And yet in some ways, modern computers feel slower than those from decades ago. Software today is so, so much less efficient than it was back then.

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criddell 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In some meaningful ways they are measurably slower.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

	▲	ray__ 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Great article. This is the kind of web design that I like.

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omoikane 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of this story about every app being sluggish on a relatively new machine, compared to equivalent apps running on a 20+ year old machine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines (2023-06-28, 346 comments)

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russfink 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.

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sscaryterry 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes and no. Faster hardware doesn’t solve pathologically broken algorithms :)

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Worth's law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

	▲	sscaryterry 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep, and its nothing new :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

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Capricorn2481 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well I had to move music off a 10 year old laptop and I can assure you things aren't slower in the ways that matter. It was borderline unusable. I am happy with SSDs and not getting viruses off of websites, personally.