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Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go (sausheong.github.io) |
| 151 points | 2018 | author sausheong showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks Serge for the great library! I considered the self-contained app without the web server method, but I've already done the images before and I'm way more…” |
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Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander (cowlark.com) |
| 151 points | 2019 | author david-given showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a surprisingly modern-ish system, in many ways, and surprisingly weird in lots of other ways. One thing which really surprised me was a complete lack of pointer…” |
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A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems (witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com) |
| 151 points | 2019 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My actual name is Doreen Michele Traylor. I spent nearly six years homeless, in part because I have an incurable medical condition. The point of view of the piece is…” |
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Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk (mgsloan.com) |
| 151 points | 2019 | author mgsloan1 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry that happened to you, glad you're on the mend. What kind of keyboard did you use? A normal keyboard is indeed going to be really hard on the wrists in this…” |
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Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference? (blog.miguelgrinberg.com) |
| 151 points | 2020 | author miguelgrinberg showed up | their comment | thread
“I believe I did discuss this, and in fact, I list the same a) and b) conditions you mention using slightly different words. Quoting the article: "To benefit from the…” |
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The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic (tomasp.net) |
| 151 points | 2020 | author tpetricek showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the nice words about the article!” |
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“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s (righto.com) |
| 151 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” |
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FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (2012) (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 151 points | 2022 | author rsync showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“almost exactly ten years ago - and it remains true. Looking at freebsd.org right now I see that my options for production, release systems are 12.3 and 13.0 ... ...…” |
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Explained from scratch: private information retrieval and homomorphic encryption (blintzbase.com) |
| 151 points | 2022 | author blintz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! I know it’s a complicated topic, and I’m still trying to figure out how best to explain it. Also, we’ve applied to YC for W23 to…” |
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“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right (ersei.net) |
| 151 points | 2022 | author d4a showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My concern wasn't that Privacy.com knows who is using their service, but with rather how they choose to know that information through a third party (Onfido) and how…” |
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Subject-First Commit Messages (github.com) |
| 151 points | 2024 | author hmeh showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Yes, the diff should tell you more, but you shouldn't need to look at the diff until you have an idea what the contents of that diff are about. It's like the links on…” |
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DevRel at HuggingFace (dx.tips) |
| 151 points | 2024 | author swyx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“we interviewed the maintainer of that leaderboard if you want to hear from her directly! tldr: old benchmarks saturated, methodology was liable to a lot of subtle…” |
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Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective (blog.ppresume.com) |
| 151 points | 2024 | author xiaohanyu showed up | their comment | thread
“I mentioned in the end of the post, which has pages.js included. Is not that hard to simulate pagination with JavaScript, the deal breaker for me is still line breaking…” |
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Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU (righto.com) |
| 151 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Pentium questions...” |
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Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields (therasr.github.io) |
| 151 points | 2025 | author 0x12A showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here -- Generally in single image super-resolution, we want to learn a prior over natural high-resolution images, and for that a large and diverse training set is…” |
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Say Goodbye (mooreds.com) |
| 151 points | 2025 | author mooreds showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I was trying to walk the line between two concepts in tension: * you want to treat your former co-worker as a human being. That's the whole point of the post. * it can…” |
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A million ways to die from a data race in Go (gaultier.github.io) |
| 151 points | 2025 | author broken_broken_ showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback on legibility, I have now just learned about the CSS `tab-size` property to control how much space tabs get rendered with. I have reduced it,…” |
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Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead (gist.github.com) |
| 151 points | 2026 | author jenders showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this years ago before LLMs made it easy to validate guesswork. I’ll update! Good call” |
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Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (buildnewgames.com) |
| 150 points | 2012 | author SvenBergstrom showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad Etienne posted here, for some reason I couldn't find my login for HN.” |
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Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why? (fetzervalves.com) |
| 150 points | 2012 | author jaybna showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes, cr4zy, it seems to be isolated to Promoted Posts. I actually put two samples in the writeup. One is a contest and the other is just a status update. Both have the…” |
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Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison (blog.drewolson.org) |
| 150 points | 2013 | author drewolson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“From what I've read/seen, the go blocks are lightweight thread-like processes multiplexed onto a thread pool. You may be correct about using Thread/sleep, ideally I…” |
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What I Wish I Knew When Starting Out as a Software Developer: Slow the Fuck Down (blog.salsitasoft.com) |
| 150 points | 2015 | author mgertner showed up | their comment | thread
“I linked to your post and there are comments on the blog (which you took advantage of). No need to be pissed off. I still disagree with this particular point (and I'm…” |
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What is wrong with NULL (lucidchart.com) |
| 150 points | 2015 | author paulddraper showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't know that about Haskell. Admittedly, the "rating" is pretty rough, maybe even a bad idea. I've seen std::ptr::null more than I ever have Foreign.Ptr.nullPtr.…” |
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Dragon: A distributed graph query engine (code.facebook.com) |
| 150 points | 2016 | author adsharma showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a link to a video in the blog and we published something at NSDI last week:” |
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Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations (research.google.com) |
| 150 points | 2016 | author pcovington showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions about the techniques in the paper. We're super excited to finally share this work externally. Feedback about YouTube recommendations in general…” |
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Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (benbernardblog.com) |
| 150 points | 2016 | author bbernard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so thanks a lot for your kind remarks. Now, the problem appears to be in libxml2, but... it's only partly true. I assure you that the best is yet to come :)” |
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How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript (hackernoon.com) |
| 150 points | 2016 | author neovive showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. My son's experience has generally been self-driven via Scratch. I introduced him to Scratch at around age 7 through CoderDojo and he really…” |
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The language of choice (codewords.recurse.com) |
| 150 points | 2017 | author abecedarius showed up | their comment | thread
“The theme is "You could have invented BDDs" -- the article works up to them in hopefully-natural steps, with some applications along the way. The Python code is shorter…” |
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Implementing Algebraic Effects in C (microsoft.com) |
| 150 points | 2017 | author daanx showed up | their comment | thread
“-) Just wanted to add that you can find the library at: The `dev` branch contains a sample of `libuv` integration. There is still a lot to be done in terms of creating a…” |
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Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 150 points | 2017 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“For the record, I would prefer that this thread have that title (it was recently changed to "Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth". I would also note that…” |
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