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| 5131. | Thoughts on Algolia vs. Solr and Elasticsearch (opensourceconnections.com) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author softwaredoug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Case in point where Elasticsearch shines is one of yesterday's hacker news articles Here Elasticsearch is used as a framework where "search" really means some kind of…” | ||
| 5132. | How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node (incoherency.co.uk) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author jstanley showed up | their comment | thread
“surprised to see this on HN! I considered submitting it myself but didn't think this crowd was that into Bitcoin. Nice to be proven wrong :) A couple of people mentioned…” | ||
| 5133. | Show HN: Stack: tiling WM for Windows (losttech.software) | |
| 101 points | 2017 | author lostmsu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wanted to make something to replace seemingly dead GridMove (). Current version basically reimplements GridMove's functionality. Features over GridMove: - High DPI…” | ||
| 5134. | Show HN: Nematoduino – Implementing a Worm on the Arduino UNO (github.com) | |
| 101 points | 2017 | author nategri showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the awesome feedback, it's been a wonderful day :) For a 1 minute clip showing nematoduino's reaction to nose touch stimulation, with a comparison to a…” | ||
| 5135. | Systems, not Programs (shalabh.com) | |
| 101 points | 2018 | author shalabhc showed up | their comment | thread
“This is true, but what exactly is 'the problem' in the first place? Framing makes a difference. Do we assume we are designing 'units' that communicate with each other or…” | ||
| 5136. | Why I think Haskell is the best general purpose language as of June 22 2019 (philipzucker.com) | |
| 101 points | 2019 | author philzook showed up | their comment | thread
“This is deeply amusing that among all the posts I write, the rushed half cogent Haskell rant rehashed for the billionth time gets the most attention. I guess that makes…” | ||
| 5137. | Building a language server for Muon (nickmqb.github.io) | |
| 101 points | 2019 | author nickmqb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote both the language server and Muon compiler [1] from scratch. The language server reuses the compiler code, for parsing and type checking. I'm not sure which…” | ||
| 5138. | ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits (github.com) | |
| 101 points | 2020 | author mandatory showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“can you provide the generated policy for me to take a look at?” | ||
| 5139. | What Is the PCI of Bank Payments? (moderntreasury.com) | |
| 101 points | 2020 | author qin showed up | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. This was an editorial mistake on my part. Edited to acknowledge the existence of schemes like SEPA Direct Debit. Thanks for pointing it out.” | ||
| 5140. | Lisp-stat: An environment for Statistical Computing (lisp-stat.dev) | |
| 101 points | 2021 | author Lisp-Stat showed up | their comment | thread
“Lisp-Stat is no April's fool's joke. The project is real and only a coincidence that it was mentioned here shortly before 1st of April. The Overview [1] and About [2]…” | ||
| 5141. | Instagram Ruined Photography for Me (alvar.dev) | |
| 101 points | 2021 | author alvarlagerlof showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this a while ago but it seemed relevant now with what's coming out about Facebook's internal research.” | ||
| 5142. | Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities (pganalyze.com) | |
| 101 points | 2021 | author lfittl showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Nice approach! The latter part of that workflow is where we are focused now, i.e. now that we can plan and recommend B-tree indexes for individual queries, how do we…” | ||
| 5143. | Why isn't there a Swagger/OpenAPI for binary formats? (anachronauts.club) | |
| 101 points | 2022 | author woodrowbarlow showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“the blog is under an alias) those are serialization formats, they don't allow for defining the physical representation of the data. for instance, you can't write a…” | ||
| 5144. | Generating true random numbers from bananas (valerionappi.it) | |
| 101 points | 2022 | author whispering showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a part 2 that explains the generation in detail, you find it linked below the part 1, or at the link [0]. The banana does not make a significant difference (the…” | ||
| 5145. | The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy (2017) [pdf] (priceintelligently.com) | |
| 101 points | 2022 | author pccampbell showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if I can help or answer any questions.” | ||
