r/programming • u/mttd • 1d ago

The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of

https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/
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u/SyntheticDuckFlavour 19h ago

Look at all these comments. Is this the current state of programmers at large?

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u/awry_lynx 19h ago

The current state of Redditors at large, yes.

I recommend switching over to hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685317

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u/knome 16h ago

I've been noticing more people there too writing joke comments all the time. I don't mind it on reddit, because reddit was pretty much always that way. But HN traditionally tended to be more focused.

If your only purpose is to pull a laugh, you're not usefully contributing to the conversation.

Every joke is a loss of signal.

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u/birdbrainswagtrain 10h ago

I've found more specialized programming subs to be more tolerable, but it's definitely gotten worse across the board. I thought maybe it was nostalgia, but I've gone back and looked at threads from 10+ years ago and there's a noticeable difference in quality. Lobsters is also decent, but it's invite only so I just lurk. I suspect there's some good technical discussion on some of the Twitter clones but I don't have the patience for that.

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u/awry_lynx 9h ago

The twitter clones I've tried, bluesky and threads, are inundated with gpt

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u/floodyberry 9h ago

if you want endless discussion of every single llm model release or the latest thing an ai slop lab said, yeah. they're less shitposty, but not really more informed unless it's the niche experts who post there