Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,544 posts.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Every couple of years, the hope surfaces that a simple graphical interface will replace teams of developers. Business people to quickly and easily create beautiful expressions of their ideas and launch them into production seamlessly. A handful of startups in every generation take up this challenge, and they mostly…
A high-minded goal like “expand the boundaries of the medium” doesn’t always mean forging ahead in crazy new unknown directions. Sometimes it means examining lost evolutionary lines in game design – picking up ideas that were abandoned long ago and seeing if there’s any new life in them. The game I keep coming back to…
…unless you're an expert at assembly, that is. The title of this post was obviously meant to be an attention-grabber, but it is much truer t...
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How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.
How to create an adaptive app for desktops with Flutter, with a different UI design for macOS and Windows, while using a single codebase.
Build a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in Rust, generate ARM64 machine code, and benchmark it against an interpreter and handwritten implementation.
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Why you should consider switching from Bash to Zsh
Lazy evaluation is awesome. What if we made a PL where every data type was lazy?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text — say, a scanned…
std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig's new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring just use threads impl. I personally find it neat though --- it does this weird thing that I wanted to do for ages, that to my knowledge no one else is doing properly, and implements it better than I…
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As was pointed out to us stable kernel maintainers last week, the overflow of the .y release number was going to happen soon, and our proposed …
...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words
I’ve recently been asked to share my shell setup, which if you ask me, that’s one of the highest levels of praise you can achieve as a software developer 🤣
Integer division is expensive. Much more expensive than multiplication. Much, much more expensive than addition. If you’re trying to make some integer operations really fast it’s bad news if you need to do division.
Expressive code in C++
In this post, I will talk about the importance of small optimizations that can provide a lot of performance improvements.
Many recent Intel processors benefit from a new family of instructions called AVX-512. These instructions operate over wide registers (up to 512 bits) and follow the Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) paradigm. These new AVX-512 instructions allow you to break some speed records, such as decoding base64 data at…
How I used Edsger W. Dijkstra's handwriting as a model to improve mine.
I’m a massive fan of everything Fabien Sanglard does, I love his blog and I’ve read both his books cover-to-cover (for more info on his books, check out the recent Hansleminutes podcast).
