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Michael Droettboom
Personal blog · droettboom.com/blogprogrammingscience
Michael Droettboom's personal blog at droettboom.com covers programming and science. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Scientific Python in the Browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for benchmarks of the Python scientific stack compiled to WebAssembly, including a chart comparing pyodide in Firefox with CPython and a follow-up on profiling the slowdown.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Boom! Michael Droettboom's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Scientific Python in the Browser4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-04-10
- /blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-24
What Hacker News says?
Thanks. Note that the author of that post said: > UPDATE 2018-04-11: My hunch was wrong, and I was able to get to the bottom of the root cause and significantly speed up these benchmarks. And there's an updated graph here: http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/
Comment linking /blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/
on “The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly”Submitted Scientific Python in the Browser (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's a chart and some discussion here: http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/04/python-in-the-browser/ (and some followup at http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/ ) TL;DR: pyodide in Firefox was slower than cpython.
Comment linking /blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/
on “The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly”Submitted Scientific Python in the Browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis doesn't seem to be so simple: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44761748/compiling-pytho... But some people had success nevertheless: http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/04/python-in-the-browser/
Comment linking /blog/2018/04/04/python-in-the-browser/
on “Is Python the Future of Programming?”Submitted Scientific Python in the Browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted John Hunter Plotting Contest 2018 Winner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific Python in the Browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific Python *in* the Browser as a story · 1 points
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