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| 1081. | AI usage generates a fragile codebase (evanxmerz.com) | |
| 352 points | 2026 | author PaulMorel showed up | their comment | thread
“I like your comment. I wanted to answer your question. I wrote a tool at Meta to use AI to solve all those issues at scale. I don't necessarily think it really solves…” | ||
| 1082. | Scaling your API with rate limiters (stripe.com) | |
| 351 points | 2017 | author ptarjan showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hi! I'm the author of the post and am happy to answer any questions you have. There is also a corresponding set of code examples at the bottom that might be of interest…” | ||
| 1083. | Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker (medium.com) | |
| 351 points | 2018 | author ptarjan showed up | their comment | thread
“We'd love that too! We're chatting with the Ruby folks to see if anything like that is feasible. We experimented with lots of other syntaxes (comments, yarddoc, .rbi…” | ||
| 1084. | Things I Was Wrong About: Types (v5.chriskrycho.com) | |
| 351 points | 2020 | author chriskrycho showed up | their comment | thread
“with a few comments on things that I see coming up through the discussion— 1. This is not a post bashing dynamic types. When I write that I now value type systems, that…” | ||
| 1085. | Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 351 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Mecha looks really nice! One difference that makes Mecha's look really nice/simple is they are being built at compile time, whereas the ones I outline in this blog post…” | ||
| 1086. | Driving with D (dlang.org) | |
| 351 points | 2021 | author 0dyl showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions you may have. I have to go to bed, I have work in about 4 hours, so I'll reply when I can.” | ||
| 1087. | How SQLite Helps You Do ACID (fly.io) | |
| 351 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree there's been a resurgence lately. My working theory is that the performance of the underlying hardware has increased so much in the last decade that the…” | ||
| 1088. | Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co) | |
| 351 points | 2025 | author brycebostwick showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all! Author here, happy to answer any questions. Thanks xmprt for sharing!” | ||
| 1089. | Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb (gilesthomas.com) | |
| 351 points | 2025 | author gpjt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I endorse this comment ;-) That's definitely the route I've optimised for for reading the series.” | ||
| 1090. | How to write an effective software design document (refactoringenglish.com) | |
| 351 points | 2026 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any feedback about this post. I learned to write design docs at Microsoft and Google, and I thought they both had good culture around docs that hasn't…” | ||
| 1091. | The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window (wired.com) | |
| 350 points | 2014 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting it up to the front page. I love finding cool science in ordinary/everyday places, and am curious to hear people's responses to the piece. Cheers.” | ||
| 1092. | How to Secure a Linux Server (github.com) | |
| 350 points | 2019 | author imthenachoman showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey folks! I am the author of this guide. I did not know this was here or I would have commented sooner. This is my first time putting a guide like this together. I see…” | ||
| 1093. | Ways to make a web component (webcomponents.dev) | |
| 350 points | 2020 | author georges_gomes showed up | their comment | thread
“1. The bundle size barcharts shows the component size (in light blue) and the framwwork size (darrk blue) 2. The Bundle Analysis chapter contains a description of the…” | ||
| 1094. | The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf] (raw.githubusercontent.com) | |
| 350 points | 2021 | author hiranabe showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the nice comments. This article should have been titled as "Graphic Notes on Linear Algebra for Everyone", and Prof. Strang kindly suggested this big name. I…” | ||
| 1095. | The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust (blog.singleton.io) | |
| 350 points | 2022 | author dps showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to stop by to say I'm delighted so many folks enjoyed the piece. I really did have a lot of fun :-)” | ||
| 1096. | "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you." (hellobubs.com) | |
| 349 points | 2012 | author dariusmonsef showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post for people that use drinking as a way to enjoy an experience more. Those are the kind of people who often slide down that slope. I recognize that a lot…” | ||
| 1097. | Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown (markdown-here.com) | |
| 349 points | 2017 | author adam-p showed up | their comment | thread
“And surprised to open HN and see it on the first page! I can answer any questions (although it's really a straightforward tool -- it does what it says on the box).” | ||
| 1098. | Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional (davidgerard.co.uk) | |
| 349 points | 2017 | author davidgerard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I originally submitted this with just the second part of the title, 'cos Part 1 doesn't deliver on "why you can't cash out". I expect two or three more parts, that…” | ||
| 1099. | Bytecode compilers and interpreters (bernsteinbear.com) | |
| 349 points | 2019 | author tekknolagi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to understand bytecode compilers and interpreters. Please let me know what you think!” | ||
| 1100. | Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi (cloudhead.io) | |
| 349 points | 2019 | author cloudhead showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Rx is actually built on WGPU[0] which will eventually have OpenGL support too. However, I don't really see much of a future for OpenGL - so building a graphics…” | ||
| 1101. | The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging (buttondown.email) | |
| 349 points | 2021 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to say I emphatically agree with this and have found your work on rr and Pernosco very inspiring! Anyone who hasn’t seen this work should check it out.” | ||
| 1102. | How Does React Tell a Class from a Function? (overreacted.io) | |
| 348 points | 2018 | author danabramov showed up | their comment | thread
“-) I don't think I disagree with you. JS has its warts and some of them are... weird. The web delivery mechanism has always been its killer feature, not the language.…” | ||
| 1103. | Publish and Perish (erikhoel.substack.com) | |
| 348 points | 2021 | author erikhoel showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to be listening in on some of the thoughts of HN. If you have a specific question or thought feel free to AMA.” | ||
| 1104. | Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts (dgt.is) | |
| 348 points | 2025 | author jonotime showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Your TLDR is spot on. Yes, my intent was to be on desktop use since most things I read dont consider that specifically. I did talk about how I would keep this running on…” | ||
| 1105. | Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023) (jordemort.dev) | |
| 348 points | 2025 | author jordemort showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this after a bad week at a previous job trying to get an Android device to work with a CDC Ethernet adapter. Since writing this, a couple people have let me know…” | ||
| 1106. | Permission to Fail (keen.io) | |
| 347 points | 2015 | author mwetzler showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there - I wrote the piece and you pretty succinctly summed up some of my internal arguments for not sharing the story. I'll share some of my thoughts on those and why…” | ||
| 1107. | OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android (f-droid.org) | |
| 347 points | 2020 | author BubuIIC showed up | their comment | thread
“The solution to the background limitations for now is running as a foreground service. This shows a persistent notification (which can be hidden by the user) but can…” | ||
| 1108. | Why Does DARPA Work? (benjaminreinhardt.com) | |
| 347 points | 2020 | author siege_engineer showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Good point about DARPA serving a political-economic role. It's a different lens on the coordination role. Is the corporate-political landscape becoming more trust-based…” | ||
| 1109. | Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (surma.dev) | |
| 347 points | 2021 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“You even included in the quote: It’s important to warm-up the code is so you don’t measure a mixture of performance characteristics between interpreted JS and compiled…” | ||
| 1110. | Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (mtlynch.io) | |
| 347 points | 2022 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I consider myself an intermediate homelabber and a TrueNAS beginner. I just built my first NAS server, so wrote this to capture everything I wish I'd known at the start.…” | ||
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