3121. Why Rust is a great choice for startups (dailyedit.com)
175 points | 2022 | author stevepeg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“lots of usual language-war type comments here. Just thought I'd add my own little bit of water (hopefully). In my post notice that aside from my personal background with…”
3122. Quaternions: A Practical Guide (anyleaf.org)
175 points | 2022 | author the__alchemist showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“while building a structural chemistry model. I found most sources available either dive into quaternion mathematics and reasoning without building intuition useful in…”
3123. Time Series Forecasting vs Regression: An informal guide (amorphousdata.com)
175 points | 2024 | author rdli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Or a lot of trial & error :).”
3124. How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps (blog.val.town)
175 points | 2024 | author janpaul123 showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
3125. Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale (ubicloud.com)
175 points | 2025 | author 0xjunhao showed up | their comment | thread
“Writing it was a great learning experience. I gained a lot of insight into vLLM. If you have any feedback or questions, feel free to drop a comment below!”
3126. Stop Breaking TLS (markround.com)
175 points | 2025 | author mark_round showed up | their comment | thread
“hi! Was just venting last night, but that's a very good point, I'll update it later with your correction :)”
3127. David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon (amazon.com)
174 points | 2011 | author kadavy showed up | their comment | thread
“and I am blown away that it currently ranks #36 on all of Amazon[1], right behind the very deserving Eric Ries, who is also launching today. Thank you so much to the…”
3128. How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career) (jamiebegin.com)
174 points | 2012 | author OptimusSubprime showed up | their comment | thread
“Using the model that I wrote about, you "downshift" from a full-time job that has you on the front line, doing billable work to someplace where you're supporting…”
3129. The Day our investors came to see the office (2011) (thedayseries.tumblr.com)
174 points | 2013 | author angilly showed up | their comment | thread
“I saw a few comments coming in this morning and had no idea what was going on. Gotta love Google Analytics :) I'm glad you enjoyed the story. I enjoyed the experience :)”
3130. Bitcoin's UK future looks bleak (scirra.com)
174 points | 2013 | author TomGullen showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you! It's tiring meeting all the resistance I do when trying to investigate these issues. As cheesy as it sounds any thanks I do get really does motivate me.”
3131. WhatsApp doesn't understand the web (andregarzia.com)
174 points | 2015 | author soapdog showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“will monitor this thread waiting for feedback and general comments.”
3132. How Cheap Can Solar Get? (rameznaam.com)
174 points | 2015 | author RamezNaam showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of this blog post. Happy to answer questions people have, as time allows, on Wednesday. Upcoming posts will look at the future of wind power, the…”
3133. Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? (robots.thoughtbot.com)
174 points | 2016 | author derekprior showed up | their comment | thread
“I completely agree that it's unlikely to be exploited but also think fixes are mostly simple enough that it should be addressed.”
3134. Show HN: Redux Offline – Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native (github.com)
174 points | 2017 | author jevakallio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of the library, and just wanted to say that you are absolutely correct about Redux Offline not being a suitable solution for weeks of active offline…”
3135. Write Python inline in your Rust code (docs.rs)
174 points | 2019 | author m-ou-se showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions. :)”
3136. How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20M noisy qubits (scirate.com)
174 points | 2019 | author Strilanc showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors on this paper and can answer questions if people have some.”
3137. Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code (usenix.org)
174 points | 2019 | author nteon showed up | their comment | thread
“In the paper we build on previous work from our group, Browsix ( ) to provide a similar level of abstractions to WASI (the syscall layer). We've talked about having…”
3138. Game of Life in one Ruby statement inspired by APL (zverok.github.io)
174 points | 2020 | author zverok showed up | their comment | thread
“I noticed the thing about flatten an hour ago and fixed it (somehow thought +/, is "reduce 2 times", then understood it is flatten + reduce, and my lib already had…”
3139. Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax (dyno-might.github.io)
174 points | 2020 | author dyno-might showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I very much appreciate your polite tone! I'm aware that taxes on items for resale aren't treated like in the toy model. (This is mentioned in the article already.) Can…”
3140. How I made a profitable Vim course (slip.so)
174 points | 2021 | author CoffeePython showed up | their comment | thread
“nice surprise seeing the blog post here. Happy to answer any questions y’all may have. It’s been a nice feeling finally having an a product that makes some decent…”
3141. Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020) (latacora.micro.blog)
174 points | 2021 | author tptacek showed up | their comment | thread
“Honestly, I don't care which secure messenger you use. I'm going to recommend the one I feel is safest, but they're all leagues better than email. Don't use encrypted…”
3142. Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production (heap.io)
174 points | 2021 | author kmdupree showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“:) Good to know that other folks are using this technique! Great point! Hadn't thought of this.”
3143. SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web (ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
174 points | 2021 | author mintplant showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Kinda shocked to see this on HN. Regarding anti-tampering: this work is in a "taking the Web as we found it" kind of model. We focused on improving the existing state of…”
3144. Imagor: A fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go (github.com)
174 points | 2021 | author cshum showed up | their comment | thread
“Apologize for the late response, as I only realized it was on HN a few days after. Thanks for posting it! A bit of our background: we have been a long time user of…”
3145. Bullshit Software Projects (earthly.dev)
174 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I asked some devs this question: Although you are required to do your job, you secretly believe it is pointless and should not need to be performed. Turns out a lot of…”
3146. A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities (tudelft.nl)
174 points | 2024 | author metropolbadger showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all! I'm one of the co-authors. Honestly it's a dream to end up on HN with my research. As mentioned in the video we made, it has been a long road (6-7 years) to…”
3147. A standards-first web framework (nuejs.org)
174 points | 2025 | author tipiirai showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is Nue's new, more natural direction. Our previous focus on design engineers and CSS design systems was accurate, but missed the most important point: the web…”
3148. DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (dynomight.net)
174 points | 2025 | author dynm showed up | their comment | thread
“This wraps JAX and JAX's version of NumPy. It would surely require some development to keep up, although it's quite short and simple (only 700 lines), so I don't think…”
3149. Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) (righto.com)
174 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Apollo questions :-)”
3150. Software Development at 800 Words per Minute (neurrone.com)
174 points | 2025 | author Neurrone showed up | their comment | thread
“surprised this somehow got onto HN since I only posted on Mastodon. Happy to answer any questions.”