Just type "falsehoods programmers believe" into the search box at the bottom of the page and you'll get a ton of previous articles on falsehoods in various domains that have been posted here over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=falsehoods%20programmers%20bel...

And while this topic is not personally relevant to me since I don't work with video decoding, I do find learning about different technologies interesting. Reading this gives me an appreciation for how much effort goes into making video, something we all take for granted, work.

If people only posted articles that were relevant to a majority of readers, HN would be a much less interesting place.

Here's a whole list! https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/master/R...