 |
| 3841. | Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed (tzx.notion.site) | |
| 146 points | 2025 | author zxt_tzx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the last few months, I have built and launched a free semantic search tool for GitHub called SemHub (). In this blog post, I share what I’ve learned and why I’ve…” | ||
| 3842. | Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023) (actamachina.com) | |
| 146 points | 2025 | author tlyleung showed up | their comment | thread
“funny to see this posted after a few years. Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 3843. | Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version) (nixsrv.com) | |
| 145 points | 2012 | author mwargh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry for 502. I wasn't really anticipating this much interest. I'm doing something about it now. Also you can blame me for including vim, but I'm conviced that basic vi…” | ||
| 3844. | 600K concurrent HTTP connections with Clojure and http-kit (shenfeng.me) | |
| 145 points | 2013 | author shenedu showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“The server is open source, on github: Test test code is also on github: Suggestions very welcome!” | ||
| 3845. | Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go (tamber.com) | |
| 145 points | 2013 | author argusdusty showed up | their comment | thread
“They are unrelated. We did take the time to examine writing our own full search engine based on Lucene, like the aforementioned search library. The reasons why we didn't…” | ||
| 3846. | ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video (silveiraneto.net) | |
| 145 points | 2014 | author silveira showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been using JDownloader on Linux for years and never noticed a problem with Adware. Can you please elaborate? I'd really like to know more.” | ||
| 3847. | Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo (reddit.com) | |
| 145 points | 2015 | author faymontage showed up | their comment | thread
“The graphs are stock graphviz output, the linear layout is called "dot" (the default), and the nebulous layout is "sfdp". For your googling pleasure it's a "force…” | ||
| 3848. | Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers (jeremykun.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author j2kun showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm confused because I agree with your objections but I don't recall that I wrote any of the things you're objecting to. IIRC I even said math has no docs or…” | ||
| 3849. | How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack (cloudplatform.googleblog.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author milesward showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeahhhh we don't know what to call it. CoreOS folks said this and it sorta made sense, we call out the name ookyness right in the post. AsKSHBDDVBTFRcsM seemed, well,…” | ||
| 3850. | Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author EatonZ showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the embed code because some of the images are large and WordPress wasn't resizing them correctly for some reason. I also was unaware of the policy in Imgur's ToS.…” | ||
| 3851. | DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language (arxiv.org) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author nicklo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey HN! One of the authors here. This was a fun project to work on. Happy to answer any questions :) Code + data here:” | ||
| 3852. | Show HN: Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming (anchovieshat.github.io) | |
| 145 points | 2017 | author anchovieshat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Q8 is a little tool I started as an experiment to visualize low level code as it manipulates raw data in memory, but has evolved into a full-fledged experimental…” | ||
| 3853. | Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access (github.com) | |
| 145 points | 2017 | author chris_griffith showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree with the fact it has shortcomings and definitely isn't aimed to replace everyone's dict everywhere. I actually created the first iteration of this around…” | ||
| 3854. | Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users (github.com) | |
| 145 points | 2019 | author 4lch3m1st showed up | their comment | thread
“I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or…” | ||
| 3855. | X Window System Basics (2014) (magcius.github.io) | |
| 145 points | 2019 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't want to copy/paste my entire postmortem in here, so I'll link to the thread from a few days ago which has some extra context into why I started this series, and…” | ||
| 3856. | The Database Inside Your Codebase (feifan.blog) | |
| 145 points | 2021 | author feifan showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page background properly in dark mode. I'll get that fixed!” | ||
| 3857. | Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo (righto.com) | |
| 145 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions on Apollo communication...” | ||
| 3858. | “It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.” (miles.land) | |
| 145 points | 2021 | author epoch_100 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's to encourage people to apply, and to bring attention to what I think is a really awesome place. I don't want it to come across as pompous, though I get that to some…” | ||
| 3859. | Silicon die teardown: a look inside an early 555 timer chip (righto.com) | |
| 145 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your chip questions...” | ||
| 3860. | A common trap for people entering programming jobs (natemeyvis.com) | |
| 145 points | 2022 | author Theaetetus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I certainly have a lot of opinions about what to study more generally! This was a short note for people who are specifically trying to make it likelier that they'll…” | ||
| 3861. | Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks (varunsrinivasan.com) | |
| 145 points | 2022 | author varunsrin showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“happy to answer questions folks have. we've also been building a sufficiently decentralized protocol called Farcaster, and you can check it out here: we've also built…” | ||
| 3862. | The Inner Osborne Effect (2021) (raganwald.com) | |
| 145 points | 2022 | author a4isms showed up | their comment | thread
“I remember the Apple III well, we nearly bought one for my mother's Real Estate brokerage. Ended up with a fairly vanilla Intel-based PC. Whew! But thank you for the…” | ||
| 3863. | How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086 (blogsystem5.substack.com) | |
| 145 points | 2024 | author jmmv showed up | their comment | thread
“Exactly! That (DPMI) is the thing I originally wanted to talk about but I realized I had to clarify many more thoughts first! And I still have to do the research on DPMI…” | ||
| 3864. | Four Magic Words (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 145 points | 2024 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Fun anecdote: I showed this to a friend of mine who is an English literature professor and she responded, "I'm not entirely convinced that David Mensch is a reliable…” | ||
| 3865. | A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS (experimentalworks.net) | |
| 145 points | 2024 | author somnium_sn showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun fact Tichy was my professor at KIT in 2008-2013! “Fäden!!!!!”” | ||
| 3866. | Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU (chipsandcheese.com) | |
| 145 points | 2024 | author clamchowder showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the feedback, but I have trouble understanding where you're coming from. "what exactly makes it ambitious?" I thought I outlined that it was much more…” | ||
| 3867. | OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way (tav.espians.com) | |
| 144 points | 2012 | author tav showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this draft a few years ago after getting frustrated with OAuth 2.0. And, whilst I am grateful for llambda for posting it to HN, it was never meant to be…” | ||
| 3868. | Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative (yash.info) | |
| 144 points | 2013 | author yashg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would like to hold balance in My PayPal account only because of a possibility of a chargeback or a dispute. I lament RBI for not allowing me to do that. I lament…” | ||
| 3869. | How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system (smritiweb.com) | |
| 144 points | 2013 | author ngkabra showed up | their comment | thread
“The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference. However, as notthetup points out, there are lots of…” | ||
| 3870. | Why and How to Start Your SICP Trek (hackerretreat.com) | |
| 144 points | 2014 | author limist showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions and address feedback. I suspect I didn't explain Lisp-in-Lisp as well as I need to, but maybe it's enough to get non-Lispers intrigued. :)” | ||
| More | ||