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| 4921. | Ethereum: what’s about to happen (docs.google.com) | |
| 107 points | 2015 | author Hexayurt showed up | their comment | thread
“and the release coordinator for Ethereum. If you have any questions about the launch, please ask me. You can watch the new network stats here or download a client at and…” | ||
| 4922. | Network handover in Google Fi (nicholasarmstrong.com) | |
| 107 points | 2015 | author ndrarmst showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I didn't have a chance to test how the VPN works, but even if they were using MPTCP the switch wouldn't necessarily be seamless. Especially how they are using it now -…” | ||
| 4923. | The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote (syrah.co) | |
| 107 points | 2015 | author joshdickson showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“You're right, this could be more clear. The takeaway is supposed to be that it's not as though HQ is in Cleveland or Cincinnati where there's a lot less competition for…” | ||
| 4924. | Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox (flexboxpatterns.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author cjcenizal showed up | their comment | thread
“You make a great point. I'll update the examples to be in CSS. Thanks!” | ||
| 4925. | Why you should bet big on privacy (techcrunch.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author rhindi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am the founder of. At Snips, we are building an assistant that is private by design: what I describe in the article are things we actually work on today :-) Happy to…” | ||
| 4926. | Application data caching using SSDs (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author sgmansfield showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We really are looking for raw performance, but not at any cost. I spent a bunch of time, and continue to do so, to eliminate extra work, indirection, and garbage.…” | ||
| 4927. | How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005) (hsivonen.fi) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author hsivonen showed up | their comment | thread
“Today, it's clear that text/html has won over application/xhtml+xml and JSON has won over XML for most (non-enterprise) non-document uses. But back around 2003..2009,…” | ||
| 4928. | Cursory hack – Fake address bar interaction (jameshfisher.github.io) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author jamesfisher showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here (along with my inspiration benjaminbenben). This explanation is perfect. And yes, I think the TODO is to not render the custom cursor outside the…” | ||
| 4929. | On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science (pressron.wordpress.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author pron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1. I state that the untyped lambda calculus is, indeed, a borderline case, and is a simple rewriting system which, in turn, is a special case of a nondeterministic…” | ||
| 4930. | Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming (ceu-lang.org) | |
| 107 points | 2017 | author fsantanna showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Although Céu is about 5 years now, this is the first time I post to "Show HN". In this new version, we are trying to surpass the academic fences with a more polished…” | ||
| 4931. | Show HN: detecting cache latency inside a Web browser (maratyszcza.github.io) | |
| 107 points | 2018 | author Marat_Dukhan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I made this demo and a related matrix-matrix multiplication demo [1] back in 2015 for Robert van de Geijn's Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers MOOC class [2]. In…” | ||
| 4932. | Crafting Interpreters: Strings (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 107 points | 2018 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions, take feedback, receive criticism. Waves awkwardly, shuffles feet.” | ||
| 4933. | DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees (arxiv.org) | |
| 107 points | 2019 | author homin showed up | their comment | thread
“We wanted to be able to graph p99, p99.9 metrics with arbitrary ranges, and found the existing solutions were not accurate enough for our needs. Happy to answer any…” | ||
| 4934. | Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2019 | author antirez showed up | their comment | thread
“May make sense to make SDS in perspective given a few comments I'm reading here. 1. Yep, more than "strings" SDS may be consider a library for dynamic buffers,…” | ||
| 4935. | How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting (docs.simpleanalytics.com) | |
| 107 points | 2019 | author AdriaanvRossum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just to shine some light on the problem we are having and how this solves that problem. We get more and more customers that are required by law to have an active opt-in…” | ||
| 4936. | A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author headlessclayton showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Marl was originally written for SwiftShader¹ a pure-software implementation of the Vulkan graphics API, which needs to run on desktop and embedded devices, with CPUs…” | ||
| 4937. | Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID (vnhacker.blogspot.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author cryptbe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“One interesting aspect that I've learned is the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of public opinion brigades, aka Force 47. They tried hard to discrete me. My…” | ||
| 4938. | Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012) (righto.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I've written a couple of articles about counterfeit chargers. You are correct; people cut every corner possible to make a counterfeit charger that looks exactly like an…” | ||
| 4939. | Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage (zainrizvi.io) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author ZainRiz showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it’s worth, that first promo I talk about was when I was just two years out of college. It was many years later that I started realizing that maybe it wasn’t a…” | ||
| 4940. | I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts (blog.usejournal.com) | |
| 107 points | 2021 | author ethanblake4 showed up | their comment | thread
“the exact same thing that I did is possible for any 3rd party SSO on mobile apps. It's not a Google exploit, it's an exploit in the idea of SSO.” | ||
| 4941. | Show HN: "100 Page Python Intro" eBook (learnbyexample.github.io) | |
| 107 points | 2021 | author asicsp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited: * As a reference material for Python beginner…” | ||
| 4942. | To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014) (lighttable.com) | |
| 107 points | 2021 | author jamii showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. Such nostalgia. With tools like airtable and notion around today, we're actually making substantial progress towards making simple tasks easy. These…” | ||
| 4943. | Reflections on E-Bikes (ebikes.neighbor-ryan.org) | |
| 107 points | 2021 | author rdubz showed up | their comment | thread
“"Better bike infrastructure" and "a bit of pedal assist" are both good things that we need more of. Even in the best possible future, I believe cycling in US cities will…” | ||
| 4944. | PCB Business Card (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2021 | author Hanqaqa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I corrected and pointed at it in the github. This project was just a quick test where I wanted to try the results. I tried making it as cheap as possible, so I cheaped…” | ||
| 4945. | eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries (taras.glek.net) | |
| 107 points | 2022 | author tarasglek showed up | their comment | thread
“strace wouldn't work for this. Need to track individual page faults + their addresses. Problem with memory-mapped IO is that it's all done by memory-access…” | ||
| 4946. | Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells (wiki.why2025.org) | |
| 107 points | 2025 | author Juerd showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't add the logo, but it's a wiki so others can theoretically change things. I think the logo is cute though, so let's keep it. I think it was made with the WHY2025…” | ||
| 4947. | AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference (seuros.com) | |
| 107 points | 2025 | author seuros showed up | their comment | thread
“Let’s be clear on backups: Yes, I had backups everywhere. Across providers, in different countries. But I built a system tied to my AWS account number, my instances, my…” | ||
| 4948. | Alignment is capability (off-policy.com) | |
| 107 points | 2025 | author GavCo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the input. Agree that this bit was clunky. I made an edit to avoid unnecessarily getting into the definition of AGI here and added a note” | ||
| 4949. | Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2026 | author kitao showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't removed the repository; my GitHub account is currently suspended after unauthorized use of my token. I revoked the tokens and removed the malicious workflows…” | ||
| 4950. | MIT develops new tool that can interrupt infinite loops (bostinnovation.com) | |
| 106 points | 2011 | author mcarbin showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of this paper and this comment pretty much hits it on the head. Jolt is an investigation in developing tools to help users get more use out of…” | ||
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