It's the memory latency, stupid
63 comments
- Points181
- Comments53
#8Rank now 1
#8Peak rank
2Days on list
205Score · 7d
Oct 31, 2026First seen
Rank · 7 days
On Hacker News
- Points
- 181
- Comments
- 53
- Submitted by
- ntur1337
- Posted
- Oct 31, 2026
- Site
- pivotlake.io
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Trending history
It's the memory latency, stupid was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 67 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #8 of 30, reached on Nov 1, 04:07 UTC. It is #8 right now, climbing from #9 to #8 over the last 6 checks.
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From the discussion
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I work with another team at work that uses lots of message passing, C++ virtual methods in deeply nested class hierarchies, large DOMs and off-the-shelf C++ STL containers... on a STM32MP1, which has an in-order Cortex-A7 and a pittance of cache. On the other hand, in my team I wrote my custom C++ STL containers that…
https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf Has anyone rewritten this for 2026?
I feel like the solution presented is just a clustered hashmap or “locality sensitive” if you’d like it. Still not orders of magnitude better.
Questions
Is It's the memory latency, stupid trending on Hacker News right now?
Yes. As of Nov 1, 11:52 UTC it is #8, climbing from #9 to #8 over the last 6 checks.
What is the highest rank It's the memory latency, stupid reached?
#8 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 1, 04:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has It's the memory latency, stupid been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 31, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (67 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
181 points and 53 comments; submitted by ntur1337 on Oct 31, 2026.