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lainzhowon I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

I wonder why not use nginx and some local DNS settings to just serve all these local services under a new, local URL.

Not too long ago I had a similar issue and solved with that.

lainzhowon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

Very nice game, good job!

lainzhowon Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces

Sure, any good learning sources?

lainzhowon Show HN: C++ Compiler Support Page

Neat tool, but I noticed it shows that modules are mostly supported when they are at best partially supported. You can double check with the famous "Are we modules yet?" website.

lainzhowon Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170

If I got it right, it was a high schooler that posted. So I guess that's not an option

lainzhowon Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C

I didn't read the source, but from the description it says it uses memory mapping. So my guess here is that IO isn't so much of an issue since prefetching can hide away the latency if you are able to memory map a large enough segment of the file.

Iff the statement about prefetching is true though, I wonder how the prefetching wouldn't be bamboozled by the multiple threads accessing the file.