5161. 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:”
5162. 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…”
5163. 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…”
5164. 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.”
5165. 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…”
5166. 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…”
5167. 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…”
5168. 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.”
5169. 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…”
5170. 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”
5171. 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…”
5172. 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”
5173. 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…”
5174. 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…”
5175. 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.”
5176. 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 :-)”
5177. 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.…”
5178. 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…”
5179. 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:”
5180. 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…”
5181. 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…”
5182. 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…”
5183. 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…”
5184. 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…”
5185. 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…”
5186. 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…”
5187. 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…”
5188. 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:”
5189. 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.”
5190. 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 -…”