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title: "HackerNews Favorites"
date: 0001-01-01
source: https://ashvardanian.com/hackernews/
author: Ash Vardanian
---


I often post on Reddit and HackerNews, with the latter being a surprisingly well-balanced platform for technical discussions with less personal bias.
Here are some of my favorite publications that made headlines on HackerNews:

1. [Up to 100x Faster FastAPI with simdjson and io_uring on Linux 5.19](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35042316).
2. [Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34970045).
3. [Less Slow C++](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727743).
4. [Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276826).
5. [Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402820)
6. [Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304807).
7. [Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42237938)
8. [Abusing vector search for texts, maps, and chess](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35887983).
9. [Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670624).
10. [Server Hardware Super-Cycle 2022](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29954447).
11. [Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30178764).
12. [Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684461).
13. [Combinatorial Stable Marriages for DBMS Semantic Joins](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36772545).
14. [Faking SIMD to Search and Sort Strings 5x Faster](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273963).
15. [SimSIMD v3.6.7: Hardware-accelerated similarity metrics and distance functions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111114).
16. [StringZilla v2: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304306).