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| 451. | HTTP Toolkit (httptoolkit.tech) | |
| 538 points | 2021 | author pimterry showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“that's exactly it! The contents of that interceptors folder should give you an idea how it all works: It actually doesn't install system certificates at all though. It…” | ||
| 452. | Lapce – Fast open-source code editor (lapce.dev) | |
| 538 points | 2022 | author dzhou121 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback. I'm aware that Lapce lacks lots of basic stuff. It's a personal project so the initial set of features and key bindings are tight to my…” | ||
| 453. | Things You're Allowed to Do (milan.cvitkovic.net) | |
| 537 points | 2020 | author mwcvitkovic showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“This is a great point. I'll add the non-obvious DIY options to the list. They're just as important.” | ||
| 454. | Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 537 points | 2025 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I believe the register reads are just extending the delay, although the new approach does have a side effect of reading from the hardware multiple times. I don't…” | ||
| 455. | Please commit more blatant academic fraud (jacobbuckman.com) | |
| 536 points | 2021 | author jacobbuckman showed up | their comment | thread
“don't worry, haha. I know that nobody would ever actually do this so I decided to just lean into it. If I had any real power by which to fix things, I would have a much…” | ||
| 456. | Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS (leemeichin.com) | |
| 536 points | 2022 | author ljm showed up | their comment | thread
“While it's true that this depends on JS to work (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the browser), I think there's enough doubt about my technique here…” | ||
| 457. | Cello: Higher level programming in C (libcello.org) | |
| 535 points | 2013 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah the syntax looks much better with correct highlighting. I've provided a custom definition for Notepad++ on the repo - and of course there is the definition used on…” | ||
| 458. | Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping (ocalog.com) | |
| 534 points | 2017 | author mjfl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site. Do you guys get what the site's trying to do? Hope you enjoy the post. If…” | ||
| 459. | I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years (blog.inkdrop.info) | |
| 533 points | 2019 | author craftzdog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server…” | ||
| 460. | Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language (github.com) | |
| 533 points | 2020 | author beefdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the engineering co-founder of PopCap Games. I left PopCap after the EA acquisition, and I've been working on this project mostly full-time for the last five years.…” | ||
| 461. | Bring Your Own Client (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 533 points | 2021 | author gklitt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry to hear that! Out of curiosity, what screen size are you reading on? Anyone else have similar problems? Sounds like I should add a button to disable the gradient.” | ||
| 462. | 20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 533 points | 2025 | author hermitcrab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Since you asked. This TV comedy included a plot point where some wedding planning software was shown to lose the seating plan. The wedding planning software was clearly…” | ||
| 463. | How the Web Became Unreadable (backchannel.com) | |
| 532 points | 2016 | author epeus showed up | their comment | thread
“and I like pure blacks too, but it's only pure black as long there isn't any other light on it. Thats what i meant about ambient light.” | ||
| 464. | Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots (medium.com) | |
| 531 points | 2020 | author seankernan showed up | their comment | thread
“I was about to make this exact point. Perfectly said. As a writer, creating a headline is always a balancing act. You want to drive interest and create curiosity but you…” | ||
| 465. | Grokking Deep Learning (iamtrask.github.io) | |
| 530 points | 2016 | author williamtrask showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the first 3 chapters are in pre-publication. It is my hope that people are willing to check out said chapters and help me refine it in any ways it doesn't live up to the…” | ||
| 466. | Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities (billmei.net) | |
| 530 points | 2022 | author Kortaggio showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here - thanks for the feedback. I added the following footnote to the article to clarify: In response to "How can you trust and be loyal to someone you just…” | ||
| 467. | AWS data center latencies, visualized (benjdd.com) | |
| 529 points | 2024 | author bddicken showed up | their comment (+13 more) | thread
“This is great feedback, thanks.” | ||
| 468. | I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores (debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com) | |
| 528 points | 2018 | author judah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page. The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between…” | ||
| 469. | Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) (en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 528 points | 2019 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hello. I am the author of the "Wikipedia has cancer" essay on Wikipedia. After I finish writing this I I will confirm this with a post to] on Hacker news I read HN…” | ||
| 470. | Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS (callumprentice.github.io) | |
| 528 points | 2020 | author callumprentice showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks so much for the comments and even code fixes already. So very much appreciated - we had a mountain of fun working on it and I'm glad people are finding it useful…” | ||
| 471. | Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic (christine.website) | |
| 528 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not being paid to say this. If you don't trust me, I'm sure one of the fly.io people will chime in to confirm this. I haven't accepted paid sponsorship and…” | ||
| 472. | Color Emulation (byuu.net) | |
| 527 points | 2019 | author byuu showed up | their comment | thread
“My background is I wrote emulators for 24 systems and counting (higan and bsnes), and I want to try my hand at technical writing, in hopes of encouraging more people to…” | ||
| 473. | I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension (alexgarcia.xyz) | |
| 526 points | 2024 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions! This is more of a "I'm working on a new project" rather than an official release, the extension itself is still a work-in-progress. A link…” | ||
| 474. | How to live on $432 a month in America (shagbark.substack.com) | |
| 526 points | 2025 | author keiferski showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote that to imply that the living standards of 1960 were normal in 1960, but wouldn’t be normal today. Don’t over-focus on the word universal and miss the point I…” | ||
| 475. | I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020) (superr.in) | |
| 525 points | 2022 | author rohan_shah showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author and here's the clarification: That was the official response I got from the district administration so had to post it. Also was being pressured by…” | ||
| 476. | The Rise and Rise of Television Torture (interpretthis.org) | |
| 524 points | 2014 | author aychedee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I pretty much figured that 24 was generally acknowledged to be torture full. I wrote that piece after spending the holidays binge watching X-Files and Fringe. Such…” | ||
| 477. | No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game (nature.com) | |
| 524 points | 2019 | author noambrown showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of the bot, AMA” | ||
| 478. | Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 524 points | 2022 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“My intuition says that's probably a faulty backlight panel. Not sure if you know that, but the liquid crystal that creates the image and colors is very dark by itself,…” | ||
| 479. | I don't trust Signal (drewdevault.com) | |
| 523 points | 2018 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“this is a fair criticism. Other alternatives (which I have not reviewed in depth) include Tox, Telegram, Wire, and Ring (not an endorsement of any of these). I'm an old…” | ||
| 480. | SQLite Schema Diagram Generator (gitlab.com) | |
| 523 points | 2024 | author thristian showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't bother submitting this to HN because I figured it would be too niche and trivial to get much attention. Evidently I was wrong!” | ||
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