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| 4891. | Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API (cryptomarketplot.com) | |
| 108 points | 2018 | author 1996 showed up | their comment | thread
“I make the API and the backend. The numbers come from a large sample of exchanges, with several million new datapoint added every day to cover every crypto we find…” | ||
| 4892. | It's too late to collect sand (secondbreakfast.co) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author secondbreakfast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“^I host my blog on blot.im - it is an amazing service, and fully recommend it. Thanks David!” | ||
| 4893. | Writing a DSL in Lua (2015) (leafo.net) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author leafo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting it whoever did. I wrote this a long time ago, it's mostly targeted at Lua 5.1 but more recent versions of Lua approach function environments…” | ||
| 4894. | An audio app that has consumed my life (divinations.substack.com) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author nbashaw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I wrote this article. There is literally a description of the basic mechanics of the app starting at word 48 of the piece. I have no clue how you missed this! I'm…” | ||
| 4895. | A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection (cfallin.org) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author cfallin showed up | their comment | thread
“that's good feedback; thanks! I tried to make this accessible by at least linking to Wikipedia or elsewhere when introducing new terms (SSA, etc.); that way a curious…” | ||
| 4896. | A Macintosh History 85.10 (systemtalk.org) | |
| 108 points | 2021 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“The post discusses ExperLisp for Macintosh, but I’ve never managed to find a copy. If anyone knows the whereabouts of an ExperLisp binary, I’d love to try running it.…” | ||
| 4897. | From zero to hero: contributing to open source (2017) (miparnisariblog.wordpress.com) | |
| 108 points | 2021 | author mparnisari showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The original author of the repo gave me permissions to push because he didn't have time to maintain it.” | ||
| 4898. | Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema (brimdata.io) | |
| 108 points | 2022 | author mccanne showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“All good points. Yes, you can build a super-structured type system on top of tables. EdgeDB does this well. And you can put JSON into relational columns. Then you might…” | ||
| 4899. | The fresh start effect (lars.yencken.org) | |
| 108 points | 2024 | author lars512 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's in some ways well and good to be sceptical of the health and wellness industry, including gyms and software companies like Lifesum. Note that they're my ex…” | ||
| 4900. | Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine (righto.com) | |
| 108 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8088 questions...” | ||
| 4901. | Steam's Last Stand (technicshistory.com) | |
| 108 points | 2024 | author cfmcdonald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Some of the apparent errors here are due to the fact that this is part of a larger series, more of a book in blog form. I'm aware of this. This is written in the context…” | ||
| 4902. | Django SQLite Production Config (blog.pecar.me) | |
| 108 points | 2024 | author anze3db showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN! I'm the author of the blog post. I didn't mention this in the post, but I'll try to merge some of these settings into Django by making them the new default or…” | ||
| 4903. | Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++ (medium.com) | |
| 108 points | 2024 | author dctwin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello! I wrote this short blog post about using pattern-matching-like template metaprogramming to deserialize JSON at build time - please let me know what you think…” | ||
| 4904. | The DDA Algorithm, explained interactively (aaaa.sh) | |
| 108 points | 2025 | author amjoshuamichael showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been reading this website for years. Imagine my shock when I saw my own article on the front page! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Quick fact about the way the…” | ||
| 4905. | VisiCalc on the Apple II (stonetools.ghost.io) | |
| 108 points | 2025 | author ChristopherDrum showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Thanks to OP for linking to my recent post and to the HN community for visiting and sharing their personal anecdotes. I’m glad to see a continuing shared interest in…” | ||
| 4906. | Advent of Code on the Z-Machine (entropicthoughts.com) | |
| 108 points | 2025 | author kqr showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree. It does seem like "Inform 7 done right" and I really like the Prolog evaluation model. I didn't know about Dialog when I wrote this article (learned of it just…” | ||
| 4907. | LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest (github.com) | |
| 108 points | 2026 | author gauravapiscean showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Context for why I did this: There's a growing literature arguing LRU is the wrong eviction policy for agentic LLM serving, because agent sessions idle and LRU can't…” | ||
| 4908. | Why Marriages Fail (shrinktalk.net) | |
| 107 points | 2009 | author RDobrenski showed up | their comment | thread
“quite honestly, have no idea how it ended up here. I certainly can't vouche for its place in this particular forum but wanted to say thank you to anyone who read it and…” | ||
| 4909. | 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app? (interfacelab.com) | |
| 107 points | 2010 | author jawngee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Have you used it? It really is pretty much a slideshow. Even if you write it using webkit, you can ape whatever wonderful interactions you seem to be having (that I must…” | ||
| 4910. | A CoffeeScript Intervention (pragprog.com) | |
| 107 points | 2011 | author TrevorBurnham showed up | their comment | thread
“JavaScript can be pretty overwhelming to newcomers. You mention scope, which is a good example of where CoffeeScript actually clarifies rather than hides the underlying…” | ||
| 4911. | MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua. (moonscript.org) | |
| 107 points | 2011 | author leafo showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right about the resemblance to CoffeeScript. I added some recognition at the bottom. Thanks for pointing it out, I just got the site up within the last hour so…” | ||
| 4912. | Pdf2htmlEX: A PDF to HTML converter (coolwanglu.github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2012 | author coolwanglu showed up | their comment | thread
“MATHML is not used. PDF is rendered with only HTML/CSS, and a few JS. Please comment at github such that I can see it in time.” | ||
| 4913. | Save Even More Time On Hacker News (danmaz74.me) | |
| 107 points | 2012 | author danmaz74 showed up | their comment | thread
“I published the source code, I guess that it would take little enough to adapt it... ;)” | ||
| 4914. | The Economics of a Hit TV Show (priceonomics.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author jonnathanson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't disagree with you, especially in the second paragraph. To some degree I think it was smart for Netflix to make a big splash this early on. But the perception…” | ||
| 4915. | A Crash Course In Awk (blog.bignerdranch.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author billjings showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right that awk is a limited tool. That's exactly why I wanted to write about it. It just wouldn't be possible to make a comprehensive case for perl in a blog post…” | ||
| 4916. | Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author lunixbochs showed up | their comment | thread
“This works using Vim's NetBeans control protocol (inside Vim, do `:help netbeans` to get an overview. Also see the VimSocket class in vim.py) and minimal help from a…” | ||
| 4917. | The bug that hides from breakpoints (drewdevault.com) | |
| 107 points | 2014 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“The `xor a` was important - it pretended no key was pressed. I'm familiar with conditional RET. Thanks for the rest of your kind words, though.” | ||
| 4918. | ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere (zerotier.com) | |
| 107 points | 2014 | author api showed up | their comment | thread
“I think. My take on really slick polished valley hipster corporate pr is if you've got the resources to pull that off, sure, do it. But if you don't it's like a bad…” | ||
| 4919. | Bleve – A modern text indexing library for Go (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2014 | author mschoch showed up | their comment | thread
“will try to answer questions as best I can from my phone. Yes, I think I was watching one of those amazing explosions shows on Netflix. I liked the way it sounded, and…” | ||
| 4920. | Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network (willwhitney.github.io) | |
| 107 points | 2015 | author tejask showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are absolutely right! In fact, I am currently doing something similar but it is not working as well yet. As far as this work is concerned, we wanted to see how…” | ||
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