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| 331. | Speed of Rust vs. C (kornel.ski) | |
| 619 points | 2021 | author pornel showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm a C programmer, who's replacing C with Rust. I've never liked C++ and never felt I fully get it. I've managed to fully grasp Rust though. I don't see that much…” | ||
| 332. | The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com) | |
| 619 points | 2026 | author heliographe showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here; I was definitely inspired by my visits to Dynamicland many years ago, which Folk Computer is also inspired by. One big difference in direction is that…” | ||
| 333. | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016) (bottomupcs.com) | |
| 618 points | 2019 | author delsarto showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer…” | ||
| 334. | Optimism (github.com) | |
| 617 points | 2016 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Ask Me Anything.” | ||
| 335. | Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat (blog.zulip.com) | |
| 617 points | 2021 | author tabbott showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don't think most people need to read everything they receive, but in my role as the project leader of a large open source community, essentially every conversation in…” | ||
| 336. | Sinkholed (susam.in) | |
| 616 points | 2019 | author susam showed up | their comment | thread
“I had posted another link about this story a few days ago when this story was still unfolding.[1][2] This blog post summarizes the timeline and the events that occurred…” | ||
| 337. | The maths you need to start understanding LLMs (gilesthomas.com) | |
| 616 points | 2025 | author gpjt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree 100%! The post is the basic maths for people digging in to how LLMs work under the hood -- I wrote a separate one for non-techies who just want to know what they…” | ||
| 338. | Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs (bend-lang.com) | |
| 616 points | 2026 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“HN staff: someone posted before me. Could we change the title to "Bend - a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs"? Everyone: feel free to ask any…” | ||
| 339. | How I program with agents (crawshaw.io) | |
| 615 points | 2025 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“I like programming and I like agents.” | ||
| 340. | Content-aware image resize library (github.com) | |
| 614 points | 2018 | author esimov showed up | their comment | thread
“The algorithm permits to remove an object from the image, only it needs somehow to be localized. After localization it can be applied to that area a higher energy map,…” | ||
| 341. | The Facebook experiment has failed (medium.com) | |
| 612 points | 2013 | author jeswin showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't think this would show up on HN. These were my thoughts when I wrote it: 1. Most stuff being shared is of no value to most people. Does not encourage exchange of…” | ||
| 342. | Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com) | |
| 612 points | 2016 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“There's not much to say here that wasn't said last time, but here are some retrospective thoughts on this post: - Probably would have come across better if I didn't…” | ||
| 343. | Please just try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com) | |
| 610 points | 2025 | author algallagla showed up | their comment | thread
“fwiw, I haven't seen anything that bothers me. And if there was originally a harsher response which I missed, well then I hope it wasn't merited. I'm pretty…” | ||
| 344. | An update on the threat landscape (blog.google) | |
| 609 points | 2022 | author huntsman showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah. Much of this activity is pretty consistent with what TAG generally sees in the region and from these actors.” | ||
| 345. | Use mmap with care (sublimetext.com) | |
| 607 points | 2019 | author ben-schaaf showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any questions in relation to me or Sublime HQ please feel free to ask.” | ||
| 346. | It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage (keydiscussions.com) | |
| 607 points | 2021 | author spenvo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the gist is that it's practically impossible to scroll to the beginning of an iMessage chat, and that's the only way to get to the beginning of a conversation. These old…” | ||
| 347. | Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com) | |
| 607 points | 2021 | author grahamburger showed up | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“I see your posts often and have a lot of respect for you as someone who obviously has a deeper knowledge of networking than I probably every will. That being said I…” | ||
| 348. | Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law (amazingcto.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author KingOfCoders showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a fan of second-order thinking and unintended consequences, so I'm with you there. How would you frame a "don't track people without consent" without unintended…” | ||
| 349. | How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop (unterminated.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author tfvlrue showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Seeing how difficult it was to get a reliable OCR transcription with commercial software from a pristine, computer-generated representation of the text, I suspect trying…” | ||
| 350. | Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Seeing all of the positive comments about my book is really warming my heart. I appreciate everyone and I'm glad so many people have enjoyed the book. I put a ton of…” | ||
| 351. | Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter (blog.nelhage.com) | |
| 607 points | 2025 | author nelhage showed up | their comment | thread
“A fun fact I learned while writing this post is that that's no longer true! Modern branch predictors can pretty much accurately predict through a single indirect jump,…” | ||
| 352. | 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 606 points | 2022 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“This was my burnout recovery project in April of 2020. Very much a labor of love and a surprising way to realize I still liked programming. I wrote some scattered…” | ||
| 353. | OpenSimpleLidar (github.com) | |
| 605 points | 2018 | author iliasam showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone. I am the author of the OpenSimpleLidar. If you have any questions about this project, you can ask them here. Here is another my Lidar project: That project…” | ||
| 354. | No More Movies (jayriverlong.github.io) | |
| 605 points | 2021 | author riverlong showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've dug reasonably far into international cinema -- at a glance, about 250 - 300 outside US Cinema, across various time periods: French New Wave, Korean, Iranian, etc.…” | ||
| 355. | Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (eff.org) | |
| 604 points | 2021 | author cyphers showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. thank you for raising that, this was an oversight (due to moving text around in the editing process) that has been fixed. Totally agree that acronyms…” | ||
| 356. | How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability (blog.canny.io) | |
| 603 points | 2017 | author a13n showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. It's monthly revenue. You get to write off expenses from your revenue before paying taxes. Also for our bracket, tax is only 15%.” | ||
| 357. | How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 603 points | 2025 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 358. | Why does a spray bottle work? (alexanderellis.github.io) | |
| 601 points | 2018 | author otras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback! English is indeed my first language, but I am always looking to improve. I chose "Why" for reasons similar to what jstanley wrote. When I was…” | ||
| 359. | Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor (brutalita.com) | |
| 601 points | 2025 | author javierbyte showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm so happy to see Brutalita randomly popping up on Hacker News! I had fun building this small project, there are a few fun things I did to make this work: - The editor…” | ||
| 360. | Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary (rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com) | |
| 600 points | 2014 | author danielsf showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“hit me up with questions you've got.” | ||
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