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| 661. | Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux (blog.hiri.com) | |
| 450 points | 2018 | author dpower showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Some context you may find interesting, and maybe I should do a follow up post about this. We were very enterprise focused, but it just didn't work. We were trying to…” | ||
| 662. | Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight (blog.bolt.io) | |
| 450 points | 2019 | author tmincey showed up | their comment | thread
“Not an ad at all (and Bolt isn't an investor). We just like to take apart new products and see what we can learn about them and the companies that build them.” | ||
| 663. | Growl in Retirement (336699.org) | |
| 450 points | 2020 | author ChrisGrowl showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything.” | ||
| 664. | Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch (medium.com) | |
| 449 points | 2017 | author noopkat showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't post this to Hacker News (I didn't even have an account on here until 30 seconds ago), but thanks for the thoughtful comments everyone! Is it weird if I address…” | ||
| 665. | Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later (charukiewi.cz) | |
| 449 points | 2017 | author Albert_Camus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“As I posted in a different reply: JSON decoding is hard relative to what it is like in JavaScript. In your JS code you can just call JSON.parse() and get the…” | ||
| 666. | Generics can make your Go code slower (planetscale.com) | |
| 449 points | 2022 | author tanoku showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the kind words! This is a custom pipeline that I designed for the article. It's implemented as a Node.js library using SVG.js and it statically generates the…” | ||
| 667. | Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (rfd.shared.oxide.computer) | |
| 449 points | 2025 | author dap showed up | their comment | thread
“Although the design of the `tokio::select!` macro creates ways to run into this behavior, I don't believe the problem is specific to `tokio`. Why wouldn't the example…” | ||
| 668. | Random Forests for Complete Beginners (victorzhou.com) | |
| 447 points | 2019 | author vzhou842 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you're new to ML you might also like my introduction to Neural Networks: Discussion of my neural networks post on HN:” | ||
| 669. | How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job (blog.ladder.io) | |
| 446 points | 2016 | author 2michaeltaylor showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair point, all credit goes to the various 'lean' books; Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany and Lean Analytics all come to mind when I think what…” | ||
| 670. | Ante: A low-level functional language (antelang.org) | |
| 446 points | 2022 | author jfecher showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“As the website says, the compiler itself is still in a very early state where basic things like functions, types, traits, inference, monomorphisation, and codegen are…” | ||
| 671. | Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs (leviathansecurity.com) | |
| 446 points | 2024 | author morattisec showed up | their comment | thread
“the intention was to provide a primer of the topics since we figured this would draw people from a nontechnical background too. That and half the information on the…” | ||
| 672. | Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (imkylelambert.com) | |
| 446 points | 2026 | author kslambert showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for the comments everyone! There are many comments on the price point. I would like to comment on one thing. "$20k is too much" I agree $20k is an investment.…” | ||
| 673. | HTTP/3 Is Fast (requestmetrics.com) | |
| 445 points | 2021 | author eric_trackjs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am seeing a lot of comments about how the graphs are not anchored at 0. The intent with the graphs was not to "lie" or "mislead" but to fit the data in a way that was…” | ||
| 674. | Make Firefox Private Again (make-firefox-private-again.com) | |
| 445 points | 2024 | author eloy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! I just thought it was fun to make kind of a polyglot shell script-blog post :D "yeah but you could serve a different page with the curl UA" ok, then you just…” | ||
| 675. | Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs (github.com) | |
| 444 points | 2018 | author netingle showed up | their comment | thread
“Really excited to release this at KubeCon; happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 676. | Rust Language Cheat Sheet (cheats.rs) | |
| 444 points | 2019 | author xrio showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you all for your comments, issues and pull requests. You are amazing!” | ||
| 677. | Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) (magcius.github.io) | |
| 443 points | 2019 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I stopped working on this a few years ago, so now's as good a time as any for an overly-long, rambly, unedited retrospective. When I started this, I was working on…” | ||
| 678. | Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning (deepmind.com) | |
| 443 points | 2022 | author 317070 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We validated the neural network controller on the real plant in a couple of experiments. All experiments in the paper are based on data from running the controller on an…” | ||
| 679. | Testing the F-35C Tailhook (the-engi-nerd.github.io) | |
| 443 points | 2024 | author euler_angles showed up | their comment | thread
“Did not expect to see this on HN at all. Just an engineering war story I shared.” | ||
| 680. | An illustrated introduction to linear algebra (ducktyped.org) | |
| 443 points | 2025 | author egonschiele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think you're probably right. I wrote the Gaussian elimination section more as a recap, because I figured most readers have seen Gaussian elimination before, and I was…” | ||
| 681. | Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s (ridiculousfish.com) | |
| 442 points | 2012 | author ridiculous_fish showed up | their comment | thread
“fish doesn't have aliases, only functions. 'alias' is itself a function, which looks like it has a bug. I filed to track this. (The usual way a fish user would add this…” | ||
| 682. | The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y” (erikbern.com) | |
| 442 points | 2017 | author erikbern showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are absolutely right. As I mentioned in the notes, I think this matters a bit less than it might seem like (the stationary distribution does not change if you add a…” | ||
| 683. | Invisible unicorns: Big companies that started with little or no money (techcrunch.com) | |
| 442 points | 2017 | author replicatorblog showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm one of the authors of this post and plan on releasing an updated version with some companies that we missed on the first pass. If you know of other substantial…” | ||
| 684. | Keep Out – WebGL Game (playkeepout.com) | |
| 442 points | 2024 | author guigui showed up | their comment | thread
“not sure why this is posted today as this project is from 2015, but feel free check out our latest WebGL project if you liked Keep Out: EDIT: thanks for all the great…” | ||
| 685. | LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers (threedle.github.io) | |
| 442 points | 2025 | author ranahanocka showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA!” | ||
| 686. | Jujutsu for everyone (jj-for-everyone.github.io) | |
| 442 points | 2025 | author senekor showed up | their comment | thread
“Since the target audience is people with little to no Git experience, a detailed comparison would not make sense. I did simply make that claim because the weirdness of…” | ||
| 687. | HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks (feross.org) | |
| 440 points | 2013 | author feross showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It works for me. I test on IE10 on Windows 8.” | ||
| 688. | TypeScript at Slack (slack.engineering) | |
| 440 points | 2017 | author felixrieseberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here - let me know if you have any questions about anything in that post (or, you know, anything else... like, erm, Electron).” | ||
| 689. | Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine (mitpress.mit.edu) | |
| 440 points | 2024 | author chaimgingold showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote this book. Ask me anything. I also was a designer on Spore. I'm also trying to feed my 8 month old lunch and he is very excited to asn``wer anything too.” | ||
| 690. | Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz (computer.rip) | |
| 439 points | 2020 | author jcrawfordor showed up | their comment | thread
“I 1) have no idea how this made it to the top position, 2) now feel much guiltier about posting so infrequently, 3) apologize for the design of my blog being almost…” | ||
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