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| 3991. | Why your 'A' grade SSL is 'outdated cryptography' on Chrome (certsimple.com) | |
| 139 points | 2015 | author nailer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This actually came from a real case: it was fairly surprising the SSL Labs test wasn't flagging the ciphers that cause the 'outdated cryptography' warning.” | ||
| 3992. | A Simple Content-Based Recommendation Engine in Python (blog.untrod.com) | |
| 139 points | 2016 | author numlocked showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Love to hear any feedback and hope folks find it useful. As I mention in the article, we use a very, very similar implementation in production at grove.co. It's…” | ||
| 3993. | Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net) | |
| 139 points | 2016 | author ekidd showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me explain where this article came from, since people keep digging it up every few years to discuss it. :-) I spent some time during the late 90s learning all kinds…” | ||
| 3994. | Uber CLI (github.com) | |
| 139 points | 2017 | author jaebradley showed up | their comment | thread
“Obviously, this is a security issue that is pretty much bottom-of-the-barrel-shitty. My explanation is that I didn't feel like standing up a middleware service to direct…” | ||
| 3995. | Emacs is sexy (emacs.sexy) | |
| 139 points | 2017 | author picandocodigo showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the site and I didn't know about the theme gallery you mentioned, but this other one is linked: I'll add pawelbx's gallery on the next update. Thanks!” | ||
| 3996. | Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA (ifixit.com) | |
| 139 points | 2020 | author kwiens showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't see how providing a platform to speed up security research is a bad thing. That said, I don't have a huge problem with Apple's 'they copied our bits' complaint.…” | ||
| 3997. | How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS (preetamnath.com) | |
| 139 points | 2020 | author grwthckrmstr showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“- we granfathered all users whenever we would change pricing or introduce new plans - agreed on the point about moat To be fair, we made a free version of a very basic…” | ||
| 3998. | LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019) (andregarzia.com) | |
| 139 points | 2020 | author soapdog showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey I'm the author of that page, AMA.” | ||
| 3999. | Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui (markjames.dev) | |
| 139 points | 2020 | author sanesmith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Aside from Terminal.Gui, most of my GUI experience comes from SwiftUI on iOS and Mac. However, C# also has another cool terminal library called Sadconsole () which I've…” | ||
| 4000. | Mutt releases version 2.0 (lwn.net) | |
| 139 points | 2020 | author leephillips showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I understand your point, but I disagree that Gmail’s reasons are good reasons. Partly this is a difference in philosophy I suspect; we should all try to help each other…” | ||
| 4001. | A few HiDPI tricks for Linux (blog.yossarian.net) | |
| 139 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“as they say, Linux is free if your time is worthless. In my case, my time isn’t worthless but I do enjoy configuring my system. The tweaks shown in those blog post took…” | ||
| 4002. | Printvideo.com (justine.lol) | |
| 139 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“This a toy program demo. MPEG-1 is the only one that's legally unencumbered by patents if I understand correctly. I'm sorry you didn't like it! You might like the other…” | ||
| 4003. | The myth of the myth of the lone genius (rogersbacon.substack.com) | |
| 139 points | 2021 | author rogersbacon17 showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Well said, and this is definitely something like I was going for, but you probably said it more clearly.” | ||
| 4004. | Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine (halestrom.net) | |
| 139 points | 2022 | author hales showed up | their comment | thread
“It's been many years, so my memory is a bit rusty. I think I recall it being fiddly to upload images for a page and possibly the themes were complex to modify (?) (I…” | ||
| 4005. | Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs (blog.upbound.io) | |
| 139 points | 2022 | author negz showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the kind words! I wouldn't say Crossplane is _supposed_ to be used together with CD systems (that's optional) but that's certainly a common and practical use…” | ||
| 4006. | Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig (github.com) | |
| 139 points | 2022 | author giann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few points make buzz a “scripting language” in my view: - runs in a VM - garbage collected - high level - “simple” meaning there’s only a handful of concepts to…” | ||
| 4007. | Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) (pncnmnp.github.io) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author pncnmnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I kinda wanna share another story about Dijkstra that I've always found interesting: I was wondering if anyone on HN took his course and could share their experience?” | ||
| 4008. | Online censorship's institutional power (madattheinternet.substack.com) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author JoshuaMoon showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, my choice of pronoun was deliberate. I will allow you to determine why. In regards to the litigation, your interpretation is wrong. The main reason why the default…” | ||
| 4009. | The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere (tangramvision.com) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author ChickenSando showed up | their comment | thread
“Quaternions and SLERP are absolutely a fundamental part of 3D vision (and game development too). However, I wanted to focus this post mainly on the question "why is…” | ||
| 4010. | Karatsuba Matrix Multiplication and Its Efficient Hardware Implementations (arxiv.org) | |
| 139 points | 2025 | author emacs28 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The hardware architectures are realistic - we developed & evaluated real example hardware implementations for them, validated on FPGA, and they achieved state-of-the-art…” | ||
| 4011. | Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own (npmjs.com) | |
| 139 points | 2025 | author 30minAdayHN showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are not bots. Just two indie developers who quit their jobs trying to build impactful things. 'Vibe coding' has been great for us to prototype quickly, launch and…” | ||
| 4012. | The Best Time to Post on Hacker News (nathanael.hevenet.com) | |
| 138 points | 2012 | author Nathanael showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm going to transgress my no-HN rule this one time because I did in fact look at HN Pickup very closely and I already have a follow-up post planned in which I was going…” | ||
| 4013. | My self-published book on being a great developer (theseniorsoftwareengineer.com) | |
| 138 points | 2013 | author davetron5000 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Apologies that the design of the website has been so distracting. I ultimately decided that I needed to ship, but I can see where those commenters are coming from (and I…” | ||
| 4014. | Python web scraping (jakeaustwick.me) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author Jake232 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've done extensive scraping in both Python and Ruby, as I wrote most of the scraping / crawling code at, so I can chip in. Overall, I prefer Python. That is pretty much…” | ||
| 4015. | HPN-SSH: High Performance ssh and scp (psc.edu) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author rapier1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Honestly, I initially released them without any sort of license - entirely free from any sort of license restriction. People don't seem to understand that so I said they…” | ||
| 4016. | Logging can be tricky (corner.squareup.com) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author evan_miller showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I didn't make it as clear as I could have, but the difference is that the problematic system had an unrelated process creating slightly more writes. I sort-of glossed…” | ||
| 4017. | DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals Major Vulnerabilities (eff.org) | |
| 138 points | 2014 | author rangak showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you are referring to the description of Track 1 and 2. Seems like you were one of the contestants. Sorry, we didn't mean to label anyone a newbie. It is just…” | ||
| 4018. | Introducing DataFrames in Spark for Large Scale Data Science (databricks.com) | |
| 138 points | 2015 | author rxin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything.” | ||
| 4019. | Pragmatic Bare Metal Rust (hashmismatch.net) | |
| 138 points | 2015 | author rudib showed up | their comment | thread
“pun totally intended. Sorry. :)” | ||
| 4020. | My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma (evjang.com) | |
| 138 points | 2015 | author ericjang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thx for the upvotes. Webpage is back up.” | ||
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