diff --git a/src/node_buffer.cc b/src/node_buffer.cc
index 25a14f5c24ada6..9ae92d861edb9a 100644
--- a/src/node_buffer.cc
+++ b/src/node_buffer.cc
@@ -1248,9 +1248,7 @@ void Swap64(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
       std::swap(ts_obj_data[i], ts_obj_data[i + 7]);
       std::swap(ts_obj_data[i + 1], ts_obj_data[i + 6]);
       std::swap(ts_obj_data[i + 2], ts_obj_data[i + 5]);
-      // NOLINT added because current cpplint.py is old and doesn't know that
-      // std::swap() now lives in <utility> instead of <algorithm>.
-      std::swap(ts_obj_data[i + 3], ts_obj_data[i + 4]);  // NOLINT
+      std::swap(ts_obj_data[i + 3], ts_obj_data[i + 4]);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/stream_base.h b/src/stream_base.h
index 903b94f346260f..f3ad51ded26bf2 100644
--- a/src/stream_base.h
+++ b/src/stream_base.h
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class StreamBase : public StreamResource {
                            const v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& args);
 
   template <class Base,
-            int (StreamBase::*Method)(  // NOLINT(whitespace/parens)
+            int (StreamBase::*Method)(
       const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& args)>
   static void JSMethod(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& args);
 
diff --git a/src/string_search.h b/src/string_search.h
index b4cc9d6ac9fb16..abc69edb87621d 100644
--- a/src/string_search.h
+++ b/src/string_search.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class StringSearch : private StringSearchBase {
   }
 
  private:
-  typedef size_t (*SearchFunction)(  // NOLINT - it's not a cast!
+  typedef size_t (*SearchFunction)(
       StringSearch<Char>*,
       Vector<const Char>,
       size_t);