Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 568 posts.

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A first look at WebAssembly performance

WebAssembly gives us the promise to run high performance code in the browser in a standardized way. Now that there are a few WebAssembly previews available I decided it’s time to take a look at their performance. One source for benchmarks is the well known Computer Language Benchmarks Game and I decided to pick nbody…