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Sam Westrick

Personal blog · shwestrick.github.ioprogrammingsystems

Sam Westrick writes Work Hard, Span Easy, a personal blog at shwestrick.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Parallel Seam Carving”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Parallelizing things is easy, but making them fast is hard. A blog about parallel algorithms, data structures, programming languages, and anything else that comes to mind. Written by Sam Westrick.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Parallel Seam Carving
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-11
  2. Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. ngzhian · 2020-08-11

    Submitted Parallel Seam Carving as a story · 232 points

    HN discussion
  2. gbrown_ · 2022-10-02

    Submitted Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  3. eatonphil · 2022-09-27

    Submitted Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. ChadNauseam · 2026-03-22

    Submitted Parallel Seam Carving as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. shwestrick · 2020-08-29

    Submitted Parallel Digital Reverb, Or: How I Optimized the Heck Out of a Comb Filter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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