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| 271. | Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable (consoledonottrack.com) | |
| 668 points | 2021 | author beatcracker showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me anything. Btw, currently I have a huge backlog of telemetry to add, so I wouldn't mind some help. If anyone interested, have a look at the GitHub…” | ||
| 272. | Who Y Combinator Companies Want (data.triplebyte.com) | |
| 667 points | 2015 | author ammon showed up | their comment | thread
“Ageism is real, and we'll be analyzing it in a future post. But in this case I don't think it's ageism. I think it's big-company-ism. Startups define themselves in…” | ||
| 273. | Tailscale Funnel (tailscale.com) | |
| 666 points | 2022 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We might do BYODomain later. It was easier to launch with only *.ts.net. If you're using this for things like webhooks, the URL doesn't matter much.” | ||
| 274. | Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning (github.com) | |
| 665 points | 2018 | author citnaj showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Author here- So I'll just be brutally honest on that one- not all renders are doing that. I cherry picked the one that did that because yeah, it's amazing. There's a…” | ||
| 275. | How I learned French in 12 months (2020) (runwes.com) | |
| 664 points | 2022 | author wes1350 showed up | their comment | thread
“didn’t expect to see this here again after two years! I guess I’ll give a quick update on how things have been since this article was written. I haven’t used or studied…” | ||
| 276. | Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com) | |
| 663 points | 2026 | author skittleson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is ten years of home automation rules, led by one: nothing core should depend on a vendor's server. Setup core is Tasmota, MQTT and Node-RED on a Pi. I've given…” | ||
| 277. | Python startup time: milliseconds matter (mail.python.org) | |
| 662 points | 2018 | author indygreg2 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the linked post and maintain the Firefox build system. The reason is that in 2018 (and for the past 10 years honestly) and it is far easier to find people who…” | ||
| 278. | Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 661 points | 2020 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 279. | EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers (adguard.com) | |
| 661 points | 2022 | author ameshkov showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually, it's getting better, I've just looked up the stats and for the last 30 days we only served 70TB of access denied pages, this is about 33-34B requests.” | ||
| 280. | Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics (github.com) | |
| 660 points | 2018 | author s-macke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It started as a technical demonstration for fluid dynamics in the web browser. Then I saw the js13kgames competition and the decision was made to make a game out of it.…” | ||
| 281. | Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month (blog.sia.tech) | |
| 659 points | 2020 | author Taek showed up | their comment | thread
“A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut. Sia…” | ||
| 282. | Portable EPUBs (willcrichton.net) | |
| 659 points | 2024 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“I wished SingleFile would use less permissions, but it's unforntunately not possible from a technical point of view. Anyway, if you run some code I've written but are…” | ||
| 283. | I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation (sean.heelan.io) | |
| 658 points | 2025 | author seanheelan showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, I built a PoC. Yes, it triggered a KASAN report/crash.” | ||
| 284. | The fastest GIF does not exist (biphelps.com) | |
| 657 points | 2022 | author NotSoVeteran showed up | their comment | thread
“loving all the discussion! I was a bit intimidated to submit this to hn - I'm humbled that someone else thought it was worth posting. Of course, happy to answer any…” | ||
| 285. | Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 655 points | 2016 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“I gave Apple 18 hours to respond. The article has now been out for four hours or so, and it's been close to 24 hours since I originally asked them. Apple RARELY responds…” | ||
| 286. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 655 points | 2017 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“This is old and I haven't added some of the new services that AWS has released since I first wrote it. Whenever this list comes up there's generally a group of people…” | ||
| 287. | Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore (rubenerd.com) | |
| 655 points | 2022 | author rubenerd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this was just a bit of silly/pointless fun, though people overanalysing it here is just as delightful.” | ||
| 288. | We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem (heap.io) | |
| 654 points | 2021 | author jhk727 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“as others have noted, there's a lot of benefits to a company of our size operating infrastructure on AWS vs. managing physical hardware. A couple of the highlights for…” | ||
| 289. | Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org) | |
| 654 points | 2026 | author zplizzi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but…” | ||
| 290. | Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading (incident.io) | |
| 653 points | 2023 | author lawrjone showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for posting! Lots of stuff in this from profiling Go compilations, building a hot-reloader, using AI to analyse the build dataset, etc. We concluded that it was…” | ||
| 291. | Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects (jeremyaboyd.com) | |
| 651 points | 2016 | author jermaustin1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions or comments. A little about this post: I was recently commenting on an excellent Show HN for a product called Duet and it was the most…” | ||
| 292. | Buttery Smooth Emacs (facebook.com) | |
| 651 points | 2016 | author quotemstr showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Check the emacs-devel thread: some people were able to repro the flickering and some couldn't. It appears to depend heavily on details of your machine. I have two X1…” | ||
| 293. | Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017) (gabrielgambetta.com) | |
| 651 points | 2019 | author ggambetta showed up | their comment | thread
“What a surprise to open HN and see this on the front page :) Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 294. | Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer (lastweekinaws.com) | |
| 651 points | 2019 | author QuinnyPig showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To be clear, the stated reasons Amazon gave for enforcing the non-compete in their filed lawsuit are already covered under trade secret protections. I'm not the one…” | ||
| 295. | PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL (github.com) | |
| 650 points | 2022 | author maximilianroos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“because I find SQL wonderfully elegant in its function, but really frustrating in its form. Let me know any feedback — as you can see it's still at the proposal stage.…” | ||
| 296. | Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot (practicapp.com) | |
| 650 points | 2025 | author DebboR showed up | their comment | thread
“Super surprised this made hackernews It does indeed not have a carburator (I wrote this while half asleep on a plane, I meant to say that it has a mechanical…” | ||
| 297. | Accounting For Developers, Part I (moderntreasury.com) | |
| 648 points | 2022 | author lucasrocha259 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is helpful feedback, we could have perhaps taken more time before jumping in on the Modern Bagelry example. A common misconception is that one account needs to…” | ||
| 298. | Go is still not good (blog.habets.se) | |
| 646 points | 2025 | author thomashabets2 showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“No, I didn't misunderstand it. Interface variables have two types of nil. Untyped, which does compare to nil, and typed, which does not. What are you trying to clarify…” | ||
| 299. | Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock (morepypy.blogspot.com) | |
| 644 points | 2017 | author fijal showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me put an offer here: If you want to ask a question that warrants a response (as opposed to promoting your own effort, which is valid but does not warrant a…” | ||
| 300. | Actually Portable Executable (justine.lol) | |
| 644 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wanted to honor Greece for the amazing cultural impact they've had, similar to how mathematics honors Greece. We got a lot of comments like this in the last thread.…” | ||
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