Why “write” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
That LLM seems to rather mindlessly reproduce the Rust marketing idea that it is basically impossible or a huge effort to write safe C code. But yes, compilers are also really g…
by uecker · Oct 31, 2026
I went down the same path starting about a decade ago with airplane mode, and deleting apps until my phone was so boring and rarely used I canceled my cell subscription about 8…
by lrvick · Oct 31, 2026
The founder announced a week ago you'll soon be able to write custom apps using JS, and released an emulator to begin testing. Too bad you need an account on their app to use hi…
by hollow-moe · Oct 31, 2026
Top tip: make your instructions actually readable . Your LLM has used text with too low contrast, the absolutely pointless and annoying webkit-smoothing: anti-aliased, with text…
by dofm · Oct 31, 2026
Great article :D The rabbithole actually goes even deeper because buffering on the read side is almost always good, but reads are often way more latency-sensitive than writes. W…
by Pannoniae · Oct 31, 2026
In any discussion of read, write & sync, I'd want to talk about write amplification (read/modify/write cycles), and also in Linux the sync_file_range syscall which is…
by rwmj · Oct 31, 2026
Interest
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Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "write" over time.