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| 3151. | How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method (yacinemahdid.com) | |
| 174 points | 2025 | author research_pie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm really glad to see all the different life structures people have adopted. not all strategies work for all brains unfortunately. but the essence is this: - untangle…” | ||
| 3152. | Under the hood: Vec<T> (marma.dev) | |
| 174 points | 2025 | author marekzan showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your critique and you are right, I struggled with this chapter a lot. I will read the link to get a better understanding of this type and update the…” | ||
| 3153. | An engineer's emergency kit business card (boldport.blogspot.co.uk) | |
| 173 points | 2013 | author boldport showed up | their comment | thread
“The blog is hosted on blogger (Google). When I decided to use blogger I wrongly assumed that it will 'just work' across platforms, but it hasn't been the case,…” | ||
| 3154. | Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing (github.com) | |
| 173 points | 2014 | author jonathan_s showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The idea is indeed that ``ptpython`` could become the terminal front-end for IPython. The only thing on which ``prompt_toolkit`` is focussing, is reading input from…” | ||
| 3155. | Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5 (blog.jetbrains.com) | |
| 173 points | 2015 | author pauleveritt showed up | their comment | thread
“When I gave a preview of this at the PyRVA meetup, I gave this exact illustration, even using "my future self". So...jinx. :)” | ||
| 3156. | Hosting Multiple HTTPS Domains from the Same Server with Let's Encrypt and Nginx (blog.benroux.me) | |
| 173 points | 2017 | author liquidise showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would have loved to have SNI work. I wrote this article in response to having profound struggles making it work. My iPhone 7's Safari was routinely failing to connect…” | ||
| 3157. | Cirru – An editor for AST (cirru.org) | |
| 173 points | 2017 | author jiyinyiyong showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Added another quick video on Youtube, check this out Guess I need help from someone because English is not my mother language, and I even got cough these days.” | ||
| 3158. | A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints (tylerlhobbs.com) | |
| 173 points | 2017 | author tylerhobbs showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you! Yes, I think you have the basic gist of it. Split each line, then move an endpoint. There's nothing too complicated about the algorithm, the trick is really…” | ||
| 3159. | De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015) [pdf] (usenix.org) | |
| 173 points | 2017 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“It was published a couple of years ago; pleasantly surprised to see it here. The paper shows that programmers have distinctive styles in their source code that can be…” | ||
| 3160. | Sorting number strings numerically (arangodb.com) | |
| 173 points | 2017 | author neunhoef showed up | their comment | thread
“In mathematics, in particular discrete mathematics, there is a genuine need to store long integers accurately and to compare them numerically. This encoding is useful to…” | ||
| 3161. | That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo (cake.co) | |
| 173 points | 2018 | author cmacaskill showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“:-) You're very right, he could be incredibly frustrating to work with. I've always thought it was strange that we have so many incredible stories about working with…” | ||
| 3162. | Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries (icyphox.sh) | |
| 173 points | 2019 | author Icyphox showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask questions, if any.” | ||
| 3163. | Writing an OS in Rust: Testing (os.phil-opp.com) | |
| 173 points | 2019 | author phil-opp showed up | their comment | thread
“This post is a rewrite of the previous Unit Testing [1] and Integration Tests [2] posts. It creates a custom test framework that runs test functions inside QEMU, so that…” | ||
| 3164. | Shenandoah GC in production: experience report (clojure-goes-fast.com) | |
| 173 points | 2019 | author unlogic showed up | their comment | thread
“You are saying exactly what I was thinking before. But turns out, generational GCs have nasty failure modes when things don't go as expected. E.g., if an upstream…” | ||
| 3165. | Boring Technology Checklist (blog.begin.com) | |
| 173 points | 2022 | author brianleroux showed up | their comment | thread
“personally find AWS extremely boring, very mature and stable. well known limits, and tradeoffs.” | ||
| 3166. | Show HN: Let's Build AI (letsbuild.ai) | |
| 173 points | 2024 | author aprxi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for asking. One key objective is not to be yet another linksite, but add utility by providing direct shortcuts to code, docs, api references etc. next to the main…” | ||
| 3167. | Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021) (jeroenjanssens.com) | |
| 173 points | 2024 | author jeroenjanssens showed up | their comment | thread
“Worth pointing out that the discussion from Sept 19 2013 is actually about a blog post, which predates the book. It's because of the amount of feedback it got on HN that…” | ||
| 3168. | Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore (thetwitcleaner.com) | |
| 172 points | 2013 | author sidawson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sigh Yeah, you're both right. I'll move the images local. Not intending to leach. Just trying to lighten up an otherwise kinda depressing post. Seeing four years of work…” | ||
| 3169. | Elasticsearch – the definitive guide (elasticsearch.org) | |
| 172 points | 2014 | author andrewvc showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually just (soft) relaunched the book using a new backend, so the content's a little stale. Now that I've revamped all the formerly poor quality ebook generation I…” | ||
| 3170. | Edge of the Creative Commons (2013) (blog.brentlaabs.com) | |
| 172 points | 2014 | author labster showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right. It hasn't gone anywhere in 6 months, because there's no real angle on getting involved in a legal dispute. There's no money to be gained in suing TVT. And…” | ||
| 3171. | Ergonomica – A cross-platform shell written in Python (github.com) | |
| 172 points | 2017 | author lschumm showed up | their comment | thread
“author here—the idea for this shell would be to have something that worked like python, but was more ergonomica(a :) ). Something like what rajathagasthya suggested…” | ||
| 3172. | The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) (yosefk.com) | |
| 172 points | 2017 | author yosefk showed up | their comment | thread
“I think today that apart from making my case in a bit of an obnoxious tone, I also somewhat overstated it: while it's true that many "high-level" constructs do have a…” | ||
| 3173. | JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer (50linesofco.de) | |
| 172 points | 2017 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“For the record, Chrome has been working on improving their postMessage performance as of M57 [1], so my benchmark should probably be re-run. Assuming they end up in the…” | ||
| 3174. | Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go (github.com) | |
| 172 points | 2017 | author achilleasa showed up | their comment | thread
“It started as a fun research project to learn more about the Go runtime internals and I didn't really expect it making it to HN. If you take a look at the Go runtime…” | ||
| 3175. | Small functions considered harmful (medium.com) | |
| 172 points | 2017 | author copyconstruct showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a simplistic -- and cherry-picked -- interpretation of my post, I'm afraid. DRY inherently doesn't make code harder to follow, but an explosion of ultra-small…” | ||
| 3176. | Problems with CSVs (2016) (donatstudios.com) | |
| 172 points | 2018 | author donatj showed up | their comment | thread
“just waking up. I object to the title change on the strongest terms. It’s simply not “Problems with CSVs”. That’s not at all what the post is. The list isn’t problems,…” | ||
| 3177. | We improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70% (mux.com) | |
| 172 points | 2019 | author human_afterall showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here, thanks for linking the paper. The article was from an infrastructure perspective, but we're definitely diving deeper into graph execution optimizations…” | ||
| 3178. | Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 172 points | 2019 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“Feels good to be one chapter closer to the end. Only six more to go!” | ||
| 3179. | Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (rykap.com) | |
| 172 points | 2020 | author rjkaplan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That's a neat trick! I agree! In the demos I use a library I wrote to generate 2D distance fields: It's also pretty fast :)” | ||
| 3180. | Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg (mattj.io) | |
| 172 points | 2021 | author devadvance showed up | their comment | thread
“This is the same journey I went through and I 100% agree! It can be intimidating at first, but FFmpeg is a a worthwhile utility to begin learning. I've also added some…” | ||
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