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80% of Monero Transactions Trivially De-Anonymized (ipfs.io) |
| 100 points | 2017 | author sgp_ showed up | their comment | thread
“How would you prefer for it to be uploaded? Another link:” |
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Building Accurate Shipment Timelines – A Sorted Affair (flexport.engineering) |
| 100 points | 2017 | author aubreycw showed up | their comment | thread
“This was the first post of our new Flexport Engineering blog (we'll be adding more content soon). Happy to answer any questions about the article or how/why we're using…” |
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Syberia – Make R a production-ready language for deployable machine learning (syberia.io) |
| 100 points | 2017 | author robertk showed up | their comment | thread
“Philosophically, Syberia can be thought of as an extension of caret with hopefully clearer abstractions in large projects. In particular, all of the packages supported…” |
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Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack (medium.com) |
| 100 points | 2017 | author ianjsikes showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware compiling with Emscripten would work on stable. That should simplify the process. I'll do some more research and update the guide.” |
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Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle (bundlephobia.com) |
| 100 points | 2017 | author pastelsky showed up | their comment | thread
“I made this because finding package sizes of front end libraries was a pain, especially after modular javascript caught on. You can also see size results now when…” |
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Thunderbolt 3 Unblocker (github.com) |
| 100 points | 2018 | author rgovostes showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, the issues you pointed out are mostly already captured via // TODO and // FIXME comments. The library was written in about a day. I could probably add the basic…” |
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State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 (blog.kenforthewin.com) |
| 100 points | 2018 | author kenforthewin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that I may have been too light on the details about why different technologies should be chosen. Tbh though that is a bit tangential to the point. My point is…” |
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Audio Modem Communication Library in Python (github.com) |
| 100 points | 2018 | author roman_zeyde showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting this :) Would be happy to answer any question.” |
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There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are (boston.conman.org) |
| 100 points | 2018 | author spc476 showed up | their comment | thread
“Back in the mid 90s, search engines were a thing, and you had many companies trying to provide search results in the emerging web. In 1996-97, it was the in thing to run…” |
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Assertions in Production Code? (2008) (drdobbs.com) |
| 100 points | 2018 | author WalterBright showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA. My other two articles on the topic: Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts Designing Safe Software Systems Part 2” |
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Staying Focused on Projects (brendonbody.com) |
| 100 points | 2019 | author bbody showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your in-depth comment. I will have to agree that Step 6 is sometimes the first step for me too, the passion of a new idea can be overwhelming. However I do…” |
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| 5172. |
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Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study (ryanckulp.com) |
| 100 points | 2020 | author ryanckulp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i wrote this with “just graduated from X bootcamp and will be starting a new job as a jr developer” type commentary in mind. totally valid criticism tho” |
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Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18 (phys.org) |
| 100 points | 2020 | author jtc9242 showed up | their comment | thread
“You can build a simple microscope like that. However, for many applications, including the Malaria diagnosis work we discuss in the paper, you need to be able to do…” |
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Nested Transactions in CockroachDB 20.1 (cockroachlabs.com) |
| 100 points | 2020 | author knz42 showed up | their comment | thread
“yes there are schemes to do it client-side. However there is enough legacy code and frameworks out there that use nested transactions via pg's savepoint protocol, that…” |
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Documents ≠ Programs (mckinley.cc) |
| 100 points | 2021 | author mckinley_ showed up | their comment | thread
“I guess now's as good a time as any to make an account. I wasn't very happy with this one when I uploaded it, but I didn't want another file in the blog graveyard.” |
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Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard (righto.com) |
| 100 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your questions about obsolete oscillator circuitry :-)” |
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Show HN: Prefixed, dual-token, base58 encoded API Keys (github.com) |
| 100 points | 2022 | author seveibar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was curious what HN would think of this token style, we're currently using it for getseam.com . I think it has a lot of advantages over other token styles (e.g.…” |
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Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks (mljar.com) |
| 100 points | 2022 | author pplonski86 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. I'm working on open-source framework called Mercury. I'm building it to make notebooks sharing easy, especially with non-technical users. The Mercury…” |
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I got robbed of my first kernel contribution (ariel-miculas.github.io) |
| 100 points | 2023 | author ariel-miculas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've forwarded the original email thread for those curious about additional context:” |
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Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust (rkyv.org) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author taintegral showed up | their comment | thread
“you’re correct. You can customize your validation context for your specific needs. For example, if you don’t have allocation available (i.e. `#![no_std]` without the…” |
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings (asteriskmag.com) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author JesseHVAC showed up | their comment | thread
“The dual manometer suggestion below is excellent. I use external static pressure to calculate airflow using manufacturer tables quite frequently. It's fast and only…” |
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Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence (ashgw.me) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author ashgw showed up | their comment | thread
“I see a lot of opinions here and I want to thank everyone for taking time out of their day to read it. I'm not the OP though; I was informed that the article was shared…” |
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Generative AI Handbook: A Roadmap for Learning Resources (genai-handbook.github.io) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author willcb showed up | their comment | thread
“very fair comment! My thinking with the naming convention was to resemble a "compiled textbook" where the "meat" of each chapter/section is the linked content, and my…” |
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Show HN: JAQT – JavaScript Queries and Transformations (github.com) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author Poefke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if you are comfortable with filter/map/reduce, than JAQT doesn't provide much benefits, I agree. My target audience is developers who aren't that used to that. I've had…” |
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Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations (pierre-couy.dev) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author pcouy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author of this article and just noticed the huge traffic spike. This was my first time writing a shader. I was just playing around on shadertoy when I…” |
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1B nested loop iterations (benjdd.com) |
| 100 points | 2024 | author bddicken showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, I was surprised that there doesn't seem to be many options for extra optimizations in the Go compiler. Would be curious if Go experts have more insight or other…” |
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Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023) (ajxs.me) |
| 100 points | 2025 | author ajxs showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for posting the article! I'm happy to answer any questions about the project. If you find this interesting, I wrote an overview of how I approach these…” |
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Don't unwrap options: There are better ways (2024) (corrode.dev) |
| 100 points | 2025 | author mre showed up | their comment | thread
“I had the same impression, which is why I started writing these short-form articles about idiomatic Rust. The blog post overview is here:” |
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Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 (righto.com) |
| 100 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if you have questions about some obscure circuitry in the 386.” |
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Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator (shkspr.mobi) |
| 100 points | 2025 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“There used to be a GitHub repo - but it has subsequently been removed. Normally, I'd be comfortable sharing snippets under the UK's copyright "Fair Dealing" exemption -…” |
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