1
Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
Robert O'Callahan
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
- Popular posts
- 36
- Total points
- 10,141
- HN comments
- 6,781
- Rank
- #81 personal
Visit robert.ocallahan.org → RSS feedOn Hacker News Mar 2014 – Sep 2026
Software Engineering 18Web & Frontend 10Tools & Productivity 8Systems & Performance 8Society, Policy & Culture 6Programming Languages 6
2
Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
3
Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
4
WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
5
The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
6
Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
7
Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
8
Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
9
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
10
Debuggers Suck
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
11
Rewrite Everything in Rust
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
12
How I Found a 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
13
What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
14
Mozilla's low-overhead open source replay debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
15
Goodbye Google
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
16
Leaving Mozilla
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
17
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
18
Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
19
Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
20
Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
21
Dissatisfied with Docker
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
22
So you want to build a browser engine
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
23
Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
24
“Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
25
Real-Time Settlers of Catan
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
26
The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
27
Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
28
I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
29
Another Case of Obscure CPU Nondeterminism
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
30
What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.