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| 4621. | Q3VM – Lightweight, embeddable Quake III Interpreter/Virtual Machine (github.com) | |
| 117 points | 2018 | author janosch9001 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It is indeed a niche thing. But there are some use cases: * Sandbox for code you don't fully trust (e.g. download the bytecode from a web server) * Mods for small hobby…” | ||
| 4622. | Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams (blog.frankel.ch) | |
| 117 points | 2018 | author nfrankel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Many thanks for your encouragements! Actually, I didn't feel any comments were particularly harsh. I'm learning from most of them. This is exactly the feedback I'm…” | ||
| 4623. | Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design (blog.adamant-lang.org) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author WalkerCodeRangr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“With regard to operator precedence, my position may be closer to yours than you think. In the post I linked to about intransitive operator precedence () I describe what…” | ||
| 4624. | GFWaaS – Make Your Website Work in China (gfwaas.github.io) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author felixding showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this would be in the frontpage of HN. Happy to answer any questions you may have :-)” | ||
| 4625. | How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? (read.iopipe.com) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author kolanos showed up | their comment | thread
“the CLI tool is: Part 2 is still planned and is now being fast tracked since there's interest in Fargate.” | ||
| 4626. | Provably space-efficient parallel functional programming (blog.sigplan.org) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author shwestrick showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the cool things about the property we're using here---disentanglement---is that it specifically allows for shared data, under only mild restrictions. This allows…” | ||
| 4627. | SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS (theregister.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I used to, yes. In what way do you feel it is a hit piece? I certainly did not intend for it to be one.” | ||
| 4628. | How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is (erichgrunewald.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author erwald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i read several of the papers involved and think it's more likely than not that qwerty was designed for fast typing, or at least not designed to type slowly. but i…” | ||
| 4629. | What's the risk from fake Yubikeys? (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hoped it was rare because it seems like an obviously bad idea. I can see how it would be convenient - but that's often the opposite of secure. I wonder where it would…” | ||
| 4630. | Progress toward fusion energy breakeven measured against Lawson criterion (twitter.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author sam showed up | their comment | thread
“The black curve represents the hot-spot ignition condition for a laser inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiment (like the NIF). This means that during the short…” | ||
| 4631. | Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? (bbc.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author lockesmith showed up | their comment | thread
“The thought experiment was about a typical American in 1940 and what they would have in their home, i.e. what would be so common that the median American would have it…” | ||
| 4632. | X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment (righto.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about obscure 1960s technology...” | ||
| 4633. | Fgtrace – The Full Go Tracer (github.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author felixge showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions :). I've also posted a few more comments in this twitter thread:” | ||
| 4634. | Do you really need foreign keys? (shayon.dev) | |
| 117 points | 2023 | author shayonj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! The author here. I appreciate your reply here and in few other threads for this post too. I think they are very well thought out. I also like how it brewed more…” | ||
| 4635. | Counterfactual Regret Minimisation or How I won any money in Poker? (rnikhil.com) | |
| 117 points | 2023 | author whoami_nr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, you can still make money in online Poker. Its not as juicy as it was and rake is very high these days making micro stakes unbeatable. Moreover, highest stakes…” | ||
| 4636. | Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare (mattyyeung.github.io) | |
| 117 points | 2024 | author mattyyeung showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your interest! Surprising way to wake up in the morning. Happy to answer questions” | ||
| 4637. | Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It (brentozar.com) | |
| 117 points | 2025 | author BrentOzar showed up | their comment | thread
“whoa, didn’t expect this to hit HN. Here for any questions, but I think the post speaks for itself.” | ||
| 4638. | Towards a Physics Foundation Model (arxiv.org) | |
| 117 points | 2025 | author flwi showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Wow, I didn't think this would HN. I actually planned to do the advertisement rounds only after the final ICLR submission. This is our attempt at creating a model which…” | ||
| 4639. | Heroku Support for .NET 10 (heroku.com) | |
| 117 points | 2025 | author runesoerensen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“for anyone curious, Heroku's .NET support is built on our open source .NET Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB), which is written in Rust and produces standard OCI images. You…” | ||
| 4640. | Computer vision (online book) (computervisionmodels.blogspot.com) | |
| 116 points | 2011 | author drsjdprince showed up | their comment | thread
“If you can't download, just wait a day or two - there aren't so many people interested in this that the server will be struggling for ever. Please don't torrent it as I…” | ||
| 4641. | Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown (socrates.io) | |
| 116 points | 2012 | author ivolo showed up | their comment | thread
“We did realize this. This is a weekend hackathon project to allow the hacker news community to write nice clean markdown. Firebase offers security, but we just didn't…” | ||
| 4642. | Show HN: importd – d is for django (pythonhosted.org) | |
| 116 points | 2013 | author amitu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“as well as that of smarturls and fhurl mentioned there. I understand the concern about magic, and moving parts. I guess the right answer to that concern would be…” | ||
| 4643. | Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching (zdnet.com) | |
| 116 points | 2013 | author gibsonsecurity showed up | their comment | thread
“, and the exploit we primarily talked about (find_friends) isn't really an issue with the protocol as a whole. We understand the need to support legacy clients, but…” | ||
| 4644. | Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6 (nickcraver.com) | |
| 116 points | 2015 | author Nick-Craver showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post to make as many developers and sysadmins aware of the (very critical) bug in .Net 4.6 as possible. Please take a minute to read and make anyone…” | ||
| 4645. | The Elixir of concurrency (cfenollosa.com) | |
| 116 points | 2016 | author carlesfe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’d appreciate any feedback, I always try to update blog posts with new info and fixes :)” | ||
| 4646. | Failsafe – failure handling with retries, circuit breakers and fallbacks (github.com) | |
| 116 points | 2016 | author jodah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Failsafe does support exponential backoffs [1]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(1, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); and if you want to specify the exponent [2]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(1,…” | ||
| 4647. | Types of Engineers (omar.io) | |
| 116 points | 2017 | author okhudeira showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I won't get into whether or not it's fair to call call "developers" "engineers", but I do make the distinction in the first paragraph that the article refers to software…” | ||
| 4648. | Stacks-cli: Analyze a website’s stack from the terminal (github.com) | |
| 116 points | 2017 | author goldxfive showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and yes just like you said, stacks-cli just another tool based on wappalyzer this npm module and was a side project of mine built in my spare time, but I think the most…” | ||
| 4649. | ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (blog.d46.us) | |
| 116 points | 2018 | author sa46 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“this is a rather pleasant Sunday surprise. I'm not sure I'd recommend the route in the post. The setup is fragile with a sizable set of moving parts. Simpler options are…” | ||
| 4650. | Ambitions for a Unix Shell (oilshell.org) | |
| 116 points | 2020 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah I appreciate a lot of things about Tcl, which is basically Lisp + shell (I think Ousterhout even said that?) I read most of the thick book about it even though I…” | ||
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