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| 1381. | Lisping at JPL (2002) (flownet.com) | |
| 307 points | 2020 | author lisper showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the OP so I can speak to this with some authority: I discovered Lisp very early in my career and I stuck with it mainly because I'm lazy. I can get…” | ||
| 1382. | Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck (vidarholen.net) | |
| 307 points | 2020 | author koala_man showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've heard from current and former employees that they believe that Apple doesn't actively police it. However, telling people not to makes it easier to shut down later…” | ||
| 1383. | The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 (dropbox.tech) | |
| 307 points | 2020 | author dgoldstein0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“also willing to answer questions” | ||
| 1384. | WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS (github.com) | |
| 307 points | 2020 | author Fmstrat showed up | their comment | thread
“The system is built to run a local VM and RDP using the local NAT IP provided by the KVM networking system. So all RDP traffic is local to the machine. If for some…” | ||
| 1385. | Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube (smokingonabike.com) | |
| 307 points | 2021 | author coldpie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm not very good at this stuff, it's just applying knowledge I've picked up over my career working in systems-level programming and various little game hacking…” | ||
| 1386. | Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers (github.com) | |
| 307 points | 2021 | author foob showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and I agree that you're correct in assuming that what you ran should work. I just tested this with git on arch and I was able to reproduce the issue. I'll…” | ||
| 1387. | The GNU Name System (lsd.gnunet.org) | |
| 307 points | 2022 | author schanzen showed up | their comment | thread
“The draft is currently in ISE review (there was not enough interest at IETF or IRTF). If you want to engage or need more info gnunet-developers@gnunet.org is a good…” | ||
| 1388. | Writing a simple pool allocator in C (8dcc.github.io) | |
| 307 points | 2025 | author 8dcc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you all for the instructive comments, I made some changes to the article since I first posted it: - Added a link to this HN post. - Renamed some variables and…” | ||
| 1389. | Teaching Machines to Draw (research.googleblog.com) | |
| 306 points | 2017 | author hardmaru showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any questions.” | ||
| 1390. | Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree (queue.acm.org) | |
| 306 points | 2017 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's some context for how this essay came about. When we released a draft of the Princeton Bitcoin textbook [1], one piece of feedback was that we focused on…” | ||
| 1391. | Clang Format Tanks Performance (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 306 points | 2019 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback. I'll own up to misleading-and-possibly-clickbait title, I just gave up trying to think of anything better without revealing the conclusion.” | ||
| 1392. | Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name (deepsouthventures.com) | |
| 306 points | 2020 | author eightturn showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I sell onions on the internet. does that qualify? Check out my homepage for other developed domain projects.” | ||
| 1393. | Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes (vlfig.me) | |
| 306 points | 2020 | author vlfig showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading. In general any CI/CD tool that allows for easy composition of jobs/pipelines, where versioned artifacts are a first-class citizen and can be the…” | ||
| 1394. | The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System (blog.emacsen.net) | |
| 306 points | 2021 | author emacsen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions.” | ||
| 1395. | The web starts on page four (christianheilmann.com) | |
| 306 points | 2022 | author chriscodepo8 showed up | their comment | thread
“for sure, but that's not the point. My point is that the initial experience for non-technical people using the web is horrible, and they will never ever get to the…” | ||
| 1396. | Scaling Mastodon is impossible (lucumr.pocoo.org) | |
| 306 points | 2022 | author the_mitsuhiko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“setuptools used to be able to pull packages published to the index from external URLs. Support for this was removed many years ago. Also you cannot publish packages to…” | ||
| 1397. | Without the futex, it's futile (h4x0r.org) | |
| 306 points | 2025 | author viega showed up | their comment | thread
“which to my estimation is not well aimed for either academics or practitioners. That's a problem across a big chunk of academia right now, and I hear it not just from…” | ||
| 1398. | Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS (theverge.com) | |
| 305 points | 2011 | author Xuzz showed up | their comment | thread
“I think that is the case: it is using the same "diagnostics are enabled?" function call that the Crash Report submission is using, and the binary logs "This is not…” | ||
| 1399. | Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 305 points | 2015 | author yaronn01 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.” | ||
| 1400. | The traits of a proficient programmer (oreilly.com) | |
| 305 points | 2016 | author practicingdev showed up | their comment | thread
“so... yes! The context I currently apply this in is that in the apprenticeship I'm running. So for example, we work on business applications and some amount of complex…” | ||
| 1401. | Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com) | |
| 305 points | 2017 | author akulkarni showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“We actually know the Citus guys pretty well, and spent some time comparing notes last week at PGConf (Hi Ozgun!). We're quite friendly. At a high-level, Citus is solving…” | ||
| 1402. | Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016) (interpreterbook.com) | |
| 305 points | 2019 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm going to be super shameless here and quote myself in that chapter: In other words: use a parser generator when you need a working parser, quick. But if you want to…” | ||
| 1403. | Database Internals (databass.dev) | |
| 305 points | 2019 | author ifesdjeen showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the heads up, it did look a bit bleak on the mobile. Increased the font size, made grey much more dark, and increased heading sizes. Hope it's easier to read…” | ||
| 1404. | All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong (rssdss.design.blog) | |
| 305 points | 2020 | author martingoodson showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to take comments or criticism” | ||
| 1405. | The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple (letterspatent.org) | |
| 305 points | 2021 | author joemullin showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a bit late to the party here, but really appreciate the conversation——it's my first time on this site as a solo blogger (former Ars Technica writer). For those that…” | ||
| 1406. | Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it (toot.kuba-orlik.name) | |
| 305 points | 2022 | author kuba-orlik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just don't want to make patching it easier for Bolt” | ||
| 1407. | GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git (gitjournal.io) | |
| 305 points | 2022 | author vhanda showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. I never moved any features behind a paywall. Only new features are paid. Also, the entire source code (pro features as well) are completely open…” | ||
| 1408. | Improving performance of rav1d video decoder (ohadravid.github.io) | |
| 305 points | 2025 | author ohr showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a huge fan of the "How to speed up the Rust compiler" series! I was hoping to capture the same feeling :)” | ||
| 1409. | Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io) | |
| 305 points | 2025 | author quuxplusone showed up | their comment | thread
“Nice find! I'll try to incorporate that into the post at some point. The 1951 first edition is also on archive.org (borrowable with a free login account): I agree, it…” | ||
| 1410. | React vs. Backbone in 2025 (backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com) | |
| 305 points | 2025 | author panphora showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I appreciate the point about unidirectional data flow solving real problems, but I think we're trading one complexity for another rather than actually simplifying…” | ||
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