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Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf

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Re: Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf

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Post by lifthrasiir » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 11:54 AM UTC

fcpk wrote: post #10

uh... that title... don't search for what the hell a "Beeg" is. apparently this was just sloppy spelling for beef

Beeg is just a respelled version of "big" ("ee" for /i:/). Apparently it is also a name of a certain questionable website (I didn't know!), but it is a common enough word that such unfortunate conflicts are to be expected.

Re: Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf

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Post by jhgb » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

fcpk wrote: post #10

uh... that title... don't search for what the hell a "Beeg" is. apparently this was just sloppy spelling for beef

You can simply check Wiktionary, like you can with most words.

Re: Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf

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Post by eska » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 2:22 PM UTC

i2talics wrote: post #3

"Dear HN, I pointed Claude at another existing codebase and told it to port it to Rust. I don't have anything new to add myself. Please lap this up."

The submitter isn’t the library author.

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