1411. Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting (github.com)
304 points | 2015 | author amjith showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm hoping to go public with the MySQL version before the end of this month. So a week or so. :)”
1412. Docker for Mac Beta Review (medium.com)
304 points | 2016 | author nzoschke showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I was using that prior to getting in the beta. Tremendous work went into that driver, so I'm happy to see the techniques get picked up elsewhere.”
1413. A Brief History of the UUID (segment.com)
304 points | 2017 | author rbranson showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there Theodore -- first of all thank you so much for that other comment with first-hand knowledge about Apollo => UUID. This is the kind of priceless nugget that…”
1414. AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project (aws.amazon.com)
304 points | 2019 | author thramp showed up | their comment | thread
“many others aren't. Personally, I don't enjoy writing Python at work due to its lack of misuse resistance more than any concerns about performance (although a…”
1415. Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia (github.com)
304 points | 2020 | author jonath_laurent showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am happy to answer any question you may have about AlphaZero.jl. :-)”
1416. Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know (250bpm.com)
304 points | 2020 | author rumcajz showed up | their comment | thread
“At multiple places people pointed out that there are elements of the system missing from the article. Please note that there's going to be part II. (on decentralizaton,…”
1417. Designing a New Old Home: Part 1 (medium.com)
304 points | 2020 | author simonsarris showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah there are tons of architects that specialize in traditional (and even ultra-traditional reproduction) custom houses. But I don't have that kind of money. I needed…”
1418. Is Rust web yet? (arewewebyet.org)
304 points | 2020 | author ibraheemdev showed up | their comment | thread
“Although the main content was provided by a previous maintainer of the website. No one is saying that Rust dev will be as smooth as Django. In fact, there is another…”
1419. A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002) (dwheeler.com)
304 points | 2020 | author dwheeler showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree, even low-rated players should learn at least a few moves of a few openings. I think trying to learn 12 moves is too much for a beginning player, but knowing a…”
1420. An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot (downtowndougbrown.com)
304 points | 2025 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I have a tendency to go into pretty big deep dives when I find stuff like this. It's so rewarding at the end, even if it does take a lot of time!”
1421. Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely (magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io)
304 points | 2025 | author lotharrr showed up | their comment | thread
“Both sides connect to the "mailbox relay server" to perform key exchange and setup. That's a host named "relay.magic-wormhole.io". If either side has a public IP…”
1422. A vigilante trying to improve IoT security (gizmodo.com)
303 points | 2017 | author adamclarkestes showed up | their comment | thread
“Having covered IoT hacks for a few years, it's obvious that drastic measures would be necessary to convince manufacturers to build more secure products. While I'm not…”
1423. Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer (blog.stoplight.io)
303 points | 2018 | author tbarn showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I did mention part of this in the blog post:”
1424. Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead) (blog.logrocket.com)
303 points | 2021 | author llogiq showed up | their comment | thread
“I blog about Rust as a hobby (and have been doing so since 2015 on my personal blog), and LogRocket is so nice to pay me to have my content hosted on their blog. And…”
1425. A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009) (blog.rongarret.info)
303 points | 2021 | author lisper showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA.”
1426. How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers (blog.kuperate.com)
303 points | 2022 | author simmanian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post after my comment on the post you're mentioning was rather well received. People asked me to write about that experience in more detail, so I did and…”
1427. How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
303 points | 2025 | author jimniels showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn’t realize that misspelling until now. But I like it. Gonna leave it. Thanks for pointing it out ha!”
1428. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf] (python.cs.southern.edu)
302 points | 2019 | author halterman showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone else discovered this and notified me about three weeks ago. Amazon has a site for reporting infringement, so I submitted my claim of ownership. I received an…”
1429. Docker's Second Death (tariqislam.com)
302 points | 2020 | author tariqislam_ showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Ex Red Hat, yes. Couple of things: 1. Docker being deprecated has nothing to do with anyone's competitive intent. I believe that the Kubernetes community is optimizing…”
1430. Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch (spectrum.ieee.org)
302 points | 2021 | author IrishJourno showed up | their comment | thread
“a while back we decided to use illustrations rather than photography for this section of IEEE Spectrum—it was a style choice, but it gives us more options in terms of…”
1431. PHP in 2022 (stitcher.io)
302 points | 2022 | author brentroose showed up | their comment | thread
“and I think you’re partially right. This article wasn’t done (and I’m still going to finish it, a “looking forward” section is missing) I published it to get some…”
1432. Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction (arxiv.org)
302 points | 2024 | author faabian showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- that's a very good point and as I understand work in progress in different teams. Training autoencoders for language is actually super easy given the…”
1433. Pebble Seizure Detect (github.com)
301 points | 2015 | author PbblSzrDtct showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all! I am the author of this software. I didn't submit this to Hacker News -- someone else must have! Thank you, whoever you are. I'll try to answer the other…”
1434. The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca)
301 points | 2016 | author mononcqc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is a challenging one, because it is intimately related to what is acceptable or not to your users. By default you could say that if the storage mechanism must be up…”
1435. The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (fast.ai)
301 points | 2022 | author wasimlorgat showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of the git merge driver and Jupyter save hook in nbdev2 :) I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about how we're handling using notebooks with…”
1436. Userspace FUSE for macOS (fuse-t.org)
301 points | 2022 | author concerned_ctzn showed up | their comment | thread
“DriverKit is really a no-go. A while back I was asked to do a project based on DriverKit, it took me nowhere because of countless bugs and semi-implemented features,…”
1437. L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer (loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong)
301 points | 2024 | author ccbikai showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to publish it myself, I didn't expect you had already published it. Thank you very much. Encountered quite a few problems during the deployment, mainly related…”
1438. Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? (seangeiger.substack.com)
301 points | 2024 | author slaucon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Appreciate the feedback! Agreed on importance of portability and durability. I'm not trying to build this out or sell it as a tool to providers. Just wanted to demo what…”
1439. A secret poker game you can play on the subway (experience.prfalken.dev)
301 points | 2025 | author oktcho showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article in a much simpler and "french to english" way, and asked the LLM to format it in a better english style. Looking at these comments I don't think I'll…”
1440. I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits (maxemitchell.com)
301 points | 2025 | author maxemitchell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Right now, I think the pragmatic thing to do is to include all prompts used in either the PR description and/or in the commit description. This wouldn't make my longshot…”