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Stories by fanf2

Locks in PostgreSQL: 3. Other locks (2020) (habr.com)
HN 60 pts 6 comments by fanf2 Dec 7, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
RE#: High performance derivative-based regular expression matching (2024) (arxiv.org)
HN 55 pts 15 comments by fanf2 Jul 21, 2025 thread
Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019) (marc-b-reynolds.github.io)
HN 55 pts 37 comments by fanf2 Jun 19, 2025 thread
A memory of the nineteen nineties (1997) (web.archive.org)
HN 50 pts 8 comments by fanf2 May 3, 2025 thread
Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica (mathics.org)
HN 49 pts 6 comments by fanf2 Feb 14, 2025 Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread
Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket (2016) (dl.acm.org)
HN 46 pts 8 comments by fanf2 Sep 27, 2025 thread
London Transport 25: ride 25 different forms of transport in one day (girlonthenet.com)
HN 46 pts 12 comments by fanf2 Feb 18, 2025 thread
EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR (2021) (shkspr.mobi)
HN 39 pts 33 comments by fanf2 Jun 11, 2025 thread
Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons (weblog.rogueamoeba.com)
HN 38 pts 3 comments by fanf2 Feb 2, 2026 Apple / macOS / iOS thread
Should CSS be a constraint system instead? (pavpanchekha.com)
HN 38 pts 1 comments by fanf2 Dec 7, 2025 Web Development thread
Optimizations in C++ compilers: a practical journey (queue.acm.org)
HN 38 pts 2 comments by fanf2 Nov 28, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Schubfach: The smallest floating point double-to-string impleme (vitaut.net)
HN 33 pts 3 comments by fanf2 Nov 30, 2025 thread
What is systems programming, really? (2018) (willcrichton.net)
HN 33 pts 12 comments by fanf2 Jun 14, 2025 Programming (General) thread
What the world can learn from Paris's cycling revolution (momentummag.com)
HN 32 pts 2 comments by fanf2 Jan 25, 2026 thread
Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers (dotat.at)
HN 32 pts 9 comments by fanf2 Mar 5, 2025 thread
Grid-scale batteries in Scotland stabilize power with grid-forming inverters (spectrum.ieee.org)
HN 26 pts 6 comments by fanf2 Sep 11, 2025 thread
Bluefishjs: A diagram drawing framework for JavaScript (bluefishjs.org)
HN 26 pts 2 comments by fanf2 Jun 24, 2025 Web Development thread
CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: Fsync (neighbourhood.ie)
HN 26 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Feb 28, 2025 thread
Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with m (2015) (qz.com)
HN 25 pts 53 comments by fanf2 Nov 14, 2025 thread
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn't (osnews.com)
HN 25 pts 12 comments by fanf2 Mar 15, 2025 thread
Beyond horizons: world-record long-distance photograph 443 km, Finestrelles, Pyr (beyondrange.wordpress.com)
HN 24 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Oct 6, 2025 thread
Rich Hickey answered that Design decisions in Clojure (gist.github.com)
HN 24 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Sep 12, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: a cautionary tale (2019) (nber.org)
HN 23 pts 1 comments by fanf2 Oct 24, 2025 thread
Anaphoric macros introduce hidden bindings in Lisp (letoverlambda.com)
HN 23 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Aug 21, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The crisis of zombie social science (forkingpaths.co)
HN 22 pts 1 comments by fanf2 Jun 13, 2025 thread
America's monopoly crisis hits the military (theamericanconservative.com)
HN 21 pts 7 comments by fanf2 Dec 22, 2025 thread
Sum Types in Julia and Rust (andreaskroepelin.de)
HN 20 pts 1 comments by fanf2 Nov 23, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
How to Draw a Tetrapod (dotat.at)
HN 20 pts 4 comments by fanf2 Oct 24, 2025 thread
Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club)
HN 19 pts 4 comments by fanf2 Feb 6, 2026 thread
A review of the Helix editor after 1.5 years (felix-knorr.net)
HN 18 pts 0 comments by fanf2 Aug 12, 2025 thread