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The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver (gravitational.com) |
| 169 points | 2018 | author aberoham showed up | their comment | thread
“There were maddeningly few layperson details of the actual flaw and impact in the first few hours after the 9.8/10 CVE news dropped. If you're only tacitly following…” |
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Basic Electron Framework Exploitation (contextis.com) |
| 169 points | 2019 | author howlett showed up | their comment | thread
“The main issue I was trying to highlight is that you can make signed apps run your code from a local perspective. Here's a real life scenario that happened : I was doing…” |
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Why we need a book about naming (namingthings.co) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author tombenner showed up | their comment | thread
“It's exciting to see this on HN! Feedback about this topic (here and elsewhere) has been immensely helpful, so please don't hesitate to let me know your thoughts in a…” |
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Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“it is indeed easy to detect. I didn't base my work off of Hydan but it uses a similar strategy, and there are several[1][2] public steganalyses of it. Edit: I previously…” |
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Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup (helenmin.com) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author melon625 showed up | their comment | thread
“Through the lens of small businesses, I completely agree with your comment. This post is specifically for venture-backed startups, most likely in Silicon Valley, with…” |
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Show HN: We open sourced our new Mac developer setup script (github.com) |
| 169 points | 2021 | author joelkesler showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This script helps new developers at my workplace setup their MacBook laptops quick, letting them hit the ground running. Before this script, it could take 2-5 days to…” |
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Things I hate about Rust, redux (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 169 points | 2022 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't written any Zig, but I've read a little bit about `comptime` (which I thought was very cool). I like compile-time programming, but I also recognize that it's…” |
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products (scastiel.dev) |
| 169 points | 2022 | author scastiel showed up | their comment | thread
“I was aware of this potential issue when I implemented PPP on my course. It turns out almost nobody uses this trick, although a few told my about it. I guess when you…” |
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Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs (boundaryml.com) |
| 169 points | 2024 | author joatmon-snoo showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Author here- besides hellovai’s point about the performance bottleneck, it’s a really tricky semantic problem! LLMs today are really good at producing output that…” |
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Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting (becomesovran.com) |
| 169 points | 2024 | author enkimin showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad some people found this useful and to those with suggestions, ill keep those in mind when updating the post. Cheers.” |
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Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? (milescole.dev) |
| 169 points | 2024 | author mwc360 showed up | their comment | thread
“that’s exactly what I was trying to communicate but you said it better :)” |
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SiFive's P550 Microarchitecture (chipsandcheese.com) |
| 169 points | 2025 | author clamchowder showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I compared it to the A75 on the Snapdragon 670, not the 845. I chose that comparison because I have a Pixel 3a (my previous daily driver cell phone), and that's the only…” |
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Less Htmx Is More (unplannedobsolescence.com) |
| 169 points | 2025 | author alexpetros showed up | their comment | thread
“The full quote is: "In my opinion, most websites should be using htmx for either:", and then I list two cases where I think htmx is appropriate. In context, it's clear…” |
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Lisping at JPL (2002) (flownet.com) |
| 169 points | 2025 | author lisper showed up | their comment | thread
“This pops up on HN regularly, which I'm happy to see, but it's pretty dated at this point. Here is a more recent update: And, as always, AMA.” |
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Increasing your practice surface area (indiehackers.com) |
| 169 points | 2025 | author ChanningAllen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Good feedback: the text isn't nonsense, but it requires background knowledge that the man on the right is the rapper Eminem.” |
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Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com) |
| 169 points | 2026 | author tanin showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, thank you for testing it. I did test it on my own laptop (Seattle). I didn't know this. Thank you.” |
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On switching to Arch Linux (mikethecoder.com) |
| 168 points | 2012 | author mcrittenden showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think we're talking about two different things. By "nothing works out of the box" I mean that you need to set it up yourself. For example, the Beginner's Guide leads…” |
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Markdown: The Spec - it's coming and it's full of personalities (rumproarious.com) |
| 168 points | 2012 | author voidfiles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't been able to find any public discussion about a spec from the parties involved other then Atwood's blog post.” |
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Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old (dlewis.net) |
| 168 points | 2013 | author DanLivesHere showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to take any questions. (and why'd it come up now? I wrote it a month or so ago.)” |
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Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me (whoo.ps) |
| 168 points | 2013 | author libovness showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“-) I agree with you @lucisferre, and for this reason I think the flat design trend will become obsolescent at a faster rate than most design trends usually do. I also…” |
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Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end (duojs.org) |
| 168 points | 2014 | author matthewmueller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“@tomdale We're on the same page. I've worked with many large JS codebases as well and consistency and repeatability are a must. However, as with any tool, it's…” |
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Why Google Wants to Sell Its Robots: Reality Is Hard (bloomberg.com) |
| 168 points | 2016 | author mappingbabeljc showed up | their comment | thread
“And I think in the tech community it is well understood that robotics is hugely difficult, but it seems like general public pretty much equates progress in software AI…” |
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How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is (medium.com) |
| 168 points | 2016 | author fagnerbrack showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right, I did not know the name of the thing because English is not my primary language. Thanks for teaching me that, I have edited the picture caption to show…” |
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Lessons learnt from monetising my Chrome Extension (mikerogers.io) |
| 168 points | 2016 | author rogem002 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so I'm happy to answer any follow up questions you might have :)” |
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Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides (stretchcorp.com) |
| 168 points | 2017 | author drpancake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My phone is exploding. I hear you on the Facebook login issue. I misconfigured the Facebook SDK and it's falling back to a web view rather than using native login. I…” |
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What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io) |
| 168 points | 2017 | author valw showed up | their comment | thread
“I could be wrong of course, but this stems from my experience in using a REPL from JavaScript. I hit 2 sorts of hurdle with mutability there: 1- I wasn't sure what I was…” |
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Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation (arstechnica.com) |
| 168 points | 2018 | author binarybits showed up | their comment | thread
“What do you mean by "short?" The piece is 1,500 words, which is about double the length of a typical newspaper column. I'm not going to get into the exact economics, but…” |
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Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (devopsdirective.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author spalas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll ping here once I have done so! --- EDIT: Done! I have updated the notebook with the digital Ocean offering using their General Purpose (dedicated CPU) droplets. The…” |
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The Troublesome Active Record Pattern (calpaterson.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“) I know it seems like a synthetic example but this kind of code is quite common, particularly from devs who don't know databases well. I suppose editing a json field or…” |
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Mental Model Fallacy (2018) (commoncog.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author shadowsun7 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: It is, in turn, a summary of a 30k word series on 'putting mental models to practice' — originally published in…” |
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