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Thundering Herd
Personal blog · blog.pearce.org.nzprogrammingweb
Thundering Herd is a personal blog at blog.pearce.org.nz about programming and web. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Ogg and video codecs, including a new Ogg video decoder release. The comments mention the post as background, and one commenter calls the decoder release awesome.
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.
The more drums we have in our kit, the more jobs we can handle.
What Hacker News says?
Systems like gdb process-record-and-replay rely on logging machine state with every instruction [0]. This imposes limitations; for example gdb's record-and-replay system is not implemented on all platforms where gdb runs. Record-and-replay systems can also be impractical for many systems; for example VMWare record-and-replay debugging technically works on Firefox, but it's a tool of last resort because of the perfor…
Comment linking /2009/03/setting-up-vmware-to-record-replay-and.html
on “Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger”Submitted On learning Go and a comparison with Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.pearce.org.nz/2010/04/new-ogg-video-decoder-for-... This is awesome — finally someone released an implementation that's more reliable than liboggplay instead of just doing the minimum necessary to get basic playback. I guess when you won't support other containers (because noobs would think you supported other codecs (which you refuse to do on ideological grounds)), you have a really strong incentive to…
Comment linking /2010/04/new-ogg-video-decoder-for-firefox.html
on “Monty - In Defense of Ogg's Good Name”Submitted Firefox H.264 enabled by default in Nightly builds for Windows 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBack in the day, I worked on this API in Firefox. It's a very old API that was speced before promises were a thing. Once you ship an API, sites start using it, and if you change behavior, you break them. If your browser ships the behavior change first, and breaks a website, people just assume your browser is the one that's broken, and switch browser. So browsers don't like to change behavior, especially before other…
Comment linking /2013/11/what-does-h264avc1-codecs-parameters.html
on “HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType()”Submitted H.264/AAC/MP3 support now enabled by default in Firefox on Windows 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing buffered HTML5 video in Firefox 4 nightlies as a story · 2 points
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