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| 3421. | Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction? (lesswrong.com) | |
| 161 points | 2020 | author landfish showed up | their comment | thread
“and the point is to improve discussion of societal risks. As others have pointed out, nuclear war doesn't have to kill everyone to be extremely bad and worth avoiding. I…” | ||
| 3422. | Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com) | |
| 161 points | 2021 | author gnum4n showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the advice! That's a very good point. Maybe it's worth doing a follow-up on this? I originally thought of doing unit tests to ensure it's actually running in…” | ||
| 3423. | Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons (moll.dev) | |
| 161 points | 2021 | author ThomasMoll showed up | their comment | thread
“1) Including the "Onyx holding a hard stone executing Earthquake in a Sandstorm against a Flygon with the ability Hover?" state is just doing an N-constraint solver.…” | ||
| 3424. | Tmpfs inode corruption: introducing inode64 (chrisdown.name) | |
| 161 points | 2021 | author cdown showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! Article author here -- just found out this was posted here and going through the comments :-) One of the earliest test versions of my patch actually did inode…” | ||
| 3425. | Where is the CRDT for syntax trees (writer.zohopublic.com) | |
| 161 points | 2021 | author lewisjoe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This looks like a very useful perspective to have! i.e CRDTs with unresolved conflicts as part of the model with composable properties. Can you talk a bit more on this…” | ||
| 3426. | Almost Always Unsigned (graphitemaster.github.io) | |
| 161 points | 2022 | author graphitemaster showed up | their comment | thread
“I believe many of the complaints here are concerned about what is more common rather than what is universally better over all possible inputs which is actually the point…” | ||
| 3427. | Building single-page-apps with PostgREST (blog.polyglot.network) | |
| 161 points | 2022 | author nileshtrivedi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I really think there's a lot of value in this model for users to self-host apps. PostgreSQL can run cron jobs, operate on external data with foreign data wrappers, and…” | ||
| 3428. | What's functional programming all about? (2017) (lihaoyi.com) | |
| 161 points | 2024 | author lihaoyi showed up | their comment | thread
“This blog post is actually kind of funny; I had a flash of clarity one afternoon that wouldn't go away so I spent 8 hours in a manic frenzy banging it out in one pass…” | ||
| 3429. | On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com) | |
| 161 points | 2024 | author benbreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I had the same question and looked into it. The author of that comment seems to be onto something because hygrine is indeed found in nightshades as well as in coca.…” | ||
| 3430. | Entropy of a Large Language Model output (nikkin.dev) | |
| 161 points | 2025 | author nikkindev showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yes. You are right. I was meaning to paint a picture that instead of the next token appearing magically, it is sampled from a probability distribution. The notion of…” | ||
| 3431. | The Joy of Nand2Tetris (tristanrhodes.com) | |
| 161 points | 2025 | author partypete showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just used a free pdf version of the book and the legacy software package which they link to on the website. Great experience. The authors have since created a…” | ||
| 3432. | Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools (anthropic.com) | |
| 161 points | 2025 | author e_ameisen showed up | their comment | thread
“This is a new tool which relies on existing introspection libraries like TransformerLens (which is similar in spirit to Garcon) to build an attribution graph. This graph…” | ||
| 3433. | Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem (blog.foletta.net) | |
| 161 points | 2025 | author gjf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here; I think I understand where you might be coming from. I find functional nature of R combined with pipes incredibly powerful and elegant to work with. OTOH in…” | ||
| 3434. | Neat Algorithms - Flocking (harry.me) | |
| 160 points | 2012 | author hbrundage showed up | their comment | thread
“I backed the book and have been eagerly following along. Really cool stuff.” | ||
| 3435. | JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated (github.com) | |
| 160 points | 2013 | author alevskaya showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a difference in spirit between publicly accessible and published. I did this in a burst of mania over a few days more than a year ago and only pushed it to…” | ||
| 3436. | Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco (css-tricks.com) | |
| 160 points | 2013 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree 100% that HTML and CSS are not programming languages. However, any application that you build on the front-end is going to require your JavaScript code to…” | ||
| 3437. | Everyone Deserves Great Design (everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com) | |
| 160 points | 2014 | author enoursa2 showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Hey HN! I am the author. I've found that the most misleading proposition is the notion that offering a shitty product or service for free to people in shitty situations…” | ||
| 3438. | You might not need a WebSocket (blog.fanout.io) | |
| 160 points | 2014 | author jkarneges showed up | their comment | thread
“For what reasons do HN folks choose WebSockets? Is it purely technical? Joining the bandwagon? Used by preferred frameworks? Would love to hear some opinions.” | ||
| 3439. | Zusie – My Relay Computer (nablaman.com) | |
| 160 points | 2014 | author nablaman showed up | their comment | thread
“I was alerted by a friend about this thread. Thanks for all the interest! The machine is actually more or less finished, even though the web page doesn't say so. The…” | ||
| 3440. | Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route (ains.co) | |
| 160 points | 2014 | author ainsej showed up | their comment | thread
“and good point! I was struggling a bit with the terminology to use, didn't think of decorator factory, it definitely would have been a bit clearer.” | ||
| 3441. | Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat (pfrazee.github.io) | |
| 160 points | 2016 | author pfraze showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions or talk about the software. It took about 2 months to write. I used yo-yo[1] for the frontend UI, which I enjoyed using a lot. The rest is…” | ||
| 3442. | The Technology Behind A Low Latency Cloud Gaming Service (blog.parsec.tv) | |
| 160 points | 2016 | author chrisd1100 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
| 3443. | Epoll is fundamentally broken (idea.popcount.org) | |
| 160 points | 2017 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“I showed an example - short lived http 1.0 connections. I haven't done benchmarks but my hunch is that you can run accept at in low tens of thousands times per second…” | ||
| 3444. | C2Rust: translate C into Rust code (c2rust.com) | |
| 160 points | 2018 | author glguy showed up | their comment | thread
“Our original plan was to simply work to improve Corrode. We eventually decided to to implement a new tool that uses Clang as the frontend in order to get more reliable…” | ||
| 3445. | The Monkey Programming Language (monkeylang.org) | |
| 160 points | 2019 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, that's exactly right. I wanted to show how to write a parser/interpreter for something that you encounter every day. JavaScript-like syntax, with curly braces and…” | ||
| 3446. | CUDA Grep (cs.cmu.edu) | |
| 160 points | 2019 | author bkase showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions. Keep in mind this was a school project from 2012 (Kayvon's 15-418 at CMU, a wonderful class), so it's been a while.” | ||
| 3447. | Rust as the New C Part 1: Building and Combining Native Libs into C API (hotforknowledge.com) | |
| 160 points | 2019 | author buybackoff showed up | their comment | thread
“I have read somewhere (and have two links in the post) that the FFI transition between native code and Go has huge overhead because of Go runtime and bookkeeping Go has…” | ||
| 3448. | A quick introduction to data parallelism in Julia (juliafolds.github.io) | |
| 160 points | 2020 | author tkf showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the hidden messages of the introduction is: watch Guy Steele's talks [1][2][3] if you are interested in data parallelism! These talks are not Julia-specific and…” | ||
| 3449. | Enzyme – High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM (enzyme.mit.edu) | |
| 160 points | 2021 | author vchuravy showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! (Particularly about the Julia integration)” | ||
| 3450. | I self-learned to code at 30 (kaapi.team) | |
| 160 points | 2021 | author adityarao310 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of that article. I kinda agree with you. One usually does NOT make a career in 3 months. But who says you can't? I definitely will fail all coding…” | ||
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