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| 361. | Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library (justine.lol) | |
| 599 points | 2020 | author jart showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“WebAssembly has played an important role protecting CI on the Internet and it's cool that it enables us to run LLVM in the browser. I was very surprised when I learned…” | ||
| 362. | Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries (github.com) | |
| 599 points | 2021 | author peterwaller-arm showed up | their comment (+14 more) | thread
“I've used bup, and elfshaker was partially inspired by it! It's great. However, during initial experiments on this project I found bup to be slow, taking quite a long…” | ||
| 363. | Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games) | |
| 598 points | 2025 | author eieio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Like jchw said, this was a single-day project (although I did the writeup for it the next day). I went from 0-prototype in one sitting; I think that…” | ||
| 364. | NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars (ricostacruz.com) | |
| 597 points | 2013 | author rstacruz showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes! It's intentional. You can disable this by removing the `cursor: wait` rule in the CSS file.” | ||
| 365. | The Case of the Extra 40ms (netflixtechblog.com) | |
| 597 points | 2020 | author jdblair showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair criticism. There are some details that are missing in the interest of keeping the story simple. 1) The audio and video playback is driven by the hardware, using the…” | ||
| 366. | Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019) (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 596 points | 2024 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post five years ago. Since then, my conviction in the value of customizable software has only grown, but I've also updated my thinking in a few ways: 1) AI…” | ||
| 367. | Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) | |
| 595 points | 2021 | author jefferickson showed up | their comment | thread
“You're of course welcome not to recommend my book to anyone for any reason. But in my own defense, my reluctance to release solutions is not a moral stance, or a belief…” | ||
| 368. | When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” (sebastiano.tronto.net) | |
| 594 points | 2025 | author sebtron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My surprise stems exactly from the fact that for the last few years I have exclusively managed my files via a the UNIX shell, which behaves in the classical way.” | ||
| 369. | Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) (dywypi.org) | |
| 593 points | 2012 | author jyrki showed up | their comment | thread
“You bring up good points and my article would need some clarification on some parts, I agree on that. I'll just write quick replies back to you, and try to format…” | ||
| 370. | Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check (berthub.eu) | |
| 593 points | 2024 | author ahubert showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“if you have any questions, please do let me know!” | ||
| 371. | Plan mode is dead (aymannadeem.com) | |
| 593 points | 2026 | author aymandfire showed up | their comment | thread
“I think that’s basically the distinction I’m trying to make. Historically, plan mode served two different roles: 1. making the agent’s instructions precise enough to…” | ||
| 372. | Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu) | |
| 592 points | 2016 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I lead the research team at Princeton working to uncover online tracking. Happy to answer questions. The tool we built to do this research is open-source We'd love to…” | ||
| 373. | Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language (patshaughnessy.net) | |
| 591 points | 2016 | author pat_shaughnessy showed up | their comment | thread
“...FYI I actually learned assembly language for the first time back in the 1970s and 80s using a 6809 inside a Radio Shack "Color Computer." I was super-fun at the time.…” | ||
| 374. | Software Engineering Within SpaceX (yasoob.me) | |
| 591 points | 2020 | author yasoob showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi guys! I am the author of this article. Excited to see it on the first page :)” | ||
| 375. | Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others (thezbook.com) | |
| 591 points | 2022 | author zachlloyd showed up | their comment | thread
“would love any feedback / similar experiences / contrasting opinions!” | ||
| 376. | How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com) | |
| 591 points | 2026 | author lalitmaganti showed up | their comment | thread
“I really like your framing here! I think it captures the essence of my thinking in a really concise and coherent way.” | ||
| 377. | Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit (rhasspy.readthedocs.io) | |
| 590 points | 2020 | author synesthesiam showed up | their comment | thread
“happy new year HN! Glad to answer any questions (also see) Bit of background: Rhasspy was originally designed for Home Assistant (), but now works with lots of home…” | ||
| 378. | 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room (berthub.eu) | |
| 590 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“By all means ask around. I can only tell you that I've received may corroborating anecdotes over the past year. Many telcos even assumed I was writing about them…” | ||
| 379. | I stopped advertising and nothing happened (theantistartup.com) | |
| 590 points | 2022 | author deeeej showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great point. In fact other firms seems to be able to get away with even using your brand-name in their advertising. Simply put, nothing stops this, and it will happen.…” | ||
| 380. | Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] (nabstreamingsummit.com) | |
| 590 points | 2022 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here. AMA” | ||
| 381. | Kubernetes is our generation's Multics (oilshell.org) | |
| 589 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The post isn't claiming that you should be doing something differently right now. It's claiming that there's something better that isn't discovered. Probably 10 years in…” | ||
| 382. | SSH tips and tricks (carlosbecker.dev) | |
| 589 points | 2022 | author caarlos0 showed up | their comment | thread
“I suggested disabling host key checking ONLY on localhost...” | ||
| 383. | What Is a Harness? (earendil.com) | |
| 589 points | 2026 | author ni10c showed up | their comment | thread
“It’s ironic because this post was clearly geared towards non-hackers. But now that we’re here.. the other analogy I considered presenting was: harness = chassis, model =…” | ||
| 384. | List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots (eff.org) | |
| 586 points | 2017 | author schoen showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and I would like to emphasize that there is a second generation of this technology that probably uses dithering parameters or something of that sort, and that does not…” | ||
| 385. | TDD did not live up to expectations (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | |
| 586 points | 2017 | author ericgunnerson showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I agree that time to market is really important, but when a company is searching for the product that will work, the most important thing that you can have is code that…” | ||
| 386. | An introduction to RabbitMQ (erlang-solutions.com) | |
| 586 points | 2020 | author olikas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've seen quite a lot messages going through RabbitMQ. I wouldn't worry too much about scaling, because the possibilities depend very much on the architecture. With some…” | ||
| 387. | Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C (blog.reverberate.org) | |
| 586 points | 2021 | author haberman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree that would be a very englightening benchmark. Protobuf can dump to JSON, so it shouldn't be too much work to dump my benchmark data to JSON and benchmark the…” | ||
| 388. | Coding is not solved (blog.alexewerlof.com) | |
| 585 points | 2026 | author hanifbbz showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks whoever shared this here. I love the brutal criticism and critical thinking of this community. I'm also fully aware of the emotions this stirs. If it makes you…” | ||
| 389. | How to SSH Properly (gravitational.com) | |
| 584 points | 2020 | author webvictim showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“My take on this is that fail-closed is a vastly better security model than fail-open. I am genuinely surprised that OpenSSH actually issues certificates with no expiry…” | ||
| 390. | Things to use in Python 3 (datawhatnow.com) | |
| 581 points | 2019 | author z_mitchell showed up | their comment | thread
“Be warned, this was just a proof of concept that I did because I thought it would be fun/weird/interesting!” | ||
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