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| 901. | My Third Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io) | |
| 385 points | 2021 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. HN has been a huge part of my experience bootstrapping my business. I've learned a great deal from…” | ||
| 902. | Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020) (spieswl.github.io) | |
| 385 points | 2021 | author spieswl showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, uh, I definitely did not expect to be featured on HN this morning, but seeing this linked put a massive smile on my face. There are just so many examples of…” | ||
| 903. | Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution (github.com) | |
| 384 points | 2020 | author srec-author showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all thanks so much for the interest in SReC! It was a pleasant surprise seeing my research on top of Hacker News. Answering a few questions from reading the…” | ||
| 904. | Have I Been Facebooked? (haveibeenfacebooked.com) | |
| 384 points | 2021 | author MarcoBuster showed up | their comment | thread
“We are already aware of your concerns about giving out your phone number. The source code is free and reviewable on Github. We know it's not possible to verify what's…” | ||
| 905. | The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want (joemorrison.substack.com) | |
| 384 points | 2022 | author campchase showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“not an original insight, although it's clichéd enough that I can't point you to where I picked it up from. I also want to emphasize that I do not view bias as a bad…” | ||
| 906. | How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database (retool.com) | |
| 384 points | 2022 | author mrbabbage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This was my biggest Postgres project to date, and it proved quite tricky since I didn't rehearse with a test database of the same size. I learned a bunch about Postgres,…” | ||
| 907. | Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter (joshwcomeau.com) | |
| 384 points | 2024 | author joshwcomeau showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah, so my goal with 200% was to make the code as comprehensible as possible. My actual glassy header does something quite similar to what you’re suggesting, but that…” | ||
| 908. | Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS (togetherjs.com) | |
| 383 points | 2013 | author ianb showed up | their comment | thread
“The big way TogetherJS differs from many of the other realtime products out there, like Firebase or (to a lesser degree) ShareJS, is that it doesn't do any storage. It…” | ||
| 909. | How we use Slack in our family (labs.earthpeople.se) | |
| 383 points | 2016 | author fjallstrom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.” | ||
| 910. | Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit (tech.channable.com) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author rkrzr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that Nix not being statically typed is one of the biggest drawbacks of the language. Having it statically typed with a strong type system like Haskell's would…” | ||
| 911. | Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server (devopsdirective.com) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author spalas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the kind words. I didn't know about UPX. I should add an update to the end with this trick!” | ||
| 912. | Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes (davidar.io) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author david_ar showed up | their comment | thread
“This was definitely something I struggled with when creating this simulation. Reasonably fast simulations of tectonics and erosion have already been done before: some…” | ||
| 913. | Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard (ryanis.cool) | |
| 383 points | 2025 | author rianadon showed up | their comment | thread
“It’s a surprise seeing this posted while I’m in the middle of traveling. Happy to answer any questions! If you’re curious, the tech stack is static assets bundled with…” | ||
| 914. | Deniability and Duress (mit.edu) | |
| 382 points | 2017 | author mspecter showed up | their comment | thread
“Really happy (but somewhat surprised) to see this up on HN, and am generally interested in pursing this as a PhD thesis topic. If anyone has ideas or thoughts on novel…” | ||
| 915. | My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania (portal.drewdevault.com) | |
| 382 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. It's better to err on the side of caution when acting in an official capacity for…” | ||
| 916. | 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch (chrisfenton.com) | |
| 382 points | 2024 | author fentonc showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of my projects are kind of like this penny arcade comic () - I saw where something was not, and said "No. This will not do." It's 2024 and a supercomputer wrist…” | ||
| 917. | Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (bart.degoe.de) | |
| 381 points | 2021 | author bartdegoede showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you may want to check out something like Whoosh (it's like a clone of Lucene but in pure Python). I've used this to build some basic search for a small Python website…” | ||
| 918. | I quit Google to work for myself (2018) (mtlynch.io) | |
| 381 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Cool to see this pop up again! Happy to answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 919. | MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data (metricsgraphicsjs.org) | |
| 380 points | 2014 | author hamilton showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I believe to my knowledge the only thing that requires bootstrap.js is the popover stuff, which we plan to decouple anyway. Make an issue on github and we'll get to it…” | ||
| 920. | Why we switched from Python to Go (getstream.io) | |
| 380 points | 2017 | author tschellenbach showed up | their comment | thread
“Super cool to see this post on HNews. For those of you working with Go. One of the guys on our team wrote a little tool called VirtualGo. It's pretty handy when you're…” | ||
| 921. | The 10:1 rule of writing and programming (ybrikman.com) | |
| 380 points | 2018 | author brikis98 showed up | their comment | thread
“I very much do understand that one line of "insertion" or "deletion" doesn't necessarily mean the entire line was rewritten. But as I wrote in the blog post, there are…” | ||
| 922. | Build your own Mint (github.com) | |
| 380 points | 2019 | author EvanYou showed up | their comment | thread
“this was just a weekend hack and didn't really expect it to show up here, but thanks for the security related feedback. The setup now uses environment variables.” | ||
| 923. | My least favorite Rust type (ridiculousfish.com) | |
| 380 points | 2020 | author ridiculous_fish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In my idea, x..y would be like x+y: not fallible, but may panic. There would be a separate fallible function for creating ranges, analogous to checked_add. (Of course…” | ||
| 924. | My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (mtlynch.io) | |
| 380 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I spent much longer on this project than I expected to, and I learned a lot from the experience. I wrote this in hopes that it might be useful for others who want to…” | ||
| 925. | You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? (gaultier.github.io) | |
| 380 points | 2024 | author broken_broken_ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! A second article will cover this, but the bottom line is that it entirely depends on the team and the constraints e.g. is a GC an option (then Go is a good…” | ||
| 926. | How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator (medium.com) | |
| 379 points | 2015 | author charlierguo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! Author here. First off, thanks for reading! To be honest, I really didn't expect to get this much attention. This is a story that I've wanted to share with…” | ||
| 927. | A cross-platform debugger for Go (blog.mailgun.com) | |
| 379 points | 2015 | author jschlatter showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree that this could cause surprises. Are there specific cases you have in mind? Two cases I have thought of are stack traces and logging that inspects the stack. In…” | ||
| 928. | Why are we so bad at software engineering? (bitlog.com) | |
| 379 points | 2020 | author jakevoytko showed up | their comment | thread
“This is a good point. Earlier drafts of my post did include "the unbelievable depth and complexity of the modern technical stack" as a factor. I deferred it until a…” | ||
| 929. | Music Grid (music-grid.surge.sh) | |
| 379 points | 2020 | author irshadshalu showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for that :) oops, sorry on that one as I have no idea about music theory and stuff. I just learned a lot by building it and now going through this thread learning…” | ||
| 930. | Spaces launch in Element (element.io) | |
| 379 points | 2021 | author nadc showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, you hit the nail on the head. On the Matrix/spec side, we ensured Spaces are generically useful and flexible enough to organise rooms. However, in testing and…” | ||
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