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| 721. | Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years (businessinsider.com) | |
| 426 points | 2021 | author akanet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi I wrote this piece and am perhaps still better known here as the founder of CoderPad, etc. I'm happy to answer any questions throughout the day, so long as they are…” | ||
| 722. | I sent an Ethernet packet (github.com) | |
| 426 points | 2024 | author fstokesman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the reason is pretty underwhelming: These are the parts I had on hand when I decided to start on the project. Using a chip with a builtin Ethernet peripheral would…” | ||
| 723. | Agent design is still hard (lucumr.pocoo.org) | |
| 426 points | 2025 | author the_mitsuhiko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’m with you on the abstractions part. I dumped a lot of my though so this into a follow up post:” | ||
| 724. | How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding (twilio.com) | |
| 425 points | 2017 | author Slamchunk showed up | their comment | thread
“Weddings are time sinks even small ones like mine, we viewed around 20 venues for example, multiple caterers etc. Anything you can do to save time is a good thing.…” | ||
| 725. | Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? (naughtycomputer.uk) | |
| 425 points | 2018 | author xylon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can't send you a sample because of copyright but get "scare force one" by Lordi on CD and rip it into any format.” | ||
| 726. | Why I Procrastinate (2019) (invisibleup.com) | |
| 425 points | 2020 | author InvisibleUp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Since I wrote this article, I got professionally diagnosed and treated. Turns out, yeah, I'm doing a lot better now. On most days I don't have these symptoms, I can in…” | ||
| 727. | I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months (miguelrochefort.com) | |
| 425 points | 2020 | author miguelrochefort showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd be happy to answer your questions.” | ||
| 728. | Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go (github.com) | |
| 425 points | 2025 | author prasunanand showed up | their comment | thread
“The unique feature of Zasper is that the Jupyter kernel handling is built with Go coroutines and is far superior to how it's done by JupyterLab in Python. Zasper uses…” | ||
| 729. | Don't Download Apps (blog.calebjay.com) | |
| 425 points | 2025 | author komali2 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“they can only do surveillance pricing on you if they know who you are when you're paying. They can't do that at a kiosk or counter because they would only know whose…” | ||
| 730. | Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices (queue.acm.org) | |
| 424 points | 2016 | author hadagribble showed up | their comment | thread
“This is by far my favourite post in this entire thread -- I don't think I've ever seen Seymour Cray referenced as an authority in this manner before :) Not specifically…” | ||
| 731. | Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service (txt.black) | |
| 424 points | 2019 | author zulgan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am going to my daughter's birthday, so I wont reply to comments for a while, but if anyone runs into trouble please send an email to jack@baxx.dev thanks a lot for the…” | ||
| 732. | How to create a Python package in 2022 (mathspp.com) | |
| 424 points | 2022 | author RojerGS showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks a lot for sharing this! Also, can't believe everyone let me get away with not writing about documentation! I'll see to it that it gets done and added to the…” | ||
| 733. | Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me (vincents.dev) | |
| 424 points | 2025 | author vsgherzi showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading and all of your thoughts! Here's another older HN thread with some interesting comments.” | ||
| 734. | Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work (ingrids.space) | |
| 423 points | 2021 | author intarga showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to succeed. I just pointed out my…” | ||
| 735. | Apple squandered the Holy Grail (xeiaso.net) | |
| 423 points | 2025 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I've found writing on stream to be really hard, but it's getting easier with practice. One of the more frustrating parts is trying to get the pure thought nuance…” | ||
| 736. | 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite (andersmurphy.com) | |
| 423 points | 2025 | author andersmurphy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you for the fantastic discussion so far. I've added an Epilogue to the article that covers: - Pragma synchronous "FULL" - Giving PG a bigger connection pool” | ||
| 737. | Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io) | |
| 423 points | 2026 | author popzxc showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 738. | 10 years-ish of Elixir (dashbit.co) | |
| 422 points | 2021 | author josevalim showed up | their comment | thread
“The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang/Elixir, my goal has always been to bring new developers to the platform. After…” | ||
| 739. | Learning Is Remembering (saveall.ai) | |
| 422 points | 2022 | author p-christ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong” | ||
| 740. | CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished (fossil-scm.org) | |
| 422 points | 2024 | author SQLite showed up | their comment | thread
“My title was imprecise and unclear. I didn't mean that you should raise errors if CRLF is used as a line terminator in (for example) HTTP, only that a bare NL should be…” | ||
| 741. | Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I (tbbuck.com) | |
| 421 points | 2011 | author mootothemax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the last 18 months I've learned an incredible amount from the users here on Hacker News, and I figured that it's about time I started giving something back. None of…” | ||
| 742. | Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com) | |
| 421 points | 2021 | author rckrd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for posting. Here's some more color on the reflection on comments, straight from the Linux Kernel documentation that capture my intention much better: *"Comments…” | ||
| 743. | Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” (buttondown.email) | |
| 421 points | 2022 | author hwayne showed up | their comment | thread
“looking into those earlier sources now EDIT: The "Advisory Opinions" source is mislabeled and was published after 1989. [1] The "Typographic Journal" refers to boiler…” | ||
| 744. | Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (martinalderson.com) | |
| 421 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for your kind words! I think it's about looking at what you're building and proactively suggesting/prototyping what else could be useful for the business. This…” | ||
| 745. | Mac at any scale (namespace.so) | |
| 421 points | 2026 | author nichtverstehen showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 746. | Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies (betashop.com) | |
| 420 points | 2012 | author betashop showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. I like it as it is. 10 is a list. 90 is a compilation of lessons. Thanks for your input though! Don't stop learning.” | ||
| 747. | PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com) | |
| 420 points | 2017 | author AlisdairO showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks a lot for the feedback, it's appreciated. You're right on the naming convention, it's very haphazard. I'll raise an issue on Github to revisit that - although it…” | ||
| 748. | Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities (kevin.burke.dev) | |
| 420 points | 2025 | author kevinburke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The cost savings come from not having people who live in cities pay for undergrounding lines and maintaining power lines in rural areas. Maintaining the city networks is…” | ||
| 749. | Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU (osor.io) | |
| 420 points | 2025 | author osor_io showed up | their comment | thread
“didn't expect the post to make it here! Thanks so much to everyone who's reading it and participating in the interesting chat <3” | ||
| 750. | Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020) (gpfault.net) | |
| 420 points | 2025 | author nice_byte showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The final part of this series is still sitting in my drafts. It was nominally supposed to be about flow control instructions, but as it goes with those things, it…” | ||
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