Stories by davikr

Malloc() and free() are a bad API (2022)

id Software Programming Principles by John Romero (2016)

Ask HN: How long are your build times?

A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2 (2009)

That's Not What Ships Are Built For (2019)

Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)

CPU Flame Graphs

The Lost Art of Fan-Made Anime 'Trollsubs' (2020)

The Dining Philosophers Problem with Ron Swanson (2013)

Multithreading Is Hard (2005)

It's bogus to peek at A/B tests and stop them when results become significant

NotepadReplacer: Replace Notepad the Easy Way

Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]

How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)

The Many Faces of Retrocomputing

A recap of 12 months of development on a homemade game engine (2023)

The Definitive Guide to Process Cloning on Windows

Mythical Retention Data and the Corrupted Cone

Tricking iOS into Animating Icons [video]

Circle C++ with memory safety

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