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| 3451. | Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django (blog.clubhouse.com) | |
| 160 points | 2021 | author lddemi showed up | their comment | thread
“We do and did use autoscaling heavily but at a certain scale we just ran out of headroom on the smaller instance types we were using. Jumping to a much larger instance…” | ||
| 3452. | We are now Solar Powered (andrewjvpowell.com) | |
| 160 points | 2021 | author eldersnake showed up | their comment | thread
“your question is actually a really good one as I'm a bit of an Nginx newb and your comment had me wondering that too. However for the past few hours since this article…” | ||
| 3453. | Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3 (github.com) | |
| 160 points | 2022 | author polyrand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I would say the main advantage is that this just needs uploading a single file to S3. `sqlite-s3vfs` will split the database in pages and upload the pages separately to…” | ||
| 3454. | Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy (lambdaland.org) | |
| 160 points | 2022 | author ashton314 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. I was not expecting to get on the front page with this little thought I had in the shower this weekend! Someone reached out to me with the…” | ||
| 3455. | Designer News is dead (solomon.io) | |
| 160 points | 2024 | author samsolomon showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here—some of you old-timers may remember when the LayerVault team launched Designer News here back in 2013—almost exactly 11 years ago. Sadly, yesterday it went…” | ||
| 3456. | Improving Network Performance with Linux Flowtables (ubicloud.com) | |
| 160 points | 2024 | author furkansahin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here :) Thanks for the kind words but I have to direct the good words to another blog post that a friend named Andrej Stender wrote. I used the image with…” | ||
| 3457. | Go east from Seattle (finmoorhouse.com) | |
| 160 points | 2024 | author finm showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Reading these comments I agree that the title is far too misleading (and unnecessarily so). Changed to “A path from Seattle”.” | ||
| 3458. | Sam Altman, Lately (oftheclock.com) | |
| 160 points | 2024 | author iamthirsty showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“just want to clarify: The post is not a “hit-piece” on Sam, nor am I calling him a bad person or anything of the like. It’s a discussion of the direct contradiction…” | ||
| 3459. | Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream (xata.io) | |
| 160 points | 2024 | author eminano showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there! I'm one of the authors of the pgstream project and found this thread very interesting. I completely agree, retry handling can become critical when the…” | ||
| 3460. | The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" (righto.com) | |
| 160 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Anyone have interesting mainframe stories?” | ||
| 3461. | Detecting AI agent use and abuse (stytch.com) | |
| 160 points | 2025 | author mcstempel showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm actually pretty sympathetic to your viewpoint, and I wanted to clarify my stance. I actually spent years working at a "good bot" company (Plaid), which focused on…” | ||
| 3462. | A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails (blog.appsignal.com) | |
| 160 points | 2025 | author hschne showed up | their comment | thread
“What a pleasant surprise to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 3463. | On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database (blog.directededge.com) | |
| 159 points | 2009 | author wheels showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article pretty much for Hacker News since when there have been previous articles that have made it to the home page there have been questions about what…” | ||
| 3464. | ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS (twilio.com) | |
| 159 points | 2012 | author chadrs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry guys, it appears the traffic accidentally caused my balance to go too negative and my account got suspended! D'oit! Fixed now!” | ||
| 3465. | Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently (klinger.io) | |
| 159 points | 2013 | author andreasklinger showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have the same angst about interface changes. I am so extremely dependent on being effective in gmail. If they ever force me to use one of the new interfaces of Gmail,…” | ||
| 3466. | Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator (github.com) | |
| 159 points | 2014 | author noxa showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the readme is meant to scare off people. Even with it I still get people on IRC or email asking me if they can play game X or where they can get a copy. The note…” | ||
| 3467. | Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development (snapforbeginners.com) | |
| 159 points | 2014 | author egonschiele showed up | their comment | thread
“I just updated the post to use cabal sandboxes.” | ||
| 3468. | GitHub Selfies (blog.travisthieman.com) | |
| 159 points | 2014 | author omni showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“just pushed a Firefox version!” | ||
| 3469. | What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect (hugs.io) | |
| 159 points | 2015 | author hugs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree with you, there are several factors at play in what happened to MakerBot. I believe Bre learned the wrong lesson -- going closed might have looked like the…” | ||
| 3470. | A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration (netlify.com) | |
| 159 points | 2017 | author erquhart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's definitely no shortage of options - the CMS exists to fill a very specific trifecta that we believe are critical for modern static development. It is: 1. Git…” | ||
| 3471. | How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down (redfin.engineering) | |
| 159 points | 2018 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I think the AMP brand is toxic roughly everywhere. Many users don't know what AMP is, and don't really care—in fact, there's some evidence that users like AMP in search…” | ||
| 3472. | 2000+ Goodies for Nerds (github.com) | |
| 159 points | 2019 | author sciencenut showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to create a website in the future with search functionality and better categorization for everyone to go and use the…” | ||
| 3473. | Pursuing a Business I'll Love (mtlynch.io) | |
| 159 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading, everyone! It's a surprise to see this on here because I mainly write the retrospectives as an exercise for myself and don't expect others to find…” | ||
| 3474. | Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games (screentop.gg) | |
| 159 points | 2020 | author davidye showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Screentop is a tabletop sandbox that supports cards, dice, boards, counters, and hidden player state. In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more…” | ||
| 3475. | How x86_64 Addresses Memory (blog.yossarian.net) | |
| 159 points | 2020 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I use AMD64 and x86_64 interchangeably (with a slight preference for the latter when publishing something, since it has more Google results than the former). I agree…” | ||
| 3476. | The Infosec Apocalypse (blog.rickasaurus.com) | |
| 159 points | 2020 | author Rickasaurus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm just as worried about "established FP but globally niche" tech like Haskell or F# as I am about new tech. I've surveyed options and there's nothing available.” | ||
| 3477. | Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems (interconnected.org) | |
| 159 points | 2020 | author genmon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I realise I wasn't explicit about the metaphors I was trying to draw. Mars problems have grand scale but we can see them from the beginning. Google building the original…” | ||
| 3478. | A Tour of the Oil Language (oilshell.org) | |
| 159 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't think anything you wrote should be a surprise to regular readers of the blog. Many of my blog posts in the last year say "the scope of the project is too large"…” | ||
| 3479. | Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem (gilesbowkett.com) | |
| 159 points | 2021 | author tessierashpool showed up | their comment | thread
“maybe I'll cave and just set up a regular UI. email might work also.” | ||
| 3480. | Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP (docs.statetrace.com) | |
| 159 points | 2021 | author hansonkd13 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“combining Redis protocol and MsgPack is a much more platform independent way of building a protocol. The redis protocol and Msppack are both only a a hundred lines or so…” | ||
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