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Shiv's Page
Personal blog · shvbsle.inprogrammingsystemsai
Shiv's Page is a personal blog at shvbsle.in about programming, systems and ai. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Various LLM Smells”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, 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 Shiv's Page for technical posts on LLM-generated code smells and on how fast computers run, including Python compared with C. Comments cite these posts as references.
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.
Shiv's thoughts on cs, math and art
Most-linked posts?
- Various LLM Smells2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-28
What Hacker News says?
It's funny to see this article (LLM Smells - https://shvbsle.in/various-llm-smells/ ) and then see that exact button type on this article.
Comment linking /various-llm-smells/
on “Show HN: A free, open-source replacement for Evernote (and paid note takers)”Submitted The computers are fast, but you don't know it as a story · 561 points
HN discussionIt depends on what you're doing. If you load some data, process it with some Numpy routines (where speed-critical parts are implemented in C) and save a result, you can probably be almost as fast as C++... however if you write your algorithm fully in Python, you might have much worse results than being 10x slower. See for example: https://shvbsle.in/computers-are-fast-but-you-dont-know-it-p... (here they have ~4x sp…
Comment linking /computers-are-fast-but-you-dont-know-it-p1/
on “Why Python keeps growing, explained”Submitted Serving ML at the Speed of Rust as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperscalers Are Hard as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Various LLM Smells as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rise of Explorable Blogs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value in Starting over from Scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting from Scratch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Implement LinkedIn Sign in with Next.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stress-Testing with Wrk2 as a story · 1 points
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