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Stories by nelhage

Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda (blog.nelhage.com)
L 78 pts 10 comments by nelhage May 21, 2021 c++distributedperformance Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Computers can be understood (blog.nelhage.com)
L 54 pts 5 comments by nelhage Feb 17, 2020 compsciphilosophy Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Building personal software with Claude (blog.nelhage.com)
L 47 pts 39 comments by nelhage Jan 27, 2025 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Papers I love: gg (buttondown.email)
L 42 pts 9 comments by nelhage Dec 6, 2020 c++distributed Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast (blog.nelhage.com)
L 40 pts 14 comments by nelhage Jan 24, 2020 c++performanceplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult (davidben.net)
L 36 pts 2 comments by nelhage Jan 17, 2024 cc++rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident (UniSuper deletion) (cloud.google.com)
L 35 pts 6 comments by nelhage May 24, 2024 devopsvirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Previously: https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joint-statement-from-unisuper-and-google-cloud
Golden Gate Claude (anthropic.com)
L 29 pts 6 comments by nelhage May 24, 2024 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
So you want to serialize some DER? (alexgaynor.net)
L 28 pts 3 comments by nelhage Jun 20, 2025 c++compilersrustvibecoding AI / Machine LearningSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It (evanjones.ca)
L 22 pts 26 comments by nelhage Nov 23, 2023 cgorust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming (blog.nelhage.com)
L 17 pts 1 comments by nelhage Dec 8, 2023 c++plt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Needle: A DFA Based Regex Library that Compiles to JVM ByteCode (justinblank.com)
L 13 pts 4 comments by nelhage May 8, 2024 javaperformance Programming (General)Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
HTTP Pipelining, S3, and gg (buttondown.email)
L 12 pts 2 comments by nelhage Feb 22, 2021 performanceweb Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Defining the memory safety problem (alexgaynor.net)
L 9 pts 23 comments by nelhage Oct 3, 2023 c++rustsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
L 3 pts 0 comments by nelhage Nov 2, 2024 securityvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Security / PrivacyHealth / Fitness / Lifestyle thread
Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding in LLMs (transformer-circuits.pub)
L 2 pts 1 comments by nelhage Oct 27, 2025 aiscience AI / Machine LearningDesign / UX / VisualizationScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
AI Forecasting: One Year In (bounded-regret.ghost.io)
L 1 pts 0 comments by nelhage Jul 4, 2022 ai AI / Machine Learning thread