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| 631. | Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source (github.com) | |
| 461 points | 2011 | author nathanmarz showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to point you to a few resources: I've written a lot of documentation on the wiki, which you can find here: There's a few companion projects to Storm. These…” | ||
| 632. | Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images (distill.pub) | |
| 461 points | 2017 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm one of the authors, along with Alex and Ludwig. We're happy to answer any questions! :)” | ||
| 633. | How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 461 points | 2018 | author e_ameisen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“One of the reasons to start with something even simpler than embeddings such as fastText/Word2Vec, is their ease of explainability. As this blog post alludes to, the…” | ||
| 634. | Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router (github.com) | |
| 461 points | 2018 | author secure showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions you might have :)” | ||
| 635. | Why not use GraphQL? (wundergraph.com) | |
| 460 points | 2020 | author jensneuse showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you want efficient database JOINs using GraphQL I'd always opt for Hasura. They've done a fantastic job solving this problem. This will almost always use the most…” | ||
| 636. | My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable (davesullivan.is) | |
| 460 points | 2021 | author dave_sullivan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There are two sections. There is the part where people reached out to me. Then there is the part where I went out and interviewed more proactively. And there is a lot of…” | ||
| 637. | Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (opensource.googleblog.com) | |
| 460 points | 2022 | author janwas showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to discuss.” | ||
| 638. | Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image (pub.towardsai.net) | |
| 460 points | 2022 | author joooyzee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I didn't specify that part, which is exactly why I love that image. The full prompt was "Action photo of a llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan,…” | ||
| 639. | What can LLMs never do? (strangeloopcanon.com) | |
| 460 points | 2024 | author marquisdepolis showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I tried creating something similar in order to solve wordle etc, and the interesting part is that it is insufficient still. That's part of the mystery.” | ||
| 640. | Machine learning is easier than it looks (insideintercom.io) | |
| 459 points | 2013 | author benofsky showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The primary point of this article was the contrast between something as simple as K-Means, and the literature that describes it. It wasn't meant as a full intro to ML,…” | ||
| 641. | Goodbye, Sourceforge (helb.github.io) | |
| 459 points | 2015 | author helb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your pull requests, I added some of the suggested services. Maybe some comparison table (like the one at Wikipedia) would be better than a simple list. About…” | ||
| 642. | SQL Notebook (sqlnotebook.com) | |
| 459 points | 2017 | author electroly showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! Author here. I didn't expect anyone to find this repo, much less post it on Hacker News! This project is inactive for two main reasons: - SQLite is not a…” | ||
| 643. | Skyrim rendered in text (medium.com) | |
| 459 points | 2017 | author filiph showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I'm surprised (and very happy!) you were able to play through. I know accessibility is one thing I haven't given enough attention to. If you have specific suggestions…” | ||
| 644. | Design Docs at Google (industrialempathy.com) | |
| 459 points | 2020 | author cramforce showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have questions or feedback.” | ||
| 645. | Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion (notion.so) | |
| 459 points | 2021 | author garrettf showed up | their comment | thread
“Sharding our Postgres monolith was a huge undertaking for a small team. We got a huge boost from folks that joined within weeks before the switch-over date. If you’re…” | ||
| 646. | Starting a real business (stripe.com) | |
| 458 points | 2016 | author patio11 showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me if you have any questions or comments, in particular about things you'd like to see us cover in the future. If you'd rather do it over email, my…” | ||
| 647. | Startups I Want to Fund (startupandrew.com) | |
| 457 points | 2018 | author mayop100 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“If your take here is that I'm interested in "rich-white-guy" problems, I'd encourage you to re-read the list from the perspective of emerging and frontier markets. Most…” | ||
| 648. | Why I'm still using jQuery (arp242.net) | |
| 457 points | 2019 | author Carpetsmoker showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your kind words and effort to engage in respectful discourse, even though we disagree. It is appreciated.” | ||
| 649. | Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters (lemire.me) | |
| 457 points | 2019 | author thomasmg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“For GCS, I also found the Golomb-Rice parameter Q-1 to be better, this is what we used. According to my calculation, the overhead of GCS is around 1.5 bit/key. See also…” | ||
| 650. | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io) | |
| 456 points | 2016 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“let me know if you have any questions or comments! Given how much attention this is getting, I should probably finally finish one of the three articles I have sitting…” | ||
| 651. | Translating Quake 3 into Rust (immunant.com) | |
| 456 points | 2020 | author ahomescu1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to let everyone know we made some small edits to the text, and added two new branches to our repository: transpiled containing the raw transpiler output [1],…” | ||
| 652. | Don’t sign a CLA (drewdevault.com) | |
| 455 points | 2018 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for writing up your thoughts. This isn't true - you mean "not all open source is copyleft". This is also not true. You should review the open source definition: I…” | ||
| 653. | First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier (kamerontanseli.ghost.io) | |
| 453 points | 2020 | author kamerontanseli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That's the read-only scope that's required to query a single spreadsheet on the user's account. The API doesn't allow listing queries unless you also ask for drive…” | ||
| 654. | Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job (manuel.darcemont.fr) | |
| 453 points | 2020 | author megalomanu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello HN! Author here. I wasn't expecting so much comments! I would have chosen a less provocative title if I had known :) Just to clarify: I founded a company a few…” | ||
| 655. | DIY NAS: 2026 Edition (blog.briancmoses.com) | |
| 453 points | 2025 | author briancmoses showed up | their comment | thread
“This listing should be as close to a sure thing as you can get on AliExpress. But even then, dealing with AliExpress when things go sideways isn't always all that great.…” | ||
| 656. | Ten Years of Logging My Life (chaidarun.com) | |
| 452 points | 2021 | author artnc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading - I'm happy to answer any (ok, most) questions!” | ||
| 657. | O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data (sampatt.com) | |
| 451 points | 2025 | author SamPatt showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm glad to see folks find this interesting. I encourage everyone to try Geoguessr! I love it. I'm seeing a lot of comments saying that the fact that the o3 model used…” | ||
| 658. | Signs that you are a bad programmer (yacoset.com) | |
| 450 points | 2011 | author clawrencewenham showed up | their comment | thread
“and after Infogami went to the big web host in the sky I ported it and my other nonsense to Google Sites. The slightly updated version of the same article is now here:” | ||
| 659. | Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support (theunderstatement.com) | |
| 450 points | 2011 | author degusta showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments people might have.” | ||
| 660. | What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? (jmtd.net) | |
| 450 points | 2015 | author jmtd showed up | their comment | thread
“it was the pitch shifting behaviour in particular that I wanted to explore when I modified the random table. Early versions of doom (<1.4) did it, but they accidentally…” | ||
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