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Pointers Gone Wild

Popular posts: 12
Total points: 2,511
HN comments: 1,167
Rank: #614 personal

Visit pointersgonewild.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Aug 2015 – Sep 2026

Software Engineering 9 Web & Frontend 3 Systems & Performance 3 Society, Policy & Culture 2 Life, Learning & Writing 2 Math & Algorithms 1

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The Alternative Implementation Problem

2024272 points83 comments Software Engineering details

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Software bugs that cause real-world harm

2023217 points130 comments Software Engineering details

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Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine

2023151 points61 comments Software Engineering details

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Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

2026143 points63 comments Software Engineering details

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Minimalism in programming language design

2022136 points143 comments Software Engineering details

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A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields

2026130 points9 comments Software Engineering details

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NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music

2021110 points15 comments Software Engineering details

NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music

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JavaScript is the C++ of the Web

2015106 points77 comments Software Engineering details

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What Killed Smalltalk?

2015104 points185 comments Software Engineering details