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| 3811. | Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words (twitter.com) | |
| 147 points | 2022 | author npew showed up | their comment | thread
“It depends a bit on how you define "retain". Most GPT-3 applications use custom "prompts" to train it for their specific use case. So in that way, the prompt is retained…” | ||
| 3812. | TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps (tinybase.org) | |
| 147 points | 2022 | author jamesgpearce showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!” | ||
| 3813. | Om is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative language (om-language.org) | |
| 147 points | 2022 | author sparist showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn’t expect my little hobby project to land on the front page of Hacker News. In the midst of a complete rewrite of the language which I unfortunately only get to…” | ||
| 3814. | Making the Micropipette (press.asimov.com) | |
| 147 points | 2024 | author Metacelsus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 3815. | A Model of a Mind (tylerneylon.com) | |
| 147 points | 2024 | author tylerneylon showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm grateful for the comments; thanks especially for interesting references. Context for the article: I'm working on an ambitious long-term project to write a book about…” | ||
| 3816. | Will Figma become an awkward middle ground? (dive.club) | |
| 147 points | 2024 | author ridd_design showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm skeptical of the current approach to AI-generated interfaces. But am a big believer that AI will fundamentally change the way we design products. My high-level…” | ||
| 3817. | Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi (jackevans.bearblog.dev) | |
| 147 points | 2024 | author Jackevansevo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm not aware of any IDE that can do this specific refactor” | ||
| 3818. | How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) (alexarmbr.github.io) | |
| 147 points | 2025 | author alexarmbr showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks so much for the feedback. I agree, 'more memory for accumulators' would be a better title for this section. and I also see the misconception you are pointing out…” | ||
| 3819. | Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference (ddili.org) | |
| 147 points | 2025 | author acehreli showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here... AMA.” | ||
| 3820. | 15 Years of Shader Minification (ctrl-alt-test.fr) | |
| 147 points | 2025 | author laurentlb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article mainly for the people in the demoscene. If anything is unclear or missing for the Hackernews audience, I'm happy to answer questions here. If anyone…” | ||
| 3821. | Recto – A Truly 2D Language (masatohagiwara.net) | |
| 147 points | 2025 | author mhagiwara showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. You're right that music and speech carry more than just raw symbols such as intonation, pitch, dynamics, etc. all add important information. But in the…” | ||
| 3822. | Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com) | |
| 147 points | 2026 | author mcyc showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to discuss! One thing to note is that, after I submitted the final draft of this article, the Japanese government ended the MEXT university track or is at least…” | ||
| 3823. | Hacker News Instant Search (instantise.com) | |
| 146 points | 2010 | author TamDenholm showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks all for the kind words. It's nice to see it reaching the front page of HN when someone with decent karma submits it. Just to let you all know I've only spent…” | ||
| 3824. | The Art of Profitability (codingvc.com) | |
| 146 points | 2014 | author lpolovets showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I went from software engineering to VC about two years ago, and I used to have the same opinion as you: a lot of business books/articles/blog posts are just platitudes,…” | ||
| 3825. | I quit: Miseries of an Uber driver (salon.com) | |
| 146 points | 2014 | author good_claire showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“very interesting to find that someone else had the same strange experience. Street names have no place in GPS navigation! The instance I spoke about was a time when…” | ||
| 3826. | Gallium – Build Desktop Applications in Go and HTML (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2016 | author alexflint showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yes this is a significant price to pay, but being able to test once and be sure that your users' experience will match your testing is worth a lot. It should be possible…” | ||
| 3827. | Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance (medium.com) | |
| 146 points | 2017 | author drewg123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“willing to answer questions..” | ||
| 3828. | Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices (micromdm.io) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author zalmoxes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“MicroMDM is used in some enterprise environments and was recently mentioned in a number of security presentations regarding Apple's MDM and Device Enrollment Program…” | ||
| 3829. | ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017) (mathiasbynens.be) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author mathias showed up | their comment | thread
“Despite its age, it’s still accurate and up-to-date. Depends on what you mean by that. These features are still not universally supported by all modern browsers, for…” | ||
| 3830. | The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017) (dwheeler.com) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author dwheeler showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks so much for the interest! Clearly there are other things that need to be put on that list. One challenge I had was finding clear citations to the very first…” | ||
| 3831. | A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata (raganwald.com) | |
| 146 points | 2019 | author braythwayt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That solution has been discussed elsewhere in my blog. If you think of the family of problems involving nested things, or tree-like things, or recognizing, or parsing,…” | ||
| 3832. | Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017) (ostechnix.com) | |
| 146 points | 2019 | author arcmags showed up | their comment | thread
“Awesome to see some interest in my project. I'm currently working on the next version in my spare time (you'll see it in the dev branch). Improvements include:…” | ||
| 3833. | How to write better game libraries (handmade.network) | |
| 146 points | 2019 | author LucaSas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Regarding RAII, what I mention in the article is that it is ok to provide RAII wrappers as long as you also provide C++ wrappers for the non-RAII plain structs and…” | ||
| 3834. | Learning Rust in 2020 (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2020 | author pretzelhammer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I enjoy reading about programming and I think it's fun, just not _as fun_ as programming. I tried to choose my words carefully because I didn't want to come across like…” | ||
| 3835. | Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller (righto.com) | |
| 146 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone wants to discuss IBM's chips.” | ||
| 3836. | Show HN: Shoot the neural network before it shoots you (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2022 | author atum47 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are the gray cannon playing against a untrained neural network. Sometimes it learns quickly how to shoot you (about 6 shots in average), you should shoot it before…” | ||
| 3837. | Documenting software architecture with arc42 (innoq.com) | |
| 146 points | 2022 | author zorg42 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've written about requirements for docu-tools In short: You need text + diagramming tools. Go as light as possible, start small (draw.io and Markdown/AsciiDoc). Use…” | ||
| 3838. | The AI Scaling Hypothesis (lastweekin.ai) | |
| 146 points | 2022 | author andreyk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions/chat about stuff we did not cover in this overview!” | ||
| 3839. | AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2024 | author linkdd showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask any question :)” | ||
| 3840. | Show HN: Convert HTML DOM to semantic markdown for use in LLMs (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2024 | author leroman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here- it's a good point to have some benchmarks (which I don't have..) but I think it's well understood that minimizing noise by reducing tokens will improve the…” | ||
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