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| 3481. | An underrated idea: the priority view (atis.substack.com) | |
| 159 points | 2021 | author samglover97 showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for catching that error.” | ||
| 3482. | Python Bytecode Explained (github.com) | |
| 159 points | 2022 | author MichaelMoser123 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you all! really glad to see this on the frontpage! There is a second part that may be of interest: here a python tracer is implemented, one that shows the side…” | ||
| 3483. | Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021) (softwareengineeringdaily.com) | |
| 159 points | 2022 | author tschellenbach showed up | their comment | thread
“funny to see my old post. Any questions about how we use Go nowadays?” | ||
| 3484. | People Staring at Computers (2021) (kylemcdonald.net) | |
| 159 points | 2022 | author kcimc showed up | their comment | thread
“i'm deeply, genuinely grateful that you all care enough to revisit and discuss this decade-old work. special thanks to throwayyy479087 for stirring some shit on my…” | ||
| 3485. | Everything will be alright in Iceland (memoirsandrambles.substack.com) | |
| 159 points | 2024 | author yakkomajuri showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. Felt this one in particular needed a reply. I've since actually gotten a bit into alpinism and done a proper course. My instructor (a super experienced…” | ||
| 3486. | Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser (t-shaped.nl) | |
| 159 points | 2024 | author misterdata showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“this figure is insane but also a bit of an exaggeration. I calculated it by running 'cloc' on the source code directory, not excluding node_modules. Many modules in…” | ||
| 3487. | How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster (singlestore.com) | |
| 159 points | 2024 | author tgrine showed up | their comment | thread
“You raise a valid point and, in large part, I agree with you. To offer some explanation, there are essentially 2 main reasons for us taking this approach: 1.…” | ||
| 3488. | Understanding the Odin Programming Language (odinbook.com) | |
| 159 points | 2024 | author karl_zylinski showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The HTML version can be "printed to PDF". There is no "manually layouted" PDF available however. That requires manual typesetting the whole book, which is weeks or…” | ||
| 3489. | Error handling in Rust (felix-knorr.net) | |
| 159 points | 2025 | author Expurple showed up | their comment | thread
“btw :) Idk about the other articles, but mine doesn't begin with that. The first argument in the article is this: "exceptions introduce a special try-catch flow which is…” | ||
| 3490. | Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq (github.com) | |
| 159 points | 2025 | author noperator showed up | their comment | thread
“see also, sol: a de-minifier (formatter, exploder, beautifier) for shell one-liners I actually wrote jqfmt because I needed it for sol :)” | ||
| 3491. | Elements of System Design (github.com) | |
| 159 points | 2025 | author jarulraj showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“appreciate the share :) I was not expecting this to get so much attention. To clarify: this is indeed just a taxonomy of classic system-design principles. The…” | ||
| 3492. | Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf] (kcsrk.info) | |
| 159 points | 2025 | author kcsrk showed up | their comment | thread
“This talk is a _subjective_ take on how the OCaml programming language evolves, based on my observations over the last 10 years I've been involved with it. My aim/hope…” | ||
| 3493. | Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work (markusstrasser.org) | |
| 159 points | 2025 | author markusstrasser showed up | their comment | thread
“Somehow the worst thing I ever wrote is on the front page of HN. I wrote this fast so there's jargon and bad prose. The title is deliberately dry and bland so I wasn't…” | ||
| 3494. | The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com) | |
| 159 points | 2026 | author yosito showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Like a lot of people on HN, Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden is how I learned CSS in the first place. Building stylesheets for that one HTML file taught me to think about CSS…” | ||
| 3495. | Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine (blog.nelhage.com) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author nelhage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, there are a lot of such tools, and they can be invaluable. In my experience, though, if you're working with a large, complex system, including pieces like Ruby and…” | ||
| 3496. | Learn Python in minutes (learnxinyminutes.com) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author Loadin showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Sorry for that. I know they are objects but if you consider everything an object then really you have no primitives except object itself. Certainly this has a place in…” | ||
| 3497. | If It's Important, Don't Hack It (insideintercom.io) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author destraynor showed up | their comment | thread
“it seems to have been very well received. I've read your 5 paragraphs and I can't really understand what you're saying.” | ||
| 3498. | My Startup, a Retrospective (rdegges.com) | |
| 158 points | 2014 | author rdegges showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“we never had any customer-facing issues, but (and a big shout out to New Relic), NewRelic helped us identify that we were dangerously close to a catastrophe if we kept…” | ||
| 3499. | The Newsweek Credibility Matrix (mikehearn.com) | |
| 158 points | 2014 | author mikehearn showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi folks! I wrote the article (and woke up surprised to find it on HN). I initially compiled this prior to Dorian's definitive written denial. Prior to that development,…” | ||
| 3500. | Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs (sheetlabs.com) | |
| 158 points | 2014 | author samcrawford showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback, very much appreciated, I wasn't expecting this. Feel free to email me if you have questions you'd like to take off-list (email in profile).…” | ||
| 3501. | What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server (furbo.org) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author chockenberry showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the clarification about ServerName. I spent a lot of time reading that documentation and got pretty confused about how it was actually being used.” | ||
| 3502. | 84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel (blog.nullspace.io) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Continuing our thread from Twitter, one of the things I wanted to say here is that things like pipelining and threading are good, but there is still improvement to be…” | ||
| 3503. | Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature” (edge.org) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author brchr showed up | their comment | thread
“Delighted to see this near the top of HN this afternoon, and to see the healthy discussion it's provoked. Happy to answer any questions as best I can if you've got 'em.” | ||
| 3504. | The Google Stack [pdf] (malteschwarzkopf.de) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author ms705 showed up | their comment | thread
“This is interesting -- I tried to do my best to find out what's still in use and what is deprecated based on public information; happy to amend if anything is incorrect.…” | ||
| 3505. | Making Netflix.com Faster (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author kristoferbaxter showed up | their comment | thread
“Apologies for not making this more clear in the post. The 70% reduction is for time to interactive (tti).” | ||
| 3506. | Performance Engineering with React, Part 1 (benchling.engineering) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author saifelse showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 3507. | The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It (blog.zactownsend.com) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author zt showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“You make excellent points, and I don't mean to minimize the regional issues. Sure, if I had a magic wand then I'd increase housing being built across the Bay Area. In…” | ||
| 3508. | Show HN: Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework (github.com) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author thewhitetulip showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd love to get feedback on the book. I haven't updated much in the last few months. But I am always looking to improve the book for newcomers.” | ||
| 3509. | Writing a JPEG Decoder in Rust – Part 2: Implementation I (mht.technology) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author martinhath showed up | their comment | thread
“I am having some trouble reproducing the 2 seconds number, but with optimizations I'm getting around 1.5 seconds (without, I'm up to 5!), and as balducien mentions,…” | ||
| 3510. | Fast Fourier transform in x86 assembly (nayuki.io) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author nayuki showed up | their comment | thread
“I am embarrassed and surprised to find this article on the front page of HN. I think it isn't well-written, and I never intended it to appeal to a wide audience. The…” | ||
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