Top all-time · #16754
jj hunt
Personal blog · me.net.nz/blog · on HN as jjh42programmingsystems
jj hunt's personal blog at me.net.nz covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Securely Serving from GitHub Pages Using Cloudflare (Free)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts on CPU-cache-friendly data layout, including its effect on column-stores versus row-stores, and on getting HTTPS working on GitHub Pages using CloudFlare.
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.
Research Scientist
Most-linked posts?
- Securely Serving from GitHub Pages Using Cloudflare (Free)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-09
- Btrees are the new black2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-02
What Hacker News says?
There are some interesting implications on databases in terms of column-stores vs row-stores due to CPU caching. Besides the I/O improvements, column-stores benefit greatly from better CPU usage because the data is iterated over by type (column by column), so the same operators stay in the cache. This allows data to be pipelined in to the CPU and processed very quickly relative to traditional row-stores. It can even…
Comment linking /blog/btrees-are-the-new-black/
on “Speed memory access by arranging data to take advantage of CPU caching”Submitted Btrees are the new black as a story · 133 points
HN discussionIts quite a co-incidence that I scouted for an answer for this today while I was setting up SSL for my gh-pages. As already pointed out by some comments, its not quite as simple as we think it is to have GitHub extend SSL for its pages. Its for the same reason that Tumblr doesn't allow SSL support for custom domain either. IMHO, CloudFlare is probably the simplest workaround to get SSL enabled for your gh-pages. Lin…
Comment linking /blog/github-pages-secure-with-cloudflare/
on “Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages”Submitted Securely Serving from GitHub Pages Using CloudFlare as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securely Serving from GitHub Pages Using Cloudflare (Free) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion