Hacker News with Generative AI: Technical

Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023) (tratt.net)
Premature optimisation might be the root of all evil, but overdue optimisation is the root of all frustration. No matter how fast hardware becomes, we find it easy to write programs which run too slow. Often this is not immediately apparent. Users can go for years without considering a program’s performance to be an issue before it suddenly becomes so — often in the space of a single working day.
Crawl Order and Disorder (marginalia.nu)
A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains.
The Sims Legacy Collection Technical Overview (github.com)
The Sims is a life simulation game that was written for Windows 9x but later evolved to properly support Windows XP. The years have not been kind... to the game engine, not the game itself. It's still great, it just doesn't really work anymore.
Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020) (darknedgy.net)
It All Started with a nop (christian-gmeiner.info)