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| 301. | It wasn't for nothing (gexp.no) | |
| 644 points | 2022 | author mbakke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the concern! Actually this blog [post] came about by stopping up and looking at my core values. Earlier this year I decided to quit alcohol for good and…” | ||
| 302. | Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware (aws.amazon.com) | |
| 643 points | 2016 | author jeffbarr showed up | their comment | thread
“You can do all of the design and simulation on any EC2 instance with enough memory and cores. You don't have to run the dev toolchain on the target instance type.” | ||
| 303. | How to sell a B2B product (calv.info) | |
| 643 points | 2020 | author calvinfo showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sad to hear this and want to understand how we can do better. Do you mind following up over email? I'm calvin at segment.” | ||
| 304. | Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com) | |
| 641 points | 2014 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It took a few days to get the courage to share it online. It probably took you about 20 seconds to not read my book, dismiss it, and post a comment telling other to do…” | ||
| 305. | How Bank of America Gave Away My Money (soraven.com) | |
| 640 points | 2017 | author darkmirage showed up | their comment | thread
“It turns out writing a blog post works better than talking to the bank beyond simple catharsis. Just got a call from someone from Bank of America's social media team who…” | ||
| 306. | The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (nautil.us) | |
| 639 points | 2014 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting it up. Would love to hear your thoughts and constructive feedback. Cheers. (PS the references linked to at the bottom of the post are packed with…” | ||
| 307. | All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (danfabulich.medium.com) | |
| 639 points | 2025 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm well aware that there's no "Safari" financial division. And, yes, Apple will be just fine without Google's $18 billion, but that's because Apple can and will be…” | ||
| 308. | How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017) (c0ffee.net) | |
| 638 points | 2018 | author perlgod showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to respond to any questions.” | ||
| 309. | React Native for OS X (github.com) | |
| 637 points | 2016 | author potomushto showed up | their comment | thread
“In most cases, Electron is much better in many ways. I'm working on the code editor right now, so I'd like to build something small (few megabytes), performant, but…” | ||
| 310. | SMS phishing is way too easy (bejarano.io) | |
| 637 points | 2022 | author ricardbejarano showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“What I ask is for iOS and Android to have the "this message was not verified" warning, as shown in the last screenshot, whenever the sender ID is displayed without any…” | ||
| 311. | I quit my job to work full time on my open source project (ellie.wtf) | |
| 637 points | 2024 | author ellieh showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here, thanks for sharing cwaffles Happy to answer any questions :)” | ||
| 312. | Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley (medium.com) | |
| 634 points | 2016 | author rickyyean showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm inspired by your story. The responses I've been getting so far has been overwhelming. People from around the WORLD are telling me that the story resembles theirs and…” | ||
| 313. | Google’s not-so-secret new OS (techspecs.blog) | |
| 634 points | 2017 | author techenthusiast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Posted this in the notes, but possibly too buried: For anyone interested, I intend to write quite often about consumer technology on this blog. Topics will include…” | ||
| 314. | Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (guzey.com) | |
| 634 points | 2019 | author guzey showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this post. I'm 22. I wrote most of this post when I was 20. I still agree with basically all of it. Also, I spent like 6 months writing it because…” | ||
| 315. | A search engine in 80 lines of Python (alexmolas.com) | |
| 634 points | 2024 | author alexmolas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If I wanted a catchy title for the post I needed to cut the number of LOC as much as possible;) Joking apart, thanks for your feedback. I agree that usually it's better…” | ||
| 316. | Making rain simulation as real as possible (rainbowhunt.me) | |
| 632 points | 2018 | author lbebber showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I was making a version with a better "impact" effect and better "trails", which are the weakest parts currently in my opinion, as well as making the larger…” | ||
| 317. | AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering (tomwphillips.co.uk) | |
| 632 points | 2025 | author tomwphillips showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Indeed - it would be just as fantastical to deny there has been no value from deep learning, transformers, etc. Yesterday I heard Cory Doctorow talk about a bunch of pro…” | ||
| 318. | The best programmers I know (endler.dev) | |
| 631 points | 2025 | author mre showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The site was down because I'm on Cloudflare's free plan, which gives me 100k requests/day. I couldn't care less if the site was up for HN, honestly, because traffic…” | ||
| 319. | NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch (nandgame.com) | |
| 627 points | 2020 | author sergex showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thank you for the feedback! The nand-count is based on how you built the components involved. So optimizing a component will have have cascading effects. "This is the…” | ||
| 320. | Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent (rknight.me) | |
| 626 points | 2024 | author rknightuk showed up | their comment | thread
“The page I asked it to summarize was posted after I implemented all blocking on the server (and robots.txt). So they should not have had any cached data.” | ||
| 321. | SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases (sqlitestudio.pl) | |
| 626 points | 2024 | author googie showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm surprised and honored to have my pet project here ;) As mentioned in another comment, I'm currently in the process of bugfixing/polishing 3.4.x branch. Then I will…” | ||
| 322. | Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you (coding2learn.org) | |
| 625 points | 2013 | author MarcScott showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Thanks for the up votes and the comments - both positive and negative. I'll take all feedback into consideration when I next post anything. I didn't post this on HN…” | ||
| 323. | A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack (wired.com) | |
| 624 points | 2020 | author nxthompson2 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the best clues are that the mystery hiker told people he was from Louisiana, and that he worked in the tech industry in NY. I suspect someone here might…” | ||
| 324. | Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website (rufposten.de) | |
| 623 points | 2019 | author rufposten showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and even if I know GDPR quite well as professional journalist I know I can't interprete a law on my own, so I additionally asked an legal expert in this…” | ||
| 325. | Crafting Interpreters is available in print (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 623 points | 2021 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog…” | ||
| 326. | iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta (iterm2.com) | |
| 622 points | 2016 | author gnachman showed up | their comment | thread
“I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a…” | ||
| 327. | A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 622 points | 2018 | author captbaritone showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote a Twitter thread demonstrating many of its features. You can find it here:” | ||
| 328. | An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation (singlelunch.com) | |
| 622 points | 2022 | author VHRanger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I considered this, but rejected most of those hypotheses. True Algorithmic traders, yes. Market makers absolutely not. MMs want to be there as much as possible in…” | ||
| 329. | Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org) | |
| 620 points | 2025 | author davepeck showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote this. :-) I'm a little late to the conversation (and a bit surprised to see this trending on HN) but am happy to answer any questions; I'll try to pop in…” | ||
| 330. | What's Salesforce? (tryretool.com) | |
| 619 points | 2019 | author dvdhsu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“As an engineer, I've always wondered what Salesforce was. It seemed like a clunky, expensive piece of legacy software that the "business people" always used. Since…” | ||
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