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| 931. | Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix (devenv.sh) | |
| 379 points | 2022 | author domenkozar showed up | their comment | thread
“and. I've been part of the Nix community for more than 10 years and in the last 4 years focused on making it documented, simple and accessible for any developer. After…” | ||
| 932. | Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective (chenyang.co) | |
| 379 points | 2024 | author ycy showed up | their comment | thread
“when I tried to understand diffusion models I realized that the code and math can be greatly simplified, which led to me writing this blog post and diffusion library.…” | ||
| 933. | What it's like to use Haskell (engineering.imvu.com) | |
| 378 points | 2014 | author implicit showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“We've trained a few people up on Haskell at IMVU now, and I'm starting to think that learning Haskell is at its very hardest when you're building tiny toy applications…” | ||
| 934. | Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls (github.com) | |
| 378 points | 2022 | author premysl showed up | their comment | thread
“this is implied from runtime dependencies, it's in generic packager speak. Ideally, I would provide pre-built packages from CI, of course.” | ||
| 935. | Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (ai.meta.com) | |
| 378 points | 2024 | author entilzha showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Not sure what you mean by implicit? If you mean just treat bytes as tokens, one issue you run into is your sequence lengths get quite long, so compared to a regular…” | ||
| 936. | Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com) | |
| 378 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“-) My Mastodon thread about the bug was on HN a few weeks ago, so this might seem familiar, but now I've finished a detailed blog post. The previous HN post has a bunch…” | ||
| 937. | How does a relational database work? (coding-geek.com) | |
| 377 points | 2015 | author mgachka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm 28 and I’m currently a Big Data developer (I use Hadoop, HBase, Hive …) and I don’t understand the buzz surrounding Big Data and NoSQL. With a relational database…” | ||
| 938. | Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly (github.com) | |
| 377 points | 2018 | author dman showed up | their comment | thread
“would be happy to answer any questions about it here.” | ||
| 939. | How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial (github.com) | |
| 377 points | 2018 | author carlesfe showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m humbled by the kind words. This is a project I started when I was in between jobs and unfortunately it’s kind of stalled because I had difficulties implementing the…” | ||
| 940. | Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers (whoisnnamdi.com) | |
| 377 points | 2020 | author whoisnnamdi showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Agreed, which is why I didn't say,"working remote causes developers to earn 22% more", only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact…” | ||
| 941. | Quaternions (liorsinai.github.io) | |
| 377 points | 2021 | author the_origami_fox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the tip. Definitely think this looks better” | ||
| 942. | Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs (github.com) | |
| 377 points | 2023 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It does make use of mmap(). I worked on adding mmap() support to llama.cpp back in March, specifically so I could build things like Emacs Copilot. See: Recently I've…” | ||
| 943. | Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive (blancas.io) | |
| 377 points | 2024 | author edublancas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm working on a follow-up post. Turns out, removing all HTML tags works great and reduces the cost by a huge margin.” | ||
| 944. | Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs (n0rdy.foo) | |
| 377 points | 2025 | author n0rdy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading the post. It's great to hear that Zig covered both cases. However, I'd still prefer the opposite behavior: a safe (without truncation) default…” | ||
| 945. | I’m done with the web (randyluecke.tumblr.com) | |
| 376 points | 2013 | author Me1000 showed up | their comment | thread
“First off, thank you all for the comments! Also, thank you Paul for posting this and helping me articulate my thoughts while writing it! Finally, thank you to everyone…” | ||
| 946. | Vue.js 1.0.0 (vuejs.org) | |
| 376 points | 2015 | author EvanYou showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the submission, I was actually planning to do it tomorrow :) Anyway, for those of you who are not familiar with Vue, here's a blog post explaining why it's…” | ||
| 947. | Rules for writing software tutorials (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 376 points | 2025 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been thinking for a long time about anti-patterns I see when following software tutorials, so I put together this list of things I think differentiate good…” | ||
| 948. | Give 100 Percent? (samanthadouglas.wordpress.com) | |
| 375 points | 2011 | author samanthadouglas showed up | their comment | thread
“and just want to clarify, I have had the top grades of my class for my entire life. This is more so concerning with the need for grading and assessment more than…” | ||
| 949. | Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org) | |
| 375 points | 2014 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“These are the most important things I learned about engineering management after five years of doing it. There are lots of subtleties between the lines, so let me know…” | ||
| 950. | Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig (overtone-recipes.github.io) | |
| 375 points | 2016 | author pjagielski showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for pointing out! I know it's wrong and working on these improvements:” | ||
| 951. | We Hire Old People (relevantdb.com) | |
| 375 points | 2021 | author ccleve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Holy cow, I didn't expect to be #1 on Hacker News. Will answer any questions. Here's one you might ask: Why? I'm pushing 60 and I've attempted to interview for developer…” | ||
| 952. | Litestream VFS (fly.io) | |
| 375 points | 2025 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Yes, Litestream v0.5.3 has been released with a new read-only VFS option:” | ||
| 953. | How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (brandur.org) | |
| 374 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Author here with just a quick note that writing this was a pretty great learning experience. Postgres has always been the ultimate black box — it does some amazing…” | ||
| 954. | The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three (righto.com) | |
| 374 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 955. | 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com) | |
| 374 points | 2026 | author shahidhussain showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I bought this CD in 2011 and spent 15 years failing to find out who made it. The band charted at #47 on the UK Independent Singles Chart in June 2006, so it was a real,…” | ||
| 956. | Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 373 points | 2020 | author sawyerfuller showed up | their comment | thread
“One of our primary constraints was power usage. I’m not sure exactly why, but the camera we used, by Himax, uses much less power than any omnivision camera we were aware…” | ||
| 957. | Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (softwaredoug.com) | |
| 373 points | 2021 | author softwaredoug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“wow that's great! I am still learning Ruby (hence the article to try to grok things).” | ||
| 958. | Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust (turso.tech) | |
| 373 points | 2024 | author glommer showed up | their comment | thread
“fully compatible at the language and file format level. Further down the post I actually call out explicitly that we do intend to get rid of some of the baggage.” | ||
| 959. | A Hacker’s Guide to Git (wildlyinaccurate.com) | |
| 372 points | 2014 | author wldlyinaccurate showed up | their comment | thread
“This is something I hear a lot, and I agree with it to a certain extent, but I purposely left out any mention of GUIs for a few reasons: 1. The guide is intended for…” | ||
| 960. | Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers (bitbytebit.substack.com) | |
| 372 points | 2024 | author recroad showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Appreciate your perspective. I find large backlogs get stale quickly, and what was important three months ago is often not the case as context has changed. If I have a…” | ||
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