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Sander Saares
Personal blog · sander.saares.euprogrammingsystems
Sander Saares's personal blog at sander.saares.eu covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Why is std:pin:Pin so weird?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on media streaming and DRM, explaining how DRM works and how it is packaged. One commenter calls its DRM series a nice explanation, and another links it as background for the packaging stage.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why is std:pin:Pin so weird?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-15
What Hacker News says?
https://sander.saares.eu/ on media streaming and DRM. DRM is often seen as some sort of dark art. A lot of this comes from the proprietary nature of it, with NDAs on every corner and technology licensing processes that require months of effort to get access to even the basic documentation. Over the past decade, ever-increasing standardization in the media industry has opened up DRM to a great degree, though much rem…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time as a story · 5 points
HN discussionthere is a nice series explaining DRM here https://sander.saares.eu/post/drm-is-not-a-black-box-01/ I think the DRM part is made during the packaging phase the https://howvideo.works/#packaging (where they need to signalize the media has drm and also encrypt the media)
Comment linking /post/drm-is-not-a-black-box-01/
on “How Video Streaming Processing Works”Submitted Does Rust have an advantage if memory-safety is not an advantage? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYeah, when you have tall servers this can be a really surprising factor. In some sense you could view this as an extension of processor caching behaviors, which also causes some memory accesses to be lower - just due to cache behaviors, not physical location. But in many cases, the same tools can be used to fight both "far" memory accesses and cache trashing, by using a thread-isolated architecture. I have been deal…
Comment linking /2025/03/31/structural-changes-for-48-throughput-in-a-rust-web-service/
on “NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them”Submitted Why is std:pin:Pin so weird? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atomic variables are not only about atomicity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural changes for +48-89% throughput in a Rust web service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is std:pin:Pin so weird? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion