991. You Must Try, and then You Must Ask (blogs.akamai.com)
366 points | 2013 | author mfringel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You bring up a very good point. How do you enforce the 15 minute rule? Part of it is incentive structure. That is, detecting when a team implicitly rewards augering in…”
992. Adopting Erlang (adoptingerlang.org)
366 points | 2019 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“This website is still a work in progress. It's an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business. The booksite is divided in…”
993. A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic (abstreet.org)
366 points | 2020 | author dabreegster showed up | their comment | thread
“Previously posted to HN (). I just released alpha -- check out this cheesy trailer (). Happy to answer questions! And if you're serious about running this in your city,…”
994. Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020) (github.com)
366 points | 2021 | author s-macke showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That is exactly what is going on here. I just move the horizon line up and down. This works very well as long as the rotation remains small. That is also the reason, why…”
995. Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com)
366 points | 2022 | author michaelmure showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions. Version 0.8 just got out[1]. For the next one, I'll try to focus on making the codebase fully ready for multi-entities and introduce a Project…”
996. Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V (box86.org)
366 points | 2024 | author ksco showed up | their comment | thread
“we have adopted this approach as a fast path to box64:, thank you very much!”
997. This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024) (blog.ctms.me)
366 points | 2025 | author cinimodev showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I agree that a VM or container doesn't add to the power usage for a homelab that's already running. I kinda did it for fun and being able to run it off solar. I…”
998. How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow (oreilly.com)
365 points | 2016 | author lukas showed up | their comment | thread
“I guess "the holy grail" is overstated, but recognizing arbitrary objects is a tough problem that people have put a ton of time and energy into. I think to really get it…”
999. MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator (mybrandnewlogo.com)
365 points | 2019 | author monokai_nl showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
1000. A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019) (endler.dev)
365 points | 2020 | author omn1 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Tried a full reverse index first but it's much bigger in size - think around two orders of magnitude, if I remember correctly.”
1001. I Hate Coordinate Systems (ihatecoordinatesystems.com)
365 points | 2020 | author dmahr showed up | their comment | thread
“I also hate projected coordinate systems! But in all seriousness the domain name is channeling an attitude felt by generations of GIS practitioners. I don’t really know…”
1002. Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills (cloudbite.attejuvonen.fi)
365 points | 2021 | author baobabKoodaa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many…”
1003. Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip (blog.yiningkarlli.com)
365 points | 2021 | author ykl showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm aware that that the Xeon E5-2680 is ancient, which is why I also included comparisons with the Xeon W-3245 that is in the current 2019 Mac Pro, and with the…”
1004. No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves (lichess.org)
365 points | 2025 | author Tobs40 showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Yes, if Gurobi and my code run as intended and I did not mess up any thinking while simplifying my chess model, then what I did is proof that the maximum number of legal…”
1005. A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015) (blog.fugue.co)
364 points | 2017 | author joshstella showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In reading this thread, I'm struck that most of the objections to emacs are both legitimate (as are the arguments for it) and focused on programmer-specific issues. Back…”
1006. How we scaled Nginx (blog.cloudflare.com)
364 points | 2018 | author khc showed up | their comment | thread
“I've talked to a nginx product manager and he's told me changes that are specific to one customer are unlikely to be accepted. Also in our implementation we took some…”
1007. Why is Snowflake so expensive (blog.devgenius.io)
364 points | 2022 | author stassajin showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect it to blow up. Let me clarify a few points: 1. I like Snowflake and I think they brought several innovations to the field: Instant scale out/up,…”
1008. Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com)
364 points | 2026 | author michaelmure showed up | their comment | thread
“nice to see some interest :-) FYI, this is my near-term roadmap: - have the webui accept external auth (like github oauth) so that it can be a public portal and accept…”
1009. Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing (stripe.com)
363 points | 2020 | author corentin88 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Original title was "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges". Which I agree is a bit clickbait. But the current title is definitely a well-made boring PR…”
1010. Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap (wcedmisten.fyi)
363 points | 2022 | author wcedmisten showed up | their comment | thread
“the docker project for the tile server allows setting up automatic syncing fairly easily: I'm not sure about Nominatim or Valhalla's ability to auto-sync the latest…”
1011. Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO (lucumr.pocoo.org)
363 points | 2024 | author the_mitsuhiko showed up | their comment | thread
“the result is now that the debt got absorbed into a project that uses the fork exclusively. It’s less likely that folks will look for security issues. It would in my…”
1012. The electric fence stopped working years ago (soonly.com)
363 points | 2025 | author stroz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Walking past a house recently, I watched a dog refuse to leave his porch as the owner explained that the electric fence has been broken for years. It hit me, we're all…”
1013. Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules (github.com)
362 points | 2018 | author arcatek showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me any question you might have! As a personal note, I'm super excited and so grateful to have had the chance to work on this project - node_modules have…”
1014. Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design (onezero.medium.com)
362 points | 2019 | author charlesarthur showed up | their comment | thread
“You wrote: "There's lot of focus in this article on failure. I enjoy Apple bashing as much as the next guy, but one has to assume in the same 20 years Apple's head of…”
1015. Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless (patchbay.pub)
362 points | 2019 | author anderspitman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I implemented[0] a stripped-down server that includes the MPMC functionality. Should be a good starting point for alternative implementations. It really shows how simple…”
1016. Simulating Jupiter (emildziewanowski.com)
362 points | 2024 | author e_dziewanowski showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! I'm the author of the article. First of all, thank you so much for sharing it here. I've been taking note of the feedback - I'll try to fix the issue…”
1017. Postgres Language Server: Initial Release (github.com)
362 points | 2025 | author juleswritescode showed up | their comment | thread
“The most interesting part is probably the parsing of SQL files. The first issue is that the Postgres parser is complex and always changing, so you can't really roll your…”
1018. RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com)
362 points | 2025 | author bill_yang showed up | their comment | thread
“Similar stack to Umami though.”
1019. Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces (mikeayles.com)
362 points | 2025 | author mikeayles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I pulled inspiration from this port to a vectrex:, there is a wayback machine link to the authors writeup credited in my writeup. I have seen a lot of ports of DOOM on…”
1020. Travelling with 24” Monitors (blog.luap.info)
361 points | 2020 | author polote showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“definitely interested as it would make traveling much easier for me. With a setup like that is there any fatigue after a few hours of usage ?”