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| 541. | E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io) | |
| 493 points | 2026 | author swann_bessa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you can send them, I would love to hear about the results you got !” | ||
| 542. | AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 492 points | 2014 | author nnethercote showed up | their comment | thread
“I was extremely careful to keep the tone of the post neutral. This paragraph sums it up: If you think this post is unreasonable, I think your skin is too thin.” | ||
| 543. | How to Design Better APIs (r.bluethl.net) | |
| 492 points | 2022 | author rbluethl showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I generally agree - IF something goes terribly wrong within the application, a 500 is definitely the way to go. The thing is - these just shouldn't happen that often.…” | ||
| 544. | DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade (dbreunig.com) | |
| 491 points | 2025 | author dbreunig showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the beauty of DuckDB spatial is that the projections and CRS options are hidden until you need them. For 90% of geospatial data usage people don't and shouldn't need to…” | ||
| 545. | My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle (corentin.trebaol.com) | |
| 491 points | 2025 | author 5mv2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I get this view, I just think it's worth underlining how biased it is to the SF Bay area dystopian situation. I've actually gone out of my way to meet homeless in the…” | ||
| 546. | AI Engineer Reading List (latent.space) | |
| 490 points | 2025 | author swyx showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“hi! author here! putting together a list like this is intimidating - for every thing i pick there are a dozen other suitable candidates so please view this as a…” | ||
| 547. | Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web (fontbomb.ilex.ca) | |
| 489 points | 2012 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it works best in Safari and IE 9. Use the bookmarklet to destroy any website. Source is here:” | ||
| 548. | Comparing Elixir and Go (blog.codeship.com) | |
| 489 points | 2017 | author brightball showed up | their comment | thread
“This was published a week earlier than expected so just a heads up that there are a couple of edits coming.” | ||
| 549. | A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com) | |
| 489 points | 2026 | author ky1ebot1337 showed up | their comment | thread
“just created an account to answer some questions :D) My goal is to work towards a vuln-free Internet. What I observed is that stronger models can find many more…” | ||
| 550. | Telegram publishes users' locations online (blog.ahmed.nyc) | |
| 488 points | 2021 | author Nullslash showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“No, that is called z-coordinate. It's not possible to get z-coordinate by just finding the distance between me and the user.” | ||
| 551. | Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors (justice.gov) | |
| 487 points | 2021 | author csmythe15 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm the author of the article -- just wanted to point out that what made this story interesting to me is the implication that this kind of conduct could be very…” | ||
| 552. | What I wish someone told me about Postgres (challahscript.com) | |
| 487 points | 2024 | author hibachrach showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“hmm it seems to work on my device. Are you scrolling within the code block?” | ||
| 553. | I don't care how well your "AI" works (fokus.cool) | |
| 487 points | 2025 | author ttul showed up | their comment | thread
“and honestly when I read it, I also want to reach for the LLM.” | ||
| 554. | Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux (voice2json.org) | |
| 486 points | 2021 | author synesthesiam showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks to everyone for checking out voice2json! The TLDR of this project is: a unified command-line interface to different offline speech recognition projects, with the…” | ||
| 555. | The balance has shifted away from SPAs (nolanlawson.com) | |
| 486 points | 2022 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree and feel that Service Workers are still underexplored in this area. If your main reason for writing an SPA is speeding up navigation (e.g. the Turbolinks…” | ||
| 556. | We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel (scottantipa.com) | |
| 486 points | 2022 | author escot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Graphs are used for tons of purposes across a lot of disciplines, but we don't have a fast general-purpose graph editor. That's what I'm trying to do with knotend [0].…” | ||
| 557. | The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 486 points | 2025 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“I tried submitting this as a Show HN a couple times but it didn't take, so I'm happy to see some interest! I caught this just before bed, but I'm happy to take any…” | ||
| 558. | The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes (gravitational.com) | |
| 484 points | 2018 | author aberoham showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do have a bias toward GKE but that is after trying to use everything else -- DIY, kubespray, OpenShift, Juju, Tectonic, Azure, Fargate, kops, Rancher v2 preview,…” | ||
| 559. | Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview (github.com) | |
| 484 points | 2018 | author akavel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hope something like that (syscall/capabilities limits) could work. If it is possible, it would just mostly solve the problem, I believe. I'm kinda starting to realize,…” | ||
| 560. | A JavaScript-Free Front End (dev.to) | |
| 484 points | 2019 | author winduptoy showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Just for reference, 180k of that is fonts. The rest is super tiny. Of course, once you've loaded it the first time, it's cached.” | ||
| 561. | A street snack that has baffled botanists (atlasobscura.com) | |
| 484 points | 2021 | author barkha2803 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I am the author of this article :) To sum up, most research as of now points to Agave but botanists who did the DNA barcoding don't want to commit to Agave. For two…” | ||
| 562. | You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list (ctrl.blog) | |
| 484 points | 2022 | author d2wa showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“My router isn’t a domestic router. It’s a MikroTik running RouterOS, completely unsupported by the ISP. Outgoing connections and DNS is logged. UPnP is only allowed for…” | ||
| 563. | The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (righto.com) | |
| 484 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...” | ||
| 564. | Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev) | |
| 484 points | 2025 | author kaycebasques showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for reading! The post was previously discussed 6 months ago: To be clear, when I said "embeddings are underrated" I was only arguing that my fellow technical…” | ||
| 565. | A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com) | |
| 484 points | 2025 | author tdullien showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am entirely ok with using "goal" in the context of an RL algorithm. If you read my article carefully, you'll find that I object to the use of "goal" in the context of…” | ||
| 566. | The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it (blog.r3bl.me) | |
| 483 points | 2018 | author r3bl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As I have said in an other comment on this thread, the idea is that the city's name is easily discoverable. You can discover it by highlighting the text, clicking at the…” | ||
| 567. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 483 points | 2018 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't updated this in a while, but am always grateful for the appreciative comments and emails I get when it gets rediscovered. There's also usually two other…” | ||
| 568. | Query Apple's FindMy network with Python (github.com) | |
| 483 points | 2024 | author malmeloo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! I'm the author of FindMy.py. I'd like to use this moment to give a shout-out to some other people that deserve way more credit than me, as the project…” | ||
| 569. | 61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience (talent.works) | |
| 482 points | 2018 | author kushalc showed up | their comment | thread
“(And also happen to be TalentWorks CEO.) A friend sent me this link, I'm happy to answer any Qs. Also, we're hiring. :) If you're sick of spending all your hard-earned…” | ||
| 570. | Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (bandysc.github.io) | |
| 482 points | 2024 | author bandysc showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I built everything from scratch. It supports only a subset of VB6 so it wasn't difficult or long. I wrote an interpreter for VB6 code” | ||
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