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Nicholas Frechette
Personal blog · nfrechette.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Nicholas Frechette's personal blog at nfrechette.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Faster quaternion arithmetic by XORing floating point sign bits”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nicholas Frechette's blog as a deeply technical solo developer blog about building an MIT-licensed animation compression library for game development.
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.
A space to explore software ideas.
Most-linked posts?
- Faster quaternion arithmetic by XORing floating point sign bits3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Nicholas Frechette[0] has a deeply technical blog about building his MIT licensed animation compression library for game development... [0] https://nfrechette.github.io/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Faster arithmetic by flipping signs as a story · 131 points
HN discussionThanks for linking to my work! In the next week or two I should be able to publish the results I had when compressing over 8000 Fortnite animations with it, stay tuned and check my blog: http://nfrechette.github.io/
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on “ACL: Animation Compression Library”Submitted Faster quaternion arithmetic by XORing floating point sign bits as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern SIMD Programming in the SSE Era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack frame allocators as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greedy stack frame allocator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caches everywhere as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep an eye out for buffer security checks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster floating point arithmetic with Exclusive OR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster floating point arithmetic with Exclusive OR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual memory aware linear allocator as a story · 1 points
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