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| 601. | Anxiety in product development (andreschweighofer.com) | |
| 471 points | 2020 | author fidrelity showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think you have a point here. Anxiety can certainly stem from the point you mentioned. But I also think anxiety from other sources can affect your development…” | ||
| 602. | Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility (github.com) | |
| 471 points | 2021 | author nuta showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm surprised to see my hobby project on Hacker News. I know this kind of stuff spark the ``it's meaningless to rewrite everything (especially Linux) in Rust'' debate. I…” | ||
| 603. | Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app (tldraw.com) | |
| 471 points | 2021 | author steveruizok showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship…” | ||
| 604. | Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition (discrete.openmathbooks.org) | |
| 471 points | 2024 | author oscarlevin showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it's worth, deciding what percentage of the exercises should have solutions is a continual challenge. I chose to use a lot of interactive exercises (thanks to…” | ||
| 605. | 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 471 points | 2024 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to see this posted again! This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently” | ||
| 606. | Google shared my phone number (danq.me) | |
| 471 points | 2025 | author Dan-Q showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.” | ||
| 607. | Static types in Python (blog.zulip.org) | |
| 470 points | 2016 | author tabbott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Original author here; I'm happy to answer any questions about the mypy experience!” | ||
| 608. | Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 470 points | 2020 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a good question but, yes, you are missing something. Mostly me being an idiot. I usually spell it upper-u upper-r lower-L specifically to annoy both sides of the…” | ||
| 609. | Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better (gkogan.co) | |
| 470 points | 2024 | author gk1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Unlikely. You can see why in these two examples that really happened: One user I spoke with said they assumed "queries per second" is calculated by (number of searches)…” | ||
| 610. | Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author Kalabasa showed up | their comment | thread
“Definitely cherry picked ;) I did deliberately pick some "bad" examples like the blue+green image, and other multicolor images. I wanted to add an upload function so…” | ||
| 611. | GPT-5 for Developers (openai.com) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author tedsanders showed up | their comment | thread
“so you can blame me. We no doubt highlight the evals that make us look good, but in this particular case I think the emphasis on telecom isn't unprincipled cherry…” | ||
| 612. | Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste (seated.ro) | |
| 470 points | 2025 | author seatedro showed up | their comment | thread
“apologies, i will be adding a toggle to disable the scanline effect” | ||
| 613. | The Amazon Builders' Library (aws.amazon.com) | |
| 469 points | 2019 | author dyanacek showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with all the folks’ suggestions here! When I was in college, I took extra writing courses beyond what was required for an engineering degree (they counted toward…” | ||
| 614. | Zig's comptime is bonkers good (scottredig.com) | |
| 469 points | 2025 | author ScottRedig showed up | their comment | thread
“I was motivated to write this post after having trouble articulating some of its points while at a meetup, so that's why the goal of this post was focused on explaining…” | ||
| 615. | Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (google-research.github.io) | |
| 469 points | 2025 | author miottp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you! You're seeing that correctly. The directional bias is the result of some initial symmetry breaking and likely random-seed dependent. The version that…” | ||
| 616. | How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security (blog.lessonslearned.org) | |
| 468 points | 2017 | author signifiers showed up | their comment | thread
“I think this was misunderstood. I don't mean the _entire_ Chromebook or OS was unstable -- just the opposite actually. I was referring to having to restart Termux twice…” | ||
| 617. | Why are my Go executable files so large? (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 468 points | 2019 | author knz42 showed up | their comment | thread
“and this is IMHO the best comment in this thread.” | ||
| 618. | How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016) (cbui.dev) | |
| 468 points | 2021 | author 147 showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this on the front page of HN since I wrote it 5 years ago. I've always been fascinated with talent acquisition and skill development and would probably…” | ||
| 619. | Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019) (webapp.io) | |
| 468 points | 2021 | author colinchartier showed up | their comment | thread
“A few updates since this was published two years ago: - The service mentioned (now called ) eventually made it into YC (S20) and still uses postgres as its pub/sub…” | ||
| 620. | WebGL Water (madebyevan.com) | |
| 467 points | 2014 | author constexpr showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've done much more awesome stuff with WebGL since I made this demo but it's for my startup and is not public yet. We're actually looking for a backend engineer with…” | ||
| 621. | Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor (fingerprintjs.com) | |
| 467 points | 2021 | author kdarutkin showed up | their comment | thread
“The accuracy can be low because of: - Custom browser settings or flags - The demo was designed for the default setup, but that doesn’t mean your custom setup is not…” | ||
| 622. | Extracting AI models from mobile apps (altayakkus.substack.com) | |
| 467 points | 2025 | author biosboiii showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I understand that its not very clear if the neural net and its weights & biases are considered as IP, I personally think that if some OpenAI employee just leaks GPT-4o…” | ||
| 623. | Scala Native (github.com) | |
| 466 points | 2016 | author densh showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all, I'm the author of the project and would gladly answer any questions.” | ||
| 624. | Programming for Cats (programmingforcats.com) | |
| 466 points | 2021 | author tigerlilythecat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Looking to get feedback from programmers before publishing. You can download a sample chapter at:” | ||
| 625. | A Server Naming Scheme (mnx.io) | |
| 465 points | 2014 | author elasticdog showed up | their comment | thread
“the important thing isn't the abbreviations, but having a standard that you can agree upon and use consistently. The listed items are just an example scheme that tries…” | ||
| 626. | Principles of Engineering Management (acjay.com) | |
| 465 points | 2022 | author acjohnson55 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the lack of specificity is a fair criticism of what I wrote in the piece, but this is also something I was very aware of when I wrote it, which is why this…” | ||
| 627. | GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much (iter.ca) | |
| 465 points | 2024 | author smitop showed up | their comment | thread
“I removed the background.” | ||
| 628. | Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data (github.com) | |
| 463 points | 2017 | author arikfr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Redash :) Nice to see Redash at the top of HN. I'll be happy to answer any questions about Redash, open source and about my journey to make Redash…” | ||
| 629. | Super Tiny Compiler (github.com) | |
| 462 points | 2016 | author thejameskyle showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I actually walked through all of this code line by line in a conference talk using another thing I built: I ripped these code comments from my presenter notes where I…” | ||
| 630. | War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged (clientserver.dev) | |
| 462 points | 2025 | author jakevoytko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I debugged a fair number of those when I was a systems engineer in soft real time robotics systems, but none of them felt as bad in retrospect because you're just…” | ||
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