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| 3781. | Visualizing Bayes Theorem (2009) (oscarbonilla.com) | |
| 148 points | 2022 | author ob showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this after reading Yudkowsky's article (linked in mine) and had the example posted there in mind as I went through the article. This was many years ago and I too…” | ||
| 3782. | I hope distributed is not the new default (zeptonaut.com) | |
| 148 points | 2022 | author zeptonaut22 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think it's awesome that you work at a remote company and am glad that you found a role that fits your personality. It sounds like you're happier there and I'm glad…” | ||
| 3783. | Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters (ctrl.blog) | |
| 148 points | 2022 | author d2wa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That’s the version I’m running.” | ||
| 3784. | Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp (applied-langua.ge) | |
| 148 points | 2022 | author hayley-patton showed up | their comment | thread
“not to be awfully fast. But the branches that appear would most likely be due to inline caching, which are very predictable in practice; [1] claims a 95% hit rate for a…” | ||
| 3785. | Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip (righto.com) | |
| 148 points | 2023 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“-) This is a change of pace from my x86 stuff, just a quick look at a 1982 Ethernet chip that unexpectedly used a second layer of polysilicon for resistors.” | ||
| 3786. | Duty to Document (2023) (nicolasbouliane.com) | |
| 148 points | 2024 | author nicbou showed up | their comment | thread
“Tell me about it! I'm documenting things for a living. There aren't enough hours in the day to write everything down. However, I wrote this post while thinking about…” | ||
| 3787. | Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (jxnl.github.io) | |
| 148 points | 2024 | author jxnlco showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“i got rejected by almost every job i applied to conventionally.” | ||
| 3788. | A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics (viralinstruction.com) | |
| 148 points | 2024 | author jakobnissen showed up | their comment | thread
“I do know about VMs. Is it too lazy for me to write that article and not bother to install a VM with Mojo (and Rust and Julia, to benchmark in the same environment)?…” | ||
| 3789. | What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com) | |
| 148 points | 2025 | author noleary showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I genuinely didn't mean it to be much of an ad for our company. I was just surprised how few people had written a simple explainer of reasonable quality.” | ||
| 3790. | AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators (passo.uno) | |
| 148 points | 2025 | author theletterf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If the LLM revolution helps us get more accessible and better docs, I, for one, welcome it. Edit: I guess some commenters misunderstood my message. I'm saying that by…” | ||
| 3791. | CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? (quesma.com) | |
| 148 points | 2025 | author piotrgrabowski showed up | their comment | thread
“So far in this benchmark we based the tasks on a couple of open-source projects (like curl, jq, GNU Coreutils). Even on those "simple" projects we managed to make the…” | ||
| 3792. | WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home (garrido.io) | |
| 148 points | 2025 | author ggpsv showed up | their comment | thread
“Indeed, it is mostly HTTPS terminated by Caddy in the server at home. Otherwise, it is SSH.” | ||
| 3793. | You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“My policy for the team is "do not self post to hacker news".” | ||
| 3794. | Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author pbakker showed up | their comment | thread
“There are a number of comments that indicate that I'm using coding agents, and wonder if coding doesn't require the same behavior as writing. Coding agents are…” | ||
| 3795. | I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author GavinAnderegg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm also very much looking forward to using AVIF (and also JPEG XL), but it's another tooling question. I'm really hoping that Pixelmator Pro (now owned by Apple) will…” | ||
| 3796. | Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In (theexceptioncatcher.com) | |
| 147 points | 2012 | author monksy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The global recalc happened arround Feb10. They applied the new policy retroactively. My reaction was ffs.. how can I actually get credit for the participation. Theres no…” | ||
| 3797. | Towards a better Erlang - The Excitement of Elixir (devintorr.es) | |
| 147 points | 2013 | author devinus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If Erlang's community is small, Elixir has an even smaller community. Elixir did just recently rise to the #56 most popular language on Github[1] from #57 however, so…” | ||
| 3798. | How CockroachDB Does Distributed, Atomic Transactions (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 147 points | 2015 | author mrtracy showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“This blog post is not a full description of CockroachDB's transaction strategy. If you're interested, you can find a complete rundown of our strategy here: (). However,…” | ||
| 3799. | AVX2 faster than native popcnt instruction on Haswell/Skylake (0x80.pl) | |
| 147 points | 2016 | author wmu showed up | their comment | thread
“You're perfectly right, microbenchmarks have flaws. Procedures should be run for different data sizes (as I did years ago) and code should be compiled with different…” | ||
| 3800. | Add a const here, delete a const there (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 147 points | 2017 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a big believer in adding const everywhere - local variables, globals, member functions, etc. Marking globals as const can move them to the read-only segment which…” | ||
| 3801. | AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way (roberttisdale.com) | |
| 147 points | 2018 | author rtisdale showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the suggestion! I just added a note about T2 Unlimited and will see about writing a follow up post explaining the new T2 Unlimited concepts. EDIT: Added the…” | ||
| 3802. | The Configuration Complexity Curse (blog.cedriccharly.com) | |
| 147 points | 2019 | author Cedricgc showed up | their comment | thread
“The closest thing to borgcfg in Kubernetes would be kubecfg [0]. It is based on jsonnet, the open source equivalent to GCL. The official blessed solution right now would…” | ||
| 3803. | Swiss journalist re-implements ClearViewAI in two weeks with OS software (twitter.com) | |
| 147 points | 2020 | author grssnbchr showed up | their comment | thread
“The argument the data commissioner makes is that, while the images are public, users can assume they are protected from other purposes, e. g. facial recognition, because…” | ||
| 3804. | Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams (liftbridge.io) | |
| 147 points | 2020 | author tylertreat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I started Liftbridge after working as a core committer on NATS and NATS Streaming (as well as my experience using Kafka in the past). In particular, implementing…” | ||
| 3805. | Physical Warp Drives (iopscience.iop.org) | |
| 147 points | 2021 | author gmartire showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all, I'm one of the authors of the paper Introducing Physical Warp Drives and a Y Combinator alum (YC W'14). This video does a great job explaining our paper and…” | ||
| 3806. | Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2) (thatgeoguy.ca) | |
| 147 points | 2021 | author ThatGeoGuy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“a lot of the FOSS stack can run on Android-based phones today! I think the hardware is a limiting factor, but part of what makes these devices unique (as other…” | ||
| 3807. | Modern XMPP (docs.modernxmpp.org) | |
| 147 points | 2021 | author MattJ100 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, Movim is a great project! The Movim author has indeed contributed to the Modern XMPP documentation. As one of the other commenters pointed out, most of the current…” | ||
| 3808. | Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next (notonlycode.org) | |
| 147 points | 2021 | author arnvald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“that's a very fair point that I didn't consider. It totally makes sense that the number of available jobs looks smaller than it is, because some of them are never really…” | ||
| 3809. | Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode (righto.com) | |
| 147 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about IBM System/360 computers :-)” | ||
| 3810. | Thoughts on Markdown (smashingmagazine.com) | |
| 147 points | 2022 | author kmelve showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yeah, I'm well aware that markdown didn't happen in a vacuum and was inspired by plain text formatting conventions. But there is only that much you can cover in an…” | ||
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