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Spec Branch

Popular posts: 6
Total points: 2,470
HN comments: 1,520
Rank: #633 personal

Visit specbranch.com → On Hacker News May 2022 – May 2025

Systems & Performance 4 Software Engineering 2 Math & Algorithms 1 Life, Learning & Writing 1 Infrastructure & DevOps 1 History & Retro Computing 1

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1

Use one big server

20221,413 points908 commentscited by 3Systems & Performance details

2

Teach your kids bridge, not poker

2022327 points223 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

3

Abstraction is expensive

2022224 points139 comments Software Engineering details

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The Knight Capital Disaster

2023197 points69 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details

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Rest in Peace, Optane

2023194 points120 comments Hardware & Electronics details

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Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers

2025115 points61 comments Math & Algorithms details