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| 91. | I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov) | |
| 985 points | 2020 | author mhafez17 showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow. I am the author of this email. I have no idea how it resurfaced after 5 years, I was only made aware of this when a friend emailed me the HN link. The sad thing is…” | ||
| 92. | Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 979 points | 2025 | author gklitt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, I think the original GitHub Copilot autocomplete UI is (ironically) a good example of a HUD! Tab autocomplete just becomes part of your mental flow. Recent coding…” | ||
| 93. | OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked (twitter.com) | |
| 977 points | 2026 | author pranshuchittora showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Looks like OpenCode fans / team is not happy with this post coming on the first page of HN. It has already been flagged by many. I never ask for upvotes, but would be…” | ||
| 94. | When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling (hiringengineersbook.com) | |
| 973 points | 2019 | author cloogshicer showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“thanks for your feedback. I think you might be right, thinking about rewriting that paragraph a bit. For me it's been really obvious in interviews whether someone knows…” | ||
| 95. | AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com) | |
| 973 points | 2025 | author JulianGarnier showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm thinking about making a course on how to re-create the landing page, would that be something you're interested in?” | ||
| 96. | Please don't mention AI again (ludic.mataroa.blog) | |
| 968 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Someone sent me this comment this morning (along with a note saying: "I am not afraid of you") and it absolutely sent me. Probably because he knows I am of exactly…” | ||
| 97. | Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com) | |
| 967 points | 2025 | author mips_avatar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has thoughts” | ||
| 98. | SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file (github.com) | |
| 958 points | 2022 | author gildas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it makes me really happy to see SIngleFile on the front page of HN. Thank you! I take the opportunity to make you aware of the upcoming impacts of the Manifest V3 [1],…” | ||
| 99. | I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (vc.gg) | |
| 951 points | 2017 | author gexcolo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Can you provide me more information about this? I've always wondered if that was the case, but I was once given a lengthy interview in the Amsterdam airport on my way to…” | ||
| 100. | It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency (twitter.com) | |
| 949 points | 2021 | author idlewords showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it's worth, I grew up as a refugee whose mother had to find incredibly inventive ways to send USD to family back home, where it was illegal to possess. What I…” | ||
| 101. | RethinkDB Postmortem (github.com) | |
| 948 points | 2017 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment | thread
“FYI, the post is still in its unpublished state. It's basically right, but I've been meaning to edit it for tone and rewrite the market failure section for clarity.…” | ||
| 102. | Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate (medium.com) | |
| 948 points | 2018 | author nate showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“No, not at all. Well not the first two problems. The extra chrome is just when google is hosting it, and the blank pages only occurred in testing from the CDN.” | ||
| 103. | I spent 5 years writing my own operating system (github.com) | |
| 939 points | 2021 | author halfer53 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this project is just for fun, nothing more than that. The OS is designed for MIPS architecture at this stage, I don't think tcc supports MIPS at the moment.” | ||
| 104. | Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com) | |
| 938 points | 2018 | author grahamburger showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“Hey everyone! Author here. Happy to answer questions. Thanks for posting @tomcam! Just a quick note about me - I currently work with the great folks at common.net…” | ||
| 105. | Ending our Medium integration (write.as) | |
| 936 points | 2019 | author thebaer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“though it's still confusing: This doesn't really explain why our 2-year-old integration suddenly stopped working (we didn't need to generate a new application). So I'm…” | ||
| 106. | Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s (imgur.com) | |
| 936 points | 2019 | author Admiral_C showed up | their comment | thread
“not happy it got picked up and posted here without credit. Here's the original Reddit thread:” | ||
| 107. | The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (righto.com) | |
| 930 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your NFC chip questions :-)” | ||
| 108. | The DuckDB Local UI (duckdb.org) | |
| 926 points | 2025 | author szarnyasg showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree that the wording was confusing – apologies for the confusion. I added a note at the end:” | ||
| 109. | Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com) | |
| 926 points | 2026 | author ninjahawk1 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The Opus 5 substitution was a validation test, not the primary measurement. At that sample size the accuracy difference was -3.8 ± 6.3 points, so it did not clear the…” | ||
| 110. | Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io) | |
| 919 points | 2016 | author lvh showed up | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Crypto 101. Firstly, I'm a real, honest-to-God cryptographer. I don't know if there are any particular people you had in mind whose recommendations…” | ||
| 111. | How I program with LLMs (crawshaw.io) | |
| 919 points | 2025 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“FIM is a term of art in LLM research for a style of tokens used to implement code completion. In particular, it refers to training an LLM with the extra non-printing…” | ||
| 112. | Lessons learned building an ML trading system (tradientblog.com) | |
| 914 points | 2019 | author traK6Dcm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Actually, the system is mostly taking liquidity from the market so it's not even doing that :) Perhaps, "opportunity for others to create more liquidity" Jokes aside,…” | ||
| 113. | Challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 911 points | 2019 | author azhenley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I agree with you! This list was about projects for learning. A few months ago I had a blog post that was more product focused, regarding the lessons I learned from…” | ||
| 114. | Game about squares (gameaboutsquares.com) | |
| 910 points | 2014 | author campugnatus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not very smart...” | ||
| 115. | How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] (cs.princeton.edu) | |
| 907 points | 2019 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate your criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of Google's claims around diabetic retinopathy. I received feedback very similar to yours, i.e.…” | ||
| 116. | How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block (la3.org) | |
| 906 points | 2017 | author kilburn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've tried to keep the article as apolitical as possible, while giving some context to provide the setting. Anyway, I'm very interested in knowing if the used crypto is…” | ||
| 117. | Amazon Pip Horror Story (linkedin.com) | |
| 902 points | 2022 | author wy35 showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m a software engineer who likes to have fun on LinkedIn, not a recruiter/spammer. And yes, I was actually an SDE at Amazon!” | ||
| 118. | Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices (dolthub.com) | |
| 901 points | 2022 | author sl-dolt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A question I have is: how did so many prices ever get negotiated in the first place? What kind of systems are in place to do this kind of micro-negotiation?” | ||
| 119. | I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (djhworld.github.io) | |
| 892 points | 2019 | author djhworld showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually didn't set out on building anything, it all happened organically! I honestly cannot remember why I chose the book, I think I just saw the blurb and figured it…” | ||
| 120. | KDE is now my favorite desktop (kokada.dev) | |
| 892 points | 2025 | author kokada showed up | their comment (+10 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions.” | ||
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