| 5146. | Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined (unikraft.io) | |
| 101 points | 2024 | author nderjung showed up | their comment | thread
“You can, and we've written about the differences also, here [0]. The summary is that there is still a performance hit for boot time (100s of milliseconds to seconds vs.…” | ||
| 5147. | Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace (checklyhq.com) | |
| 101 points | 2024 | author janOsch showed up | their comment | thread
“You raise a good point about relative savings. Based on last week's data, our change reduced the task time by 40ms from an average of 3440ms, and this task runs 11…” | ||
| 5148. | Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza (registry.terraform.io) | |
| 101 points | 2024 | author MNThomson showed up | their comment | thread
“I got nerdsniped at 2AM a few years back, never expected to see this on HN!” | ||
| 5149. | SWE-Bench Pro (github.com) | |
| 101 points | 2025 | author kenstler showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the authors here -- we should clarify that strong copyleft license is a best attempt at decontamination for the public set. It's part of the tradeoff for having…” | ||
| 5150. | Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby (brunosutic.com) | |
| 101 points | 2025 | author brunosutic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I confirm I actually do use the examples from the article in my code. Here's the example that runs in hundreds of integration tests: expect(billing_pricing_plans).to eq…” | ||
| 5151. | Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly (simonlermen.substack.com) | |
| 101 points | 2025 | author DalasNoin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it is interesting to see that models like gemini will do basically whatever you want. this study was mainly designed to help an otherwise mostly anecdotal…” | ||
| 5152. | Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections (blog.citp.princeton.edu) | |
| 101 points | 2026 | author mspecter showed up | their comment | thread
“Interesting to see it on Hacker News. I'm a professor in Georgia Tech's CS dept that works on problems related to security, privacy, and public policy. (CV:) Happy to…” | ||
| 5153. | How I migrated from Heroku to Digital Ocean with Chef and Capistrano (matteodepalo.github.com) | |
| 100 points | 2013 | author matteodepalo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I updated the article; now a user called "deployer" runs the app. Turns out it was easier now than when I started with the migration.” | ||
| 5154. | “Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson (leanpub.com) | |
| 100 points | 2013 | author mark_l_watson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I started using Lisp for AI in the early 1980s, had a Lisp Machine, wrote two AI Lisp books for Springer-Verlag back then, etc. I thought that Java 1.0 was an…” | ||
| 5155. | UPSERTisms in Postgres (johtopg.blogspot.se) | |
| 100 points | 2014 | author johto showed up | their comment | thread
“I dismissed RULEs and TRIGGERs since they don't work correctly under concurrency (and most RULE-based approaches are broken even without concurrency). I felt it wasn't a…” | ||
| 5156. | Show HN: Beds and services for homeless youth (ysnmn.org) | |
| 100 points | 2015 | author judah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just a few technical notes about the site: This was my first Angular project. I had done Knockout, Durandal, and classic server-rendered web apps before, but this was my…” | ||
| 5157. | Calculating the intersection area of 3 or more circles (benfrederickson.com) | |
| 100 points | 2015 | author benfrederickson showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post a while back, but never submitted to HN. Its one of those posts that I wasn't sure if it would really resonate with anyone (like my most recent one on…” | ||
| 5158. | Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packets (github.com) | |
| 100 points | 2015 | author yarrick showed up | their comment | thread
“Just like with iodine (dns tunnel) this was one thing me and my friends talked about that would be cool. I actually started to implement this in haskell in 2011, and…” | ||
| 5159. | Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor (github.com) | |
| 100 points | 2015 | author rocketraman showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting this. I had posted it earlier as a ShowHN (), but without much notice, so I'm ecstatic to see lots of comments here. Great feedback. Some responses to…” | ||
| 5160. | Physics in Metal Music (neustadt.fr) | |
| 100 points | 2015 | author livatlantis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wasn't sure if it was bad etiquette to submit my own article to HN but decided in the end that it might actually interest the community. For fans of metal and sci-fi,…” | ||
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