4801. On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
111 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It's not really, you know. IBM i is very interesting: the last mainstream single-level store system. This is a concept I've both talked and written about in recent years…”
4802. Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments (logdy.dev)
111 points | 2024 | author piterrro showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Logdy is a self-hosted, single binary, open source cli tool that catches stdout from a terminal and sends it to web browser UI. It's goal is to structure the logs and…”
4803. Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases (theregister.com)
111 points | 2024 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It is! A potted summary: A wonderful academic look, short and readable: "Oberon -- the overlooked jewel" (PDF, over HTTP, safe)”
4804. Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019) (outlandnish.com)
111 points | 2024 | author outlandnish showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect a hack I did 5 years ago to show up here! This project was a weekend project that I took on. I used to professionally reverse engineer cars for building…”
4805. ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands (github.com)
111 points | 2024 | author ahmetsait showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. Some of these can indeed be an alias, others.. not so much. `git-root` for example is more-or-less a one-liner, meanwhile `git-mode-restore` is a ~840…”
4806. CRDTs and Collaborative Playground (cerbos.dev)
111 points | 2024 | author sambigeara showed up | their comment | thread
“This: it's only held during document updates, which in itself is an operation we debounce to avoid unnecessarily hammering the DB. Eventual consistency is our friend…”
4807. Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video] (media.ccc.de)
111 points | 2024 | author hcadam showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it’s totally possible to get IQ samples from the RX chain! Unfortunately, the design of the TX chain is in such a way that it does not work off of IQ DACs, and is more…”
4808. When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader (crocidb.com)
111 points | 2026 | author CrociDB showed up | their comment | thread
“hey! author here. I think I missed the opportunity to mention that, it wasn't only reproducible on the 40xx. it was my first hypothesis, but after I figured out it was a…”
4809. Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP. (github.com)
110 points | 2010 | author dahlia showed up | their comment | thread
“I made the web REPL also. Well, of course, it uses a sandbox environment.”
4810. The Worst SaaS Cancellation Policy on the Internet (sitebuilderreport.com)
110 points | 2014 | author steve_benjamins showed up | their comment | thread
“actually the article talks about this- you're unable to cancel the My Website (their most popular service) using that website.”
4811. A FAT32 fragmenter (gist.github.com)
110 points | 2015 | author ryan-c showed up | their comment | thread
“It's pretty horrendously bad on spinning rust - you get very, very close to 100% fragmentation, so the disk has to seek for each cluster. A lower bound average on seek…”
4812. Show HN: Better code review for GitHub (omniref.com)
110 points | 2016 | author timr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Editor integration: Agreed. An API is soming soon, which will make it possible for anyone to write an editor integration. Because there are A Lot of Editors. Inline…”
4813. Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases (scim.ag)
110 points | 2017 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“Some of the press articles about our work didn't have a lot of nuance (unsurprisingly), but in the paper we're careful about what we say, what we don't say, and what the…”
4814. Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming (zabanaa.github.io)
110 points | 2017 | author zabana showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this article mainly as a note to self that I could refer to in the future and as an exercise to help me learn the concept and force me to structure my thoughts…”
4815. Apple's CVDisplayLink Doesn't Link to Your Display (thume.ca)
110 points | 2017 | author trishume showed up | their comment | thread
“that would make sense, except it doesn't appear to be doing that. I also don't see anything in the docs suggesting that it would. My test app takes 1ms to render yet,…”
4816. Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation (blog.confiant.com)
110 points | 2018 | author jdangu showed up | their comment | thread
“we don't know their profit, but we estimate that they've spent about $220,000 through 2017, which is fairly cheap if you want to blast 1 billion malverts across the…”
4817. Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network (github.com)
110 points | 2018 | author minimaxir showed up | their comment | thread
“All of these are warnings, they shouldn't block the script. Check the current directory for person_blocked.jpg and person_blocked.gif.”
4818. Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018) (arxiv.org)
110 points | 2020 | author tiarkrompf showed up | their comment | thread
“nice to see this discussed and happy to answer questions”
4819. Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt) (github.com)
110 points | 2020 | author Rochus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This bytecode interpreter is the continuation of my already published Class Browser and Virtual Image Viewer (see and). The interpreter is able to directly run the…”
4820. Making Playstation 1 Modchips (2018) (blog.kchung.co)
110 points | 2020 | author ColdHeat showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this awhile ago so I wasn't expecting to see this here today but glad that it is. Happy to answer any questions.”
4821. Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy (rvalles.net)
110 points | 2021 | author rvalles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am amazed it made frontpage. openbsd's httpd seems to be handling the load well. I will read your comments if any :)”
4822. Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp (github.com)
110 points | 2021 | author codr7 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Whirlog is a minimal versioned log structured relational DB implemented in Common Lisp. It's a design I've been playing around with in several languages to solve my…”
4823. HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space (2020) (kuon.ch)
110 points | 2022 | author kuon showed up | their comment | thread
“I realize the color palette might not be the most readable as I tried to use my "signature palette". Anyway I did check the contrast, and it passes the recommendations I…”
4824. How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising? (tomtunguz.com)
110 points | 2022 | author ttunguz showed up | their comment | thread
“Most public investors look at these companies on a forward revenue multiple because the vast majority of these companies don't generate positive earnings.”
4825. Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite (github.com)
110 points | 2022 | author devnull3 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Some of the use-cases of mojo I could think of: 1. Rollbacking DDL changes (like create table, adding columns, etc) 2. (My use-case) Multiple readers-single writer.…”
4826. Learn OAuth by building a client with Node.js (annotate.dev)
110 points | 2024 | author tip_of_the_hat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“When I was first learning OAuth, I found that all the guides were text-heavy and lacked code. I personally learn better from code, so I created a code-first guide. Let…”
4827. Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way (keepgoingpod.com)
110 points | 2024 | author jdbiggs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“author here: probably not.”
4828. Vizdom: Diagrams as Code (vizdom.dev)
110 points | 2024 | author s0l0ist showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just got tired of using a DSL and wanted a way to programmatically write/build a graph and quickly see the rendering. DLS-based diagramming tools like Terrastruct,…”
4829. A dictionary of single-letter variable names (jackkelly.name)
110 points | 2024 | author _jackdk_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's a very fair question. I'm pretty sure lenses were invented because Haskell's built-in records are not ergonomic, but then the community discovered that they're…”
4830. RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs (benhouston3d.com)
110 points | 2024 | author bhouston showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was intending to refer to where ARM got first got traction in the market.”