ibobev 2 months ago | 58 comments

Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake(c3-lang.org)

78 points by lerno 5 months ago | 82 comments

LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers(alperenkeles.com)

104 points by alpaylan 8 months ago | 112 comments

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers(lemire.me)

212 points by sebg 5 months ago | 96 comments

Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial(marc-b-reynolds.github.io)

34 points by matt_d 2 months ago | 13 comments

Return to Innocence(deprogrammaticaipsum.com)

19 points by ingve 2 years ago | 18 comments

Programming with Less Than Nothing(joshmoody.org)

407 points by signa11 1 year ago | 138 comments

A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany(alexwlchan.net)

649 points by alexwlchan 2 years ago | 140 comments

Blog post by Alex Chan exploring the claimed maximum page size of PDF documents and creating a PDF with pages larger than Germany.

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.

Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa(catonmat.net)

332 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 116 comments

A Catonmat blog post explaining how consecutive Fibonacci numbers can approximate conversions between miles and kilometers.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.