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nicula.xyz blog
Personal blog · nicula.xyz · on HN as niculaprogrammingsystems
nicula.xyz blog is a personal blog at nicula.xyz about programming and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Bypassing the Branch Predictor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Bypassing the Branch Predictor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
- A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-18
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bypassing the Branch Predictor as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bypassing the Branch Predictor as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-vectorizing operations on buffers of unknown length as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting rid of unwanted branches in C/C++ code with __builtin_unreachable() as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code's poor time awareness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eliminating Redundant Bound Checks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion