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*ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ* ✨✨ HWisnu's blog ✨✨ о ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ is a personal blog at hwisnu.bearblog.dev about programming and systems. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its cgrep write-up and benchmarks, which compare grep-style search tools against ripgrep, including ripgrep's CPU use in multithreaded runs.
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.
Thoughts and ideas come and go.. this blog is where I collect and write them up! This blog documents my journey in learning computer programming especi...
Most-linked posts?
- Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-06
What Hacker News says?
HWisnu wrote cgrep that he asserts is even faster, especially on loaded system. He posted interesting benchmarks https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/building-cgrep-using-safe_ch-cus... It seems this was possible because ripgrep is inefficient in CPU usage when runs multithreaded and uses about 2x times more CPU time in comparison to GNU grep. https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/levelized-cost-of-resources-in-b...
Comment linking /levelized-cost-of-resources-in-benchmarks/
on “Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}”Submitted FireDucks: Pandas but Faster as a story · 398 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) as a story · 271 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing your self-hosted Database as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASCII Snake in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python #1 on GitHub and speedup via Codon / Cython as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doubly Linked List – Pointers vs. Arrays as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming as a story · 1 points
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