751. Introducing Keybase Teams (keybase.io)
419 points | 2017 | author malgorithms showed up | their comment | thread
“In the interest of keeping the post more of a summary, we left the cryptographic details to our docs. Here's a link to that: . We're happy to answer questions here. This…”
752. The other kind of staff software engineer (earthly.dev)
419 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business…”
753. State of React Native 2018 (facebook.github.io)
418 points | 2018 | author spicyj showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Let me know if you have questions that aren't covered in the post.”
754. Show HN: 33 line React (leontrolski.github.io)
418 points | 2020 | author leontrolski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“this was written as a way for me to explore the core idea of react in a minimal setting. Things it's missing - jsx - routing - performance (maybe?) - component state…”
755. I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year (nicklafferty.com)
418 points | 2020 | author nicklafferty showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. I'm humbled that someone felt this was HackerNews worthy, really unexpected! I'll do my best to respond to comments, but if I don't get to…”
756. Self-organising textures from cellular automata (distill.pub)
418 points | 2021 | author eyvindn showed up | their comment | thread
“If you have any questions we'll do our best to answer them! Glad to see people find our work interesting thus far. We also encourage anyone interested to play with the…”
757. Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (righto.com)
418 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...”
758. Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
418 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+16 more) | thread
“Hi. I wrote the article. You're wrong. I work for the Register now. That's why I pick links to them: I have saved searches that make it quick and easy. I wasn't working…”
759. X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete (github.com)
417 points | 2013 | author jbangert showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“While it is true that with the current implementation, memory access is extremely limited (essentially one DWORD per page, or about 0.1% of the available physical RAM)…”
760. Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager (extremetech.com)
417 points | 2014 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“I was being ironic :) I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I was…”
761. The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming (bollu.github.io)
417 points | 2020 | author bollu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to show off how to write a compact and powerful animation library. It turned out to be a nice case study in declarative programming as I wrote it! I'd love…”
762. Cache your CORS (httptoolkit.tech)
417 points | 2022 | author pimterry showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing it @aloukissas! I've also built a tiny "just tell me what to do" SPA for debugging your CORS configurations that everybody reading this might find…”
763. Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' (corelatus.com)
417 points | 2024 | author matthiasl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yep, 44 is the UK country code. The problem I got stuck on is that the rest of the number, 1831, didn't make sense. I assumed the number was complete, since it had the…”
764. Python plays Grand Theft Auto V (pythonprogramming.net)
416 points | 2017 | author sentdex showed up | their comment | thread
“It's just me who does the entire site of pythonprogramming.net and the youtube channel. The way I have gone about things has changed over time, but I have found the…”
765. iOS Menu (codea.io)
416 points | 2019 | author interpol_p showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone. I wrote this menu system for my app Codea (and upcoming shader editor, Shade). The traffic from here has killed my site, so I've posted some tweets showing…”
766. Where it's at:// (overreacted.io)
416 points | 2025 | author danabramov showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions! Re: what is this even about, see my comment here:. Sorry I didn't write an elaborate intro to the article; I kind of meant it for a narrower…”
767. Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2 (blog.packagecloud.io)
415 points | 2017 | author jdamato showed up | their comment | thread
“greetings. Anyone who finds this interesting may also enjoy our writeup describing every Linux system call method in detail [1]. [1]:”
768. Offline-First Database Comparison (github.com)
415 points | 2021 | author typingmonkey showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am using RxDB with Capacitor (iOS and Android app). You can use the SQLite based pouchdb adapter with capacitor. It keeps your data and is (sometimes) faster. Here [1]…”
769. Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023) (eieio.games)
415 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment | thread
“If Recurse sounds fun and magical to you - it is! And you should consider applying :). You can always defer your acceptance until the timing works out. It's free (they…”
770. Examples of Great URL Design (2023) (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
415 points | 2024 | author jimniels showed up | their comment | thread
“There are so many great additional examples of intriguing URL patterns in the comments here. TY everyone for sharing ones you remember!”
771. An opinionated approach to GNU Make (tech.davis-hansson.com)
414 points | 2019 | author jakewins showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Exactly this. We keep a `bin/` in the root dir with scripts/programs for more involved steps. Make gives us the dependency graph, incremental rebuilds and…”
772. A humble guide to database schema design (mikealche.com)
414 points | 2020 | author helloiloveyou showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Ha, I'm a big follower of Patrick, specially his microconfs! I didn't know he had an article an article on the subject, thanks for linking it! However I agree with him!…”
773. If-then-else had to be invented (github.com)
414 points | 2020 | author enf showed up | their comment | thread
“and I mean that I can say "or else" in a normal sentence, but I cannot say "else" without an "or" in normal speech in my normal dialect.”
774. What if Eye...? (eyes.mit.edu)
414 points | 2025 | author aryoung1 showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions :)”
775. What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) (seeinglogic.com)
414 points | 2025 | author seeinglogic showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for all the thoughtful comments and great stuff I didn't think of (also has been a hot minute since I wrote the article). I appreciate the discussion!”
776. My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.wordpress.com)
413 points | 2017 | author zwischenzug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“interested in any strong views on this - @ianmiell on twitter.”
777. Keybase Exploding Messages (keybase.io)
413 points | 2018 | author malgorithms showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm seeing the same comment in 4 different places on here, worded with various amounts of hostility. I now wish I had addressed this in the FAQ on the post. There's the…”
778. A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (internetingishard.com)
412 points | 2017 | author interneting showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Correct! Thanks for letting me know. I believe this has been fixed (if not, please let me know again).”
779. What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019) (junglecoder.com)
412 points | 2020 | author yumaikas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely recognize that not everyone has the energy to code at home after a day of coding at work. Often, I don't either. Side projects are a varying thing for me. I…”
780. Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? (shkspr.mobi)
412 points | 2021 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“In this case, I wanted to share to Twitter. That would have resulted in the page title and URL being shared - so copy url wasn't a suitable. But the actual destination…”