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Yagiz Nizipli
Personal blog · yagiz.coprogrammingsystems
Yagiz Nizipli's personal blog at yagiz.co covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “URL specification and browser implementation differences”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on how URL parsers disagree, including examples of browsers parsing the same URL differently. One commenter cites it alongside a Chromium bug and a WHATWG discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about software performance, Node.js, and URL parsing. Yagiz Nizipli is a V8 committer and a Node.js Technical Steering Committee member.
Most-linked posts?
- URL specification and browser implementation differences3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-25
- Reducing the cost of string serialization in Node.js core2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Browsers have discrepancies too of course. Here's an interesting Chromium bug I've been following: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125253... and an associated WHATWG discussion: https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/606 Some multiple examples of browsers disagreeing: https://www.yagiz.co/url-parsing-and-browser-differences
Comment linking /url-parsing-and-browser-differences
on “When URL parsers disagree (CVE-2023-38633, librsvg)”Submitted PostgreSQL: Optimizations and Indexes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eliminating Branches in C++ Loops as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of URL parsing performance in 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Node.js URL Parser in WebAssembly with Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timing Attacks on Node.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight Bytes in One Register as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing fast and built-in task runner in Node.js core as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recap 2023 – The year of hard work and new beginnings as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Cordova, React Native, Swift: What’s Really Next? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ada v4: Validating 35.6M URLs per second as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear 20 year old Software Engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whatwg URL Specification for Toddlers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted URL specification and browser implementation differences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted URL specification and browser implementation differences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reducing the cost of string serialization in Node.js core as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reducing the cost of string serialization in Node.js core as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ada URL Parser v2.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Tips for C++ Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with 1000 tests on a stable C++ library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Cross Platform Encryption with AES Between Swift and Node.js as a story · 1 points
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