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Stories by emschwartz

Rust needs an extended standard library (kerkour.com)
L 41 pts 57 comments by emschwartz Oct 3, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Putting "hyper" back in the hypertext (alexanderpetros.com)
L 38 pts 22 comments by emschwartz Oct 3, 2024 web Web Development thread
Litestream Writable VFS (fly.io)
HN 37 pts 26 comments by emschwartz Feb 4, 2026 thread
Releasing Fjall 3.0 (fjall-rs.github.io)
L 35 pts 8 comments by emschwartz Jan 2, 2026 databasesrelease Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Binary vector embeddings are so cool (emschwartz.me)
L 35 pts 12 comments by emschwartz Nov 11, 2024 aiperformance AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The expression problem and Rust (purplesyringa.moe)
L 34 pts 9 comments by emschwartz Sep 30, 2025 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
My Thoughts on Kotlin: Perspectives after 4 years (tylerrussell.dev)
L 33 pts 16 comments by emschwartz Jan 10, 2025 kotlin Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOS thread
We need (at least) ergonomic, explicit handles [in Rust] (smallcultfollowing.com)
HN 33 pts 2 comments by emschwartz Oct 13, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSHealth / Fitness / Lifestyle thread
Eighteen years of ABI stability (curl) (daniel.haxx.se)
L 31 pts 10 comments by emschwartz Oct 30, 2024 apicnetworkingpractices Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
How do you deploy in 10 seconds? (paravoce.bearblog.dev)
L 31 pts 55 comments by emschwartz Oct 20, 2024 devops Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Subtleties of SQLite Indexes (emschwartz.me)
L 30 pts 21 comments by emschwartz Sep 29, 2025 databasesperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
We need (at least) ergonomic, explicit handles (smallcultfollowing.com)
L 29 pts 16 comments by emschwartz Oct 13, 2025 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Why Zellij? (poor.dev)
L 29 pts 11 comments by emschwartz Nov 1, 2024 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
snmalloc: Message passing based allocator (github.com)
L 29 pts 13 comments by emschwartz Oct 12, 2023 c++ Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust - A mental model for ownership and borrowing (fiberplane.com)
L 29 pts 7 comments by emschwartz Mar 9, 2023 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex (systemf.epfl.ch)
L 28 pts 3 comments by emschwartz Jul 15, 2025 rust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization (lucalp.dev)
L 26 pts 1 comments by emschwartz Jun 24, 2025 ai AI / Machine Learning thread
Toward safe transmutation in Rust (lwn.net)
L 26 pts 3 comments by emschwartz Oct 26, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Have your cake and decompress it too (spiraldb.com)
HN 26 pts 3 comments by emschwartz Feb 27, 2026 thread
Read Locks Are Not Your Friends (eventual-consistency.vercel.app)
HN 26 pts 22 comments by emschwartz Feb 22, 2026 thread
What a Difference a Faster Hash Makes (nickdrozd.github.io)
L 25 pts 17 comments by emschwartz May 27, 2025 performancerust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks (emschwartz.me)
L 25 pts 15 comments by emschwartz May 16, 2025 formalmethodsvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (seangoedecke.com)
L 25 pts 7 comments by emschwartz Jan 2, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Static search trees (curiouscoding.nl)
L 25 pts 1 comments by emschwartz Dec 31, 2024 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again (chrisholdgraf.com)
L 25 pts 32 comments by emschwartz Dec 29, 2024 web Web Development thread
Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" (2022) (buttondown.com)
L 25 pts 7 comments by emschwartz Dec 1, 2024 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
L 25 pts 19 comments by emschwartz Nov 27, 2024 devops Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
L 25 pts 1 comments by emschwartz Nov 19, 2024 compscidatabasesmath Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureScience / Math / Physics thread
Announcing Toasty, an async ORM for Rust (tokio.rs)
L 25 pts 9 comments by emschwartz Oct 23, 2024 databasesrust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most (2023) (cs.cmu.edu)
L 25 pts 14 comments by emschwartz Oct 20, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread