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| 1021. | The complexity that lives in the GUI (blog.royalsloth.eu) | |
| 361 points | 2021 | author RoyalSloth showed up | their comment | thread
“This is not related to this discussion, but does anybody know what causes these lines to appear in my server logs? <REDACTED> - - [14/Feb/2021:22:26:45 +0100] "GET…” | ||
| 1022. | I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (2016) (disruptingjapan.com) | |
| 361 points | 2022 | author timoth3y showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm surprised (and delighted) to see this back on Hacker News. I'm happy that people find value in the article, and the process writing it forced me to put my thoughts…” | ||
| 1023. | Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector (jacobfilipp.com) | |
| 361 points | 2024 | author jfil showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate your comment & the parent comment. I'll make the sqlite file more manageable shortly (wasn't expecting the project to get this much attention so its taking…” | ||
| 1024. | Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me) | |
| 361 points | 2024 | author mbo showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take questions!” | ||
| 1025. | Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful (aruarian.dance) | |
| 361 points | 2025 | author aecsocket showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is my fault for not proof reading this part properly! The part about non-Japan SKUs is generally true for Android phone manufacturers, but Apple eats the cost and…” | ||
| 1026. | Learn Redis the hard way: in production (tech.trivago.com) | |
| 360 points | 2017 | author andygrunwald showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Feel free to ask anything.” | ||
| 1027. | Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource? | |
| 360 points | 2020 | author ozanonay showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this list precisely constitutes the topics in computer science on which I believe a software engineer with an informal education should focus. It's based on my…” | ||
| 1028. | Marketers are addicted to bad data (jacquescorbytuech.com) | |
| 360 points | 2020 | author iamacyborg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so apologies if it's not clear. I don't mean to suggest that the entire online advertising ecosystem is fraudulent. However, there are billions of dollars worth of…” | ||
| 1029. | Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim (github.com) | |
| 360 points | 2024 | author khaledh showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting this <3 Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 1030. | Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite (wafris.org) | |
| 360 points | 2024 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“- yes 100% and I hope that came through in the article that this is great solution given our particular use case and that it's not a 1:1 swap out of Redis or Postgres.” | ||
| 1031. | Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (oliveremberton.com) | |
| 359 points | 2014 | author oliveremberton showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given: 1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up to…” | ||
| 1032. | Machine Learning in a Year (medium.com) | |
| 359 points | 2016 | author mrborgen showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions if anybody have any.” | ||
| 1033. | Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) (vidarholen.net) | |
| 359 points | 2017 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I'm the author of this article. Sorry for the confusion: dd is still a very useful tool for copying disks. The point is that you should not feel like you have to…” | ||
| 1034. | The animated elliptic curve (curves.ulfheim.net) | |
| 359 points | 2022 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“let me know if there are any questions or comments!” | ||
| 1035. | I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB (mouse.dev) | |
| 359 points | 2026 | author Aeroi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah the System Files are in the ios app, but what it sent me was the entire runtime as well. from the root.” | ||
| 1036. | Building Large Flask Apps in the Real World (etscrivner.github.io) | |
| 358 points | 2016 | author zenogais showed up | their comment | thread
“In regards to your last question, here are my subjective ways of thinking about this. Firstly, I don't think there are many pre-defined or general rules with software…” | ||
| 1037. | Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work (tomcritchlow.com) | |
| 358 points | 2019 | author topcat31 showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage. Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The…” | ||
| 1038. | The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 358 points | 2021 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“Great point - I totally forgot to write up CalcNet! It was a protocol designed by KermMartian (DoorsCS guy) for connecting up to 8 calculators to a "local network" of…” | ||
| 1039. | Generating sudokus for fun and no profit (tn1ck.com) | |
| 358 points | 2024 | author TN1ck showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author, didn't expect this to be posted here yet. I was still somewhat working on it, so please bear with me when you find anything weird. You can give me…” | ||
| 1040. | Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable (arxiv.org) | |
| 358 points | 2025 | author Cynddl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We used a dataset of conversations between a human and a warm AI chatbot. We then fed all these snippets of conversations to a series of LLMs, using a technique called…” | ||
| 1041. | In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information (blog.burkert.me) | |
| 358 points | 2025 | author curioussquirrel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I do not necessarily think algorithmic feeds are the only thing wrong with social media, but it's certainly one of the major problems. More so if the platforms don't…” | ||
| 1042. | Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably (stripe.com) | |
| 357 points | 2017 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Post author here! I agree that it's really important to be careful of "shiny new tool" syndrome -- one of my primary goals in writing this post was to show that…” | ||
| 1043. | Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software (brightball.com) | |
| 357 points | 2018 | author brightball showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anybody has any questions.” | ||
| 1044. | How I use the good parts of AWS (twitter.com) | |
| 357 points | 2019 | author DVassallo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Docker is the only one in that list I’m on the fence on. However, I feel that the EC2 AMI can be the equivalent of the container image, and Docker would only be adding…” | ||
| 1045. | HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience (twilio.com) | |
| 357 points | 2020 | author philnash showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I’m the author of this article. Thanks for posting! Here’s to the power of HTML attributes and better sign in experiences for everyone.” | ||
| 1046. | PDF to Text, a challenging problem (marginalia.nu) | |
| 357 points | 2025 | author marginalia_nu showed up | their comment | thread
“LLMs are definitely the new gold standard for smaller bodies of shorter documents. The article is in the context of an internet search engine, the corpus to be converted…” | ||
| 1047. | Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr (medium.com) | |
| 356 points | 2014 | author mbohanes showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you very much for your comments, some of which were really thought-provoking. I will address them in a separate blog post when I find the time, probably next…” | ||
| 1048. | Pingendo – Free, simple app for Bootstrap prototyping (pingendo.com) | |
| 356 points | 2016 | author gsere showed up | their comment | thread
“Which is this "similar atom project" you mention ?” | ||
| 1049. | A Programming Language Underdog (totallywearingpants.com) | |
| 356 points | 2018 | author skellock showed up | their comment | thread
“A few things that make me sad in the pants: - js doesn't have source maps (kinda of a big deal to me) - some error messages are head scratchers (seem to remember trying…” | ||
| 1050. | A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination (axle.design) | |
| 356 points | 2022 | author ryanjamurphy showed up | their comment | thread
“I hear ya on the rendering. This systems sketch was by me, for me, but I published it with minimal effort just in case it might help someone else. It probably would've…” | ||
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