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| 691. | Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com) | |
| 438 points | 2018 | author adamdrake showed up | their comment | thread
“Many thanks for the feedback and comments. If you have any questions, I'm also happy to try to answer them. I'm also working on a project, which may be of interest to…” | ||
| 692. | Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive (github.com) | |
| 438 points | 2019 | author DanielDe showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It was pretty cool to wake up this morning and see this on the front page (thanks moioci!). If you’re interested in taking org-web for a spin you can try it here:…” | ||
| 693. | Green vs. Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev) | |
| 438 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wanted to dig a little into data from the Stack Overflow survey on what made programming languages loved or hated and I think what I found is pretty interesting: it…” | ||
| 694. | AI has a deep understanding of how this code works (github.com) | |
| 438 points | 2025 | author joelreymont showed up | their comment | thread
“No, I'm not AI or bot, etc. Yes, my resume is genuine and is even more weird than what was listed (see). Oh, and I live in Kyiv. As for the PR itself, it was a PR stunt…” | ||
| 695. | Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker (watchesbysjx.com) | |
| 437 points | 2017 | author watchesbysjx showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article above and also visited Jiro when Jiro himself was making the sushi. There are similarities between both Kikuno and Jiro in their commitment to a…” | ||
| 696. | Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library (github.com) | |
| 435 points | 2019 | author timqian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for mentioning about this issue here. The lib size is over 400kb because I imported the whole d3 lib into it, but actually only using small fraction of it. I will…” | ||
| 697. | LA Times and ads (nelsonslog.wordpress.com) | |
| 434 points | 2017 | author NelsonMinar showed up | their comment | thread
“I did the naive extrapolation. 5 2 1440 = 14,400. Perhaps this number is not entirely accurate. The fact it is any larger than, say, 10 is the problem.” | ||
| 698. | Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript (davidgom.es) | |
| 434 points | 2019 | author munchor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually addressed this in a footnote linked directly to that sentence you quoted. EDIT: This is incorrect ^, I misread your comment at first. Thank you for bringing…” | ||
| 699. | How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) (leerob.io) | |
| 434 points | 2020 | author leerob showed up | their comment | thread
“No RSS feed yet. It's on my shortlist of features to add.” | ||
| 700. | StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data (github.com) | |
| 434 points | 2021 | author westnordost showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I too wish there could be an iOS version one day and it is also theoretically possible to do this, i.e. share code between the iOS version and the native Android…” | ||
| 701. | I was part of a human subject research study without my consent (christine.website) | |
| 434 points | 2021 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this article if anyone has any questions.” | ||
| 702. | On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage (walkingtheworld.substack.com) | |
| 433 points | 2022 | author Chris_arnade showed up | their comment | thread
“So you can yell at me here. Thanks again for all the interesting comments. Hacker news is the best. One of the few places I read the comments and learn.” | ||
| 703. | Node.js packages don't deserve trust (josephg.com) | |
| 432 points | 2022 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. I write a lot more Rust than Javascript these days, and I agree - this is absolutely a problem I'd love to eventually see addressed in the rust…” | ||
| 704. | This coupon code is a slap in the face (justinjackson.ca) | |
| 431 points | 2013 | author mijustin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and just started digging into the research now. ;) Here's what I've found so far: - Oliver & Shor found that: "prompting for a code in the absence of having one had…” | ||
| 705. | GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners (arxiv.org) | |
| 431 points | 2020 | author nottombrown showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the confusing formatting on the task descriptions at the end of the paper. That "4" is the human-generated target completion, not a model generated completion.…” | ||
| 706. | 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev) | |
| 431 points | 2021 | author mcmillen showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of the Perl paint-splatter paper. "That lady" is Adrienne Porter Felt, who started as an engineer working on Google Chrome security a decade or so…” | ||
| 707. | Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL (supabase.com) | |
| 431 points | 2021 | author oliverrice showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions” | ||
| 708. | Introducing command And commandfor In HTML (developer.chrome.com) | |
| 431 points | 2025 | author Keithamus showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not affiliated with Google. My current employer is GitHub, and this was incubated in the OpenUI working group. Open source & the open Web are still very much alive!” | ||
| 709. | EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars (restofworld.org) | |
| 431 points | 2025 | author techthatananya showed up | their comment | thread
“It is very heartening to see everyone engaging on topics like IP, production capabilities, trade dynamics, charging anxiety, safety and more. I love that the discussion…” | ||
| 710. | What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity (blog.clarifai.com) | |
| 428 points | 2016 | author rcpt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“let me know if you have any questions” | ||
| 711. | That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io) | |
| 428 points | 2021 | author epsilon-greedy showed up | their comment | thread
“I just fixed this. Very good catch. Off-by-one errors are hard indeed. :)” | ||
| 712. | Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets (christianheilmann.com) | |
| 428 points | 2021 | author chriscodepo8 showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“We'd love to know what we can do better. What are you missing at ? We lately spent a lot of time re-organising the documentation to cover different use cases, like…” | ||
| 713. | I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020) (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 428 points | 2022 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this in 2020, have changed jobs twice since. Both jobs involved Go in some capacity, where it's supposed to shine (web services). It has not been a pleasant…” | ||
| 714. | Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL (blog.rustprooflabs.com) | |
| 428 points | 2022 | author petereisentraut showed up | their comment | thread
“The background here is that the SQL standard was ambiguous about which of the two ways an implementation should behave. So in the upcoming SQL:202x, this was addressed…” | ||
| 715. | Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs (kyutai.org) | |
| 428 points | 2025 | author vvolhejn showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I think it's more of a capability issue than a safety issue. Since learning audio is still harder than learning text, audio models don't generalize as well. To fix that,…” | ||
| 716. | Command line tools for productive programmers (earthly.dev) | |
| 427 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing! Have you seen gron[1]? It can't do everything that jq can, but it is much more in the unix philosophy than jq. It simply flattens and unflattens json…” | ||
| 717. | That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job (keygen.sh) | |
| 427 points | 2021 | author ezekg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can promise you, after I left my job, I more than quartered my total income after taxes and other expenses such as insurance.” | ||
| 718. | I still love PHP and JavaScript (the.scapegoat.dev) | |
| 427 points | 2022 | author larve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thank you for reading the article and taking the time to comment. Every legacy codebase I have worked with was actually a successful business. That probably plays a big…” | ||
| 719. | Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal (news.yale.edu) | |
| 426 points | 2018 | author jdrov showed up | their comment | thread
“First author here -- happy to take any questions!” | ||
| 720. | GitHub stars won’t pay your rent (medium.com) | |
| 426 points | 2019 | author thekitze showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm using WebStorm with Material theme.” | ||
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