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| 3931. | Analyzing iMessage with SQL (arctype.com) | |
| 142 points | 2022 | author dliff showed up | their comment | thread
“I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).” | ||
| 3932. | What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like? (transitivebullsh.it) | |
| 142 points | 2022 | author transitivebs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I needed to split this up into multiple posts because it required a lot deeper dive than I had originally expected. What I'm really interested in, however, is help with…” | ||
| 3933. | Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated (puri.sm) | |
| 142 points | 2022 | author dcz_self showed up | their comment | thread
“While the essay comes from the side of smartphones, it's not really limited to them. As I mention, even some laptops use setups that require complex infrastructure to…” | ||
| 3934. | Map Data: False Assumptions (solutionspace.blog) | |
| 142 points | 2022 | author dme1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading my stuff! :-) I did not go into details of geopolitical issues because I covered that in an earlier article:” | ||
| 3935. | Smolnes: A NES emulator in less than 5000 significant bytes of C++ (github.com) | |
| 142 points | 2022 | author binji showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions y'all have” | ||
| 3936. | Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol (tautvilas.lt) | |
| 142 points | 2025 | author brisky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Regarding backdating it is a valid concern. I did not mention in the article, but in my proposed architecture users could post links of others (consider that a retweet).…” | ||
| 3937. | Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use (bitoff.org) | |
| 142 points | 2025 | author janv showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all: I didn't submit it to HN. As few people pointed out, this article was written in 2023 and it's intentionally focused just on pricing – I planned a follow…” | ||
| 3938. | Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time (oreilly.com) | |
| 141 points | 2010 | author drcode showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author- The book is printing as we speak and should be hitting the stores late Oct/early Nov. Around that time a lot more info on the book will also be available…” | ||
| 3939. | Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks (blog.balancedpayments.com) | |
| 141 points | 2013 | author npcomplete showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks! There are certain aspects of fraud which can be open and will definitely help the community of anti-fraudsters. This was our way of contributing something back.” | ||
| 3940. | Don't write code first (blog.reemer.com) | |
| 141 points | 2013 | author kareemm showed up | their comment | thread
“This is demonstrably not true.” | ||
| 3941. | Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)? (theumlaut.com) | |
| 141 points | 2014 | author elidourado showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that if any of you work for companies that send engineers to the IETF, there is an Internet-Draft RFC that would normalize the use of several P2P…” | ||
| 3942. | How I learned to stop worrying and love React (firstdoit.com) | |
| 141 points | 2015 | author gadr90 showed up | their comment | thread
“Woke up to a lot of unexpected traffic on the blog. I hope you like this article. I took a long time to understand React and, now I do, I hope other people don't take as…” | ||
| 3943. | Academics, we need to talk (matt-welsh.blogspot.com) | |
| 141 points | 2016 | author mdwelsh showed up | their comment | thread
“Ad hominem attacks aside, I do think it's a big deal if a bunch of academics are spending time working on the wrong things, if for no better reason than maximizing…” | ||
| 3944. | Show HN: Procedural Voxel Rendering in WebGL (guillaumechereau.github.io) | |
| 141 points | 2016 | author guillaumec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is simply using a bump texture.” | ||
| 3945. | Copy and paste-friendly Go crypto (github.com) | |
| 141 points | 2016 | author gtank showed up | their comment | thread
“glad you enjoyed the talk! Looking into it more I noticed that there's a Go implementation[1] that is noted to be constant-time with a !amd64 build tag. So it isn't just…” | ||
| 3946. | Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum (medium.com) | |
| 141 points | 2017 | author mhluongo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry it didn't gel with you, but I'm happy to defend this example. A zero-knowledge proof is about a prover convincing a verifier they have some knowledge, without…” | ||
| 3947. | Fun with compute shaders and fluid dynamics (blog.kummerlaender.eu) | |
| 141 points | 2019 | author akr showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the interesting links! I agree that there is much that could be optimized. The choice to use vertex buffers was driven by the overarching goal of implementing…” | ||
| 3948. | V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison (lambdalabs.com) | |
| 141 points | 2019 | author sabalaba showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with a lot of your points, especially the fact that TCO is practically impossible to calculate, is highly subjective, and should ideally include opportunity…” | ||
| 3949. | Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market (insignificantbits.com) | |
| 141 points | 2020 | author scast showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“For sure, I hinted at this on the last paragraph of the post. The interesting bit is that if you do that you will build a more diversified portfolio (as the turnip price…” | ||
| 3950. | Covid-19: The T Cell Story (berthub.eu) | |
| 141 points | 2020 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“the article has been read and retweeted by actual world class experts. Given that the article is now nearly two weeks old, I would have heard about any gross…” | ||
| 3951. | Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler (dropbox.tech) | |
| 141 points | 2020 | author nicksundin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions!” | ||
| 3952. | Show HN: Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly (github.com) | |
| 141 points | 2020 | author bkolobara showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. I wrote more about the motivation behind Lunatic if you are interested, check it out:” | ||
| 3953. | Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python (death.andgravity.com) | |
| 141 points | 2021 | author genericlemon24 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yup, good thing to note, thank you! I've kinda assumed everyone knows about the named parameters some bindings offer, but that's probably not true. Will add a…” | ||
| 3954. | RETRO is fast (mitchgordon.me) | |
| 141 points | 2022 | author bitforger showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. I've noticed on certain mobile devices the contrast can be weird, not sure why. I updated the default theme's text color to be 10% darker, lmk if that…” | ||
| 3955. | Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 141 points | 2024 | author yoble showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I was wondering why I was seeing plenty of people from github on my meditation website so I checked HN, hi! Happy to answer any question you might have, and feel free to…” | ||
| 3956. | Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip (righto.com) | |
| 141 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about ferroelectric RAM...” | ||
| 3957. | Requiem for a Solar Plant (7goldfish.com) | |
| 141 points | 2025 | author giblfiz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you look a little more carefully the thing that killed us was an actual physical infrastructure problem. Mineral rights were a nightmare, but we were humping our way…” | ||
| 3958. | Packing the world for longest lines of sight (tombh.co.uk) | |
| 141 points | 2025 | author tombh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Well there's actually a term in the kernel to normalise the surface area of each visible point by a factor of tan(1 radian): I don't know if that's related to what…” | ||
| 3959. | The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (righto.com) | |
| 141 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8087 questions...” | ||
| 3960. | “You should never build a CMS” (sanity.io) | |
| 141 points | 2025 | author kmelve showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Of course, I'm biased! But in that bias is a ton of experience in the CMS field and a lot of observation of actual teams trying to solve for content operations…” | ||
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