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| 1141. | A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects (github.com) | |
| 342 points | 2020 | author vortex_ape showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that you can write your slides using Markdown (most of its features are supported). Also reposting my comment from the asciimatics post that was here…” | ||
| 1142. | The Hare programming language (harelang.org) | |
| 342 points | 2022 | author wchar_t showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair enough! Since writing that I've done a lot of Zig code, which has labeled loops, and I can say it's definitely made a lot of code clearer than it would be otherwise.” | ||
| 1143. | Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 342 points | 2024 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“in which ways does Gleam come short of that? Because I'm also looking for that middle ground and I was very curious to get a look at Gleam.” | ||
| 1144. | Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo (inpractice.yimbyaction.org) | |
| 342 points | 2025 | author LauraFoote showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm super curious about why you think YIMBY-ism is passive. I feel like the main criticism we've often gotten is that we're too in-your-face with our advocacy. Say more.” | ||
| 1145. | Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons (gregkroleski.com) | |
| 341 points | 2015 | author greg-kroleski showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As we lived in that apartment I constantly reminded myself that compared to all families from around the world and across time, we had a luxurious life. Clean water,…” | ||
| 1146. | Tech Interview Torture Chamber (mattfriz.com) | |
| 341 points | 2017 | author mfrisbie showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm both pleased and dismayed to see this is as relevant as it was when I wrote it a year ago. Obviously, this piece is satire. When giving interviews, I do whatever I…” | ||
| 1147. | Why am I interested in Elixir? (underjord.io) | |
| 341 points | 2019 | author lawik showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right in that I haven't had a chance to see what a few-years-old Elixir project feels like to run and maintain. I've been following and experimenting with Elixir…” | ||
| 1148. | Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 341 points | 2021 | author azhenley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a professor that teaches software engineering and occasionally web development, sooo I think your comparison is inapt...” | ||
| 1149. | Why Erlang? (fredrikholmqvist.com) | |
| 341 points | 2021 | author fredrikholm showed up | their comment | thread
“Yesterday was amazing, today continues in the same fashion. To everyone who read and commented, thank you. This means a lot to me.” | ||
| 1150. | Command line interface guidelines (2021) (clig.dev) | |
| 341 points | 2024 | author tashian showed up | their comment | thread
“See my post for a bit more of a deep dive about using secrets on the command line. Credential files are a good, simple, portable option. Files have permissions already.…” | ||
| 1151. | My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com) | |
| 341 points | 2026 | author jakeasmith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. I never imagined a polyfill for http_build_url would gain so much traction. After 12 years, deprecating it feels like the right move,…” | ||
| 1152. | Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight (fluentin3months.com) | |
| 340 points | 2011 | author irishpolyglot showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and I agree with Vacri's interpretation.” | ||
| 1153. | Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine (frinkiac.com) | |
| 340 points | 2016 | author reaperhulk showed up | their comment | thread
“I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this:” | ||
| 1154. | Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle (righto.com) | |
| 340 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 1155. | Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (macchaffee.com) | |
| 340 points | 2024 | author mac-chaffee showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes there were many times while writing this that I wanted to insert nuance, but couldn't without breaking the format too much. I appreciate the wide range of…” | ||
| 1156. | The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr) | |
| 340 points | 2026 | author megalomanu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. This post isn't meant as a lesson or a judgment, something to tell "just shut up and adapt like my ancestor did". The situation is hard, and…” | ||
| 1157. | Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned (davegooden.com) | |
| 339 points | 2013 | author cabinguy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“So in your case, we were "the enemy" who's head you wanted on a stick. Great. ;)” | ||
| 1158. | Dragula: Simple drag and drop (github.com) | |
| 339 points | 2015 | author bevacqua showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's actually a way to do that. There's a `delay` option you can use so that click events get through.” | ||
| 1159. | Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com) | |
| 339 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for checking this out, everyone! Happy to answer any questions in comments.” | ||
| 1160. | Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers (engineering.shopify.com) | |
| 339 points | 2019 | author jacktli showed up | their comment | thread
“Pull requests are our unit of work, and the queue was created to support all pull requests. We do have feature flags as a tool, but we let our developers make the…” | ||
| 1161. | Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 339 points | 2020 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to elaborate on any of this, except where I've signed NDAs about specific projects. Also an obligatory "we are hiring" on behalf of G-Research; feel free to…” | ||
| 1162. | MCP is eating the world (stainless.com) | |
| 339 points | 2025 | author yjp20 showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right, that snippet was ai-generated and I forgot to action one of my todos to fix that snippet. This was negligent on my part, and I hope you'll forgive me.…” | ||
| 1163. | We Got Phished (exploratorium.edu) | |
| 338 points | 2016 | author pauldancstep showed up | their comment | thread
“The backstory is that, indeed, the "familiar mailing list" had been compromised; the attack was conveyed to us in much the same way as we passed it on to others.” | ||
| 1164. | Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar (mathisonian.github.io) | |
| 338 points | 2018 | author mathisonian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi HN - I'm one of the authors of this post and I lead an open source software project called Idyll that tries to make it easier to write interactive posts like this for…” | ||
| 1165. | Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With (nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 338 points | 2018 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“Keep in mind Shopify does scale horizontally in terms of servers. They are just scaling a monolithic application. Those 600k shop owners results in Shopify's platform…” | ||
| 1166. | Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything (medium.com) | |
| 338 points | 2019 | author buss showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to email me at steven.buss@gmail.com with any questions or comments. Also if you have a few bucks to spare for my campaign, please donate at” | ||
| 1167. | The data model behind Notion's flexibility (notion.so) | |
| 338 points | 2021 | author jitl showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 1168. | Taildrop was kind of easy (tailscale.com) | |
| 338 points | 2021 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions / respond to any rants if you like.” | ||
| 1169. | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com) | |
| 337 points | 2019 | author binarymax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Howdy. Author here. Really cool to see so much good discussion on this. I want to turn several of them into blog posts on their own with…” | ||
| 1170. | Deep JavaScript (exploringjs.com) | |
| 337 points | 2021 | author rauschma showed up | their comment | thread
“Don’t forget that this book is for people who already know JavaScript well. It doesn’t try to explain the basics. This book does, though:” | ||
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