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  1. Jan 2026
    1. It's 450 KB (static binary, including templates for this site, gzip compressed) It builds my ~140 page site in 300 ms (wall clock time, on an 11-year-old old laptop) It performs acceptably on a 28-year-old laptop, running NetBSD (Pentium 166 MHz) It's trivial to compile, requiring only a C compiler, GNU Make, sed, and sh

      For comparison, ANPD—describing a static site generator as an LP doc that I published in response to Jared's Show HN thread for md2blog, is 126KB. It requires no compiler, because it uses the browser's JS runtime to execute (unlike md2blog, which requires you to download Deno or a binary with Deno embedded to run it).

      Note also that the numbers here also differ from the ones Jared had at the time of publication, where he had originally written:

      • It's ~270 KB (static binary + templates for this site, gzip compressed)
      • It builds my ~140 page site in ~150 ms (wall clock time, on an 11-year-old old laptop)
      • It performs acceptably on a 28-year-old laptop, running NetBSD (Pentium 166 MHz)
      • It's trivial to compile, requiring only a C compiler, make, and sed
  2. Mar 2025
  3. Jun 2023
    1. the code of G of of a transformer the T in in a 00:25:17 GPT is 2000 lines long it's not very complex it's actually not a very intelligent machine it's simply predicting the next word
      • interesting fact
        • ChatGPT is only written with 2,000 lines of code
        • It's not very intelligent, but a very large external memory
        • and repeats the best of what humans have said
  4. Jul 2022
    1. This opens the possibility of doing a design much better than Squeak's, both fundamentally and at the user-level, to create a model of an entire personal computer system that is extremely compact (under 20,000 lines of code)

      See: Oberon

    2. the Squeak system, which was derived from PARC Smalltalk, includes its own operating system, GUI, development tools, graphics, sound, Internet sockets, and many applications including Etoys and Croquet, yet is only about 230,000 lines of code. The executables are about 2.8MB and only half of this code is generally used.
  5. Mar 2022
  6. Oct 2020