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| 4021. | FreeBSD Jails the hard way (clinta.github.io) | |
| 138 points | 2016 | author clinta showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm just now diving into docker. Docker is really about the images. Docker can run on lxc or in kernel namespaces. And there is ongoing work to port Docker to FreeBSD…” | ||
| 4022. | On Chinese Writing: Evolution (al3x.svbtle.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author ar7hur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I just discovered this was posted on HN. Please note that it's episode 2 of a "series", the first episode is Thanks for your interesting comments!” | ||
| 4023. | JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns (formidable.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author mhink showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Saying "why not simply observables" kinda glosses over a lot of details, but I'll try and answer as best as I can. I've always found it a bit difficult to use…” | ||
| 4024. | Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F# (github.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author rspeele showed up | their comment | thread
“The choice to typecheck a SQL dialect directly instead of using an embedded DSL like LINQ is uncommon enough that it gets the majority of the focus in my own…” | ||
| 4025. | Your live coding demo is boring me (2015) (inconshreveable.com) | |
| 138 points | 2019 | author inconshreveable showed up | their comment | thread
“After four years, I still stand by this advice/critique. As everyone likes to point out, there are a few presenters that are an exception to the rule. That's true! I'm…” | ||
| 4026. | Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser (webgazer.cs.brown.edu) | |
| 138 points | 2020 | author lazyjeff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here (I didn't use Show HN because it's a larger collaborative project). Yes this is basically a tradeoff between accuracy and flexibility+accessibility. For…” | ||
| 4027. | Lua, a Misunderstood Language (andregarzia.com) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author soapdog showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for linking. That being said, I'm always impressed with the fervour and effort that people put into complaining about Lua 1-based indexing. Folks, using a Meta…” | ||
| 4028. | Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it (knowledgeartist.org) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author laybak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wow this got a lot more attention than I had expected. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, including critical ones. The point about not being superficial/artificial…” | ||
| 4029. | Why interruptions are frustrating to developers (tellspin.app) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author amozoss showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I totally agree! That's why I wrote tip number 4 "Record context as you go". I have a bash script that has the current command I'm working on (usually it's running a…” | ||
| 4030. | Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig) (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“I do think that's a reasonable choice of tech in general, but I won't be using most of those for Mach for various reasons: * glm -> zig has native vector types with SIMD…” | ||
| 4031. | Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift (swift.org) | |
| 138 points | 2022 | author avitzur showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post. AMA.” | ||
| 4032. | Show HN: Jerrica, a 100% scheduled, Web Audio native, MOD player for JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 138 points | 2022 | author gtrevorjay showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is the major drawback of this approach. Since I'm tuning the sound tone by adjusting the playback rate, what algorithm the browser uses for up and down sampling is…” | ||
| 4033. | Split Your Overwhelmed Teams (queue.acm.org) | |
| 138 points | 2022 | author YesThatTom2 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the positive feedback so far. AMA” | ||
| 4034. | Mighty Retrospective (blog.chaselambda.com) | |
| 138 points | 2022 | author theicfire showed up | their comment | thread
“I just noticed this was on HN! There’s lots of great points raised here that I didn’t cover. I published this with very little feedback, so I’m not surprised I missed…” | ||
| 4035. | Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications (securitylabs.datadoghq.com) | |
| 138 points | 2022 | author christophetd showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello there! I'm one of the authors of the post. Sorry you feel we "hyped it up", that was definitely not the intent. The malicious package is targeting FastAPI…” | ||
| 4036. | Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet (blog.dhsdevelopments.com) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author lokedhs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Kap is inspired by APL which was very popular back in the day (70's and 80's), and has remained popular within certain segments. There is still enough interest in it to…” | ||
| 4037. | Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis (blog.osm-ai.net) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author osm3000 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Wow! I didn't expect that! I love these discussions and comments :) I will do my best to go through all of them :) Cheers everyone” | ||
| 4038. | Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe (louisabraham.github.io) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author Labo333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It was such a power trip and blissful experience to discover the game on HN, think about a strategy, implement a solution, write a blog post (thanks again to orlp for…” | ||
| 4039. | Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical (blog.pgvecto.rs) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author VoVAllen showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“I actually think the opposite of what you mentioned. IVF is more suitable for prefiltering compared to HNSW. For prefiltering in HNSW, there is a certain requirement for…” | ||
| 4040. | Is Zig's new writer unsafe? (openmymind.net) | |
| 138 points | 2025 | author latch showed up | their comment | thread
“I see it both ways. Blog posts are collaboration (1). I did get the sense that Andrew doesn't see it that way. (And for this post in particular, and writegate in…” | ||
| 4041. | Interactive λ-Reduction (deltanets.org) | |
| 138 points | 2025 | author danaugrs showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for posting. I spent several years' worth of weekends working on this, and I'm glad to see it here on Hacker News. I started working on this problem when I…” | ||
| 4042. | 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (jkm.dev) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author jkm_dot_dev showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“no it's not an analysis of the Lost City codebase (though I am a contributor to LC). Most of the knowledge came from my refactor of the #317 RS2 client () though I…” | ||
| 4043. | Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author herobird showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“ready to answer all your questions! (sorry for the delay, 2nd-chance post)” | ||
| 4044. | Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author vira28 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Adding some context. I led the Postgres platform team (2019-23) at Cloudflare and we were supporting 170+ growing product teams. One of the constant asks is schema…” | ||
| 4045. | Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author nchagnet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to show my appreciation of this small-ish but beautiful language.” | ||
| 4046. | Feynman's Clock (danwin.com) | |
| 137 points | 2012 | author danso showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“missed the point. The headline is "Feynman's Clock" and how he thought through the stopped clock is the example of his always logical mind. But considering I kind of…” | ||
| 4047. | Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy (planscope.io) | |
| 137 points | 2012 | author bdunn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Trust me — I completely understand where you're coming from. With Planscope (my SaaS product) I'm getting to engineer a really rewarding product with Backbone.js and…” | ||
| 4048. | What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure? (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 137 points | 2015 | author nnethercote showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're right. I corrected the first paragraph. Thank you for the suggestion.” | ||
| 4049. | CPython internals: Codewalk through the Python interpreter source code (2014) (pgbovine.net) | |
| 137 points | 2015 | author pgbovine showed up | their comment | thread
“it's not too bad, actually; i mean there's the usual hairiness of anything implemented in C, but the interpreter doesn't try to do much in terms of clever optimizations,…” | ||
| 4050. | Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget (alexrecker.com) | |
| 137 points | 2015 | author mcrist0 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks, I really appreciate it. I'm so pumped that people are feeling this - I did not expect it to get so much attention. I am definitely considering turning it into a…” | ||
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