alt Hacker NewsIt is not only not practical, it is a completely useless technique. I got downvoted to negative infinity for mentioning this, but I guess I am the only person who actually read the benchmark. The reason the technique "works" in the benchmark is that all the threads run free and just record their timestamps. The winner is decided post hoc. This behavior is utterly pointless for real systems. In a real system you need to decide the winner online, which means the winner needs to signal somehow that it has won, and suppress the side effects of the losers, a multi-core coordination problem that wipes out most of the benefit of the tail improvement but, more importantly, also massively worsens the median latency.
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You got downvoted for being an asshole, and if you continue to be an asshole on HN we are going to ban you. I suppose you don't believe this because we haven't done it yet even after countless warnings:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850950 (April 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43847946 (April 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42096833 (Nov 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37275963 (Aug 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746140 (April 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537078 (Jan 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914274 (Dec 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33311881 (Oct 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890360 (April 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628758 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307811 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25561372 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724281 (Oct 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458954 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380545 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170477 (May 2020)
The reason we haven't banned you yet is because you obviously know a lot of things that are of interest to the community. That's good. But the damage you cause here by routinely poisoning the threads exceeds the goodness that you add by sharing information. This is not going to last, so if you want not to be banned on HN, please fix it.
Man. You really don't get it do you.