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| 4081. | Show HN: Get Rails performance metrics into Chrome Dev Tools (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author itsderek23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Application instrumentation - whether via Prometheus, StatsD, Scout, New Relic - solves a very different problem than this. The server timing metrics here are actually…” | ||
| 4082. | On Loneliness and Solitude (pa-mar.net) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author Pamar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I had submitted this a couple months ago and HN's asked me to resubmit to see if it fared a bit better. "Ask me anything..."” | ||
| 4083. | Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance (codeotaku.com) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author ioquatix showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm also a Ruby core committer, and yes I'm aware of Guilds. The are a model for parallelism and don't really affect concurrency at all. At best, they provide a 3rd…” | ||
| 4084. | What I Learned at Activision (c0de517e.blogspot.com) | |
| 136 points | 2019 | author c0de517e showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“you are most definitely right, there is little correlation between game tech and end results anyways. It's mostly internal stuff, there are millions of other variables.…” | ||
| 4085. | Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media (oonwoye.com) | |
| 136 points | 2020 | author OoTheNigerian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I live in Lagos, Nigeria but visit Silicon Valley frequently and follow the situation closely. Being near but far, has given me unique perspectives on these type of…” | ||
| 4086. | Remark42: Self-Hosted, Lightweight Comment Engine (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2020 | author bumpa showed up | their comment | thread
“in case you want to ask me anything about the system” | ||
| 4087. | Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020) (projectf.io) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“I’ll do my best to answer any questions. Be gentle; this is my first time on the receiving end of Hacker News. :)” | ||
| 4088. | Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside (righto.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for any question :-)” | ||
| 4089. | In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) (dynomight.net) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author dyno-might showed up | their comment | thread
“Any way we can change the link to here: ? This is a slightly updated version of the post (new links, slightly less unhinged language, and a link to this MBTI quiz that I…” | ||
| 4090. | Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL (iamsafts.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author s3rg4fts showed up | their comment | thread
“The next thing I'm aiming to do is VACUUM more aggressively, like you propose. However, given that we update ~1m rows daily, I don't think that VACUUM alone would do the…” | ||
| 4091. | Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods (jeremyong.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author ninepoints showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually deliberately kept the tiled lighting section hopefully devoid of any consideration for deferred vs forward since as you say we can (and do) do tiled light…” | ||
| 4092. | Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry for the missing context. GLFW is very popular among game developers for opening graphics windows in a cross-platform way. This helps just Zig game developers for…” | ||
| 4093. | A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera (righto.com) | |
| 136 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Polaroid camera questions :-)” | ||
| 4094. | Migra: Diff for PostgreSQL schemas (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2022 | author djrobstep showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“While this is on the front page, a couple of updates regarding migra that you might be interested in: - Development slowed on migra for a quite a while, but I've…” | ||
| 4095. | Show HN: DevTools-X – a cross platform alternative of devutils and devtoys (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2022 | author Sparkenstein showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am so sorry for releasing untested version, apparently every OS is seeing blank page somehow. Will fix this and release soon” | ||
| 4096. | Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware (devever.net) | |
| 136 points | 2023 | author hlandau-travel showed up | their comment | thread
“This is finally being given as a talk by me tomorrow at 37C3. I've wanted to give this as a talk for many years at CCC, but CCC's long hiatus got in the way. This will…” | ||
| 4097. | Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021) (bartwronski.com) | |
| 136 points | 2025 | author bartwr showed up | their comment | thread
“Original author here and it's been a while since I have read such word salad nonsense, sorry. Why people who have no idea or expertise comment on articles? GenerateMips…” | ||
| 4098. | Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem (stategraph.dev) | |
| 136 points | 2025 | author lawnchair showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right that splitting by microservice reduces overlap. The problem is shared resources never go away such as VPCs IAM or databases so contention shows up there.…” | ||
| 4099. | Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it (blog.railway.com) | |
| 136 points | 2025 | author ndneighbor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“not my intent! My deepest apologies. English is my first language but people do joke that they say I write English like I learned it as a second language. I have fixed…” | ||
| 4100. | Structured outputs create false confidence (boundaryml.com) | |
| 136 points | 2025 | author joatmon-snoo showed up | their comment | thread
“To be more specific, here's a benchmark that we ran last year, where we compared schema-aligned parsing against constrained decoding (then called "Function Calling…” | ||
| 4101. | What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (this.os.isfine.org) | |
| 136 points | 2026 | author gmerc showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It had no problem creating gameboy and NES ROMs for me (order the gameboy from the catalog) was an initial test, I’ve halfway through a demake of dragon strike after…” | ||
| 4102. | Bitcoin is Not Anonymous (anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com) | |
| 135 points | 2011 | author feral showed up | their comment | thread
“This work is about looking at the Bitcoin transaction history as a network, and investigating privacy and anonymity, in practice, on it - something there's been a good…” | ||
| 4103. | How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012) (slideshare.net) | |
| 135 points | 2013 | author patrickambron showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right, before the actual surge, there was a lot of upfront work understanding how to build our product and how to tell our story. That said, once you have the…” | ||
| 4104. | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) | |
| 135 points | 2014 | author delsarto showed up | their comment | thread
“This book was created both from my experiences and the experiences of teaching 3rd year operating systems classes. Students came in to that class having done a 2nd year…” | ||
| 4105. | I love my Amazon Workspace (aws.amazon.com) | |
| 135 points | 2016 | author jeffbarr showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post and I can assure you that I actually did this. Our internal slogan is "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History." I try my best to do all three. This was not…” | ||
| 4106. | ShutIt – Automation framework for programmers (ianmiell.github.io) | |
| 135 points | 2016 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“Quite surprised to see this. Another related tool I'm working on is: Why this over Ansible? It's a long story :) Mainly because not everyone is a great or even decent…” | ||
| 4107. | Finding surprising moves in chess games (github.com) | |
| 135 points | 2016 | author CYHSM showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this little library. Somebody apparently took it from my reddit thread () and linked it here. Thank you for doing that, i haven't thought this…” | ||
| 4108. | Hellogopher – Just “git clone” and “make” any Go project (github.com) | |
| 135 points | 2017 | author FiloSottile showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any feedback, in particular “I tried and it didn’t work out of the box” stories. I will NOT tell you to RTFM. I recommend reading for more insight. There’s…” | ||
| 4109. | Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited (tech-blog.capital-match.com) | |
| 135 points | 2017 | author kccqzy showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn’t expect this to be on the front page of HN. I have a flight to catch but I can answer questions.” | ||
| 4110. | Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces (arxiv.org) | |
| 135 points | 2018 | author ContextArxiv showed up | their comment | thread
“I can confirm everything you said. A conference version is in the works, though this one is essentially complete” | ||
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