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| 3001. | Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground (muffinman.io) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author stankot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm really glad to see this getting some traction on HN, it is one of those projects that really brings me joy. It is inspired by a project that I saw on HN a while ago.…” | ||
| 3002. | GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices (wired.com) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author AfurikanTedoku showed up | their comment | thread
“Here is our pre-print. I am happy to answer questions in this thread. :)” | ||
| 3003. | SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties (blog.spawek.com) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author Spawek showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Elo is commonly used and most gamers understand it. It's nice to be able to show each player their Elo. I love the idea to use per-player embedding and to add a…” | ||
| 3004. | Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author jmmv showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing! I see various comments below along the lines of “oh, the article is missing so and so”. OK… then please see the other articles in this series! I…” | ||
| 3005. | New string search algorithm (volnitsky.com) | |
| 181 points | 2011 | author lvvlvv showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right. I've updated the page.” | ||
| 3006. | MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together (arstechnica.co.uk) | |
| 181 points | 2015 | author canjobear showed up | their comment | thread
“It's true that longer sentences will have longer dependency length on average. That was one of the big methodological problems with previous papers that tried to show…” | ||
| 3007. | The Power of Power Cycling (growthalytics.com) | |
| 181 points | 2015 | author mastermojo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Blog post author here. My initial draft had this at the bottom: "Disclaimer: If you have a recurring problem, power cycling will not fix your root cause. " At some…” | ||
| 3008. | Show HN: “Nim in Action” is now available (nim-lang.org) | |
| 181 points | 2016 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Even if you don't intend to purchase the book I would love to hear feedback from you about the first chapter (which is free!)[1]. Really excited about this book and am…” | ||
| 3009. | Building a CQRS/ES web application in Elixir using Phoenix (10consulting.com) | |
| 181 points | 2017 | author slashdotdash showed up | their comment | thread
“It sounds like you have some valuable, real-world experience with CQRS/ES. I'd love to read more about the difficulties you've faced, and overcome. For migration of…” | ||
| 3010. | Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip (righto.com) | |
| 181 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sure there are people on HN who have experience with modern chip layout, and I'd be thrilled if you can explain more about the transistor structures and so forth. I…” | ||
| 3011. | Computational Music Synthesis (cs.gmu.edu) | |
| 181 points | 2020 | author SeanLuke showed up | their comment | thread
“In all my free books I have collected email addresses only for very rare events. How rare? In 15 years of publishing free books I've only used the books' email list…” | ||
| 3012. | How India Censors the Web (iamkush.me) | |
| 181 points | 2020 | author justDankin showed up | their comment | thread
“we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India. We've compiled these tests into an android app, please…” | ||
| 3013. | Music Production on Guix System (guix.gnu.org) | |
| 181 points | 2020 | author rekado showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I use JACK 1 because it serves me well enough. I don't need the DBus features JACK 2 has, for example. Up until recently the recommendation was to use whichever version…” | ||
| 3014. | I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017) (mtlynch.io) | |
| 181 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post. I still work with Samantha about once per year for a tune-up. Coincidentally, she edited the article I'm planning to…” | ||
| 3015. | Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, etc. (github.com) | |
| 181 points | 2021 | author hnlmorg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I would be flattered if people found this invaluable enough to install on fleets of servers. But pragmatically that's not the problem I'm trying to solve. I think…” | ||
| 3016. | Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views (fabianlindfors.se) | |
| 181 points | 2021 | author fabianlindfors showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading. As has been mentioned in some comments, the article only covers half the story of how this can be used for migrations. The greater idea is to have…” | ||
| 3017. | DOS on Dope (2010) (secretgeek.net) | |
| 181 points | 2022 | author LeonB showed up | their comment | thread
“In dos on dope, .bat files are used for actions that handle http GET, and .cmd files are used for actions that handle http POST. Btw I did live through that transition.…” | ||
| 3018. | Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it (dev.arie.bovenberg.net) | |
| 181 points | 2024 | author ariebovenberg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“"Offset" is indeed relative to UTC. The problem with allowing adding timedeltas is that you give users the impression they are doing valid arithmetic, while they may not…” | ||
| 3019. | Making Electronic Calipers (kevinlynagh.com) | |
| 181 points | 2024 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment | thread
“Lots of questions about precision --- in the article I calculated 0.6mm as the standard deviation of 200ms worth of phase measurements (n=124) while the slide wasn't…” | ||
| 3020. | The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators (blog.golioth.io) | |
| 181 points | 2025 | author hasheddan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Appreciate the comments and discussion on the post! Happy to continue the discussion or answer any follow-on questions folks have about our investigation and resolution.” | ||
| 3021. | Build Your Own React (pomb.us) | |
| 181 points | 2025 | author pomber showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been trying. I'm even building something to make adoption easier, not launched yet but it's here” | ||
| 3022. | SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com) | |
| 181 points | 2026 | author XenonofArcticus showed up | their comment | thread
“Article author here (not the lead programmer on the Slughorn project tho). Yes, LLMs were used to help write this article and there are tells. I can smell them too.…” | ||
| 3023. | Why God Hates German Words (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com) | |
| 180 points | 2011 | author KennethMyers showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right about "smart." There are other minor inaccuracies that other people pointed out. The origin of "fuck" isn't clear. Were the anglo-saxons actually enslaved?…” | ||
| 3024. | Time Series, the new shiny? (basho.com) | |
| 180 points | 2016 | author siculars showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for all the interest! AMA!” | ||
| 3025. | Who Pays for the Decentralized Web? (tierion.com) | |
| 180 points | 2016 | author waynevaughan showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow was I surprised to see this on Hacker News! It's my view that decentralized systems will almost always be less efficient than centralized systems. This is because…” | ||
| 3026. | Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 180 points | 2019 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yep! Both sandsifter and MC Hammer provided inspiration for mishegos.” | ||
| 3027. | Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk (github.com) | |
| 180 points | 2020 | author rethab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As I wrote in the README, this uses GAWK instead of plain AWK. Conveniences of GAWK over AWK in a nutshell: - functions - several additional functions (eg. bit shifting)…” | ||
| 3028. | Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs (hexo.press) | |
| 180 points | 2021 | author lewisjoe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“:) No it won't. I was the one who submitted that piece to HN, and the first thing I was worried was how it will break hexo.press. Apparently, only extensions are…” | ||
| 3029. | SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go (github.com) | |
| 180 points | 2021 | author mathaou showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! Author here. In order to better reflect my future plans for the project, I have rebranded of sorts. It is now called termdbms (suggestions on a better name…” | ||
| 3030. | Are 14 people really looking at that product? (2020) (blog.devgenius.io) | |
| 180 points | 2021 | author jacobbergdahl showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author and I just wanted to say thank you for your nice comment :)” | ||
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