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Stories by eatonphil

Size of Life (neal.fun)
HN 2619 pts 277 comments by eatonphil Dec 10, 2025 thread
Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) (h4x0r.org)
HN 149 pts 87 comments by eatonphil Nov 6, 2025 thread
62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line (ny1.com)
HN 147 pts 107 comments by eatonphil Dec 28, 2025 thread
Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries (github.com)
HN 123 pts 17 comments by eatonphil Dec 16, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)
HN 118 pts 79 comments by eatonphil 5d ago Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Cosmopolitan Third Edition (justine.lol)
L 102 pts 18 comments by eatonphil Nov 1, 2023 c Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
PostgreSQL 18 Released (postgresql.org)
L 96 pts 6 comments by eatonphil Sep 25, 2025 databasesrelease Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition (platformonomics.com)
HN 93 pts 58 comments by eatonphil Oct 11, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Notes by djb on using Fil-C (cr.yp.to)
L 77 pts 33 comments by eatonphil Nov 2, 2025 csecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
Size of Life (neal.fun)
L 68 pts 5 comments by eatonphil Dec 10, 2025 artscience Science / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 67 pts 18 comments by eatonphil Dec 28, 2021 compilersluarust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Zig, Rust, and other languages (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 60 pts 49 comments by eatonphil Mar 15, 2024 rustzig Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
SQLite Release 3.38.0 (sqlite.org)
L 60 pts 4 comments by eatonphil Feb 23, 2022 databasesrelease Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
A Database Without Dynamic Memory Allocation (tigerbeetle.com)
L 57 pts 8 comments by eatonphil Oct 13, 2022 databaseszig Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
We Put a Distributed Database In the Browser – And Made a Game of It (tigerbeetle.com)
L 55 pts 1 comments by eatonphil Jul 11, 2023 databasesdistributedtestingzig Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Data / Databases / InfrastructureGaming / Retro Computing thread
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees (twitter.com)
HN 54 pts 12 comments by eatonphil Dec 11, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Canada Set to Side with China on EVs (thewirechina.com)
HN 54 pts 102 comments by eatonphil Oct 27, 2025 thread
Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml (github.com)
L 53 pts 13 comments by eatonphil Jan 6, 2026 ml Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Memory safety for SerenityOS (awesomekling.github.io)
L 52 pts 17 comments by eatonphil May 19, 2022 compilersplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 51 pts 59 comments by eatonphil Jan 31, 2022 education thread
Experience Report: 6 months of Go (typesanitizer.com)
L 48 pts 18 comments by eatonphil Apr 30, 2022 go Programming (General) thread
The worst bug we faced at Antithesis (antithesis.com)
L 47 pts 11 comments by eatonphil May 21, 2024 debuggingfreebsdvirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
What makes a great technical blog (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 46 pts 25 comments by eatonphil Apr 11, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / BusinessInternet / Digital Culture thread
Is it worth writing about? (notes.eatonphil.com)
L 45 pts 12 comments by eatonphil Dec 2, 2022 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus (nora.codes)
L 43 pts 24 comments by eatonphil Nov 19, 2022 scaling Productivity / Career / Business thread
PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon (anandtech.com)
L 43 pts 3 comments by eatonphil Jul 22, 2021 hardware Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Storing data in pointers (muxup.com)
L 42 pts 29 comments by eatonphil Nov 26, 2023 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
SQLite: QEMU all over again? (glaubercosta-11125.medium.com)
L 41 pts 51 comments by eatonphil Oct 4, 2022 databasespractices Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration (fsf.org)
L 40 pts 13 comments by eatonphil Feb 25, 2020 releasevcs Programming (General) thread
Not Just Scale (brooker.co.za)
L 39 pts 14 comments by eatonphil Jun 4, 2024 distributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread