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| 4051. | How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube (pupeno.com) | |
| 137 points | 2015 | author pupeno showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the original article and it's not my intention to be misleading. This happened to me a few years ago and the few pictures I got are actually quite…” | ||
| 4052. | Urban highways destroy wealth (urbankchoze.blogspot.com) | |
| 137 points | 2016 | author kchoze showed up | their comment | thread
“The principle you refer to here is Marchetti's constant. It's the idea that people will make decisions about where to live and work to achieve an average commute time of…” | ||
| 4053. | Show HN: Embed HN comments in your website (comments.network) | |
| 137 points | 2016 | author franciscop showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it's still an early alpha but I'd love to answer any questions that you have. I also have some questions for you if you are interested in the project: - What are the…” | ||
| 4054. | Reversing Go Binaries Like a Pro (rednaga.io) | |
| 137 points | 2016 | author differentials showed up | their comment | thread
“Link was submitted using https which I had not set up yet. Just switched over to a CF nameserver so it should be working shortly...” | ||
| 4055. | On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674 (resobscura.blogspot.com) | |
| 137 points | 2017 | author benbreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the opening paragraph is based on Brian Cowan's academic monograph on 17th century coffee houses which I recommend highly to anyone interested in this. None of the…” | ||
| 4056. | Redshift vs. BigQuery vs. Snowflake benchmark (blog.fivetran.com) | |
| 137 points | 2017 | author georgewfraser showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Trying to compare costs between BigQuery and Redshift/Snowflake is really, really hard because of their different pricing models. I tried to be very explicit about what…” | ||
| 4057. | The cost of games (raphkoster.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author Raph_Koster showed up | their comment | thread
“First, let me state that this is not some sort of apologia for AAA and its business practices. I don't work for an AAA publisher. I don't derive significant annual…” | ||
| 4058. | Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony (blog.wallaroolabs.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author hackmanytrades showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and the primary author of Pony Kafka. I'll be around to answer questions.” | ||
| 4059. | Making Music: When Simple Probabilities Outperform Deep Learning (towardsdatascience.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author haebichan showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! The author here. Would love to see what that different presentation would've been so that the language of my next project would reflect a more humbling tone. Thanks!” | ||
| 4060. | Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change (qz.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author akshatrathi showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to field any questions” | ||
| 4061. | Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp (transcend.io) | |
| 137 points | 2020 | author ndomer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think the second most secure way to handle service authentication is to protect your ports with strong auth, like this article talks about. But the most secure way to…” | ||
| 4062. | Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush (dynomight.net) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author dynm showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not know that, and I'm not sure how it fits in! All else being equal, more ADH would imply faster acetaldehyde buildup, meaning men would have more of a "flush"…” | ||
| 4063. | Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos (righto.com) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions or comments...” | ||
| 4064. | I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's really not mostly mental health problems. I've studied this issue for years. I write about homelessness on Street Life Solutions. I try to write about housing and…” | ||
| 4065. | Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn? (tedium.co) | |
| 137 points | 2024 | author shortformblog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You seem to be intentionally conflating the ability to post a link with my critique of how LinkedIn affects its reach through the algorithm. To be clear: Your links will…” | ||
| 4066. | Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting (arxiv.org) | |
| 137 points | 2025 | author meame2010 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yea, in this fashion. And it can create the feedback using llm as a backward engine” | ||
| 4067. | An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation (iclr-blogposts.github.io) | |
| 137 points | 2025 | author gdalle showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions you may have! The prerequisites for understanding the blog post are an undergrad course in calculus and linear algebra, and some graph…” | ||
| 4068. | The Tiny Teams Playbook (latent.space) | |
| 137 points | 2025 | author swyx showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for posting OP! here's the youtube full playlist more thoughts after about 6 months of stewing with the Tiny Teams idea: the more work experience I have in tech,…” | ||
| 4069. | Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong (entropicthoughts.com) | |
| 137 points | 2025 | author kqr showed up | their comment | thread
“Please note this is an early draft/stream-of-consciousness. Feel free to read and share anyway but my actual published articles hold a higher standard!” | ||
| 4070. | Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++ (kemble.net) | |
| 137 points | 2025 | author yokljo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading! Appreciate it :) I think QML is very easy to get started with and you should just give it a go. It's not without its weirdness as other comments have…” | ||
| 4071. | Why I’m not backing you on Kickstarter (danshapiro.com) | |
| 136 points | 2012 | author danshapiro showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I appreciate both your perspectives; not all writing can be for everyone, of course. As it happens I'm in the middle of writing a very long essay in a much more…” | ||
| 4072. | Non-blocking transactional atomicity (bailis.org) | |
| 136 points | 2013 | author pbailis showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hmm. The invariant we're trying to maintain is that any write in 'good' should have its transactional "siblings" in either 'good' or 'pending' on their respective…” | ||
| 4073. | The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator (scruss.com) | |
| 136 points | 2013 | author scruss showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm guessing not everyone on HN is a huge fan of “Strictly Ballroom”, as the title is a key quote for dance movie otaku. It was also a weak joke about testing for random…” | ||
| 4074. | React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2014 | author dustingetz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have added a short section to the readme describing how `react-cursor` differs from other, similar, libraries (e.g. Cortex).” | ||
| 4075. | Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2014 | author josteink showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This is completely correct. But my main motivation for creating this was getting something working in a easy and portable fashion. Basically I wanted to have something I…” | ||
| 4076. | Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access (2015) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu) | |
| 136 points | 2016 | author mspecter showed up | their comment | thread
“awesome to see it up on Hacker News.” | ||
| 4077. | Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native (getpepperoni.com) | |
| 136 points | 2016 | author jevakallio showed up | their comment | thread
“as well as contributor to Cycle Native. I would love to see Cycle.js become a first class citizen of the React Native ecosystem. At CycleConf last month we hacked around…” | ||
| 4078. | Gluon: A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2016 | author Marwes showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the kind words :D. The language used to be completely pure and the state type is a remnant from that time (as well as to show and test that higher kinded…” | ||
| 4079. | FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 136 points | 2016 | author kannanvijayan showed up | their comment | thread
“This is an experimental project, with all the caveats that go along with it. It could definitely have the same fate as Persona. In fact, we face a bigger set of…” | ||
| 4080. | Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care (hackernoon.com) | |
| 136 points | 2017 | author nhumrich showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Surprised to see this toping HN. Appreciate all the feedback. Let me know if you have any questions.” | ||
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