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Stories by fanf2

I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
HN 772 pts 212 comments by fanf2 Feb 16, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSHealth / Fitness / Lifestyle thread
A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021) (medium.com)
HN 376 pts 151 comments by fanf2 Nov 26, 2024 thread
De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge (tomscii.sig7.se)
HN 292 pts 93 comments by fanf2 Jan 11, 2025 thread
Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
HN 253 pts 227 comments by fanf2 Feb 2, 2025 thread
Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint (traintimes.org.uk)
HN 224 pts 86 comments by fanf2 Jan 13, 2025 thread
10 Years of Pomological Watercolors (parkerhiggins.net)
HN 219 pts 32 comments by fanf2 Jun 27, 2025 thread
Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf] (cs.cornell.edu)
HN 197 pts 87 comments by fanf2 Oct 1, 2025 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021) (mathr.co.uk)
HN 183 pts 60 comments by fanf2 Jan 3, 2025 thread
Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022) (dougallj.wordpress.com)
HN 177 pts 79 comments by fanf2 Nov 19, 2024 Apple / macOS / iOS thread
Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns (ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp)
HN 170 pts 14 comments by fanf2 Jun 9, 2025 thread
Less Htmx Is More (unplannedobsolescence.com)
HN 169 pts 116 comments by fanf2 Apr 8, 2025 thread
Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020) (uwithumlaut.wordpress.com)
HN 162 pts 21 comments by fanf2 May 5, 2025 thread
Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021) (bitsnbites.eu)
HN 153 pts 144 comments by fanf2 Apr 24, 2025 thread
The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996) (users.cs.utah.edu)
HN 151 pts 47 comments by fanf2 Jul 12, 2025 thread
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Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion (vitaut.net)
HN 149 pts 43 comments by fanf2 Dec 14, 2025 thread
Rust on the RP2350 (2024) (thejpster.org.uk)
HN 148 pts 51 comments by fanf2 Mar 16, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Why is C the symbol for the speed of light? (2004) (math.ucr.edu)
HN 143 pts 121 comments by fanf2 Mar 25, 2025 thread
Programming Language Memory Models (2021) (research.swtch.com)
HN 140 pts 29 comments by fanf2 Dec 12, 2024 Programming (General) thread
SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017) (tcl.tk)
HN 138 pts 44 comments by fanf2 Nov 23, 2024 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021) (bartwronski.com)
HN 136 pts 23 comments by fanf2 Jan 27, 2025 thread
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019) (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
HN 134 pts 30 comments by fanf2 Jan 14, 2026 thread
The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf] (vpri.org)
HN 119 pts 38 comments by fanf2 Dec 24, 2025 thread
Design of the SCHEME-78 Lisp-based microprocessor (1980) (dl.acm.org)
HN 114 pts 48 comments by fanf2 Sep 26, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance (nickb.dev)
HN 104 pts 90 comments by fanf2 Sep 5, 2025 thread
Tuning async IO in PostgreSQL 18 (vondra.me)
HN 97 pts 23 comments by fanf2 Sep 29, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete (lemon.rip)
HN 95 pts 4 comments by fanf2 Nov 24, 2024 thread
Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013) (personal.cis.strath.ac.uk)
HN 94 pts 13 comments by fanf2 Apr 7, 2025 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities (ariadne.space)
HN 93 pts 58 comments by fanf2 Dec 12, 2025 thread
Löb and Möb: Loops in Haskell (2013) (github.com)
HN 91 pts 16 comments by fanf2 Nov 7, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems (github.com)
HN 86 pts 13 comments by fanf2 Dec 8, 2025 thread