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| 4741. | Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust (blog.yossarian.net) | |
| 113 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“so I can try to answer that. The first (and lazy) answer is that it was an educational exercise: I wanted to try my hand at writing in Python package in Rust, and this…” | ||
| 4742. | An unscientific benchmark of SQLite vs. the file system (btrfs) (github.com) | |
| 113 points | 2022 | author christophilus showed up | their comment | thread
“Out of curiosity, how did you find and post this before I did?” | ||
| 4743. | Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board (righto.com) | |
| 113 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about the board or the Univac 1004.” | ||
| 4744. | MarkovJunior: Probabilistic PL based on pattern matching and constraint prop (github.com) | |
| 113 points | 2022 | author ExUtumno showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll try to answer questions/comments in this post!” | ||
| 4745. | Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework (github.com) | |
| 113 points | 2024 | author mgrandl showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This project is incredibly buggy and immature at this point and not really intended to be run yet. I am blown away by the reception. Notes for people trying to run this:…” | ||
| 4746. | Ideas and Creativity (2019) (bastian.rieck.me) | |
| 113 points | 2024 | author Pseudomanifold showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Fixed, thanks a lot!” | ||
| 4747. | Curating my corner of the Internet with a freehand web editor (rafichaudhury.com) | |
| 113 points | 2024 | author rchaud showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Very true! I didn't go into it in the article itself, but you are correct. HTML has a pretty strict hierarchy of elements to maintain a semantic style. While this is…” | ||
| 4748. | Dissecting the gzip format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com) | |
| 113 points | 2024 | author commandlinefan showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually did a follow-up where I looked at the table-based decoding:” | ||
| 4749. | Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) (openmymind.net) | |
| 113 points | 2025 | author latch showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree this is a less-than captivating piece. I write a lot about Zig and wanted something I could reference from other pieces. But, to answer your question directly:…” | ||
| 4750. | The real failure rate of EBS (planetscale.com) | |
| 113 points | 2025 | author nickvanw showed up | their comment | thread
“it's not that we're detecting failure better than they are (though certainly, we might be able to do it as fast as anyone else) - it's what you do afterwards that…” | ||
| 4751. | Dead Framework Theory (aifoc.us) | |
| 113 points | 2025 | author kinlan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Fwiw this is my hope too. I wrote about something similar in the past” | ||
| 4752. | C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com) | |
| 113 points | 2026 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing.” | ||
| 4753. | OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp (atgreen.github.io) | |
| 113 points | 2026 | author atgreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, I worked in the University of Toronto's AI lab as a student many years ago, back when Lisp in AI was a thing. It definitely would be full circle!” | ||
| 4754. | Japan: We're losing to Apple, and here's why (globalvoicesonline.org) | |
| 112 points | 2011 | author shioyama showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your thoughts, which I agree with entirely. I actually think that although the post I translated is interesting, it is in fact missing the point, in a sense.…” | ||
| 4755. | 532x Performance Increase for MongoDB with fractal tree indexes (tokutek.com) | |
| 112 points | 2012 | author leif showed up | their comment | thread
“not an author of the original papers, though I can discuss those too)! What would you like to know? First, the structure you described is called a cache oblivious…” | ||
| 4756. | An introduction to libuv (nikhilm.github.io) | |
| 112 points | 2013 | author nsm showed up | their comment | thread
“It's because it uses the Haiku standard theme shipped with the sphinx documentation generator, which does come from the Haiku project :)” | ||
| 4757. | Writing HTTP Middleware in Go (justinas.org) | |
| 112 points | 2013 | author sjustinas showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your input, but I'd like to clarify some points. The blog post's intent was not to show how to implement your own middleware mechanism in a web framework…” | ||
| 4758. | The Day We Do Nothing Of Consequence (cryto.net) | |
| 112 points | 2014 | author joepie91_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Had to register a new account, as I lost the password to my original account a while ago. Addressing a few of the points made in the comments here... This is false. That…” | ||
| 4759. | My journey into the Berlin startup scene (medium.com) | |
| 112 points | 2014 | author adamwiggins showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to know how things turned out, here's a follow-up / debrief from a few months after the first one: The second one is less about my personal experience and…” | ||
| 4760. | The Perilous World of Machine Learning for Fun and Profit (john-foreman.com) | |
| 112 points | 2015 | author mistermcgruff showed up | their comment | thread
“It does sound kinda bigoted, doesn't it? Lemme clarify. I would really love for more people to learn this stuff. Truly. That's why I wrote a book to teach it to folks in…” | ||
| 4761. | London vs San Francisco – back and forth (jh47.com) | |
| 112 points | 2016 | author henson showed up | their comment | thread
“This is fascinating to read! I (naively) assumed that things were better across the board prior to any of the tech booms. I lived in SF and commuted to San Mateo which…” | ||
| 4762. | Show HN: Master Numbers in a Foreign Language (foreignnumbers.com) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author jasonlfunk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm working on launching a new webapp dedicated to helping language learners master numbers both in production and listening comprehension. I'd love any feedback, tips,…” | ||
| 4763. | Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine (cr.openjdk.java.net) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“and I did not mention this paper because that would be going into too much detail. However: 1. The paper discusses an implementation of lightweight threads in…” | ||
| 4764. | Untangling the WebRTC Flow (pkcsecurity.com) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author squidlogic showed up | their comment | thread
“I've used SimpleWebRTC[0] in the past with success. It was helpful once I needed to start dealing with the annoyances of cross browser compatibility, multiparty calls,…” | ||
| 4765. | The ICO paradox and how to fix it (blog.sia.tech) | |
| 112 points | 2018 | author zherbert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if anyone wants to discuss!” | ||
| 4766. | Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 112 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“I worked at a place that had full root for everyone everywhere and introduced docker back in 2014. It was fun. Then I moved to finance where regulatory requirements mean…” | ||
| 4767. | Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web (mint-lang.com) | |
| 112 points | 2018 | author gdotdesign showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“please keep in mind that Mint is still very young and I'm still working to get things in order for a first stable-ish release (there are a lot of documentation to write…” | ||
| 4768. | Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective (branchfree.org) | |
| 112 points | 2019 | author glangdale showed up | their comment | thread
“to throw rocks, mock my limited understanding of Galois Field arithmetic, etc.” | ||
| 4769. | Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace (blog.paperspace.com) | |
| 112 points | 2019 | author hsikka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This post was the result of a small set of experiments that came out of the Paperspace Advanced Technologies Group. We've been working on some pretty ambitious research…” | ||
| 4770. | I built a wind map with WebGL (2017) (blog.mapbox.com) | |
| 112 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up | their comment | thread
“very happy to see this resurfacing on HN! So, ask me anything!” | ||
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