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| 3031. | How to install Linux from a Windows installer (prose.nsood.in) | |
| 180 points | 2024 | author tendstofortytwo showed up | their comment | thread
“I did consider it, but you'd also have to modify the copy of the fstab in the initramfs in addition to the one in the root. Admittedly I didn't try very hard to make…” | ||
| 3032. | Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia (domluna.com) | |
| 180 points | 2024 | author lunaticd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I thought there might be a machine instruction for this but wasn't sure, I also didn't know Julia had a count_ones that counted the 1s. Thanks! With this the timings are…” | ||
| 3033. | Remembering the LAN (2020) (tailscale.com) | |
| 180 points | 2024 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“I realize it reads as an ad for Tailscale, but I actually wrote it earlier in 2019 while doing some of the very early product development. In a sense it is more a PRD…” | ||
| 3034. | NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices (blog.golioth.io) | |
| 180 points | 2025 | author hasheddan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You won't find any pushback from us on using Zephyr -- we are contributors, the firmware example in the post is using it (or Nordic's NCS distribution of it), and we…” | ||
| 3035. | Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server (dangelov.com) | |
| 180 points | 2025 | author dangelov showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There's basically a couple of different ways to implement an MCP server - for this demo it's a local binary that communicates over stdio, so no OAuth process is taking…” | ||
| 3036. | OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last (security.googleblog.com) | |
| 180 points | 2025 | author msuozzo showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Both nix and guix are exciting projects with a lot of enviable security properties. Many here can attest that using them feels like, and perhaps is, the future. I see…” | ||
| 3037. | Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos (arxiv.org) | |
| 180 points | 2025 | author otrack showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Lamport simply calls his protocol "Paxos" to refer to both the single‑decree and multi‑decree versions. This is also the case in his other works, e.g., "Fast Paxos" and…” | ||
| 3038. | Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans (pocketjavascript.com) | |
| 179 points | 2015 | author nolanl showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks a lot! :) I think many of the emerging performance bottlenecks in webdev are on the client rather than the server, so there's definitely a lot more research that…” | ||
| 3039. | Refined Twitter (github.com) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author mofle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I also made a desktop app for this:” | ||
| 3040. | Using Neural Networks to Evaluate Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (willforfang.com) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author wforfang showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm equally surprised it worked so well with such little training data. Each image contained 1 example of each character (18 total characters * 10 images = 180…” | ||
| 3041. | Saved by the compiler: Parallelizing a loop with Rust and rayon (blog.faraday.io) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author ekidd showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer questions! I don't have any performance numbers for this loop because it was already very fast. This was just a warm-up exercise before trying to…” | ||
| 3042. | Building a One-Person SaaS App Offers a Profound Sense of Personal Achievement (blog.nugget.one) | |
| 179 points | 2017 | author jv22222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here, have at it :)” | ||
| 3043. | Using cgroups to limit I/O (andrestc.com) | |
| 179 points | 2017 | author andrestc showed up | their comment | thread
“I knew there are some problems with cgroup v2 but haven't quite looked into it. I'm going to watch the talk and probably add a note about that. Thanks! That's…” | ||
| 3044. | Azure Functions vs. AWS Lambda – Scaling Face Off (azurefromthetrenches.com) | |
| 179 points | 2018 | author jamesdrandall showed up | their comment | thread
“completely agree. I did try the preview version of Core 2.0 on Azure Functions but it's absolutely woeful at the moment and the dev team confirmed they've done no…” | ||
| 3045. | Research-backed strategies for better learning (stories.sagefy.org) | |
| 179 points | 2018 | author sagefy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions :)” | ||
| 3046. | How Google Pagespeed works (calibreapp.com) | |
| 179 points | 2019 | author benschwarz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“-) I've left significant levels of details about pagespeed on the lighthouse issue tracker over the last few months. It's really frustrating to see the lighthouse team…” | ||
| 3047. | “Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer (dave.autonoma.ca) | |
| 179 points | 2020 | author thangalin showed up | their comment | thread
“Typesetting Markdown is a multi-part series that describes an ecosystem for typesetting Markdown documents using pandoc and ConTeXt. Here's a brief walk-through: Parts…” | ||
| 3048. | Prettifying Org Mode with CSS (sandyuraz.com) | |
| 179 points | 2020 | author thecsw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’m not the biggest fan of having thousands and thousands of external dependencies. I’m not too big on frontend but I have been using org mode for couple of years now.…” | ||
| 3049. | Viewpoint: 'I feel like I was accidentally hired' (bbc.co.uk) | |
| 179 points | 2020 | author ibudiallo showed up | their comment | thread
“It seems like this post have been flagged, but I'd like to add a little comment here so it may clarify things. First, a little over a week ago we were having a similar…” | ||
| 3050. | Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system (orgroam.com) | |
| 179 points | 2020 | author jethroksy showed up | their comment | thread
“You can move the sqlite database to a separate location by setting a variable, and that should resolve the syncing issues. I do this and have the files synced via…” | ||
| 3051. | An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s (adam.nels.onl) | |
| 179 points | 2021 | author ar-nelson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“unified function call syntax is awesome but sadly out of scope for what I was trying to do with this language. I mention this in the "Class-based discoverability"…” | ||
| 3052. | You shouldn't have your crypto designed by a CEO (mailarchive.ietf.org) | |
| 179 points | 2022 | author dlor showed up | their comment | thread
“I have nothing to do with any of those formats and didn't create or design any. I have no more context than you do either, and was surprised to find that thread on the…” | ||
| 3053. | Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India (blog.jpl-consulting.com) | |
| 178 points | 2011 | author jplarson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“great conversation, gang. To be clear, I don't mean to dump on India specifically, but rather offer up a narrative that counters the notion of overseas talent being an…” | ||
| 3054. | A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar (github.com) | |
| 178 points | 2012 | author ChiperSoft showed up | their comment | thread
“I do have a time picker in the works but I was planning to have it be a separate project. I suppose it could be a good idea to bundle it with this to avoid duplicating…” | ||
| 3055. | I Don't Have Time (swanson.github.com) | |
| 178 points | 2012 | author swanson showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd be keen to hear if anyone has had success with different productivity systems for breaking done the big goals into smaller items. I've had varying amounts of success…” | ||
| 3056. | Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970) (ivolo.me) | |
| 178 points | 2013 | author ivolo showed up | their comment | thread
“As far as I understand, the Jewish quotas were not proportional to the population. The other significant difference is that all these policies were completely opaque,…” | ||
| 3057. | Questioning the Lambda Architecture (radar.oreilly.com) | |
| 178 points | 2014 | author boredandroid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think in cases where you are running totally different computations in different systems the Lambda architecture may make a lot of sense. However one assumption you…” | ||
| 3058. | All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score (contextly.com) | |
| 178 points | 2014 | author 10001110101 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“For context, here is the mentioned analysis: Here is the section that addresses the randomness you speak of: "For a given month, consider the collection of scores of…” | ||
| 3059. | The poor, misunderstood innerText (perfectionkills.com) | |
| 178 points | 2015 | author kangax showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm working on text editor with real-time spelling correction where `innerText`-like retrieval has to happen quite frequently; it's what pushed me to research the state…” | ||
| 3060. | Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness (noticing.co) | |
| 178 points | 2015 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm sorry to hear that the scroll is acting up. I'd like to fix that. Can you (or anyone else seeing this issue) tell me if you see the same behavior on the other posts…” | ||
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