3721. The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration (jdlm.info)
150 points | 2017 | author jdleesmiller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That would indeed be interesting, thanks --- I don't think it's trivial to generate all of the possible predecessor states, but it seems like it should be possible. One…”
3722. Conservative web development (drewdevault.com)
150 points | 2018 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Obviously not all "websites" are suited to be done with HTML and CSS alone. The examples I gave, the New York Times, GitHub, and sr.ht, along with many others, are.”
3723. Show HN: IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS (github.com)
150 points | 2019 | author agentofuser showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. This is my first npm package, so I'd love to hear feedback on how I can improve it, what tools I can use for that, etc. Thank you for checking it out :)”
3724. Shell Completions in Rust (joshmcguigan.com)
150 points | 2019 | author JoshMcguigan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This blog post is the result of my puzzling over how auto-complete works in the shell, and subsequently whether shell completion scripts could be written in Rust. It…”
3725. Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon (coffee-and-dreams.uk)
150 points | 2019 | author koroshitekure showed up | their comment | thread
“really... surprised it got submitted here incidentally i'm running pleroma, not mastodon. minor detail but you know”
3726. 5G and Shannon’s Law (waveform.com)
150 points | 2020 | author sinak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry about that. I just turned it off.”
3727. Ruby Is Still a Diamond (medium.com)
150 points | 2021 | author shuckforjustice showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey guys, I'm the author of this article and I have been rueing the day I ever said this. I have since received complaints and/or restraining orders from a number of…”
3728. The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta (interviewing.io)
150 points | 2024 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I said this in the post, and I'll say it again here. If I hear from any reliable sources at Meta that I'm wrong, I'll gladly retract and issue a public apology.”
3729. Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization (github.com)
150 points | 2024 | author raphaelty showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I like the idea to have a public and personal search-engine. I'd love to deep dive in some people bookmarks such as expert in NLP field in order to get clue / a point of…”
3730. An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array (righto.com)
150 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if there are any questions...”
3731. The App Store was always authoritarian (infrequently.org)
150 points | 2025 | author slightlyoff showed up | their comment | thread
“You seem to have missed the bleedingly obvious point that responsibilities are a function of scale. Nothing you allege was missed, and indeed it was considered at length…”
3732. Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format (github.com)
150 points | 2025 | author eliasdejong showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“First of all, hello Hacker News :) Many of the comments seem to address the design of key hashing. The reason for using hashed keys inside B-tree nodes instead of the…”
3733. A reboot of PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax with the jvm (code.google.com)
149 points | 2011 | author remi_forax showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi guys, I'm the author of PHP.reboot and also one of the guys that worked on JSR 292 (invokedynamic in Java). First, I don't know based2 and please don't be too…”
3734. Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab (github.com)
149 points | 2016 | author awalGarg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it involves some payment (IIRC) or some other stupid barrier. If someone is kind enough to take care of that for me, I'd be happy to publish it. I have a couple…”
3735. Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss (engineeringblog.yelp.com)
149 points | 2017 | author thebostik showed up | their comment | thread
“, It wasn't available when I started this project. butteraugli was (which guetzli uses internally), but in my opinion they're relatively new and need a bit more rigorous…”
3736. An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014) (blog.systemed.net)
149 points | 2018 | author Doctor_Fegg showed up | their comment | thread
“really pleasant surprise to see it surface on HN.) Fully agree with your comments. It's not just Google that can tell you about busy roads, though - in some countries…”
3737. MPEG-G: the ugly (datageekdom.blogspot.com)
149 points | 2018 | author jkbonfield showed up | their comment | thread
“although not the author of the file format itself. Although yes that it is still a fair point if you look at just the one blog post. However there are a series of them…”
3738. Advent of Code 2018, in Coq (github.com)
149 points | 2019 | author syrak showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello there. I'm the author of this repo. Not as much has been going on in that project as I would have liked. It certainly doesn't help that: - The standard library is…”
3739. Database schema changes are hard (2017) (djrobstep.com)
149 points | 2019 | author djrobstep showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Where I've used this in a CI environment, the migration step goes from: - check schema version number, if newer version exists, apply migration files to: - check schema…”
3740. Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams (github.com)
149 points | 2019 | author tylertreat showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
3741. The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012) (wired.com)
149 points | 2019 | author kwiens showed up | their comment | thread
“We raised the money, bought the laptops, and published the manuals. Fix away!”
3742. Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks (singlelunch.com)
149 points | 2021 | author VHRanger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Seems like another post of mine (my take on BTC) was randomly posted and became popular at the same time I posted this one. I'm trying to get the wordpress host's cache…”
3743. Our Dumb Security Questionnaire (hangar.tech)
149 points | 2021 | author jacobian showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Well, you could always use this questionnaire as a starting point itself: ask yourself these questions, and if you're not happy with the answers, do something about it.…”
3744. Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android (getaegis.app)
149 points | 2021 | author alexbakker showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Yes! Aegis can scan the QR codes that Google Authenticator presents in the "Transfer accounts" screen. It's also possible to import directly from Google Authenticator's…”
3745. The Railsification of SaaS (keithwhor.medium.com)
149 points | 2021 | author keithwhor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey all, I wrote this to talk a little about how I think about the future of software development in the next decade; I'm happy to chat about it if anybody has any…”
3746. Understanding LSM trees: What powers write-heavy databases (2020) (yetanotherdevblog.com)
149 points | 2022 | author bradengroom showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing, and thanks for all of your suggestions in the comments here. I’ll try and find some time to apply the feedback here amid my current parental leave.”
3747. Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn (sebastianraschka.com)
149 points | 2022 | author sbbq showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree with what you said. I wrote my first book with Packt back when I was a student and was like: "cool, a book deal!" Of course, I didn't know about the caveats :P.…”
3748. Rust without the async (hard) part (lunatic.solutions)
149 points | 2022 | author bkolobara showed up | their comment | thread
“All examples should have used `lunatic::net`, I fixed it now. The reason why we provide `lunatic::net` and you can't just use `std::net` is that WASI (system interface…”
3749. Scrumdog – a program to download Jira Issues to a local database (whoek.com)
149 points | 2022 | author bosveld showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes that is exactly what it does. I'll compile it for the Mac later today and load it on the Scrumdog.app website. Thanks for your comments.”
3750. Lessons Learned from Scaling to Multi-Terabyte Datasets (v2thegreat.com)
149 points | 2024 | author v2thegreat showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. I've seen this comment several times and thought I'd address it here. I should've clarified that when I say multi-terabyte, I meant 100s TBs of data.…”