1051. Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location (tynan.com)
355 points | 2013 | author tynan showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post in transit between those ports. On cruises you go to a lot of ports... this particular one ends up in Florida (Florence to Florida, with 8 stops or so)”
1052. A Good Vimrc (dougblack.io)
355 points | 2015 | author dougblack showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. Fair points. I'm gonna start out on the defensive: I didn't post the article, which kinda stinks because if I knew it was going to get such attention I…”
1053. Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig (github.com)
355 points | 2020 | author jackhalford showed up | their comment | thread
“I've just finished writing the pre-emptive multitasking [0](only round robbin though, nothing fancy). I'm currently writing an ATA driver [1], the idea is to implement…”
1054. ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go (github.com)
355 points | 2020 | author constexpr showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the Rust vs. Go question is interesting. I actually originally wrote esbuild in Rust and Go, and Go was the clear winner. The parser written in Go was both…”
1055. WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System (github.com)
355 points | 2024 | author lvkv showed up | their comment | thread
“Those are kind words! I’d like to add the last part of that quote:”
1056. Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org)
355 points | 2024 | author blinry showed up | their comment | thread
“I paid $70 for the section from New York to Chicago, because I slept in the coach section there. For the section from Chicago to Emeryville, I treated myself to a…”
1057. In Search of a Faster SQLite (avi.im)
355 points | 2024 | author avinassh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this blog post and I didn't expect to see it on the front page! For disclosure, I work at Turso and one of the authors, Pekka, is from Turso. This…”
1058. How I block all online ads (troubled.engineer)
355 points | 2025 | author StrLght showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Could you please share what exactly is wrong? I haven't used AI to write this post, that's just my style. I am still figuring it out, so I'd love to hear any feedback”
1059. Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com)
354 points | 2011 | author simmons showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I also ran my tests with a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Its DHCP Vendor-Class string is "dhcpcd 5.1.4". The DHCP performance seems fair, around 2 seconds. However, the…”
1060. Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements (blog.interviewing.io)
354 points | 2017 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the notes and am happy to revisit and make corrections when needed. To respond to your points: 1. As a sanity check, I did do a t-test of technical ability…”
1061. A new funding model for open source software (vriad.com)
354 points | 2020 | author colinmcd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“100% agree on all fronts! I was dancing around this conclusion but it really does need to be GitHub. And I agree people would be fine paying their own fees if it came to…”
1062. I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer (stackoverflow.blog)
354 points | 2021 | author kristinamay showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Blog post author here. I didn't keep my old salary, nope. I took a substantial pay cut in order to do this.”
1063. Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude (diwank.space)
354 points | 2025 | author diwank showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To be honest, I know there are like a bajillion Claude code posts out there these days. But, there are a few nuggets we figured are worth sharing, like Anchor Comments…”
1064. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
354 points | 2026 | author jagiii showed up | their comment | thread
“good digging! I added the MIT license. Getting 5-fold symmetry to work was tricky, but the repo you found has the processing sketch where I figured it out. I basically…”
1065. Step by step from jQuery to Backbone (open.bekk.no)
353 points | 2012 | author kjbekkelund showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The blog appears to be down, check it out on Github instead:”
1066. What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) (likewise.am)
353 points | 2020 | author abalashov showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Author here; I was very surprised to find this ancient (from my POV — I wrote it in Dec 2014) article at the top of HN, but am pleased at the discussion it has…”
1067. Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust (github.com)
353 points | 2024 | author Sean-Der showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“* I want to show people that native WebRTC players can be a thing. I hope this encourages hangouts/discord/$x to implement WHIP and WHEP it would let people do so much…”
1068. NandGame – Build a computer from scratch (nandgame.com)
353 points | 2024 | author sergex showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the first level is special and perhaps half-baked. It felt like cheating to start with the NAND-gate as the atomic component since transistors are not NAND-gates.…”
1069. Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack (fabulous.systems)
353 points | 2025 | author felsqualle showed up | their comment | thread
“Caching is already enabled, but this doesn’t work for the highly dynamic parts of the site like version history and looking for recent changes. And yes, it doesn’t work…”
1070. Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
353 points | 2026 | author casualphysics showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“i have no view on the toxicity of tartrazine other than its declared food safe. its important to note though that there is no mystery or chemical nastiness behind the…”
1071. Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python (lav.io)
352 points | 2014 | author saaaam showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Original author here. I'm not sure about the best tool for creating new .srt files, but for films, you can find pretty much anything on opensubtitles.org or…”
1072. A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React (github.com)
352 points | 2015 | author mcx showed up | their comment | thread
“the primer is still in the draft phase but feel free to share your feedback / make pull requests!”
1073. Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS (blog.cloudflare.com)
352 points | 2017 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“Allow me to extend the post a bit. It turns out that about 2.4% of the IPs that respond to SSDP queries, do so from a weird port number! For example: IP…”
1074. Real world SSD wearout (blog.okmeter.io)
352 points | 2018 | author tru_pablo showed up | their comment | thread
“We wanted to showcase some scenarios and that's it. I would love to hear any suggestions of what else we can gather and report.”
1075. Everything I Know About SSDs (kcall.co.uk)
352 points | 2020 | author Thessdauthor showed up | their comment | thread
“co.uk/ssd/index.html and I trust that the site is now back up and running without further 'sleeping' episodes. The reason for the interrupts was, as some have surmised,…”
1076. Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader (tnhh.net)
352 points | 2021 | author jimmies showed up | their comment | thread
“I was actually somewhat worried that someone gonna get to my Pi that has some other stuff running on it, because I am absolutely not doing any security and sandboxing on…”
1077. Learn Go with Tests (quii.gitbook.io)
352 points | 2022 | author quii showed up | their comment | thread
“The project is open-source () so there's a few options available to you. In releases, you'll find PDFs and epubs, I'm pretty sure most epub readers will let you use a…”
1078. Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing (moment.dev)
352 points | 2024 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if…”
1079. Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web (90s.dev)
352 points | 2025 | author 90s_dev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you everyone for the feedback. It's clear that I launched this far too soon. I'll work on the pain points you all noted, and come back in a few months.”
1080. Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres (dizzy.zone)
352 points | 2025 | author dizzyVik showed up | their comment | thread
“Redis is definitely faster. I was specifically not going for absolute peak performance for either redis or postgres - that would require going down to the wire…”