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| 781. | What they don't teach you about sockets (macoy.me) | |
| 412 points | 2022 | author makuto showed up | their comment | thread
“Isconnected is a hypothetical.” | ||
| 782. | I write type-safe generic data structures in C (danielchasehooper.com) | |
| 412 points | 2025 | author dhooper showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Not quite. The key idea is about using a union to associate type information with a generic data type. Type casting a function is not the only way to use that type…” | ||
| 783. | All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page (mosermichael.github.io) | |
| 411 points | 2020 | author MichaelMoser123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i find myself using more specialized search engines like github search (the best code search engine right now ); so specialized search engines might be the place to go…” | ||
| 784. | Raft Consensus Animated (2014) (thesecretlivesofdata.com) | |
| 411 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I made this visualization over a decade ago and I'm glad it's still useful for folks! Let me know if you have any questions. I've also been trying on-and-off again some…” | ||
| 785. | JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools (kellyjonbrazil.github.io) | |
| 411 points | 2022 | author kbrazil showed up | their comment | thread
“I also created `jello`[0], which works just like `jq` but uses python syntax. I find `jq` is great for many things but sometimes more complex operations are easier for…” | ||
| 786. | Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s (ceph.io) | |
| 411 points | 2024 | author markhpc showed up | their comment | thread
“Large reads tend to require the least CPU of all of the tests that we ran in the post. This is especially true in a 3X replication scenario where reads are serviced by a…” | ||
| 787. | Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell (testing.googleblog.com) | |
| 411 points | 2025 | author ajusa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is actually closer to the way the first draft of this article was written. Unfortunately, some readability was lost to make it fit on a single page. 100% agree that…” | ||
| 788. | AI agents are starting to eat SaaS (martinalderson.com) | |
| 411 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“What I'm seeing in particular is CRM/ERP solutions at risk. I know of two people in my peer group who are actively trying to replace a 'niche' ERP/CRM (not salesforce)…” | ||
| 789. | Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language (github.com) | |
| 410 points | 2020 | author liljencrantz showed up | their comment | thread
“I designed Crush for myself: a very happy Unix user for 23 years and someone who can honestly say I love Unix and the Unix philosophy. As such, I feel that I can say…” | ||
| 790. | Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io) | |
| 410 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer take any feedback and answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 791. | AI coding (geohot.github.io) | |
| 410 points | 2025 | author georgehotz showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with this comment, but if I wrote more like this my blog post would get less traction. "LLM coding tools are search-based program synthesizers," in my mind this…” | ||
| 792. | Web Browser Engineering (browser.engineering) | |
| 409 points | 2021 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I wrote up my answer here: Basically: server-side JavaScript is just not as widely known as Python, and it'd be additionally confusing when our browser starts running…” | ||
| 793. | The Math Is Haunted (overreacted.io) | |
| 409 points | 2025 | author danabramov showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is correct. I’ve added a paragraph on this in an edit btw so it’s possible the parent poster hasn’t seen it yet. Reproducing the paragraph: (Here, rfl closes ⊢ 3 +…” | ||
| 794. | Is It Better to Rent or Buy? (nytimes.com) | |
| 408 points | 2014 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“Thought I’d highlight my favorite, perhaps non-obvious feature: the slope of the charts tells you whether the variable is positively or negatively correlated with the…” | ||
| 795. | Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (techcrunch.com) | |
| 408 points | 2016 | author anshublog showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about my post.” | ||
| 796. | Enough with the microservices (aadrake.com) | |
| 408 points | 2017 | author adamdrake showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your feedback, and I'll be sure to take it into account in future writing. I don't have any preference for or against microservices, as long as the…” | ||
| 797. | Why Create a New Unix Shell? (oilshell.org) | |
| 408 points | 2018 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hm I've tried fish, and it seems very nice for interactive use. However I don't see it being used AT ALL for the cloud/linux use case? Those are the cases where you tend…” | ||
| 798. | The Internet of Unprofitable Things (strugglers.net) | |
| 408 points | 2018 | author grifferz showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sure you're right. I pretty certain I could have charged them much much more and they'd still have accepted it. In conversation with the software eng it was implied…” | ||
| 799. | Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp (janet-lang.org) | |
| 408 points | 2020 | author bakpakin showed up | their comment | thread
“Firstly, this is a rather silly argument in general. One could say that Embeddable Common Lisp and Guile address the same niche and all developers from one project…” | ||
| 800. | Write a note to your spouse every day (jdnoc.com) | |
| 408 points | 2022 | author jordanmoconnor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“I recorded an interview with my wife to get her perspective on it all:” | ||
| 801. | Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author wanick showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog. Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4),…” | ||
| 802. | How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed (kaba.cx) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author kabakabakaba showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“TLDR: on Oct 2, 333 exits (~10% of Tor exits) started redirecting port 22 to 12 interception servers running a paramiko-based MITM that stole passwords and tried to drop…” | ||
| 803. | Websites Should Be Printable (brennenputh.me) | |
| 408 points | 2026 | author bagatelle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't personally use my phone to access websites often, so I forget to check on things like this. My bad! I'll take a look into it when I get a chance.” | ||
| 804. | The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days (guzey.com) | |
| 407 points | 2020 | author guzey showed up | their comment | thread
“I like this comment because its author can't decide whether my study is the "equivalent of fake news" or whether its results are obviously true.” | ||
| 805. | Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root (berthub.eu) | |
| 407 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“if there are any questions, please let me know!)” | ||
| 806. | A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker (syscalls.mebeim.net) | |
| 407 points | 2024 | author mebeim showed up | their comment | thread
“The website will not work with JS disabled simply because it's a static HTML "skeleton" page loading JSON tables with JS and populating a <table> element. If it's…” | ||
| 807. | A server that wasn't meant to exist (it-notes.dragas.net) | |
| 407 points | 2025 | author draga79 showed up | their comment | thread
“I hinted, in a cryptic sentence near the end, that I necessarily had to leave out the worst parts of the story. No, no organized crime. But yes, there were people who…” | ||
| 808. | The most dangerous code in the world (crypto.stanford.edu) | |
| 406 points | 2012 | author austinpilot showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper is accompanied by a FAQ, which among other things explains the impact on specific software: For example, broken SSL in Amazon FPS allows a MITM attacker to…” | ||
| 809. | Benefits of a Lifestyle Business (bugfender.com) | |
| 406 points | 2017 | author znq showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“For us it means optimizing for happiness instead of profit. More practically speaking what we do is ensuring everyone has a sufficient base salary, but then also…” | ||
| 810. | Lambda School’s Misleading Promises (nymag.com) | |
| 406 points | 2020 | author akanet showed up | their comment | thread
“perhaps better known here as founder of CoderPad. Feel free to ask me anything but things are a bit crazy right now!” | ||
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