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| 1261. | How to Become the Best in the World at Something (forge.medium.com) | |
| 322 points | 2019 | author pbulises showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Actually Federer does not do tennis. In fact, he's famous for trying lots of different sports before settling on tennis.” | ||
| 1262. | New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 322 points | 2021 | author aqfp showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of the published paper that IEEE Spectrum referred to in the post. First off, thanks for posting! We're so delighted to see our work garner…” | ||
| 1263. | Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP (mnmnotmail.org) | |
| 322 points | 2021 | author networkimprov showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry to be late to the party. AMA. Follow mnm! To address some comments... The protocol[1] has two layers, altho that's not emphasized in the draft. The outer layer…” | ||
| 1264. | YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design (zach.be) | |
| 322 points | 2024 | author zachbee showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually noted this in the article: I think designers getting 2x faster is probably optimistic, but I also could be wrong about that! Most of my chip design experience…” | ||
| 1265. | DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL (pretty-radio-b75.notion.site) | |
| 322 points | 2025 | author mluo showed up | their comment | thread
“This is not a Chinese model, btw I'm American” | ||
| 1266. | Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. (thinkoutsidein.com) | |
| 321 points | 2011 | author padday showed up | their comment | thread
“Just my own thoughts - I think it's pretty balanced. Wanted to get some facts out there as people were speculating.” | ||
| 1267. | Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (thurrott.com) | |
| 321 points | 2017 | author withinrafael showed up | their comment | thread
“saves writing another tool!” | ||
| 1268. | It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video (singhkays.com) | |
| 321 points | 2019 | author singhkays showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've uploaded the GIFs here” | ||
| 1269. | Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again (capiche.com) | |
| 321 points | 2021 | author maguay showed up | their comment | thread
“author here, thank you!” | ||
| 1270. | Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15 (citusdata.com) | |
| 321 points | 2022 | author davidrowley showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, thanks for raising this. I didn't manage to complete my analysis for the regression at 64MB work_mem before publishing the blog. I drew up my analysis on shortly…” | ||
| 1271. | A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset (righto.com) | |
| 321 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if there are any questions...” | ||
| 1272. | What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders? (pudo.org) | |
| 320 points | 2014 | author pudo showed up | their comment | thread
“We're working on the code base and would love everybody's input here:” | ||
| 1273. | Wow, Perl 6 [video] (youtube.com) | |
| 320 points | 2016 | author zoffix222 showed up | their comment | thread
“Never would've thought my slides I used for a presentation to 20-something people would make it to front page of HN... You can watch the actual presentation here: I also…” | ||
| 1274. | Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent (shift.newco.co) | |
| 320 points | 2016 | author dtran showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading and for sharing this analogy—it very aptly captures the sentiment. Thanks for that. I just wanted to say that not only was this post extremely…” | ||
| 1275. | A single byte write opened a root execution exploit (daniel.haxx.se) | |
| 320 points | 2016 | author bagder showed up | their comment | thread
“ASLR was enabled. The attacker worked around it.” | ||
| 1276. | Matcha – A framework for building iOS and Android apps in Go (github.com) | |
| 320 points | 2017 | author overcyn showed up | their comment | thread
“I think Matcha has a really cool approach to building UIs. Everything is built on top of interfaces, so its very easy to reuse and customize components and layouts. Its…” | ||
| 1277. | Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 320 points | 2019 | author digitarald showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are monitoring both, but are recently managing all our work in bugzilla.” | ||
| 1278. | Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch (cowlark.com) | |
| 320 points | 2019 | author david-given showed up | their comment | thread
“Eeeaggh. Yes, this took a while. I started after lunch and finished sometime after midnight (look at the clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen). I'm still…” | ||
| 1279. | The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter (twitter.com) | |
| 320 points | 2020 | author sylefeb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks - and I agree. That being said this is running 100 MHz on (what I believe is) a relatively low end FPGA? Also my implementation remains simplistic, many things to…” | ||
| 1280. | That's not how 2FA works (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 320 points | 2021 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did provide a few other reasons - mostly around usability of YubiKeys. Try observing a non-techie set one up and tell me if you think it is as easy as it could be.…” | ||
| 1281. | Why Is Esbuild Fast? (esbuild.github.io) | |
| 320 points | 2021 | author constexpr showed up | their comment | thread
“Rest assured that I am very interested in supporting it and am actively working on it. It's just unfortunately very complicated to correctly, especially without…” | ||
| 1282. | Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf] (nostarch.com) | |
| 320 points | 2022 | author tubetime showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask questions.” | ||
| 1283. | Feel the power of the Manifest v3 (github.com) | |
| 320 points | 2022 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to add that most of the "features" should be fixed by Google this month [1]. That leaves me approximately 2 months to finish the work and hope to make the…” | ||
| 1284. | Life, death, and retirement (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 320 points | 2024 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do recognize my immense privilege. I was even able to turn the dial a significant distance towards life before my wife died. I had dropped to 80% time (32 hours a…” | ||
| 1285. | The Byte Order Fiasco (justine.lol) | |
| 319 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm improving upon Rob Pike's outstanding work. Standing on the shoulders of a giant.” | ||
| 1286. | Never update anything (blog.kronis.dev) | |
| 319 points | 2021 | author KronisLV showed up | their comment | thread
“I see why you'd say this, but what i'm mostly advocating for in the article is that breaking changes often being the only option for updates (which may be forced upon…” | ||
| 1287. | On the Weaponisation of Open Source (beny23.github.io) | |
| 319 points | 2022 | author beny23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I do think the open source licence is framed to be non-discriminatory and I think that’s not a bad thing. Discrimination lends itself to politicisation and in turn…” | ||
| 1288. | Using S3 as a Container Registry (ochagavia.nl) | |
| 319 points | 2024 | author wofo showed up | their comment | thread
“If anyone knows why layer pushes need to be sequential in the OCI specification, please tell! Is it merely a historical accident, or is there some hidden rationale…” | ||
| 1289. | Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig (github.com) | |
| 319 points | 2025 | author fbouvier showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The browser is made from scratch (not based on Chromium/Webkit), in Zig, using v8 as a JS engine. Our idea is to build a lightweight browser optimized for AI use cases…” | ||
| 1290. | 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) (abortretry.fail) | |
| 319 points | 2025 | author BirAdam showed up | their comment | thread
“I should have been more clear about this in the article, but it was a combination of two different factors. First, the company alienated OEMs by making their own cards.…” | ||
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