1201. How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing (developermarkepear.com)
331 points | 2022 | author dev_markepear showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. Learning so much.”
1202. Simplify your life with an SSH config file (nerderati.com)
330 points | 2012 | author jperras showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see that this post was useful; I wrote it a while ago when I realized that people weren't password-protecting their Github private keys because it was "too…”
1203. Nylas Mail is now free (blog.nylas.com)
330 points | 2017 | author grinich showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to post questions! We are a very small team building this app. Hopefully you can focus on what's new/good and not what is left to do! :) If you find bugs,…”
1204. XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)
329 points | 2014 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment | thread
“and I can't verify its accuracy towards real server behavior: It's fake in a lot of ways, especially in its input model. It's well-commented and designed as a codebase…”
1205. Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (spin.atomicobject.com)
329 points | 2014 | author kenfox showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a nice trick to put the animations side-by-side. Thanks! I had looping versions of the images, but changed them to stop because it seemed confusing to not clearly…”
1206. gRPC-Web: Moving past REST+JSON towards type-safe Web APIs (spatialos.improbable.io)
329 points | 2017 | author mwitkow showed up | their comment | thread
“This is indeed our own implementation of the pending spec. We are in touch with the gRPC team to make sure that their (still unreleased) implementation is cross-tested…”
1207. Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future (brianketelsen.com)
329 points | 2018 | author bketelsen showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to point out that this isn't a new framework, it's a proof of concept that existing GopherJS (go transpiled to javascript) apps can run in Go/wasm with…”
1208. The Spiral Language (github.com)
329 points | 2018 | author abstractcontrol showed up | their comment | thread
“The language was made for Cuda programming and until something comes along to displace it, I have no plans of moving from it. That having said, the language is quite…”
1209. Little known features of iTerm2 (banga.github.io)
329 points | 2020 | author gnachman showed up | their comment | thread
“What a great way to wake up, an HN love fest :) Check our the Tip of the Day feature, which is meant to help you find stuff like this.”
1210. Tour of Rust (tourofrust.com)
329 points | 2020 | author richardanaya showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can tell you about my methodology for ordering. I immediately talk about text as soon as ownership and structs are explained. In Tour of Rust, I tried to hold to a…”
1211. Our Django Book is Launched (pydanny.com)
328 points | 2013 | author pydanny showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Because of the formatting issues of Kindle and ePub, the negative reviews Python books get when formatting breaks in those formats, we're not sure yet it we'll publish…”
1212. Capsela, the game that changed my life (joseoncode.com)
328 points | 2014 | author jfroma showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot for the suggestion. I will definitely consider some of these. I have a daughter and I bought her two capselas back when I wrote the blog post two years ago…”
1213. Introducing d3-scale (medium.com)
328 points | 2015 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here, AMA.”
1214. Why I won't recommend Signal anymore (sandervenema.ch)
328 points | 2016 | author sandervenema showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't think LibreSignal or indeed Signal will ever be the dominant mobile messenger out there. There's simply a lot of inertia to fight against. It's the same reason…”
1215. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) (tylertringas.com)
328 points | 2019 | author tylertringas showed up | their comment | thread
“The team did not have equity but I paid out substantial bonuses voluntarily to all employees. There's a lot of work to be done on how to incentivize employees in…”
1216. DOS Subsystem for Linux (github.com)
328 points | 2020 | author haileys showed up | their comment | thread
“I am planning to do an in depth write up of how this works, but it seems Hacker News found it sooner :) When DSL is first invoked at the command line it boots up the…”
1217. Planning and estimating large-scale software projects (tomrussell.co.uk)
328 points | 2021 | author kalleth showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been lucky enough in my career to hold some senior positions, and I thought I'd give a step-by-step on an approach I took with an "enterprise-scale" software…”
1218. TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information (tldw.tube)
328 points | 2025 | author stong1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have…”
1219. Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally (seangoedecke.com)
328 points | 2025 | author gfysfm showed up | their comment | thread
“Also not a ML researcher, just an interested engineer, so I'm sure I got some things wrong. What I meant was that the single-user scenario is going to get dramatically…”
1220. Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks (github.com)
327 points | 2016 | author nuclai showed up | their comment | thread
“For details, the research paper is linked on the GitHub page: For a video and higher-level overview see my article from yesterday: Questions welcome!”
1221. Learning from a Year of Security Breaches (medium.com)
327 points | 2016 | author mag00 showed up | their comment | thread
“To continue a discussion: - How does your engineering team track new "debt" after releasing code? (if at all, and why not) - Do you pay anyone for centralized logging,…”
1222. My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting (github.com)
327 points | 2019 | author bobblywobbles showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, that is one of the things I'd like to reduce. I will be focusing on reducing the size of the app. The app you linked, looks nice too.”
1223. We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring (blog.interviewing.io)
327 points | 2019 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I went back and forth on the intro a bunch and couldn't find a clearer way to not dismiss systemic issues while calling out the fact that we're not being fair to…”
1224. Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds (zoomerbackgrounds.com)
327 points | 2020 | author logane showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As students facing online instruction, we built ZoomerBackgrounds to solve firsthand the everyday problems of having subpar backgrounds and spoke with several friends…”
1225. Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux (sequencer64.com)
327 points | 2021 | author drumnickydrum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’m a professional musician of 15 years transitioning into software development. With this app I aimed to create an intuitive and usable drum sequencer that would run in…”
1226. Will Nix Overtake Docker? (blog.replit.com)
327 points | 2021 | author cbrewster showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“As with most things, its all about the trade-offs. Docker has certainly proved itself and that approach has worked on a massive scale. However, its not a silver bullet.…”
1227. Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era (mapbox.com)
327 points | 2021 | author mourner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to see this upvoted, feel free to ask any questions about web maps!”
1228. Teach your kids bridge, not poker (specbranch.com)
327 points | 2022 | author pclmulqdq showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and I have played bridge for a very long time: 1. Pick-up bridge is certainly possible, and you can walk into a club and find a partner. You have to be playing a…”
1229. Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap (blog.liampwll.com)
327 points | 2026 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“Bend1 indeed has no significant active userbase I don't think that means it was "unsuccessful" in the sense you imply, though, because the project was never meant to be…”
1230. The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana (qz.com)
326 points | 2015 | author equartey showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Kindly let me know if you'd like me to get it and ship it to you: equartey at gmail.”