Ideas & society2015 · shared on Hacker News

Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]

Research PDF · needs verification

Explore Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf], its original source and Hacker News discussions. Discover community perspectives and save it to your reading list.

Read original

The conversation around the idea.

Original Hacker News threads. Different perspectives, questions, and things worth thinking about.

Showing up to 100 related threads. A paper may appear in a comment rather than the original submission.

Links found in the discussion

Up to 50 recent source links, in HN item order.

Yhayd ·

V8 adds support for top-level await

391 points295 comments
Ydailymorn ·

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

349 points51 comments
Yptx ·

Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]

248 points234 comments
Yblacksqr ·

John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings

198 points63 comments
Yerwan ·

Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes) (1995) [pdf]

175 points148 comments
Ygpderetta ·

Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (2003) [pdf]

115 points45 comments
Ypjmlp ·

Async Rust never left the MVP state

38 points2 comments
Ybch ·

Is Tcl/Tk Dying Out?

3 points2 comments
Ythunderbong ·

Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension

2 points1 comments

One idea leads to another.

Explore more papers