1111. An SVG is all you need (jon.recoil.org)
347 points | 2025 | author jonludlam showed up | their comment | thread
“I've just made a ninja edit of the post as it didn't really make clear a quite important point - the SVG is literally 20 years old, and still works, astonishingly. I'm…”
1112. Node.js Guide (nodeguide.com)
346 points | 2011 | author felixge showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your feedback. You made some great points about real time systems, I'll try to rework that section. This reminds me of school : ). The difference here however…”
1113. Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies" (agateau.com)
346 points | 2021 | author agateau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I thought I would answer to some of the comments here. Definitely true. And I am not going to try to go against those rules. But I believe I am allowed to voice my…”
1114. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters (github.com)
346 points | 2025 | author rh3939 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I received some great feedback so I have decided to focus on raw video for now and more rigorous testing around noisy videos. I will continue to update the repo…”
1115. In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear (omnicognate.wordpress.com)
345 points | 2013 | author omnicognate showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“not the original). though I didn't post it here - I just noticed the pingback email. I am indeed responding mainly to the wording, and you'll see at the start and end of…”
1116. The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong (discovermeteor.com)
345 points | 2016 | author sgdesign showed up | their comment | thread
“Hopefully part 2 will answer your worries a little bit. In the meantime, check out Mantra [1] and the Meteor Guide [2]. 1. 2.”
1117. Interesting data structures: the BK-tree (signal-to-noise.xyz)
345 points | 2017 | author rocho showed up | their comment | thread
“Could you help me figure out what is triggering the warning?”
1118. Software Below the Poverty Line (staltz.com)
345 points | 2019 | author staltz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“"People writing open source software are not being exploited." Well, I got the curiosity to check the data after having just met with people writing open source…”
1119. Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019) (ljvmiranda921.github.io)
345 points | 2020 | author ljvmiranda showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Pleasantly surprised I saw this on HN, thanks for posting feross! Sorry for the Mcdonalds analogy, it's just that it's really near our office and I got that insight…”
1120. Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot (bbc.com)
345 points | 2020 | author ekdinan showed up | their comment | thread
“The model was fine-tuned on (non-Reddit) data that was specifically designed to give it positive conversational skills, like empathy, knowledge, and personality (see:).…”
1121. How Uber Uses Zig (jakstys.lt)
345 points | 2022 | author motiejus showed up | their comment | thread
“Took a while to get thumbs-up to publish the talk. Happy to answer questions, if any.”
1122. 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps (blog.openstreetmap.org)
345 points | 2024 | author stereo showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, most apps have to create their own tile or download server at the moment. We’re hoping that our tiles will be useful to the greater ecosystem, in the same way that…”
1123. No Abstractions: our API design principle (increase.com)
345 points | 2024 | author jackflintermann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this has been a useful mindset for us internally but I'm curious if it resonates externally. I'd love your feedback!”
1124. I am often wrong (borischerny.com)
345 points | 2026 | author bcherny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This isn’t the one true framework, but it is the one I use. The goal of this post was to communicate to the team the way I think. There are many ways to think and there…”
1125. I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem (shkspr.mobi)
344 points | 2012 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm sorry you feel that way. I think users should care. These monocultures we're breeding are - I think - harmful to society and the economy - see this excellent article…”
1126. Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp (thousandetherhomepage.com)
344 points | 2017 | author ontoillogical showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My friend and I have been doing some smart contract audits, and we wanted to build a fun contract ourselves. We remembered the Million Dollar Homepage from 12 years ago,…”
1127. Generating a Java program with 90% less code (unitily.com)
344 points | 2019 | author rowland_street showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd just like to clear up my intent. Firstly the Java patterns. Obviously it's not really necessary to use them for my toy example, but I don't want to write a blog…”
1128. Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends? (jamespotter.dev)
344 points | 2021 | author drpancake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree with you but the only recent HN data dump that I could find contained posts and not comments. I suspect the trend lines would look similar though.”
1129. The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (blog.tmm.cx)
344 points | 2022 | author TMM2K showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The way the Qemu VM is setup there is no way to interface with the outside world at all. The only way to get any data in or out of that VM is through the keyboard and…”
1130. We're moving on from Firebase (koptional.com)
344 points | 2022 | author jackconsidine showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for pointing out. I was getting at the fact that SQL systems don't scale as well horizontally (it's difficult to distribute the same column across multiple…”
1131. Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)
344 points | 2024 | author reasonableklout showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing, was great to wake up to my blog post on the front page! Would love to hear any feedback or if I missed anything.”
1132. 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001) (gamasutra.com)
343 points | 2018 | author MarkTerrano showed up | their comment | thread
“- here was a really hard-to-find bug - in some instances more than one quantity of fish could be placed in the same location - that meant the game would work fine until…”
1133. Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager (github.com)
343 points | 2019 | author knadh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To give some context on why listmonk was built, at work (regulated financial business), we have to deliver e-mails, mostly important updates, to 1.5mn+ customers…”
1134. Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees (nocsok.com)
343 points | 2019 | author Pete-Codes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You might remember me from posts such as "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers". I've made a job board for people without CS degrees. Since I am going…”
1135. Please make your products work with URLs (anderspitman.net)
343 points | 2020 | author anderspitman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry for those having trouble viewing the site. That's obviously never the intention. The current incarnation is actually a bit of an experiment. Unfortunately, my blog…”
1136. Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs (github.com)
343 points | 2020 | author alfiopuglisi showed up | their comment | thread
“I have tested Guietta on two different macs (mine and a coworker's) and it worked in both cases. There is no variable called 'loader' in Guietta's source code. Are you…”
1137. For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time (quantamagazine.org)
343 points | 2025 | author bbrubaker showed up | their comment | thread
“If you ask a complexity theorist, they will tell you that they did in fact have a general intuition that certain problems require space close to to linear in time to…”
1138. No bullshit guide to math and physics (minireference.com)
342 points | 2013 | author ivan_ah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some comments before I go catch up on sleep. 1/ The response by the community was amazing. You guys are great! Especially the ones who are nitpicking and fact checking…”
1139. Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic” (alexkras.com)
342 points | 2016 | author akras14 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I brought up a lot of things without (as it's apparent to me now) clearly stating which were my fault (mostly everything) and what I blamed on Google.”
1140. Traveling the World on a Third World Passport (bucketlistly.blog)
342 points | 2018 | author peachananr showed up | their comment | thread
“Greetings from Bajawa, Flores! Beautiful country you have! And you are right, Indonesia is massive. I've been back and forth at least 5 times in the past 6 years and…”