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Eddie Aftandilian
Personal blog · eaftan.github.ioprogrammingai
Eddie Aftandilian's personal blog at eaftan.github.io covers programming and ai. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “SafeRE: Building a production-quality regex library with agents”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts introducing SafeRE, a Java regex library built for guaranteed linear-time matching to prevent ReDoS attacks, with a goal of beating native RE2 performance. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical notes about tools, correctness, and turning research into software.
Most-linked posts?
- SafeRE: Building a production-quality regex library with agents2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-21
- Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I've been working on a similar agentically engineered regex project called SafeRE: https://github.com/eaftan/safere https://eaftan.github.io/safere-intro/ Mine is for Java and is intended to be production grade. The first goal is to guarantee linear-time behavior to prevent ReDoS attacks. My collaborator and I have recently been optimizing it to try to surpass native RE2 in performance. It turns out optimizations ar…
Comment linking /safere-intro/
on “There's no reason for software to be slow anymore”Submitted Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted SafeRE: Building a production-quality regex library with agents as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a production-quality regex library with agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law as a story · 1 points
HN discussion