4831. The Useless UseCallback (tkdodo.eu)
110 points | 2025 | author tkdodo showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry for the confusion. I did not mean to imply that leaving out the prop from useCallback is better - you _always_ have to adhere to the exhaustive-deps lint rule to…”
4832. How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV (dgerrells.com)
110 points | 2025 | author rustystump showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this show up. I did try a large variety of encodings and the best was delta encoding frames followed by RLE encoding similar to what you describe. It…”
4833. Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
110 points | 2026 | author ekunazanu showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, as mentioned, all the colours and curves are approximations. I created it in a rush during my last summer break, to be able to submit it before the SoME4 [0]…”
4834. Career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer (leanpub.com)
109 points | 2012 | author stevejalim showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi - I wrote the book and its focus is on client work as an individual, rather than starting a company. In future releases, my list includes adding a section on sharing…”
4835. A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data [video] (thenewcircle.com)
109 points | 2013 | author vtuulos showed up | their comment | thread
“Fortunately HN works even in the Finnish countryside. I am happy to answer any questions.”
4836. Go’s Type System Is An Embarrassment (functionwhatwhat.com)
109 points | 2014 | author DrJokepu showed up | their comment | thread
“What I’ve written regarding the reflect behaviour isn’t entirely true and I should probably update the article to reflect that. It’s possible to get (but not set) the…”
4837. Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress (ofbrooklyn.com)
109 points | 2014 | author conesus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a biker myself and I was thinking about creating something to that effect. Turn signals and better lights would go a long way towards making me feel safer without…”
4838. GoLearn – Machine Learning in Go (sjwhitworth.com)
109 points | 2014 | author sjwhitworth showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting it. As you can see, it's definitely incomplete as it stands, as I haven't been able to spend as much time on it as I would have liked. I'm hoping that…”
4839. How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013) (yosefk.com)
109 points | 2015 | author _yosefk showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't write the follow-up yet because it requires a lot of research and I'm busy :-) If you ask me, GPUs are anything but "the new FPGA". GPUs are the least efficient…”
4840. How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS (priceonomics.com)
109 points | 2015 | author zackcrockett showed up | their comment | thread
“That quote should read "...how the hell am I getting these [whales] out of this park?" Thanks for catching that. I went through and read the rest of the article to…”
4841. When would you choose Erlang? (2013) (blog.troutwine.us)
109 points | 2015 | author troutwine showed up | their comment | thread
“Initial commit of Phoenix was Jan 18, 2014. But! you're quite right. Elixir is focusing on the web application type things that Erlang and the community around it has…”
4842. Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job (medium.com)
109 points | 2016 | author katpas showed up | their comment | thread
“as some people have picked up in the comments, the one year is a reference to the minimum time I wanted to spend working for someone at a start-up. I used the word build…”
4843. Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014) (originalgreen.org)
109 points | 2016 | author SteveMouzon showed up | their comment | thread
“org. While the images are sensational and actually went viral a couple years ago, the real message is to point out that the need for speed necessitates massive waste of…”
4844. Tyre – Typed regular expressions (drup.github.io)
109 points | 2016 | author Drup showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't invented the combinators for regex, that was already in ocaml-re (which is used as backend for tyre). The combinator approach has many advantages: - You don't…”
4845. Browser History (2013) (madhatted.com)
109 points | 2016 | author mixonic showed up | their comment | thread
“happy this popped up and to see the HN community thinking through it. A few people have brushed off what I sketched as uninteresting and don't see any issues. I'll try…”
4846. Implementing a Tor relay from scratch in golang (2015) (tvdw.eu)
109 points | 2016 | author tvdw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I wrote the post, happy to answer questions. * yes, more modern versions of Go would likely mitigate some of the memory pain * yes, crypto/tls is fast now * no,…”
4847. The Ruby+OMR JIT (developer.ibm.com)
109 points | 2016 | author magaudet showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to AMA!”
4848. Phone numbers are not proper verification (b1nary.ch)
109 points | 2017 | author herbst showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I dont have a fixed telephone number anymore. How to handle that? I dont see why i would need one except for authentification purposes ether. My point is that depending…”
4849. Anomalous keys in Tor relays (nymity.ch)
109 points | 2017 | author phw showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right, these are the only onion services that were most likely targeted. The others are part of our publicly available dataset, but most likely false positives.”
4850. Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac (github.com)
109 points | 2017 | author janten showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I actually started this project after buying Divvy. Divvy has many more features but I could never set it up just right. In particular I found no way to use the grid…”
4851. Translating a C++ parser to Haskell (haskellforall.com)
109 points | 2017 | author Gabriel439 showed up | their comment | thread
“yes, this bothers me, too (especially the horizontal scroll switching to another post). I'm not sure how to disable that since Blogger doesn't provide a way to disable…”
4852. Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013) (changelog.com)
109 points | 2017 | author devin showed up | their comment | thread
“I will take a whack at updating it.”
4853. Perl 6 Advent Calendar (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
109 points | 2017 | author zoffix222 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading my post! :) To answer some of the comments: no, this isn't satire, nor is it a marketing or advertisement piece. I'm just having fun with the language…”
4854. Polyaxon – An open source platform for reproducible machine learning at scale (polyaxon.com)
109 points | 2018 | author mmq showed up | their comment | thread
“a bit late to notice, but thanks for sharing Polyaxon here. I will be around to answer questions, and any feedback is welcome.”
4855. Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia (arxiv.org)
109 points | 2018 | author ikuyamada showed up | their comment | thread
“More broadly, embedding is a mapping from objects (e.g., words and entities) to vectors of real numbers. And as described in the mcxlog's comment, an entity refers to an…”
4856. Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved (haiku-os.org)
109 points | 2019 | author waddlesplash showed up | their comment | thread
“Not entirely. If you look at the commits I linked in the post, you'll see that most of them fixed rather egregious spec violations. Arguably the spec could have been…”
4857. FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework (github.com)
109 points | 2019 | author qrv3w showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions :)”
4858. Smalltalk with the GraalVM (javaadvent.com)
109 points | 2019 | author fniephaus showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!”
4859. Three Types of Data (brandonsmith.ninja)
109 points | 2020 | author brundolf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is one of those ideas that's been stewing in my head for quite some time and I'm only about 80% happy with how it came out as words. Let me know if I can provide…”
4860. Show HN: Generate guitar tablature using a constraint solver (github.com)
109 points | 2020 | author senshu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“TablaZinc is a proof-of-concept tablature generator for fretted string instruments -- such as the guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, etc. It is a week-end project that I…”