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James Hiebert

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James Hiebert's personal blog at james.hiebert.name covers programming and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “14,000x Speedup (2015)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Most-linked posts?

  1. 14,000x Speedup (2015)
    2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Software engineer looks at some scientists' code and speeds it up 14000X: http://james.hiebert.name/blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    Comment linking /blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    on “Science needs more research software engineers”
  2. Submitted 14,000x Speedup (2015) as a story · 424 points

    HN discussion
  3. This guy took one look at some scientists' code and instantly got a 14000x speedup: http://james.hiebert.name/blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    Comment linking /blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    on “Power of small optimizations”
  4. Submitted 14000x Speedup (2015) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. This CS guy looked at some scientist's code and sped it up 14,000x: http://james.hiebert.name/blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    Comment linking /blog/work/2015/09/14/CS-FTW.html

    on “No, a supercomputer won’t make your code run faster (2017)”
  6. Submitted The 10x programmer (2016): then vs. now as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 14000x Speedup (2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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