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| 811. | Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? (iism.org) | |
| 406 points | 2021 | author GeneBond showed up | their comment | thread
“and I completely agree that the success of software engineers as CEOs is correlation, not causation. The likely cause is that software engineers learn to discover value…” | ||
| 812. | Numi – Calculator app for Mac (numi.app) | |
| 406 points | 2021 | author bbodi showed up | their comment | thread
“I have zero experience with Visual Studio API, and honestly, looking at what a giant and slow mess VS became, I would not even try it :) But providing a standalone…” | ||
| 813. | No Refrigerant Left Behind (recoolit.com) | |
| 406 points | 2022 | author exp1orer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“very excited to share this with HN. Been seeing a lot of engineers thinking about getting into climate so I thought people might find it interesting. Happy to answer any…” | ||
| 814. | Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin? (taras.glek.net) | |
| 406 points | 2022 | author tarasglek showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I just got access to OpenAI codex. I used edit function and asked it to modify the JS hello world, to add typescript annotations. This is the git commit following that…” | ||
| 815. | Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine (github.com) | |
| 406 points | 2024 | author kcorbitt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes it often confidently declares success when it clearly hasn't performed the task, and should have enough information from the screenshots to know that. I'm somewhat…” | ||
| 816. | Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance (github.com) | |
| 406 points | 2024 | author pretzelhammer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I believe I generated both of those images using the Rust lib, they shouldn't be used for comparing the compression performance of the JS lib vs the Rust lib.” | ||
| 817. | I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework (simonhartcher.com) | |
| 406 points | 2025 | author deevus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm posting this before bed. If there are any suggestions or questions I will answer in the morning.” | ||
| 818. | How to take over the computer of a Maven Central user (blog.ontoillogical.com) | |
| 405 points | 2014 | author ontoillogical showed up | their comment | thread
“Brian are you speaking as a representative of Sonatype, or are you a 3rd party?” | ||
| 819. | The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper (news.russellsaw.io) | |
| 405 points | 2020 | author arussellsaw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! author here, i just wanted to address a few things i've seen in the comments: * i absolutely built this for fun, it's an idea i had late at night and needed to…” | ||
| 820. | Why has no one made a better Goodreads (uxdesign.cc) | |
| 405 points | 2021 | author GCA10 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm going to join the argument that Goodreads may be clunky (in fact, it definitely is), but it's not broken. OP's criticisms all have some validity, but they overlook…” | ||
| 821. | Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings (javier.xyz) | |
| 405 points | 2021 | author javierbyte showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“that sounds soo cool! If you decide to try please let me know if you need any support!” | ||
| 822. | The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp (jackm.co.uk) | |
| 404 points | 2015 | author jpeggg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“slightly overwhelmed by the response, but thanks for everyone's feedback! I never thought so many people would be as interested as I am in the lamp...” | ||
| 823. | Clojure, the Good Parts (rasterize.io) | |
| 404 points | 2016 | author arohner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree, Timbre is new, and has some rough edges, but in my projects, I've found them worth putting up with. In my current project (18k LoClojure), I think the only…” | ||
| 824. | Why recursive data structures? (raganwald.com) | |
| 404 points | 2017 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread
“Nevertheless, there's learning gold in those comments. Take the gold, leave the mud.” | ||
| 825. | Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 404 points | 2017 | author ar813 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, radiators like the ones on the ISS are pretty much the dominant/only ways to get heat out in space. In response to your questions: yes, it can in fact cool below…” | ||
| 826. | Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com) | |
| 404 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
| 827. | 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 (matt.blwt.io) | |
| 404 points | 2024 | author mble_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than…” | ||
| 828. | Is PostgreSQL good enough? (renesd.blogspot.com) | |
| 403 points | 2017 | author renesd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, pretty much everything in the article is an anti-pattern. However, people are doing these things, and the implementations are correct, and perform well enough for…” | ||
| 829. | Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language (triplebyte.com) | |
| 403 points | 2017 | author compumike showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Our technical interview is really designed to look for your strengths, such as being productive while writing clean, correct code in any language/environment of your…” | ||
| 830. | This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black (twitter.com) | |
| 403 points | 2022 | author funwithstuff showed up | their comment | thread
“and I made a video which answers a few of these questions. Essentially, the biggest issue is with spot color channels in Photoshop files. If you don't have a license for…” | ||
| 831. | Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented (priceonomics.com) | |
| 402 points | 2013 | author alexmayyasi showed up | their comment | thread
“I originally had a pic of a regular old seat belt, but when I saw the Volvo meme I had to use it. Just fixed that. Sorry for the confusion!” | ||
| 832. | Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature (trailrouter.com) | |
| 402 points | 2020 | author samcrawford showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Trail Router is a running route planner that prefers greenery and nature in the routes it generates, and biases against busy roads. It can generate round-trip routes…” | ||
| 833. | Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy (somehowmanage.com) | |
| 402 points | 2020 | author Ozzie_osman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually agree. Cheesy (but true) anecdote: As I was writing my article this morning, there were two distractions. First, I tabbed to Facebook where I saw one of my…” | ||
| 834. | Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION (foxhound.systems) | |
| 402 points | 2021 | author Albert_Camus showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Between this and your other response, where you expound on the same point, I think you're being far too hand wavy about what causes performance issues. The number of…” | ||
| 835. | An Opinionated Guide to Xargs (oilshell.org) | |
| 402 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment | thread
“Hm I don't see either of these points because: GNU xargs has --verbose which logs every command. Does that not do what you want? (Maybe I should mention its existence in…” | ||
| 836. | Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 401 points | 2020 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Learning has many components. Even on its own, brute memorisation is a powerful tool. But see e.g. SuperMemo's creator on Incremental Reading () for a more generalised…” | ||
| 837. | I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com) | |
| 401 points | 2026 | author meliz242 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just discovered this thread after wondering why Hacker News was a linked views source to my silly little freezergate braindump. Wanted to offer a few clarifications: I’m…” | ||
| 838. | Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust (blog.anp.lol) | |
| 400 points | 2019 | author anp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm trying out an optional email Q&A format on the post, but will also be keeping an eye out here.” | ||
| 839. | Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 400 points | 2020 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! To bring it full circle, here are a couple recent demo videos I made of using Wildcard to customize the HN front page:” | ||
| 840. | Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect (bnl.gov) | |
| 399 points | 2021 | author jdbburg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are correct, the famous SLAC result already demonstrated that light can be converted into matter, but they needed several photons >4, average of about 6 - that is…” | ||
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