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beuke.org is a personal blog at beuke.org about programming and science. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Terminal Latency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this personal computer science blog for terminal input latency measurements, an AWS versus Hetzner total cost of ownership comparison, and posts on Haskell and monads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal blog about computer science and theoretical physics.
Most-linked posts?
- Terminal Latency8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2024-03-16
- K8s on Hetzner vs. AWS Fargate4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-09-28
- Quantifying AI Coverage on Hacker News2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-09
What Hacker News says?
Quite recently I made a TCO analysis between AWS and bare metal Hetzner including salary. https://beuke.org/hetzner-aws/
Comment linking /hetzner-aws/
on “AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS”Submitted Terminal Latency as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSee https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/ . Single-digit milliseconds I’d say. These numbers are minus the keyboard and display latency.
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on “Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion”Submitted Quantifying AI Coverage on Hacker News as a story · 5 points
HN discussionStill slower than alacritty according to https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/ Also not really cross-platform, contrary to what's indicated in the first word of its github description, and the owner is kind of an ass about it https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/6481 .
Comment linking /terminal-latency/
on “How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?”Submitted K8s on Hetzner vs. AWS Fargate as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJust recently, I did a terminal latency test with Typometer for the following terminals, sorted by lowest latency: xterm (389-1) alacritty (0.13.1-1) kitty-tuned (0.31.0-1) zutty (0.14-2) st (master 95f22c5) urxvt (9.31-4) konsole (24.02.0-1) kitty (0.31.0-1) wezterm (20230712.072601) gnome-terminal (3.50.1-1) xfce4-terminal (1.1.1-2) terminator (2.1.3-3) tilix (1.9.6-3) hyper (v3.4.1) I only tested for software lat…
Comment linking /terminal-latency/
on “How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?”Submitted Terminal Latency as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently did a total cost of ownership analysis for moving off AWS to Hetzner: https://beuke.org/hetzner-aws/
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on “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”Submitted K8s on Hetzner vs. AWS Fargate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can't think of a more bloated way to communicate than putting a browser in the middle. For some quick numbers, compare web browser input latency to terminal [0] where one might run an IRC client. Even emacs [1,2] is fast and light in comparison. [0] https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/#:~:text=6.2-,firefox%20(... [1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/#:~:text=terminal.app%20and%... [2] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-w…
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on “How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers”Submitted Terminal Latency: Measuring Terminal Latency with Typometer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou don't need X11 by the way. It's possible to render PDFs with wkhtmltopdf + qt patches without Xorg.[0] [0] https://beuke.org/docker-alpine-wkhtmltopdf/
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on “Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF”Submitted Quantization: GPT Model Compression and Efficiency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently compared AWS and Hetzner, not only in terms of raw compute costs but also by factoring in the personnel costs required for operation. I found this perspective particularly interesting: https://beuke.org/hetzner-aws/
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on “Talk Python in Production”Submitted Measuring Disk Latency with Ioping as a story · 2 points
HN discussionImperative Programming in Haskell with Python and JS comparisons: https://beuke.org/pure-imperative-haskell/
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on “Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018)”Submitted Ralph Wiggum Loop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe low latency claim is up for debate: https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/
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on “How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm”In case you want to compare the latency on Linux: https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/
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on “Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)”I think it is best just to provide the mathematical definition, provide the commutative diagrams that explains the concept graphically and then provide an example for computer scientists in Haskell: https://beuke.org/monad/
Comment linking /monad/
on “Monads are like burritos (2009)”I have just written an post on technical analysis that presents a balanced perspective on the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Random Walk Hypothesis, and their relationship to practical applications. I explore how retail traders identify patterns, how these patterns may be exploited in high-frequency trading, and how machine learning contributes to detecting and leveraging such patterns. In case someone is interest…
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on “The paradoxical efficient market hypothesis (2024)”You would love Xterm then, still has the least latency of any terminal. (/s only half joking ) https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/
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on “Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator”https://beuke.org/ A personal blog about computer science topics. I write a about category theory, llms, cosmology, haskell and generic linux releated topics. Some favorites over the years: - https://beuke.org/programming-language-popularity/ - GitHub Programming Language Popularity based on BigQuery - https://beuke.org/arch-linux-archive/ - Arch Linux Date-Based Versioned Upgrades - https://beuke.org/boltzmann-brai…
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Here is something like that https://beuke.org/hn-ai-coverage/
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on “Show HN: Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023”
