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| 1321. | Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? | |
| 314 points | 2022 | author swyx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've now added this to my tracking list of pitches: thanks for the suggestion on John Britton's talk!” | ||
| 1322. | The Case for C# and .NET (chrlschn.medium.com) | |
| 314 points | 2022 | author CharlieDigital showed up | their comment | thread
“I tried Blazor. We used it for one mission critical project. We found that the development cycle is too long and it has too much friction compared to Node for front-end…” | ||
| 1323. | Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere (github.com) | |
| 314 points | 2024 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! Been working on this for a while, so I'm very happy to get this v0.1.0 "stable" release out. sqlite-vec works on MacOS, Linux, Windows,…” | ||
| 1324. | A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package (righto.com) | |
| 314 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your CT scanning questions :-)” | ||
| 1325. | The Junior Hiring Crisis (people-work.io) | |
| 314 points | 2025 | author ah979 showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah, what you're describing is absolutely what I would love to see more of. And of course my thinking was biased by my own observations at companies I've worked at as…” | ||
| 1326. | An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2 (blog.paralleluniverse.co) | |
| 313 points | 2014 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“A capsule is not necessarily a fat jar. It can point to Maven dependencies that are downloaded on the first launch, and can later be shared by other capsules. A zip with…” | ||
| 1327. | How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it (tech.channable.com) | |
| 313 points | 2017 | author arianvanp showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be happy to answer any of your questions :)” | ||
| 1328. | MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill (coursetro.com) | |
| 313 points | 2017 | author dreamache showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeah, that's why you have to use SES with Mailwizz, which gives you all of those features from MC. So, a more accurate title would have been, MailChimp vs. SES +…” | ||
| 1329. | Guix: An advanced operating system (ambrevar.xyz) | |
| 313 points | 2019 | author Ambrevar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right that the tone is unnecessarily harsh towards Nix. I actually admire Nix a lot, it's simply the the article suffers from too little editing and would…” | ||
| 1330. | Sci Hub Injector (github.com) | |
| 313 points | 2022 | author rickdeveloper showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0].…” | ||
| 1331. | Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL (supabase.com) | |
| 313 points | 2022 | author oliverrice showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(of the blog post and) happy to answer any questions” | ||
| 1332. | Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022) (justine.lol) | |
| 313 points | 2025 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“If anyone wants to see an example of an awesome program you can run on the 520 byte version of my lambda calculus virtual machine (Blc) then check out If you run the…” | ||
| 1333. | Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great (underthehood.meltwater.com) | |
| 312 points | 2016 | author obeka showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Wow, the interest was a lot higher than we expected Since you all have been asking, here's a negative excerpt from an earlier version of this post, which unfortunately…” | ||
| 1334. | A suggestion on how to spend a day at home (blog.mousereeve.com) | |
| 312 points | 2016 | author tripofmice showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have failed this community. Dutch babies are important.” | ||
| 1335. | The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (2011) (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 312 points | 2018 | author f- showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it happened quite a bit earlier (perhaps 2005 -> 2010), at least when you look at some of the "prime" web properties. Gmail or Google Docs in 2010 were already…” | ||
| 1336. | The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (jdlm.info) | |
| 312 points | 2018 | author jdleesmiller showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That looks like a great library --- I will have to try it out! In case it helps anyone, I also wrote a much smaller MDP library in ruby to support this 2048 project (and…” | ||
| 1337. | Remote-Powered Developer Tools (devblogs.microsoft.com) | |
| 312 points | 2019 | author lostintangent showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all! I’m the author of this post, and lead the PM team at Microsoft behind IntelliCode, Live Share, and the cloud-based remote development capabilities described in…” | ||
| 1338. | TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex (blog.asana.com) | |
| 312 points | 2020 | author alexcole showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah I think you are right that discriminated unions are useful more broadly than just legacy JS code. That being said, I still think TypeScript's solution to handling…” | ||
| 1339. | Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR (alias.dev) | |
| 312 points | 2021 | author mehdim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The most simple and effective and rapid solution would be to impose API neutrality. As explained in the report, it would just obliges API providers to give back the same…” | ||
| 1340. | Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io) | |
| 311 points | 2012 | author moonboots showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback. Do you mean the backspace cursor that appears after the user typed a character incorrectly?” | ||
| 1341. | Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server (github.com) | |
| 311 points | 2013 | author joewalnes showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“If you use this on top of programs like bash, well ermm, you get what you deserve ;). Here's an example of how I used websocketd to create a little dashboard for…” | ||
| 1342. | Python Best Practice Patterns (stevenloria.com) | |
| 311 points | 2014 | author sloria showed up | their comment | thread
“Must give credit where it's due: These patterns come from a talk by Vladimir Keleshev, author of docopt and excellent Pythonista. These are NOT my original work.” | ||
| 1343. | Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it (blog.teller.io) | |
| 311 points | 2016 | author sjtgraham showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Last time I checked other access token types were still drafts and bearer tokens were the only stable kind. I as a bank cannot attribute liability for an erroneous…” | ||
| 1344. | A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning – Part II (r2d3.us) | |
| 311 points | 2018 | author tonyhschu showed up | their comment | thread
“Part 2 uses: - React for DOM rendering - D3 for visualization geometry - RxJS for handling state (i.e. turning scroll position into animated properties) - PIXI for WebGL…” | ||
| 1345. | Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons (github.com) | |
| 311 points | 2018 | author nextgens showed up | their comment | thread
“what would you do in my shoes ? - provide an XPI (that will only benefit the few since the side-loading process is made awkwarder at every point release) ? - fight it ?…” | ||
| 1346. | Make More Land (jefftk.com) | |
| 311 points | 2019 | author jefftk showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm also strongly in favor of abolishing the restrictive zoning that prohibits building up, but in many ways it's less politically practical to increase density in…” | ||
| 1347. | Letter to Myself in Late 2008 (dalton.substack.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author dalton showed up | their comment | thread
“As I said at the top my intent was not initially to publish it widely, but here we are. If anyone has questions about what I wrote I'm happy to answer them here.” | ||
| 1348. | PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf] (wescottdesign.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author TimWescott showed up | their comment | thread
“and the really scary thing for me is that I'm now seeing code that obviously either came right out of it, or is only a few copy-pasta steps away from it that's just…” | ||
| 1349. | Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development (github.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author morrvs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks! Yes, ES5 is a huge pain. However, I believe 5% of users (see other comment) are not a joke for many apps. There's always the question of minimum critical APIs…” | ||
| 1350. | Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook (lareviewofbooks.org) | |
| 311 points | 2021 | author gajeam showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to see it circulating HN again. You can find more of my writing on competition here in the Boston Globe —) in the Boston Globe” | ||
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