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| 4141. | A Ceph war story (michael-prokop.at) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author mikagrml showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, it was an XFS/controller issue, but Ceph reported the failure. :) (IMO it wasn't really a good decision from Ceph to use 100MB XFS partitions as a kind of database,…” | ||
| 4142. | Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (micahlerner.com) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author robertnishihara showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for all the comments and discussion! To add to the discussion, I'll mention a few conceptual things that have changed since we wrote the paper. Emphasis on the…” | ||
| 4143. | Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly (incident.io) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author peterejhamilton showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case we're explicitly dealing with external IDs that we want to be incrementing. Our internal IDs and API IDs actually follow a…” | ||
| 4144. | Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020) (cantrip.org) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author ncmncm showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't know this was on HN until just now.” | ||
| 4145. | The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015) (thehustle.co) | |
| 134 points | 2022 | author samp615 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I’m the author. I had a strong opinion. My prediction was wrong! But I left the article up because I have a lot of opinions and hey, I’m wrong sometimes…no shame!…” | ||
| 4146. | A Review of Shader Languages (alain.xyz) | |
| 134 points | 2022 | author alaingalvan showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing, I'll be lurking in the comments!” | ||
| 4147. | The business case for fewer developers in meetings (blog.shimin.io) | |
| 134 points | 2022 | author recurrence showed up | their comment | thread
“Yea, a good meeting can absolutely be worth all the developer time it costs! I tried to carefully qualify all my calculations in terms of 'opportunity cost' and…” | ||
| 4148. | Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023) (jcarroll.com.au) | |
| 134 points | 2024 | author jonocarroll showed up | their comment | thread
“still getting over the first time I've seen one of my own posts on this site) The many recommendations for J here are a great nudge for me to give it a proper go. I've…” | ||
| 4149. | Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components (mux.com) | |
| 134 points | 2024 | author dylanjha showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the problem might be more around bureaucracy mixed with bad & buggy code than it is a specific problem with web components. Can you expand on that?” | ||
| 4150. | We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4 (modal.com) | |
| 134 points | 2025 | author charles_irl showed up | their comment | thread
“Reductively, software engineering means taking an idea and mapping it into code. So one form of "reverse" engineering would be taking the code and extracting the ideas.…” | ||
| 4151. | The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models (arxiv.org) | |
| 134 points | 2025 | author dxtrous showed up | their comment | thread
“I am genuinely thrilled to know someone would like to know what "B" stands for, knowing/expecting that "DH" stands for "Dragon Hatchling"! A clarification is thus due.…” | ||
| 4152. | Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng) | |
| 134 points | 2026 | author zhengkyl showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting this and glad people enjoyed reading. I did some editing and added a conclusion that boring QR codes are a better choice for real world use. Easier…” | ||
| 4153. | Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev) | |
| 134 points | 2026 | author faithraven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“tapo is an unofficial Rust client library for TP-Link Tapo devices (plugs, lights, hubs, cameras), with a Python wrapper built on the same crate. It is not affiliated…” | ||
| 4154. | Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus (techblog.livingsocial.com) | |
| 133 points | 2014 | author caffo showed up | their comment | thread
“sadly, I don't, but I always wanted one.” | ||
| 4155. | Writing a fuzzy receipt parser in Python (tech.trivago.com) | |
| 133 points | 2015 | author omn1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I am happy for all questions or every kind of feedback.” | ||
| 4156. | Is PaaS dead? (blog.fortrabbit.com) | |
| 133 points | 2016 | author esher showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback. Many of you missed the big players like Azure, AWS (Lambda & Elastic Beanstalk), Google App Engine … Well, that's true. Due to my…” | ||
| 4157. | How Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack (blog.serverfault.com) | |
| 133 points | 2017 | author thefarseeker showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I agree. There are built-in mechanisms for doing this - AXFR and IXFR. However, these mechanisms were not really designed with this sort of scale in mind. You have to…” | ||
| 4158. | From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree (oilshell.org) | |
| 133 points | 2017 | author chubot showed up | their comment | thread
“Cool! Yes this is what I was getting at. I mentioned Clang and Microsoft's IDEs in the "related work" section. I haven't seen them describe their data structures very…” | ||
| 4159. | Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2017 | author dc2 showed up | their comment | thread
“There seems to be a lot of discussion over use cases. Here's the use case I built it for: All traffic for my (large) application hits a load balanced API gateway. Its…” | ||
| 4160. | Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies (thehftguy.com) | |
| 133 points | 2017 | author user5994461 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The estimates could go either way. Kindly note that the stats are incomplete, notably the welcome page is missing. Some ads are cheaper, some countries are cheaper. Put…” | ||
| 4161. | The Joys of Unix Keyboards (donatstudios.com) | |
| 133 points | 2019 | author donatj showed up | their comment | thread
“weird to see this ancient post on HN :) I now primarily use a WhiteFox True Fox [1] I’ve purchased from Massdrop and customized at work and a Unicomp Sun Unix SpaceSaver…” | ||
| 4162. | The Hunt for the Fastest Zero (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback or questions.” | ||
| 4163. | Show HN: Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author chipneverdies showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The frontend would stream the video/audio to Pxy via WebSockets. In turn, Pxy utilises FFmpeg to convert the incoming stream to FLV and send the FLV stream to your…” | ||
| 4164. | Inside the HP Nanoprocessor (righto.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“It's an unusual processor, lacking the ability to add or subtract. Even so, it was used in HP equipment, not just as a controller, but parsing strings and doing…” | ||
| 4165. | The Story Behind Markdown (capiche.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author maguay showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I think, for one, Markdown's focus is on writing for the web, and there rich text wasn't good in 2004 (where copying/pasting from say Word into WordPress was always hit…” | ||
| 4166. | SkiftOS: Simple, handmade operating system for the x86 platform (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author monax showed up | their comment | thread
“skift was ported from C to C++, wich explain why most of the code is still "C-ish". The port was relatively easy thanks to the -Wc++-compat flags” | ||
| 4167. | Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You? (tanelpoder.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It would be interesting to test the performance difference. I downloaded the source of one of my distro-provided kernels & recompiled it with different config setting…” | ||
| 4168. | Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author jonnadal showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm also working on a related book covering distributed algorithms: It includes a comparison w/ TLA+/TLC for those familiar with those technologies.” | ||
| 4169. | Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images (unite.ai) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author jswulff showed up | their comment | thread
“To hopefully clarify, our work is in the context of representation learning, which is a bit different from a "standard" classification. For example, to classify a hotdog…” | ||
| 4170. | Formally Verifying Rust's Opaque Types (dylanj.xyz) | |
| 133 points | 2022 | author BreakfastB0b showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Glad you liked it! I’ve had a real fear of writing since High School and so starting this blog is my attempt to work through it. It’s a shame that more engineers don’t…” | ||
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