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| 61. | How We Built r/Place (redditblog.com) | |
| 1152 points | 2017 | author madlee showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I wrote the majority of that part of the project (canvas stuff) & that section of the article – the simple answer is that I have a lot of experience working with the…” | ||
| 62. | The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (predr.ag) | |
| 1147 points | 2024 | author obi1kenobi showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“Among other things, it's a distance problem -- WiFi can go through walls when the router is right there. But distance attenuates the signal as distance squared, and in…” | ||
| 63. | Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust (github.com) | |
| 1138 points | 2021 | author jpochyla showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Psst is definitely in alpha, and the CLI is indeed just an example (it's what I was using to test the core mechanisms). I'm sorry the accessibility is so bad now, but…” | ||
| 64. | Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1134 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or hear feedback about this post.” | ||
| 65. | Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to) | |
| 1092 points | 2026 | author Eric_Gullichsen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for all the comments, I've been hesitant to post this to the court of public opinion, yet curiosity about what the HN community would think caused me to push the…” | ||
| 66. | The Uber Bombshell About to Drop (danielcompton.net) | |
| 1089 points | 2017 | author dantiberian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I tried pretty hard throughout the entire article to make it clear both that I was speculating, and that Uber will contest these claims in court. In the 'dead to rights'…” | ||
| 67. | Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (anthropic.com) | |
| 1072 points | 2025 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. There certainly are many interesting parallels here. I often think about this from the perspective of systems biology, in Uri Alon's…” | ||
| 68. | My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1071 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As always, I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 69. | My Second Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1066 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback about this post. Discussion from my first annual update last year:” | ||
| 70. | Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro (operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app) | |
| 1060 points | 2025 | author nuta showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this book so you can spend a boring weekend writing an operating system from scratch. You don’t have to write it in C - you can use your favorite programming…” | ||
| 71. | Wikimedia Foundation spending (en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 1054 points | 2017 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“which I will prove by posting a comment on my Wikipedia talk page [ ] before saving this. I am open to any questions, criticism, or discussion. BTW, as I noted in the…” | ||
| 72. | Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads (danfabulich.medium.com) | |
| 1049 points | 2021 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is excellent advice for consumer apps/products, (it's especially important to keep enterprise accounts fully separate from your individual consumer accounts), but…” | ||
| 73. | I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo (jacobmartins.com) | |
| 1045 points | 2022 | author cube2222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! The logo was created for OctoSQL[0] and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole…” | ||
| 74. | Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update (0x44.xyz) | |
| 1044 points | 2025 | author deryilz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry. I don't think any open-source extension (especially large adblockers with millions of users) could actually get away with using this bug, because Google is paying…” | ||
| 75. | Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project (justine.lol) | |
| 1040 points | 2022 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would happily share information like hashes and build artifacts with Microsoft and other virus scanners if it would fix all these false positives. However I don't know…” | ||
| 76. | GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (blog.printf.net) | |
| 1038 points | 2015 | author cjbprime showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored…” | ||
| 77. | AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (deepmind.google) | |
| 1036 points | 2025 | author alexnovikov showed up | their comment | thread
“We are aware of the Winograd scheme, but note that it only works over commutative rings, which means that it's not applicable recursively to larger matrices (and doesn't…” | ||
| 78. | I Still Use RSS (atthis.link) | |
| 1033 points | 2021 | author 0066cc showed up | their comment | thread
“QuiteRSS is also an excellent choice I should have mentioned!” | ||
| 79. | What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week (blog.immersed.team) | |
| 1028 points | 2021 | author ptom showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“and I do make note of it in the FAQ. There's a lot of VR content I still can't handle, even though I've built a tolerance to many others. But for a stationary experience…” | ||
| 80. | Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io) | |
| 1027 points | 2024 | author martz showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, basically all of what you said. I've edited the post.” | ||
| 81. | Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML (leanrada.com) | |
| 1020 points | 2024 | author Kalabasa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“to be honest I have no idea” | ||
| 82. | Screw it, I’ll host it myself (markozivanovic.com) | |
| 1019 points | 2021 | author markozivanovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you all so much for your comments. I didn't expect this will be this high on HN. I'm aware there are more simple solutions for self-hosting, even partially. I'm…” | ||
| 83. | I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1016 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions about this post, the sale process, or my time running TinyPilot.” | ||
| 84. | Google is winning on every AI front (thealgorithmicbridge.com) | |
| 1005 points | 2025 | author AlbertoRomGar showed up | their comment | thread
“It was there since the beginning, just behind the paywall, which I removed due to the amount of interest the topic was receiving.” | ||
| 85. | Arm China Has Gone Rogue (semianalysis.substack.com) | |
| 995 points | 2021 | author dylan522p showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“there is a Singaporean investor as well, but they have deep Chinese ties. I agree with your assessment. Allen Wu is an American citizen too, but loyal to China with deep…” | ||
| 86. | AI winter is well on its way (blog.piekniewski.info) | |
| 993 points | 2018 | author felippee showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“seriously I'm here at the front page for the second day in the a row!? The sheer viral popularity of this post, which really was just a bunch of relatively loose…” | ||
| 87. | Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (quantamagazine.org) | |
| 993 points | 2024 | author kuldeepmeel showed up | their comment | thread
“We have a follow-up work (admittedly, more technical) that can remove reliance on m completely: But yes, our theorems can be reworked to estimate the confidence/error…” | ||
| 88. | Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls (ipde.com) | |
| 987 points | 2022 | author Andrew_Russell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's actually kind of hard to say at this stage, and the judge suggested amicus briefing to help the Court figure out what to make of all this.” | ||
| 89. | What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io) | |
| 986 points | 2019 | author nsaphra showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm actually very grateful to my neurologist who gave me my idiopathic diagnosis, because he was the only doctor to figure out the mechanism of action. He's been…” | ||
| 90. | So I took a corporation to arbitration (shuchow.com) | |
| 986 points | 2022 | author snapetom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Thank you for the tips, and thank you for the feedback!” | ||
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