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| 961. | Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition (eloquentjavascript.net) | |
| 371 points | 2013 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“so I'm far from unbiased, but the main difference in my mind is that The Good Parts is very spartan and extremely prescriptive in what you should do and, especially,…” | ||
| 962. | PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion (engineering.dailymotion.com) | |
| 371 points | 2016 | author Noony showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'll try to respond to your questions: Indeed front-end servers not the only bottleneck to handle more queries. We also made data migrations on mysql databases to…” | ||
| 963. | How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls (signal.org) | |
| 371 points | 2021 | author pthatcherg showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“The server doesn't know who is in the call. It can't build any graph.” | ||
| 964. | Never Missing the Train Again (lilymara.xyz) | |
| 371 points | 2024 | author FrecklySunbeam showed up | their comment | thread
“I've also been thinking about this - I've since built out a Rust library () for scaffolding the server piece of this and I've been considering creating a Kindle client…” | ||
| 965. | I hacked my washing machine (nexy.blog) | |
| 371 points | 2025 | author timedout_uk showed up | their comment | thread
“It only had access to the internet for a brief second, and even then it was on an entirely separate network because of how I just set up my openwrt router as a client to…” | ||
| 966. | Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web (medium.com) | |
| 370 points | 2017 | author gregblass showed up | their comment | thread
“Pretty overwhelmed and astonished with all this. Can't wait to read through all these comments!” | ||
| 967. | Simpson’s Paradox (2016) (forrestthewoods.com) | |
| 370 points | 2019 | author forrestthewoods showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Can confirm I’ve not read The Book of Why! I’ll add it to my reading list.” | ||
| 968. | The Amazon Premium (calpaterson.com) | |
| 370 points | 2019 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The reason I chose the n2-standard-2 over the n1-standard-2 was because the N1 instance in question has only 7.5GB of memory rather than 8GB. I let OVH slip on this one…” | ||
| 969. | OO in Python is mostly pointless (leontrolski.github.io) | |
| 370 points | 2021 | author leontrolski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I used to think that, but I've since found myself working on a similar sized codebase where we use very little OO and none of these problems have manifested themselves.…” | ||
| 970. | Isometric Projection in Game Development (pikuma.com) | |
| 370 points | 2024 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi. Author here! I'll try to be unbiased and say that if she's just starting out I'm afraid there are better beginner-oriented resources out there for teens. Frankly,…” | ||
| 971. | Pretty.c (github.com) | |
| 370 points | 2024 | author aartaka showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't see any problem with this” | ||
| 972. | SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale (rivet.gg) | |
| 370 points | 2025 | author NathanFlurry showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“happy to answer questions!” | ||
| 973. | Flunking my Anthropic interview again (taylor.town) | |
| 370 points | 2025 | author surprisetalk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for this. This is exactly what I want people to feel :) I'm willing to hurt my chances if it helps others” | ||
| 974. | A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer (righto.com) | |
| 370 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 975. | YouTube is a mysterious monopoly (anderegg.ca) | |
| 370 points | 2025 | author GavinAnderegg showed up | their comment | thread
“I woke up to a surprising amount of traffic! Some notes based on the discussion. This wasn't coordinated between Jeff Geerling and myself. However, I did mention the…” | ||
| 976. | What I Learned From Increasing My Prices (extendslogic.com) | |
| 369 points | 2012 | author rubeng showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for mentioning that; I've gone ahead and added a link.” | ||
| 977. | How I Start: Haskell (howistart.org) | |
| 369 points | 2014 | author coolsunglasses showed up | their comment | thread
“It's intentionally tiny, so a bit trivial, but here's a URL shortener in Scotty. Scotty is a library that gives you a toolkit for making webapps in a manner similar to…” | ||
| 978. | Ambient Garden (ambient.garden) | |
| 369 points | 2025 | author pierrec showed up | their comment | thread
“glad people are exploring this. Some fun details (should be in the "about" section but that's easy to miss): - It's open source, including the code that produced the…” | ||
| 979. | ASCIIFlow Infinity (asciiflow.com) | |
| 368 points | 2018 | author bootywizard showed up | their comment | thread
“it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only…” | ||
| 980. | Make Linux Fast Again (2019) (make-linux-fast-again.com) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author jcelerier showed up | their comment | thread
“the idea was, that you would be able to do curl -s https://make-linux-fast-again.com | awk '{ print "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"" $0 "\"" }' >> grub.cfg to use the…” | ||
| 981. | ReMarkable MicroSD (2019) (davisr.me) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author davisr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this hack---the card works at 50 MHz with no errors.” | ||
| 982. | Free Linear Algebra textbook (hefferon.net) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author jimhefferon showed up | their comment | thread
“I like to look over HN during breakfast, so a surprise this morning. I appreciate folks's kind words. Can I slide in the back story? The course I had as an undergrad was…” | ||
| 983. | How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 368 points | 2021 | author BotJunkie showed up | their comment | thread
“Since your sister has posted this publicly on her Twitter account, I'll happily add her name to our article if I can get in touch with her/BD to confirm. [Edited to add…” | ||
| 984. | Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources (github.com) | |
| 368 points | 2021 | author kmcquade showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Endgame exploits/abuses features. If it was a bug, I'd work with AWS to solve the problem, but with abusing features - that would result in years of unsatisfied feature…” | ||
| 985. | Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes? (ethanhein.com) | |
| 368 points | 2022 | author ethanhein showed up | their comment | thread
“I said that 5-limit is the basis for systems like meantone, which is true. Meantone systems take 5-limit as their starting point and then modify it. I deliberately…” | ||
| 986. | Rewriting Rust (josephg.com) | |
| 368 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“That was the reference I was going for with the title :D” | ||
| 987. | Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House (jack.bio) | |
| 368 points | 2025 | author lafond showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I absolutely do have more to learn about trademarks and appreciate everyones comments :) I was attempting to go for a good faith representation but (obviously) now know…” | ||
| 988. | Ways Data Projects Fail (martingoodson.com) | |
| 367 points | 2016 | author martingoodson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“in case of any criticisms or comments.” | ||
| 989. | Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous (bloomberg.com) | |
| 367 points | 2018 | author TaylorAlexander showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually building the machine is one possible outcome but essentially The Machine is a metaphor for local economies. A fact I’ve felt I should clarify in a subsequent…” | ||
| 990. | Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust (max-inden.de) | |
| 367 points | 2025 | author mxinden showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“QUIC does not depend on UDP datagrams to be delivered in order. Re-ordering happens on the QUIC layer. Thus, when receiving, the kernel passes a batch (i.e. segmented…” | ||
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