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| 4171. | How stdbuf works (hmarr.com) | |
| 133 points | 2022 | author hcm showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't see that in Chrome so had no idea that was happening – thanks for pointing it out! I'm not a fan of coding ligatures so I just pushed a change to turn it off.” | ||
| 4172. | The PlanetScale vectors public beta (planetscale.com) | |
| 133 points | 2024 | author tanoku showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors of this feature. It's something quite novel, because it's not just a HNSW plug-in for MySQL (like e.g. pgvector is for Postgres). It's a fully…” | ||
| 4173. | Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get? (broot.ca) | |
| 133 points | 2025 | author alexwebr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“RabbitMQ or AWS SQS are probably good choices.” | ||
| 4174. | Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2025 | author leoshimo showed up | their comment | thread
“wanted to drop some context on the project from the README: --- *[vrs]() is a personal programming runtime - a sandbox for building my “endgame” software platform. The…” | ||
| 4175. | The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust (yekdeveloper.com) | |
| 133 points | 2025 | author avan1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for reading my post. actually you still don't need rewrite. running php with workers (swoole, frankenphp, ...) may be as fast as node. and for typed array php has…” | ||
| 4176. | CDE: Easily run a program on any linux without thinking about dependencies (stanford.edu) | |
| 132 points | 2010 | author pgbovine showed up | their comment | thread
“so please feel free to ping me if you have questions, complaints, or bug reports. i'm in the midst of fixing a bunch of silly bugs now and improving the documentation.” | ||
| 4177. | Importance of Side Projects (rawsyntax.com) | |
| 132 points | 2011 | author rawsyntax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“will answer any questions / criticisms of the post. Thanks for the upvotes” | ||
| 4178. | Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) (manning.com) | |
| 132 points | 2012 | author nathanmarz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you have any questions about the book, I'm happy to answer them here.” | ||
| 4179. | Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit (berbaquero.github.com) | |
| 132 points | 2013 | author baquerober showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't had the chance to test Reeddit directly on the Nexus 7, but if the sidebar is hidden, you should be able to see it by swiping to the right or tapping the…” | ||
| 4180. | Gremlin.js: Throw a thousand monkeys at your page (dailyjs.com) | |
| 132 points | 2014 | author fzaninotto showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors of Gremlins.js. Glad to see that some of you find it interesting. I wrote a blog post a while ago about the purpose of the lib, it's called…” | ||
| 4181. | Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey (teslacost.com) | |
| 132 points | 2014 | author pakile showed up | their comment | thread
“and I have an important update. I added this Epilogue to the website tonight: -- I created this website two days ago, and during that time, have witnessed 100s of…” | ||
| 4182. | Integrating React with Meteor (info.meteor.com) | |
| 132 points | 2015 | author avital showed up | their comment | thread
“We were trying to keep our API surface area small with one way to load data into components, but you're right -- we should probably /also/ add a ES6 base class as a…” | ||
| 4183. | Microsoft Small Basic (smallbasic.com) | |
| 132 points | 2015 | author _vijaye showed up | their comment | thread
“I made Small Basic when I was in MS in 2008. My goal then was to remove programming language ceremony (imports, defs, etc.) and get to instant gratification. There are…” | ||
| 4184. | Is Caddy Free? (caddyserver.com) | |
| 132 points | 2016 | author mholt showed up | their comment | thread
“Want to respond with a few things. First, thanks for your support. The project has received the blessing of so many of you and dozens - over 60 - of you have jumped in…” | ||
| 4185. | Twilio – Why there's no API for crossing the chasm (exponents.co) | |
| 132 points | 2017 | author Devolver showed up | their comment | thread
“and am not even the least bit bitter. I love Twilio. I wrote this because I want them to succeed. A successful IPO has no necessary correlation to having crossed the…” | ||
| 4186. | Good engineers make terrible leaders (invertedpassion.com) | |
| 132 points | 2017 | author paraschopra showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'd love to get a list of errors and fallacies. I actively try to learn to think better, so it'll be great if you could point them out. You are missing the point of the…” | ||
| 4187. | Year in Pixels (year-in-pixels.glitch.me) | |
| 132 points | 2018 | author kinduff showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is small tool I made during Friday and Saturday. The idea for this tool is not new at all, but I've never seen this format online before. The tool is based on an…” | ||
| 4188. | Git-subtrac: all your Git submodules in one place (apenwarr.ca) | |
| 132 points | 2019 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey sorry, git-subtrac is new and I didn't know what to put in the docs. To quickly answer your questions: 1. You should run it every time you make a change in a…” | ||
| 4189. | Dashmap: Fast concurrent HashMap for Rust (github.com) | |
| 132 points | 2020 | author xacrimon showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of dashmap. CHashMap is essentially a table behind an rwlock where each slot is also behind its own rwlock. This is great in theory since it allows…” | ||
| 4190. | Ws4sqlite: Query SQLite via HTTP (github.com) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author mano78 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is a pet project of mine, and what a surprise to see on HN! :-) Your discussions on PostgREST and on using SQLite for different use cases are what motivated me for…” | ||
| 4191. | Knowledge is like a house of cards (fhur.me) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author fernandohur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback. I'm not really sure what you mean by all-caps, would you mind elaborating?” | ||
| 4192. | Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) (breck-mckye.com) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author jbreckmckye showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I no longer think front-end suffers the instability people accuse it of. I think there are a lot of _vendors_ trying to usher in a revolution around their particular…” | ||
| 4193. | Building a transformer in Julia (liorsinai.github.io) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author the_origami_fox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Indeed, the HackerNews teams moved this to a second chance pool for me; very nice of them” | ||
| 4194. | SaaS services behind a startup (bytebase.com) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author tianzhou showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“We do rely on all mentioned tools, though for some tools, we only use them occasionally due to their nature (e.g. we don't need to visit Pulley every day to manage…” | ||
| 4195. | The near future of AI is action-driven (jmcdonnell.substack.com) | |
| 132 points | 2022 | author jvm showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah I agree the real world is very complicated. For any given task I'm imagining something like 1. Use some sort of instruction tuning to get the thing "good enough"…” | ||
| 4196. | Was BASIC that horrible or better? (retrofun.pl) | |
| 132 points | 2023 | author ikari_pl showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought my wordpress stats are broken, when instead of the usual 3-10 vitits it showed 3800 :'). Thank you. A personal background: writing this article was fun! I…” | ||
| 4197. | The math exams of my life (andreinc.net) | |
| 132 points | 2024 | author nomemory showed up | their comment | thread
“it's probably what I did, but i am sure i also had to memorize quite a few radicals, and also multiplying numbers up to 40X40 + other tricks to multiply fast.” | ||
| 4198. | OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon (hiandrewquinn.github.io) | |
| 132 points | 2024 | author hiAndrewQuinn showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah, as I've learned more about OpenBSD I've realized that, while "don't fix it if it ain't broken" is still a valid claim about their overall approach, the OpenBSD…” | ||
| 4199. | Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net) | |
| 132 points | 2026 | author marcua showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thank you for trying the bookmarklet and catching this issue. I pushed some fixes that should get around the CSP issue by storing capture.js in the bookmarklet. Let me…” | ||
| 4200. | Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com) | |
| 132 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your core memory questions...” | ||
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