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Stories by chriscbr

Writing mutexes from scratch in Go (rybicki.io)
HN 10 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Jan 6, 2026 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
California city plan funded by Silicon Valley investors put on hold (nytimes.com)
HN 5 pts 1 comments by chriscbr Jul 28, 2024 thread
Rewriting the Californian Ideology (americanaffairsjournal.org)
HN 4 pts 1 comments by chriscbr May 31, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The smallest possible Docker image (github.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by chriscbr May 14, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Reentrant locks considered harmful (2010) (groups.google.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Jan 2, 2026 thread
Hyperpb: 10x faster dynamic Protobuf parsing in Go (buf.build)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Jul 18, 2025 thread
How we use formal modeling to design reliable distributed systems (datadoghq.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Nov 20, 2024 thread
When a crystal ball isn't enough to make you rich (papers.ssrn.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Oct 12, 2024 thread
Myth Busters: Is Rust a Slam Dunk? (infoq.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Oct 4, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Reflecting on PLDI 2025 (people.csail.mit.edu)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Jul 13, 2025 thread
Building thread-safe abstractions in Java versus Go (rybicki.io)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Nov 4, 2024 thread
Death is the default (2022) (builders.genagorlin.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Sep 22, 2024 thread
How to add Kubernetes-powered leader election to your Go apps (sklar.rocks)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Apr 11, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Bongard problems and the shape of thought (rybicki.io)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Apr 10, 2025 thread
The Domain Knowledge Dilemma (rednafi.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Jan 27, 2025 thread
Show HN: An API that returns random Alan Perlis epigrams (perl.is)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Sep 16, 2024 Programming (General) thread
Alan Perlis was a computer scientist known for being the first recipient of the Turing Award and for his contributions to the ALGOL and APL languages.<p>Among his other work, he published a series of epigrams in 1982 about computers and programming that have since been widely quoted. I like these qu...
On the art of resource conservation in software systems (rybicki.io)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Aug 22, 2024 thread
The UAPI header file split (2012) (lwn.net)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by chriscbr Aug 21, 2024 thread