1231. Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project (github.com)
326 points | 2020 | author overtowed showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“just wanted to make a note. This isn't written to hype a battle in the holy war. Frontend frameworks are a positive sum game! Svelte has no monopoly on the compiler…”
1232. Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) (magcius.github.io)
326 points | 2020 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I haven't updated this project in a few years. I burned out on it almost immediately. I wrote a little retrospective for it on here before, the last time it was posted:…”
1233. An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux (smcameron.github.io)
326 points | 2021 | author smcameron showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a little hesitant to wade into these comments, but I'll try to answer a few questions I see popping up, and some that I just made up. 1. Why do I have to compile the…”
1234. Faster CRDTs (2021) (josephg.com)
326 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Yjs has also been rewritten in rust (yrs) and it’s significantly faster than the JavaScript version. I’ve also got a new, totally different approach to solving this…”
1235. Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] (media.ccc.de)
326 points | 2024 | author redfast00 showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; see also the entire series of posts on”
1236. A tiling window manager written in Rust (github.com)
325 points | 2014 | author codingbinary showed up | their comment | thread
“I am sorry about the confusion. It happened later in the project when I split it into 3 components (4 as soon as I add Wayland support). I should probably mention that…”
1237. The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine (crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com)
325 points | 2021 | author cryptoanonymous showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Using a throwaway for all the obvious reasons. I'll try to dive into this thread over the next few hours to answer any questions folks may have about this. Please feel…”
1238. My free-software photography workflow (blog.fidelramos.net)
325 points | 2022 | author fidelramos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Would you believe I didn't notice the proper capitalization is RawTherapee and not RawTheRapee? I didn't think twice about the semantics, now I can't unsee it. Thanks…”
1239. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (ai.meta.com)
325 points | 2024 | author entilzha showed up | their comment | thread
“, I do think it’s a good direction to look into! That said, aside from it being a bit too much to do at once, you’d also have to be careful about how you distributed…”
1240. Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days (blog.triplebyte.com)
324 points | 2015 | author ammon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey! Author here. Yes, we did not know that the screening steps were meaningful, so for the first 300 applicants, we interviewed everyone, even people who performed…”
1241. Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems (github.com)
324 points | 2016 | author therecipe showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“The size depends on your platform and the way you build it. If you used `qtdeploy` instead of `go run/build`, you should get a 2mb binary which includes Go's runtime +…”
1242. 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza (bbc.co.uk)
324 points | 2017 | author jbmouret showed up | their comment | thread
“This is not the same method at all and this is much more reliable. For King Tut, they used ground penetration radar, which is very hard to interpret. Here: (1) this is…”
1243. How to Use Go Interfaces (blog.chewxy.com)
324 points | 2018 | author chewxy showed up | their comment | thread
“It works However, this is what I have recently found quite a lot. An interface is defined: type Foo interface { Method1() unexportedMethod() } And in the same package,…”
1244. The differences between tinkering and research (2016) (togelius.blogspot.com)
324 points | 2018 | author togelius showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm somewhat amused by the negative tone of many of the comments. Seems there are plenty of people with resentments towards research here ;)”
1245. The creeping IT apocalypse (forrestbrazeal.com)
324 points | 2019 | author forrestbrazeal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm serious when I say that I'm happy to be a sounding board if you're at a career crossroads. Twitter DMs are open @forrestbrazeal.”
1246. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction (basilica.ai)
324 points | 2019 | author mlucy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. Let me know if you have any questions, this is one of my favorite subjects in the world to talk about.”
1247. An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities (psl.com)
324 points | 2021 | author davepeck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I strongly disagree. While it’s certainly true that firmware on many devices can’t be or simply isn’t updated, it’s also the case that bugs ship. Because of this,…”
1248. A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado (bikeindex.org)
324 points | 2021 | author bhance showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. Article author here. Hit me up if anybody has questions.”
1249. Five years of React Native at Shopify (shopify.engineering)
324 points | 2025 | author mustafa01ali showed up | their comment | thread
“the stated screen load time includes server round-trip, parsing, layout, formatting, and rendering.”
1250. You did no fact checking, and I must scream (shkspr.mobi)
324 points | 2025 | author edent showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Elon directly screwed over some of my friends. He turned Twitter from an imperfect mess into a shit filled pit of despair. I don't want to encourage anyone to use his…”
1251. Announcing BuckleScript 1.0 (bloomberg.github.io)
323 points | 2016 | author hongbo_zhang showed up | their comment | thread
“you can try BuckleScript in the browser: Click Examples see how the JS code generated, questions are welcome!”
1252. Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available (spencerdailey.com)
323 points | 2021 | author spenvo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can't reproduce it any longer either, seems they have pushed a server-side fix out for this issue”
1253. Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector (justine.lol)
323 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I assume you're referring to? It's hard for me to tell, since there's 819k lines of code in Mu according to find . -type f | grep -v '\.git' | xargs wc -l. Does it have…”
1254. Unconventional Uses of FPGAs (voltagedivide.com)
323 points | 2024 | author ShadowBlades512 showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading, I just scaled the VPS to hopefully handle the traffic better, hahaha”
1255. Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript (electrobun.dev)
323 points | 2024 | author yoav showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey hn! Author here: Thanks to whoever submitted. Electrobun is in the very early stages. The roadmap is a bit out of date. Here are some highlights: - it’s like Tauri…”
1256. The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter (github.com)
323 points | 2025 | author igor_st showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback, I'll update the content, especially the readme! More details on the implementation are here (same content)”
1257. Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing (myprasanna.posterous.com)
322 points | 2011 | author myprasanna showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it was my…”
1258. DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (ds9a.nl)
322 points | 2013 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“Turns out I am a bioinformatician these days, ten years after writing this page. I work in an actual lab, with biologists, getting results. is what I do. DNA is not a…”
1259. The Invisible War for the Open Internet (medium.freecodecamp.com)
322 points | 2017 | author quincyla showed up | their comment | thread
“I just realized someone had submitted this to HN. I spent a lot of time researching and writing this article, and am excited to read any feedback you may have. Also,…”
1260. The Marketing Behind MongoDB (nemil.com)
322 points | 2017 | author nemild showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As part of this three part series, MongoDB’s CTO, Eliot Horowitz, was gracious enough to spend two hours chatting with me. In our discussion, we touched on 10gen’s early…”