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| 421. | My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app (twitter.com) | |
| 557 points | 2018 | author buro9 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days. For future HN context, as the author I'm reproducing them here in full: My…” | ||
| 422. | قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic (nas.sr) | |
| 556 points | 2019 | author ramseynasser showed up | their comment | thread
“i am glad this project is still starting conversations six years after it came out! if youre interested in a longer read on the subject of the cultural assumptions of…” | ||
| 423. | 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App (github.com) | |
| 556 points | 2020 | author felixrieseberg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is silly, but I'm allocating the entire size of the _virtual_ disk on your actual hard drive. There's probably a smarter way to do this, but that's how it is right…” | ||
| 424. | LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab (theregister.com) | |
| 555 points | 2025 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi there. Article author here. I disagree. I think it is _much_ better than most rivals such as OnlyOffice, WPS Office, and of course MS Office itself since 2007. It's…” | ||
| 425. | How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017 (zhubert.com) | |
| 551 points | 2017 | author zhubert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Completely agree on the early reader feedback. I went through two rounds of readers (alpha and beta) and it was immensely helpful in grinding down some of the rough…” | ||
| 426. | Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH (github.com) | |
| 551 points | 2018 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this here as I've been literally spending the last 2 weeks on a complete rewrite from scratch that actually layers REAL text over the blocks. You can…” | ||
| 427. | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (stopa.io) | |
| 551 points | 2020 | author stopachka showed up | their comment | thread
“Am a fan of Slava, and loved his essay on Lisp. Highly recommend!” | ||
| 428. | Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++ (binji.github.io) | |
| 551 points | 2021 | author binji showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions. :-)” | ||
| 429. | TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics (zig.news) | |
| 551 points | 2021 | author ikskuh showed up | their comment | thread
“This is actually a limitation of chrome! The images are perfectly sharp when displayed as files: The are just up/downscaled to 3em height so the table looks uniform” | ||
| 430. | I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit (drewdevault.com) | |
| 550 points | 2021 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“I did write that extra free stuff, and I'm arguing that some people are being assholes because they perpetuate the lie that I didn't do the free work, and because…” | ||
| 431. | A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code (sanity.io) | |
| 550 points | 2025 | author vincent_builds showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I think that's a great idea. I've considered live-streaming my work a few times, but all my work is on closed-source backend applications with sensitive code and data.…” | ||
| 432. | How my genius roommate changed my perspective (farhadg.com) | |
| 549 points | 2021 | author FarhadG showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+30 more) | thread
“I am deeply humbled by your engagement, comments, critiques, and insights. Needless to say, this inspires me to write and share more. Thank you Hacker News. You are…” | ||
| 433. | Google rewrites many page titles (zyppy.com) | |
| 547 points | 2022 | author cyrusshepard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Frustrating situation. As the title is long at 84 characters, we know that Google is definitely going to rewrite it. The simplest way is to break it into parts and get…” | ||
| 434. | I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (blog.rongarret.info) | |
| 547 points | 2025 | author lisper showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA.” | ||
| 435. | The State of JavaScript – Survey results (stateofjs.com) | |
| 546 points | 2016 | author sgdesign showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here, thanks!” | ||
| 436. | Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io) | |
| 546 points | 2018 | author justinmeiners showed up | their comment | thread
“Definitely agree. The intent was to write the simplest possible to VM that could run real programs. VMs are obviously a deep field of research and there are plenty more…” | ||
| 437. | Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units (isd-project.github.io) | |
| 546 points | 2025 | author kai-tub showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, I agree. It is a bit weird. On the one hand, I understand that it makes sense to have [command] [verb] [object] on a "logical" level and that viewing logs should…” | ||
| 438. | Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch (github.com) | |
| 545 points | 2017 | author bpesquet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Backstory: I'm a CS engineer/teacher and this book is a side project started in December 2016. You can read a bit more about it here:. The writing process is now…” | ||
| 439. | The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext (latacora.singles) | |
| 545 points | 2018 | author lvh showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this; happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 440. | Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0 (github.com) | |
| 545 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The people who make virus scanners are going to have their heads explode when they learn about redbean's new StoreAsset() function where the executable edits itself as…” | ||
| 441. | Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program (syncthing.net) | |
| 545 points | 2021 | author gkya showed up | their comment | thread
“So, - I did not use it as a backup system. Due to circumstance, my backups were borked and I was too busy/poor to fix them up. Syncthing was used to sync my passwords,…” | ||
| 442. | Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir (stressgrid.com) | |
| 544 points | 2019 | author lstodd showed up | their comment | thread
“and that's the truth. Can't see how this can be replicated as a controlled experiment nowadays, unfortunately. But if you define exactly what's a request, what's a…” | ||
| 443. | Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC (mailroute.net) | |
| 544 points | 2026 | author mailroute showed up | their comment | thread
“Microsoft did announce sender rules last year, but those rules aren't what is bouncing mail now. The April 2025 announcement covers domains that send more than 5,000…” | ||
| 444. | The open calendar, task and note space is a mess (stevenvanbael.com) | |
| 543 points | 2021 | author vbsteven showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it's always fun to see your own articles pop up on HN unexpectedly. This post was written several months ago and in the meantime I have given up on trying to cobble…” | ||
| 445. | Advantages of incompetent management (yosefk.com) | |
| 543 points | 2024 | author yosefk showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm simultaneously quite pessimistic about, and very interested in heterodox organizational structures and especially real-world stories about them. I feel that failure…” | ||
| 446. | Does current AI represent a dead end? (bcs.org) | |
| 543 points | 2024 | author EerkeBoiten showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Nope, that is not my concern about humans in the loop. My concern on that is that any human in the loop has to reconstruct by themselves from the inputs whether the…” | ||
| 447. | A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS (airpair.com) | |
| 542 points | 2015 | author joshpadnick showed up | their comment | thread
“So, you're right that while AWS does continue to lower prices, they're still not the cheapest game in town. Frankly, they're not even necessarily the most performant…” | ||
| 448. | Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide (janmeppe.com) | |
| 541 points | 2019 | author Rainymood showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I actually did not know this. I used this very old book (Unix Power Tools) and after finishing the chapter on regex I didn't recall seeing a `+` operator (maybe I forgot…” | ||
| 449. | How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails (nateberkopec.com) | |
| 539 points | 2017 | author nateberkopec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don't do that. I think I even mention in the post that I don't bother with vote-ringing on HN because I think HN's algos are pretty sophisticated on this front. Plus,…” | ||
| 450. | Move Fast and Fix Things (githubengineering.com) | |
| 538 points | 2015 | author tanoku showed up | their comment | thread
“5 years ago I would have agreed with you and logged e.g. 10 million merge requests to replay them offline. But one thing I've found over the years (which may seem…” | ||
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