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| 481. | We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails (hardcover.app) | |
| 523 points | 2025 | author dyogenez showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been developing in Ruby and Rails for almost 20 years. Here are some of the downsides in my opinion. - The Global interpreter lock (GIL) in Ruby is less performant…” | ||
| 482. | I knew exactly how she felt (trishkhoo.com) | |
| 521 points | 2013 | author hogfish showed up | their comment | thread
“One simple suggestion to encourage more women into IT - Trish Khoo” | ||
| 483. | Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com) | |
| 521 points | 2017 | author sp37344 showed up | their comment | thread
“For the graphs I used the ggplot library in R, but really any SQL visualization tool (e.g., SQLPad) would have worked as well. Apache Zeppelin Notebook seems like a…” | ||
| 484. | Comparing Database Types (prisma.io) | |
| 521 points | 2019 | author imchairmanm showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a good question and something I had a hard time sorting out as I worked on this. I think those fall into a different category confusingly sometimes called…” | ||
| 485. | How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? (bxt.rs) | |
| 521 points | 2024 | author YaLTeR showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad you enjoyed the post! I don't have any results for Windows or macOS yet unfortunately. I wanted to run these tests on Windows eventually, and include things like…” | ||
| 486. | A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum (medium.freecodecamp.org) | |
| 520 points | 2017 | author HaseebQ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I tried to write this article to be accessible to people with little background in security and cryptography (hence its publication on FreeCodeCamp), and to be friendly…” | ||
| 487. | Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it (unlikekinds.com) | |
| 519 points | 2019 | author whalabi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You can run the test yourself on the AMP and non-AMP versions of an identical article to see yourself. (Note: sometimes the numbers are off the first couple of times you…” | ||
| 488. | WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport (rxdb.info) | |
| 518 points | 2024 | author realPubkey showed up | their comment | thread
“The article is mostly about web apps. How would your signaling server emit new connection updates to clients in the scenario you describe?” | ||
| 489. | Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source (metaflow.org) | |
| 517 points | 2019 | author vtuulos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions! Netflix has been using Metaflow internally for about two years, so we have many war stories :)” | ||
| 490. | Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020 (davebakker.io) | |
| 517 points | 2019 | author dbfa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for noticing the mistake! It's fixed now :) Happy new year!” | ||
| 491. | The great displacement is already well underway? (shawnfromportland.substack.com) | |
| 517 points | 2025 | author shawnfrompdx showed up | their comment | thread
“and i didn't share it to HN, I don't hang out here. I just gotta say wow, tough crowd. i wrote this piece from an emotionally low point after another fruitless day of…” | ||
| 492. | Does Georgism work? Five years later (astralcodexten.com) | |
| 517 points | 2026 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Another thing I've noticed is that you never know how or what will happen until you try. I was following legislation in one state and learned that literally dozens of…” | ||
| 493. | RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com) | |
| 516 points | 2026 | author j0selit0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“at most companies I've worked for recently (F500) RAG is still quite trendy. this was what frustrated me a bit and motivated to write this article - along with other…” | ||
| 494. | I put my whole life into a single database (krausefx.com) | |
| 515 points | 2022 | author krausefx showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“Yes, I agree. For this project, only 5% of the 383,000 data points were collected manually, the rest came from various data sources like RescueTime, Apple Health,…” | ||
| 495. | Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (martinalderson.com) | |
| 515 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes I am aware of that and did mention it. However - what I wanted to push back in this article was that claude code was completely unsustainable and therefore a flash…” | ||
| 496. | Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io) | |
| 514 points | 2018 | author lvh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 497. | We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80% (tuananh.net) | |
| 514 points | 2020 | author tuananh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“please note that this is what we did in 2016-2017 where kops(what we use to provision) did not support spot fleet yet. also, this works out so well for our use case…” | ||
| 498. | YC: Requests for Startups (ycombinator.com) | |
| 514 points | 2024 | author siyinghz showed up | their comment | thread
“We like to back strong technical founders, and some may be interested in working in AR/VR like I did years ago. You are right that the software is lacking which is more…” | ||
| 499. | Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes (justine.lol) | |
| 513 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“You know it when you see it. LISP is a tool that people want to use. People write production software using it. For example, this website (Hacker News) was written in…” | ||
| 500. | Become Shell Literate (drewdevault.com) | |
| 512 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Some extra tips for HN: If you dislike POSIX sh, consider looking at Plan 9's rc before you look anywhere else (including bash): Also, I would advise you to learn about…” | ||
| 501. | URLs are state containers (alfy.blog) | |
| 512 points | 2025 | author ahmadalfy showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all thank you for your words about the content. I get why you might feel that way. English isn’t my first language, so I sometimes use GPT to help me polish…” | ||
| 502. | How to start a startup without ruining your life (superhi.com) | |
| 511 points | 2017 | author riklomas showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any questions about it, I'm happy to answer and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the article!” | ||
| 503. | PNG files can be animated via network latency (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk) | |
| 511 points | 2021 | author DavidBuchanan showed up | their comment | thread
“this was just a quick PoC, I'm pleasently surprised that it seems to be handling all the HN traffic. It's served from a python script using aiohttp, behind nginx, on a…” | ||
| 504. | Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server (cprimozic.net) | |
| 511 points | 2021 | author Ameo showed up | their comment | thread
“- Request rate is pretty low on average and peaks at around 15 requests/second. That's nothing really and it would probably take 100x or more request rate before I saw…” | ||
| 505. | Git git git git git (caiustheory.com) | |
| 510 points | 2017 | author caiusdurling showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm glad someone else appreciated it besides me. :-) (It's especially pleasing to watch the system calls it generates via strace or dtrace!)” | ||
| 506. | NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com) | |
| 510 points | 2018 | author abadid showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to respond to comments on the post on this thread for the next several hours. You can also leave comments on the post itself, and I will respond there at any…” | ||
| 507. | Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps (hackerone.com) | |
| 510 points | 2020 | author oskarsv showed up | their comment | thread
“Just some thoughts on comments here. Sure the bounty is low, but ultimately it's their money and their decision. They will deal with the 'consequences' of others…” | ||
| 508. | Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 510 points | 2024 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a long, drawn-out project. For some context, I ordered the replacement regulators in February. The new LED driver chips were ordered in March, so that was…” | ||
| 509. | A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap (protomaps.com) | |
| 508 points | 2021 | author bdon showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“so there are a few options: 1) If your information belongs in OpenStreetMap, you can add it via an editor like the web editor at - this will also benefit all other OSM…” | ||
| 510. | AI is stifling new tech adoption? (vale.rocks) | |
| 508 points | 2025 | author OuterVale showed up | their comment | thread
“May I request a source for that? Platform docs state:” | ||
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