Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509967 (the original source is gone and not in the Wayback Machine)

This is nuts, in the best way.

The operand fields of a WTL 3167 address have been specifically designed so that a WTL 3167 address can be given as either the source or the destination to a REP MOVSD instruction. [

Single-precision vector arithmetic is accomplished by applying the 80386 block move instruction REP MOVSD to a WTL 3167 address involving arithmetic instead of loading or storing.

Quickly Googling about, a commonly repeated figure is that Akamai served 15% - 30% of Internet traffic in the late 2010's. They probably have less of the market today due to others growing, but they're not a minnow.

2024 revenue figures were $1.669 billion for Cloudflare, and $3.99 billion for Akamai, per Wikipedia.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/proxy, they are tiny compared to CF, their revenue is high because they focus on large enterprise clients.

> 20% of internet traffic passes through CF networks

That does not sound right to me. “20 percent of websites” does not mean “20 percent of traffic.”.

There is no public write-up from Cloudflare that proves “we handle 20% of all Internet traffic.” Cloudflare reports around 295,000 paying customers and more than 30 million Internet properties (20% of the web). So most of their users are on the free plan.

agreed, cloudflare says 20% of all websties, which makes sense, digging into it the "20% of all web traffic" seems to have been like a game of telephone in media, social media, and/or AI.

I can't believe they only have 295,000 paying customer, that puts me in a small minority. lol

Also all the sound stuff was outsourced! id hired Bobby Prince to make the music and licensed a playback library which seemed to have enough problems already with the supported sound cards. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DMX

So they'd have had to extract this feature from a vendor where the relationship is already breaking down, or ditch it all and start from scratch with a new vendor, or inhouse code.

On top of that, the claim in the post seems to be based on the Linux Doom architecture, which has a separate sound service that didn’t exist in the original DOS version.

This is just someone cosplaying early 1990s development with the benefit of decades of subsequent OS and software design.

https://github.com/othieno/GPBB - the last chapter is a Quake retrospective.

There's also the columns he wrote for Dr Dobbs' Journal during development. They're like an expanded, illustrated version of GPBB chapter's first half. https://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/contents.shtml

At the time I recall https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/301631.301683 being an oft-discussed data point - speeding up DEC Alpha code by recompiling it into different DEC Alpha code using runtime statistics.

This was commonly cited in forum debates about whether Java and C# could come close to the performance of compiled languages. ("JITs and GCs are fast enough, and runtime stats mean they can even be faster!" was a common refrain, but not actually as true in 1999 as it is in 2025)

Firefox runs the game well on the Mac, while the Neutralino build (presumably using the WebKit shipped with Safari) experiences some performance issues. Can you replicate the performance issues with Safari? If so you might be able to glean some insights from https://webkit.org/web-inspector/timelines-tab/

When profiling, it can often be useful to compare profiles of "working well" versus "not working well". So you could record a 10 second timeline when things are going smoothly, then a 5 second timeline when perf is bad - things that jump out on the second timeline are worth looking at.

Morgan Stanley at Work seems to track wash sales. Last year I had two vests in May, one week apart. I'd instructed the brokerage to sell some of those shares on vest. On the first date, I experienced a capital loss (less than $20), due to price movement between the RSU vesting and the broker selling the resulting stock. This was reported on the 1099B as a disallowed wash sale due to my acquisition of more stock with the second vest a week later.

Huh, very interesting. I wonder why Schwab doesn't do that.

I'm just happy that, after years of not doing so, MS started correctly reporting the cost basis of vested RSUs on the 1099. (It should be the same as the amount reported as W-2 income).

I definitely feel the RSU grantors are the customer here, not recipients like you or I.

My guess is that's indicative of the price Bending Spoons paid - they get a positive return on investment if they collect existing subscription revenue, and do a bit of work which keeps the existing userbase happy.

Under the previous ownership, the gap between Evernote's valuation (ie what investors had put in) and revenue (what investors would getting back) was so great that just surviving wasn't a strategy; the business could only value the existing userbase and product as a starting point for building a much larger userbase. That's a path to enshittification.

He mentions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_(operating_system) in the NeXTSTEP section, which was a stepping stone to OS X.

Windows stuck as the id tooling platform. I'm guessing by the time OS X was relevant, id Software had grown and all the tooling that would've benefited from Interface Builder was maintained by different folks. And Carmack was focused on getting the most out of various graphics cards, where Win32 drivers were both the cutting edge and what consumers had.