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| 4471. | Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) (wit.io) | |
| 122 points | 2011 | author djacobs showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article almost a year ago as a tribute to my favorite language at the time. (That title now belongs to Clojure.) It feels like if you want to do scientific…” | ||
| 4472. | A 14-year-old could build 1998's Google using her Dad's credit card (paulbohm.com) | |
| 122 points | 2012 | author enki showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was writing this more in the sense that kids at BioCurious (and the DIY Bio Movement in general) are doing electrophoresis to transfer DNA from glowing jellyfish to…” | ||
| 4473. | Why the Facebook Experiment Is Lousy Social Science (ischool.berkeley.edu) | |
| 122 points | 2014 | author gpanger showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for taking an interest in my critique of the FB experiment. Quick FYI is that the post is up on Medium: ...where I can fix things like broken links. It was…” | ||
| 4474. | Category theory for beginners (slideshare.net) | |
| 122 points | 2015 | author kenbot showed up | their comment | thread
“One thing to remember is that each slide had a lot of verbal explanation around it, so I'm not surprised that it's confusing by itself! We took a video, so hopefully it…” | ||
| 4475. | How I Hacked My Way from TC to YC (medium.com) | |
| 122 points | 2015 | author sayangel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“totally get where you're coming from, but there's huge value in the social part as well. It's not to say I didn't do any coding at the hackathons I went to. But if I was…” | ||
| 4476. | The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the first, forgotten microprocessor (righto.com) | |
| 122 points | 2015 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“One key difference between the Intel and TI layout is that Federico Faggin (who later created the Z80) brought silicon gate technology to Intel from Fairchild. This…” | ||
| 4477. | Mu: making programs easier to understand in the large (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2016 | author akkartik showed up | their comment | thread
“For my part, I have never understood why people consider it to be a good thing to squirrel code into a bunch of different sub-directories. a) It makes the build scripts…” | ||
| 4478. | Inside Pascal: Nvidia 's Newest Computing Platform (devblogs.nvidia.com) | |
| 122 points | 2016 | author bsprings showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Curious to hear more details about your workload, because a 5+-year-old Fermi would truly be hard pressed to outperform Maxwell or even a Kepler K40, let alone Pascal.” | ||
| 4479. | Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift (uraimo.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author drtse4 showed up | their comment | thread
“no, it doesn't support TCO and you'd have to resort to trampolining here too. In another post[1] I've talked about this and I agree it's definitely not an elegant…” | ||
| 4480. | Rooby: a Ruby-like object oriented language written in Go (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author st0012 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Let me explain a few things: 1. The goal of this project is to let people "Use Ruby-like syntax build Go-like performant api servers". 2. The "Ruby-like" means Ruby-like…” | ||
| 4481. | Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author phillipcarter showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Never hurts to give it a try again! Three months ago, .NET Core 2.0 hadn't actually shipped yet. Although it was certainly possible to write these sorts of things on…” | ||
| 4482. | Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf] (tromp.github.io) | |
| 122 points | 2018 | author tromp showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper is currently in a state of flux, as I started adding material about the graphical notation, but didn't get very far before my attention drifted to other…” | ||
| 4483. | Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author hoaphumanoid showed up | their comment | thread
“We are planning to create some notebooks on recommendation about recommendation algos :-)” | ||
| 4484. | Perl is dying (thehftguy.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author user5994461 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I put Rails instead of Ruby deliberately. I'm not sure if Ruby is significant enough to stand on its own, guessed not.” | ||
| 4485. | High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017) (devblogs.nvidia.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author maleadt showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! We've been developing and maintaining this toolchain for a while now, so the relevant packages (CUDAnative.jl for kernel programming,…” | ||
| 4486. | A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity (matthewsaltz.wordpress.com) | |
| 122 points | 2021 | author msaltz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Fortunately, I mostly don't idly browse the internet on my computer - that habit is attached to my phone, which I just leave in the other room :) But in general, yes, if…” | ||
| 4487. | Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors (medium.com) | |
| 122 points | 2021 | author tschiller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions For our product (PixieBrix) we actually generally grab the data directly from the front-end framework (e.g., React props). It's a bit less…” | ||
| 4488. | Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket (guillaume.baierouge.fr) | |
| 122 points | 2021 | author _mouvantsillage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This post is part of an ongoing experiment to use Racket as a platform for hardware description languages. Describing a RISC-V core in Racket is a step in this…” | ||
| 4489. | Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases (google.github.io) | |
| 122 points | 2021 | author VanL showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this chapter of the casebook. I didn't expect it to show up here, but I'm happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 4490. | Hotcaml: An OCaml interpreter with watching and reloading (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2022 | author def-lkb showed up | their comment | thread
“There is actually some notion of persisting state in it. Reloading is done at the granularity of a module. The reverse dependencies of a module that changed are also…” | ||
| 4491. | We automatically fixed thousands of Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings (about.gitlab.com) | |
| 122 points | 2022 | author kuahyeow showed up | their comment | thread
“and also GitLab team member. If you peek into the source code, I was actually inspired by the ruby-warning gem, and have directly credited it () :) Also in Ruby 2.7.2,…” | ||
| 4492. | Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote (maya.land) | |
| 122 points | 2023 | author kixiQu showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“(A woman.) I think a fair criticism of my post might be that it was written in a moment of obvious annoyance, and failed to spend enough time connecting the griping…” | ||
| 4493. | Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte (otherbranch.com) | |
| 122 points | 2024 | author rachofsunshine showed up | their comment | thread
“and TB changed my life, even though I'm not an engineer. They hired me almost literally off the street, and now I'm...well, running an attempt at a successor. Not a bad…” | ||
| 4494. | Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming (viksit.substack.com) | |
| 122 points | 2025 | author viksit showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“put the code in a gist here for reference)” | ||
| 4495. | Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2025 | author daniellionel showed up | their comment | thread
“it does not no :) it takes the json description of the sql queries generated by sqlc and converts them to gleam code. but if sqlc supported that feature, parrot could…” | ||
| 4496. | An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product (ducktyped.org) | |
| 122 points | 2025 | author egonschiele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm seeing a lot of the same comments here, so I want to address them. I teach math by leading with examples. I try to show the intuition behind an idea, and why it is…” | ||
| 4497. | Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2 (ericswpark.com) | |
| 122 points | 2026 | author ericswpark showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“good question! I actually didn’t know what model I wanted to use; I had a general idea of “let’s try a Chinese model instead” but didn’t know how Deepseek, Qwen, or any…” | ||
| 4498. | Facebook Messaging: scorned by nerds, built for teens like candy-covered crack (brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com) | |
| 121 points | 2010 | author Brokenbottleboy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1 works initially but then 2 takes over in time. Apple isn't about "hackers", it's about people who want ease of use and style. Linux boxes and the like are hacker…” | ||
| 4499. | IOS vs. Android from the Trenches (devblog.bu.mp) | |
| 121 points | 2011 | author ikhare showed up | their comment | thread
“What aspects do you think I missed that you'd like to know more about? My first draft was much longer with a lot more details but I was worried about a writing a book…” | ||
| 4500. | How to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Rock Star (blog.smartbear.com) | |
| 121 points | 2012 | author petdance showed up | their comment | thread
“and throwing away the tickets was suggested many times by different people. We had a pretty big discussion in #parrot about the value of this ticket set. People on the…” | ||
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