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| 841. | Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub (thomask.sdf.org) | |
| 399 points | 2022 | author thombles showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“IMO KDE is the most authentic expression of Windows XP-era UI productivity that exists today. Their dedication to user-configurable settings is an absolute blessing.” | ||
| 842. | 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx (blog.tjll.net) | |
| 399 points | 2022 | author tylerjl showed up | their comment | thread
“Traffic/feedback/questions are coming in hot, as HN publicity tends to engender, but I'm happy to answer questions or discuss the findings generally here if you'd like…” | ||
| 843. | Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (eidel.io) | |
| 399 points | 2025 | author olieidel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sure, here are the sources: - First off, your assumption is wrong that only the increase in value gets taxed. No, the entire value of your holding gets taxed, see § 6…” | ||
| 844. | I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is) | |
| 399 points | 2026 | author pantelisk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was intentionally a little vague about this because this is kind of the thing that makes the whole approach work. An LLM predicts the next token. If you're trying to…” | ||
| 845. | How Web Scraping Is Revealing Lobbying and Corruption in Peru (blog.scrapinghub.com) | |
| 398 points | 2016 | author carlosp420 showed up | their comment | thread
“I will be happy to answer any question.” | ||
| 846. | Software Complexity Is Killing Us (simplethread.com) | |
| 398 points | 2018 | author jetheredge showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“yeah, we are loading a lot of crap, aren't we? We will do an audit and make sure we aren't loading a bunch of unnecessary stuff, but the whole site should be served up…” | ||
| 847. | How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations (jalammar.github.io) | |
| 398 points | 2020 | author jalammar showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you. I feel an important element of this type of writing is what complexity to show and what to hide at different points. "Magic" is just to say "don't worry about…” | ||
| 848. | How Do Routers Work, Really? (kamila.is) | |
| 398 points | 2020 | author anotherkamila_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Uh hi w00t how why what's it doing here?! :D I promise to make it better and actually finish it now! Check back in a day or two I guess? Also I should post the code I…” | ||
| 849. | Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (erisa.dev) | |
| 398 points | 2022 | author ErisaDev showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I love that list! I also use Tailscale for a lot of my personal private services as well as Cloudflare Tunnel, I think they're both really great :) The concern about…” | ||
| 850. | How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? (htmx.org) | |
| 398 points | 2022 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“REST and HATEOAS are for humans: I disagree that it isn't an API, but that's a definition quibble. It is probably more profitable to talk about RESTful systems rather…” | ||
| 851. | Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers (forrestheller.com) | |
| 397 points | 2020 | author hellerfv2 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thankfully device-side microchips that interface with USB chargers come with overvoltage protection. For example: Devices which charge from wall chargers have to undergo…” | ||
| 852. | Data Structures for Coding Interviews (interviewcake.com) | |
| 396 points | 2017 | author gameguy43 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions about this piece or coding interviews in general! And eager to receive any feedback. Thanks for the post!” | ||
| 853. | Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow (influxdata.com) | |
| 396 points | 2018 | author pauldix showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm surprised at the number of comments in this thread that say it's about the messaging or the Commons Clause license. They've cleared up the confusion about what is…” | ||
| 854. | Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 396 points | 2019 | author dabreegster showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't intend for this to wind up on HN quite yet, but I'm excited to answer the good questions coming up here.” | ||
| 855. | Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers (manualdousuario.net) | |
| 396 points | 2020 | author rpgbr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Previously, it only happened when I was using a VPN, even if its server was in Brazil, where I live. I also checked with friends and relatives living in another cities…” | ||
| 856. | How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation (lucasfcosta.com) | |
| 396 points | 2021 | author lucasfcosta showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I thought no one was going to make comments about Rust, but I just loved using it for this post. Thanks, Peter :)” | ||
| 857. | Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship (deepsouthventures.com) | |
| 396 points | 2024 | author eightturn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“) that came after DudeRanch : )” | ||
| 858. | Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter (blog.autorouting.com) | |
| 396 points | 2025 | author seveibar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Lots of great points being made. I want to throw in a crazy prediction. I think routing is basically an image transformer problem without a good dataset right now. If…” | ||
| 859. | A minimal raytracer (mzucker.github.io) | |
| 395 points | 2016 | author mzucker showed up | their comment | thread
“woke up this morning and saw a big bump in site traffic which led me back to HN -- nice to see folks are reading! Happy to answer any questions here or in the Disqus…” | ||
| 860. | In praise of --dry-run (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 395 points | 2021 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A whistlestop tour of the technique "insert a lightweight API boundary down the middle of a tool, for fun and profit". It leads you towards a structure that has lots of…” | ||
| 861. | Useless Use of "dd" (2015) (vidarholen.net) | |
| 395 points | 2022 | author koala_man showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“An example would be ` { dd bs=1 count=0 skip=1234; myprogram; } < file`. This is similar to C `lseek(0, 1234, SEEK_CUR); execve("myprogram", ...);` It's not something…” | ||
| 862. | I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time (samj.substack.com) | |
| 395 points | 2025 | author SamJordison showed up | their comment | thread
“Noticed a lot of traffic from this post - so thanks. Thanks especially for all these thoughtful comments. Just dropping in to say I appreciate the attention - and am…” | ||
| 863. | How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 395 points | 2025 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“My roof is full on both sides. There simply isn't any more room. I do say: Even in the darkest days of winter, they still generate something (unless they're physically…” | ||
| 864. | Miners Aren’t Friends (blog.keep.network) | |
| 394 points | 2018 | author prestwich showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah, several of the example contracts are insecure in other ways. Or just plain bad ideas. I decided against providing implementations because I was worried people…” | ||
| 865. | I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it (climateer.substack.com) | |
| 394 points | 2022 | author snewman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“A more careful wording of "will it work if everyone does it" would be "if many people do it, does that reduce its feasibility for everyone else"? This addresses the…” | ||
| 866. | Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig (github.com) | |
| 394 points | 2024 | author judofyr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I knew that some people would react negatively to the term, but I can assure the intention is for you to have a better understanding of exactly how and when you should…” | ||
| 867. | How I fell in love with Erlang (boragonul.com) | |
| 394 points | 2025 | author bora_g showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm really surprised to see the story reached top 3. All of them is true and thanks to Erlang still surprises me. My current stack is Elixir + Rustler on server and Rust…” | ||
| 868. | Game Loop (gameprogrammingpatterns.com) | |
| 393 points | 2019 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“This, I think, one of the fundamental challenges of teaching software architecture or other higher-level engineering topics. A lot of architecture boils down to: 1.…” | ||
| 869. | Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening (pluvoir.netlify.app) | |
| 393 points | 2020 | author lbebber showed up | their comment | thread
“The page actually uses the exact same effect, so the article provides a decent breakdown of how it works, for those interested.” | ||
| 870. | HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections (portswigger.net) | |
| 393 points | 2021 | author albinowax_ showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“please let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
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