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cberner.com is a personal blog at cberner.com about systems and programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “RaptorQ and performance optimization in Rust”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in HN threads on erasure codes and fountain codes. The posts describe a Rust implementation of RaptorQ (RFC 6330) and its performance compared with the C/C++ version.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

cberner.com - A blog about Linux, Programming, and Computers

Most-linked posts?

  1. RaptorQ and performance optimization in Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-30
  2. Fastest RaptorQ codec now in Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. nemo1618 · 2020-07-06
    Erasure codes are so cool. This was posted to HN a while back, did you see it? https://www.cberner.com/2019/03/30/raptorq-rfc6330-rust-opti...

    Comment linking /2019/03/30/raptorq-rfc6330-rust-optimization/

    on “Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?”
  2. raccoonone · 2019-03-30

    Submitted RaptorQ and performance optimization in Rust as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  3. phonon · 2020-04-19
    Rust version is faster and in active development. https://github.com/cberner/raptorq https://www.cberner.com/2019/03/30/raptorq-rfc6330-rust-opti...

    Comment linking /2019/03/30/raptorq-rfc6330-rust-optimization/

    on “LibRaptorQ: Fountain Codes for C/C++”
  4. raccoonone · 2015-06-01

    Submitted Debugging JVM Safepoint Pauses as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. raccoonone · 2012-10-19

    Submitted Running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Retina Macbook Pro as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. raccoonone · 2020-10-12

    Submitted Fastest RaptorQ codec now in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. lukastyrychtr · 2020-10-16

    Submitted Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) codec in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. fanf2 · 2020-10-15

    Submitted Building the Fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC Codec in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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