How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?(lemire.me)

466 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 190 comments

Daniel Lemire blog post examining how AMD Ryzen processors became about 50% faster over two years.

Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors(lemire.me)

53 points by zdw 1 month ago | 41 comments

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

Discover C++26's compile-time reflection(lemire.me)

38 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 20 comments

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance(lemire.me)

85 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 50 comments

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.