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| 1. | How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv) | |
| 3883 points | 2021 | author kuroguro showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“my bad, forgot to set it to public ^^;;” | ||
| 2. | 2048 (gabrielecirulli.github.io) | |
| 2903 points | 2014 | author terabytest showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another…” | ||
| 3. | Announcing unlimited free private repos (blog.github.com) | |
| 2867 points | 2019 | author matthewjhughes showed up | their comment | thread
“The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.” | ||
| 4. | Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net) | |
| 2744 points | 2013 | author chimeracoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.” | ||
| 5. | My Business Card Runs Linux (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 2595 points | 2019 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a really good conversation starter. I've given a couple of them out and the reaction is always that I bought it somewhere, and I have to explain that no, I really…” | ||
| 6. | Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com) | |
| 2391 points | 2026 | author arnemunthekaas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“A mic listens to the sounds in my garden, BirdNET-Go (an open-source BirdNET classifier) detects birds by sound, and the e-ink frame draws a real 1800s natural-history…” | ||
| 7. | The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games) | |
| 2365 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and…” | ||
| 8. | I regret my website redesign (mtlynch.io) | |
| 2011 points | 2022 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 9. | Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (justine.lol) | |
| 1998 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+9 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Absolutely. I used to love Turbo Pascal and Delphi when I was younger. If Free Pascal uses GNU LD.BFD or LLVM LLD when it links programs, then all you'd need to do is is…” | ||
| 10. | Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera (medium.com) | |
| 1937 points | 2019 | author Jlleitschuh showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA Or come hang out in the party chat! Use the exploit to join:” | ||
| 11. | The Day AppGet Died (keivan.io) | |
| 1930 points | 2020 | author kayone showed up | their comment | thread
“Because it's sure to come up here is a comment I wrote on Reddit that clarifies somethings, I haven't updated the original article since I'm not sure what the etiquette…” | ||
| 12. | AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk) | |
| 1902 points | 2026 | author ereiamjh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Well of course Spring + Japan = Sakura. In a way the model would be faulty if it didn't reach for that cliché. That's what it's meant to do. If you want originality, you…” | ||
| 13. | Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle (dogbunnypuzzle.com) | |
| 1859 points | 2022 | author drcode showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guy Sorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a quick "reward effect", I…” | ||
| 14. | Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1767 points | 2018 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Happy to answer any questions about the post or about my experience at Google.” | ||
| 15. | Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup (gomox.medium.com) | |
| 1714 points | 2021 | author gomox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+16 more) | thread
“I don't think it's malice on their part, but their hammer is too big to be wielded so carelessly.” | ||
| 16. | It Can Happen to You (mattkeeter.com) | |
| 1683 points | 2021 | author mkeeter showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks to HN for warning me about sscanf at exactly the right time – within a day of me trying to load some ASCII STLs and noticing it was slow... Linked deep in the…” | ||
| 17. | Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com) | |
| 1652 points | 2025 | author geverett showed up | their comment | thread
“We've been writing the blog for almost five years now, you never know what will go viral! I've spent my adult life living in Istanbul, New York, San Francisco, and San…” | ||
| 18. | Equinox.space (equinox.space) | |
| 1639 points | 2024 | author guigui showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions! Some background info on the project:” | ||
| 19. | Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community (mooreds.com) | |
| 1631 points | 2021 | author mooreds showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting! I wrote this a year ago as my employer was starting up their forum[0]. While we have since added slack, the forum is the main support mechanism…” | ||
| 20. | Mario meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io) | |
| 1583 points | 2024 | author superMayo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm using Svelte, which is great for interactive applications. For the event handling I'm very influenced by what does. The 3d plot is made with Threejs through the…” | ||
| 21. | Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com) | |
| 1562 points | 2018 | author wftglf showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. Good point, we should add something on that. Briefly our mongo db setup was running on 3 r4.xlarge instances which comes to around $5000/year…” | ||
| 22. | Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org) | |
| 1557 points | 2014 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me anything. And don’t miss the related work section at the end — there’s a ton of links there to inspiring work.” | ||
| 23. | My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com) | |
| 1545 points | 2020 | author lazyjeff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Yeah it feels wrong because you're not using the calendar like it's "supposed to" be used. But who cares. But what this does is 1) reduce the stress of seeing that item…” | ||
| 24. | Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com) | |
| 1519 points | 2017 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thats a fair criticism. I wanted to pick on Spotify and Atom more in my blog post, but both Spotify and Atom have cleaned up their act. I couldn't get either one to…” | ||
| 25. | What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (f-droid.org) | |
| 1516 points | 2025 | author marcprux showed up | their comment | thread
“I admit I am rather startled by the tone of many comments here and the accusations of disingenuity. Splitting hairs about the origin of the term "sideload" does not…” | ||
| 26. | Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero (saveflipper.ca) | |
| 1496 points | 2024 | author gepeto42 showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone just told me we were on the HackerNews front page, made me happy we just went with a static website on GitHub pages. I will go through the comments later, but…” | ||
| 27. | Spreadsheets are all you need (spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai) | |
| 1493 points | 2024 | author ianand showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, Jeremy Howard and fast.ai was one of the inspirations for this! I'd actually be curious what he thinks of the project if he ever sees it.” | ||
| 28. | Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games) | |
| 1484 points | 2024 | author darthdeus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“sorry about that, I just deployed a fix, should be readable now. If it's not, here's the first few points - Once you get good at Rust all of these problems will go away…” | ||
| 29. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 1479 points | 2015 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for all the feedback. In particular if I've mischaracterized the functionality of a service or you see something that's really off please email me at…” | ||
| 30. | F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (f-droid.org) | |
| 1478 points | 2025 | author marcprux showed up | their comment | thread
“I've also been in various DMA enforcement workshops and consulted with EU regulators on the topic of app distribution. The "strictly necessary and proportionate measures…” | ||
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