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| 571. | How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com) | |
| 481 points | 2021 | author tbabb showed up | their comment | thread
“The particle filter has its own strengths and drawbacks. It makes more sense to use a particle filter in situations where the state search space is highly nonlocal…” | ||
| 572. | I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021) (electrek.co) | |
| 480 points | 2022 | author micahtoll showed up | their comment | thread
“and it is true. You've linked to the correct law, but you didn't read it fully. Even if we drill down on a single item, like the backup camera you mentioned, then a more…” | ||
| 573. | Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 479 points | 2020 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. You saved me a good day of figuring out what all the header fields meant. I definitely appreciated finding your code!” | ||
| 574. | I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019) (blog.samuelmaddock.com) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author smaddock showed up | their comment | thread
“Since this post, there's now an option available for DRM-enabled Electron. However, it's only available through a single vendor, castLabs [0]. This is a closed source,…” | ||
| 575. | Automating my job with GPT-3 (blog.seekwell.io) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author mritchie712 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The idea (if we were to actually implement this in our product) would be to give the user some "boilerplate". We're no where near being able to automate a 100 line…” | ||
| 576. | Check If Email Exists (github.com) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author amaurym10 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes the company is in France, and I'm currently writing those (called "CGV" and "Mention légales").” | ||
| 577. | Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (maragu.dev) | |
| 479 points | 2024 | author markusw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Well, it has worked pretty well for me so far, so I don't know why I would switch. Go is fast and expressive enough for my use, and it's probably outweighed by being…” | ||
| 578. | RLHF Book (rlhfbook.com) | |
| 479 points | 2025 | author natolambert showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to say that this is indeed in a good place to share, some very useful stuff, but is also very work in progress. I'm may 60% or so to my first draft. Said…” | ||
| 579. | Think in Math, Write in Code (justinmeiners.github.io) | |
| 478 points | 2019 | author justinmeiners showed up | their comment | thread
“I would say that modeling the computational process in math is not typically helpful (you already have a formal programming language) you should model the real-world (or…” | ||
| 580. | Show HN: Space Invaders in C (blog.loadzero.com) | |
| 478 points | 2019 | author loadzero showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is a bit of a love letter to Space Invaders, and video games in general. I started working on this as a simple emulation project, to rekindle my own passion in low…” | ||
| 581. | Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (cfenollosa.com) | |
| 478 points | 2021 | author carlesfe showed up | their comment | thread
“I knew that if this got posted to HN I'd need to explain myself more :) To address some of the top comments: - I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is…” | ||
| 582. | A* tricks for videogame path finding (timmastny.com) | |
| 478 points | 2024 | author tmastny showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a cool idea, I hadn't thought of that! It doesn't quite work in the current implementation, but would with some small tweaks. Basically we would need to have the…” | ||
| 583. | The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela (kaveland.no) | |
| 478 points | 2025 | author rkaveland showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I will be trying out Kagi for some time. Search is worth paying money for. Thanks for the heads-up!” | ||
| 584. | The Little Book of Linear Algebra (github.com) | |
| 478 points | 2025 | author tamnd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Linear Algebra is the first book in a series I'm writing on math, computer science, and programming. You can find the index for the upcoming books here:. If the style…” | ||
| 585. | Nonplussed (techcrunch.com) | |
| 477 points | 2013 | author devindotcom showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all. I'm the author. I don't really have much to add here except that I was afraid the article, which I dashed off as all that stuff was happening, would come off as…” | ||
| 586. | The internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp) | |
| 477 points | 2017 | author shx8 showed up | their comment | thread
“Now, my hosting server denies accessing from foreign countries because of too many accesses. Please wait for a several hours.” | ||
| 587. | Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 477 points | 2017 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone forks this and makes it real please let me know. @jason_koebler on twitter or jason.koebler@vice.com” | ||
| 588. | Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software (berk.es) | |
| 476 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I use Django and Rails as examples. Both are, indeed, "just a bunch of libraries". But many of those libraries, and especially their bundled collection, enforce certain…” | ||
| 589. | 2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution (sassnow.ski) | |
| 476 points | 2024 | author ksassnowski showed up | their comment | thread
“To give some context, this is only part one in a series of blog posts I plan on writing about rigid body physics. The post is aimed at people like myself, who aren't…” | ||
| 590. | Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades (tuwien.at) | |
| 475 points | 2024 | author drakebake showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm one of the authors on the paper and see that people are curious about things. I'm happy to answer any questions, cool to find this here!” | ||
| 591. | The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images (robinsloan.com) | |
| 474 points | 2012 | author robinsloan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm with you. The steady success of the self-driving cars has made me take some of these other projects much, much more seriously. Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?” | ||
| 592. | Professional Software Development (mixmastamyk.bitbucket.org) | |
| 474 points | 2016 | author mixmastamyk showed up | their comment | thread
“writing this book was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and there is seemingly no end to the small issues I've faced (both writing and technical). Would…” | ||
| 593. | Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal (github.com) | |
| 474 points | 2017 | author laurent123456 showed up | their comment | thread
“The notes on each client are stored in an SQLite database for performance reason. If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be…” | ||
| 594. | Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds (vidarholen.net) | |
| 474 points | 2020 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the fascinating insights! I've updated the post to link to your comment. PS: I worked with @ridiculousfish up until recently, say hi from me ^^” | ||
| 595. | How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant (mtlynch.io) | |
| 473 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. I wrote it a few months ago and submitted it at the time[0], but it didn't seem like it was a match…” | ||
| 596. | Crypto is an unproductive bubble (alexkolchinski.com) | |
| 473 points | 2022 | author kolchinski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks – great point. Mind leaving it as a comment on the essay itself as well for posterity? Or I'm happy to add a footnote/comment quoting you.” | ||
| 597. | Rediscovering the Small Web (neustadt.fr) | |
| 472 points | 2020 | author livatlantis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“That's an interesting analogy — especially given that small book stores and libraries (to a lesser extent) still do exist, albeit in much smaller numbers, attracting…” | ||
| 598. | How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You (mtlynch.io) | |
| 472 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.” | ||
| 599. | Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it) | |
| 471 points | 2019 | author kristoff_it showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Uhh, I've just setup the normal progressive webapp manifest, it's not supposed to be asking you actively about it. I'd recommend checking out the settings in your…” | ||
| 600. | Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements (github.com) | |
| 471 points | 2020 | author awb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a designer and it wasn't meant to be denigrating, but more of a statement that launching is hard and that it's OK to be embarrassed by the design of your MVP so you…” | ||
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