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Danny van Kooten
Personal blog · dannyvankooten.com/blogprogrammingweb
Danny van Kooten's personal blog at dannyvankooten.com covers programming and web. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “CO2 Emissions on the Web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Danny van Kooten's programming posts on performance, such as comparisons of C and Rust implementations and the One Billion Row Challenge. One commenter cited his C timing figures.
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.
Danny van Kooten is a web developer and the founder of ibericode. Building open-source software that is used by millions of WordPress sites.
Most-linked posts?
- CO2 Emissions on the Web7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
What Hacker News says?
Hetzner VPS + nginx works fine and goes a looong way. Alternatively, SourceHut pages or GitHub pages is okay too. If it’s been a while since you did any server work: https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2024/static-site-hosting...
Comment linking /blog/2024/static-site-hosting-vps/
on “Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site”Submitted Moving from Go to PHP Again as a story · 404 points
HN discussionThe 1.4s is _after_ having the file loaded into RAM by the kernel. Because this is mostly I/O bound, it's not a fair comparison to skip the read time. If you were running on a M3 mac you'd might get less than 100ms if the dataset was stored in RAM. If you account for time loading from disk, the C implementation would be more like ~5s as reported in the blog post [1]. Speculating that their laptop's SSD may be in the…
Comment linking /blog/2024/1brc/
on “The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA”Submitted Rewriting (and optimizing) a tree-walking interpreter in Rust as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI've been playing with making a rust interpreter and reading other people's work. Here's an interesting blog post (not mine) on making a interpreter in rust match the speed of a c implementation. It seems folks often have to resort to unsafe rust to get the performance they want. I don't claim to fully understand that and am looking for more information myself. http://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2022/rewriting-inter…
Comment linking /blog/2022/rewriting-interpreter-rust/
on “RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust”Submitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Re)writing an interpreter in Rust (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popular websites not compressing their HTML responses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gopass, a Chrome extension for pass (passwordstore.org) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minifying the top websites on the internet to check for potential savings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2 Emissions on the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking EU consumers to work around VATMOSS as a story · 1 points
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