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hyperscan
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intel / hyperscan

hyperscan

High-performance regular expression matching library

18Distinct people
49Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

High-performance regular expression matching library

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year49 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-11 17:00:05 UTC to 2026-02-26 18:15:49 UTC.

02468102016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I was in the happy position of finding a job (post being a failed academic) doing stuff at the intersection of architecture and algorithms (high-speed regex implementation) and getting to to this for 11 years straight (2 years as a researcher, 5 years as a startup CTO, 4 years as a Principal Engineer at Intel). Got a decent if not ginormous exit too, which was nice. Also got to IMO change the industry - Hyperscan (github.com/intel/hyperscan) is used in a lot of places. This nice run has come to an end for me and my team and it's made me realize that getting to work on nifty, complex algorithms and do real CS is not the default. To say the least. I'd like to try to figure out how to do it again: the "algorithms startup" is a fun thing to do. You aren't going to be raking it in as having the 'nice library to do task X' doesn't allow you to
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capture huge amounts of value relative to the people selling boxen/UI/SAAS/etc. that wraps up your library. But you can work on a decent scale. I am thinking about blogging about this; generally I've been sticking to tech stuff on branchfree.org so far but having done this successfully once makes me wonder if it could be done again.
In Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
Not wanting to be the 'Old Man Yells At Cloud' figure, but this is a perfect illustration of how not to do it, particularly multithreading in Go before using a reasonable algorithm. Searching for a long string like this is preposterously easy. You can use a classical algorithm, or, given you are looking for a 64 byte long string, you could do a strided inspection - every 32 bytes, look to see if you have a 4-gram from the first 35 bytes of the string. More or less anything works as almost any reasonable string searching mechanism can outrun memory bandwidth. Or you could go use my old project (https://github.com/intel/hyperscan) and then you could look for regexes too. :-)
In How long does it take to linear search 200MB in memory?

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