Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator(purplesyringa.moe)
39 points by dverlaeckt80 | 6 comments
Blog post on using superoptimization to find an optimal instruction sequence for a floating-point emulator function returning a float's lowest set bit.
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Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?(purplesyringa.moe)
243 points by pngmangi | 21 comments
Blog post examining the x86 FMA instruction vfmaddrnd231pd, which performs fused multiply-add with per-instruction rounding control.
An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)
158 points by signa11 | 82 comments
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That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
637 points by __rito__ | 261 comments
Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.
A new PNG spec(programmax.net)
610 points by bluedel | 553 comments
A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.
Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)
446 points by Bogdanp | 199 comments
Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.
DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)
353 points by tosh | 115 comments
A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.
Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)
569 points by tobr | 151 comments
Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.