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| 511. | GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai) | |
| 508 points | 2025 | author lbeurerkellner showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting. If you are interested in learning more about MCP and agent security, check out some of the following resources, that we have created since we started…” | ||
| 512. | Minimalism – An undervalued development skill (volument.com) | |
| 506 points | 2019 | author tipiirai showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“over the years this has been my prime strategy on building new stuff. First jQuery Tools, then Head JS, later Riot JS. Happy to talk about minimalism on this weird…” | ||
| 513. | Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? (marker.medium.com) | |
| 506 points | 2021 | author mattydoincode showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My intention with "domain knowledge" point is mostly about all the non-coding stuff. Things like how your company functions, who to talk to about different issues, deep…” | ||
| 514. | GNU Recutils (labs.tomasino.org) | |
| 505 points | 2020 | author jamestomasino showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see someone submitted this and you all liked it. Recutils has MUCH more to offer beyond the basic intro I gave here. It has wonderful org-mode integration for…” | ||
| 515. | Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) (gkbrk.com) | |
| 504 points | 2021 | author gkbrk showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask questions both on HN and over email.” | ||
| 516. | Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) (english.stackexchange.com) | |
| 504 points | 2023 | author jaspax showed up | their comment | thread
“and I believe that this is the top-voted thing that I ever posted on any StackExchange site. It was a lovely surprise to see it here today, and I hope that everyone else…” | ||
| 517. | Bollards: Why and What (josh.works) | |
| 504 points | 2024 | author wonder_er showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Didn't find out until just a few minutes ago that this recent, random, draft post ended up on the HN front page. Huzzah. Absolutely not, not even close. I'm suggesting…” | ||
| 518. | Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013) (helloerik.com) | |
| 503 points | 2014 | author eflowers showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to talk more or ask specific questions on problems you have or how to do certain things with the Less or grid, post it here or on the disqus comments on the…” | ||
| 519. | Why Momentum Works (distill.pub) | |
| 503 points | 2017 | author gabrielgoh showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've created all the diagrams, though I've received really helpful editorial input from Shan Carter and Chris Olah. If you feel like doing some archeology, you can see…” | ||
| 520. | A Decade of Remote Work (blog.viktorpetersson.com) | |
| 503 points | 2019 | author mvip showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I 100% agree with this. That's one of the many reasons why I enfoce the 19:30 stop. After that is for socializing and other offline activities (such as reading).” | ||
| 521. | Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try (ianbicking.org) | |
| 501 points | 2019 | author ianbicking showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Perhaps it was harder because in the other experiment I was focusing on applications like gmail. These applications would tend to rerender large portions of the UI on…” | ||
| 522. | What chroot taught me about containers (earthly.dev) | |
| 501 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this and the consistent feedback I've gotten was that people hate the title, so thanks for changing it. I'd pick 'What chroot taught me about containers' but…” | ||
| 523. | What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? (thecorrespondent.com) | |
| 500 points | 2019 | author jessefrederik showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“and I don't assume all online advertising is Google search. I also cite research on display advertising (meta-study of 432 display experiments on Google): And on…” | ||
| 524. | The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015) (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) | |
| 500 points | 2020 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“I spent a bunch of time last year trying to figure out a good way to make semicolons optional in Dart without breaking a lot of stuff. Because of a handful of syntax…” | ||
| 525. | Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation (qz.com) | |
| 499 points | 2013 | author zseward showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a totally fair point about the subject headings, Larry. They're intended to make the emails more accessible and scannable, but of course they oversimplify things.…” | ||
| 526. | Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack (wired.com) | |
| 498 points | 2016 | author klint showed up | their comment | thread
“I hadn't heard about IRCv3, but it does sound like it would plug some of the holes in IRC that Slack users complain about. It wouldn't really have been a good fit for…” | ||
| 527. | Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation (tanelpoder.com) | |
| 497 points | 2021 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“This article was intended to explain some modern hardware bottlenecks (and non-bottlenecks), but unexpectedly ended up covering a bunch of Linux kernel I/O stack issues…” | ||
| 528. | How the Python import system works (tenthousandmeters.com) | |
| 497 points | 2021 | author r4victor showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this article. Thanks for posting it. I've been programming in Python for quite a while but didn't really understand how the import system works:…” | ||
| 529. | Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021) (engineering.skroutz.gr) | |
| 497 points | 2022 | author apoikos showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Your comment resonates with me. Indeed, we had been working around the issue for a number of years before we decided to tackle it head-on and even then we set a deadline…” | ||
| 530. | ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh) | |
| 497 points | 2026 | author quantumish showed up | their comment | thread
“Very surprised to see this here - my poor web server wasn't built for this! It's back up for now.” | ||
| 531. | Stripe Home (stripe.com) | |
| 496 points | 2018 | author michaelschade showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“We regularly discuss this :) I'm not sure yet how valuable open sourcing it will be in the long run. Part of what makes Home work well for us is how tied it is to how we…” | ||
| 532. | Deurbanising the Web [pdf] (lab6.com) | |
| 496 points | 2021 | author jl6 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. Original author here. I do realize how ugly PDFs are to work with (I wrote my own PDF/A generator for issue 2[2]). This is a Tagged PDF though, so you can extract…” | ||
| 533. | Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy (airgradient.com) | |
| 495 points | 2021 | author ahaucnx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I forgot to mention: With a Wemos D1 mini (ESP8266) MCU that costs around USD 2.00, you can pretty easily make the Vindriktning WiFi connected and get the data to a…” | ||
| 534. | We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs (publish.obsidian.md) | |
| 495 points | 2024 | author felarof showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“sorry for the delay in replying, was stuck in back-to-back meetings) I updated our github repo to include GPU, VRAM utilization data () Note: we couldn't run the…” | ||
| 535. | Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life (observablehq.com) | |
| 494 points | 2019 | author stared showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote a description in the main file, so I don't have to add much here. Though, I am open to feedback (especially for the graphical presentation, as the taxonomy &…” | ||
| 536. | Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building (derrickreimer.com) | |
| 494 points | 2019 | author derrickreimer showed up | their comment | thread
“Slack is undoubtedly sticky, although I challenge the assumption that all integrations need to be replicated in a niche play. Those who did adopt Level were willing to…” | ||
| 537. | What happened to Mint? (fastcompany.com) | |
| 494 points | 2020 | author robpegoraro showed up | their comment | thread
“It's been on my to-do list for a while--I had another client turn down the idea--and I finally remembered to pitch it to my editor at FC after being irked yet again at…” | ||
| 538. | High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime (github.com) | |
| 493 points | 2022 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“HVM is the ultimate conclusion to years of optimal evaluation research. I've been a great enthusiast of optimal runtimes. Until now, though, my most efficient…” | ||
| 539. | Vector databases are the wrong abstraction (timescale.com) | |
| 493 points | 2024 | author cevian showed up | their comment | thread
“We automatically retry on failures in a while. We also log error messages in the worker (self-hosted) and have clear indicators in the cloud UI that something went wrong…” | ||
| 540. | Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem (semgrep.dev) | |
| 493 points | 2025 | author ramimac showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here who added the VSCode stat :) I thought it was useful to include because: it can inform triage, if you use the extension you're more likely to be impacted…” | ||
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