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| 121. | Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com) | |
| 889 points | 2025 | author kentonv showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Or uhhh... the AI prompter, I guess... I'm also the lead engineer and initial creator of the Cloudflare Workers platform. -------------- Plug: This library is used as…” | ||
| 122. | Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos (picsum.photos) | |
| 880 points | 2019 | author dmarby showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the old codebase ~4 years ago when I was just learning NodeJS, and didn't touch it too much after that, so it was in dire need of being replaced, in particular…” | ||
| 123. | After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018) (anandsanwal.me) | |
| 880 points | 2024 | author asanwal showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is a big question tbh and the lack of a succession plan is a function of many things: 1. This was my dad's baby. He loved the engineering and the science of it and…” | ||
| 124. | Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys (joealcorn.co.uk) | |
| 869 points | 2020 | author buttscicles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Would love to have a public API for readng but don't want supporting it slowing us down when we need to change something. It's just the three of us in our spare time at…” | ||
| 125. | FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com) | |
| 869 points | 2025 | author kierank showed up | their comment | thread
“Ask me anything.” | ||
| 126. | After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days (observationalhazard.com) | |
| 866 points | 2024 | author WoodenChair showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually discovered something in their terms of use today while looking up something else that someone had asked me in this thread: "2. CHANGES Yelp reserves the right…” | ||
| 127. | What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years (talkingquickly.co.uk) | |
| 865 points | 2015 | author talkingquickly showed up | their comment | thread
“My logic is usually that an NDA is a restriction on me, so I won't usually sign one unless I'm getting something in return. E.g. I'm happy to sign one in the context of…” | ||
| 128. | Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (8rank.ai) | |
| 865 points | 2026 | author infwhispers showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Please, feel free to ask me anything. Also, check out the followup research:” | ||
| 129. | GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces (github.blog) | |
| 861 points | 2021 | author coryw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Blog post author here. Wanted to quickly comment on how we support offline folks or those working on an unstable connection! The short version: we publish a…” | ||
| 130. | Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead (secondbreakfast.co) | |
| 857 points | 2020 | author secondbreakfast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i promise this is not an ad for Hey haha, have no affiliation with basecamp and wish i was that good at content marketing.” | ||
| 131. | Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer) | |
| 856 points | 2021 | author neilpanchal showed up | their comment | thread
“I need to push back on this. This whole post is tongue in cheek, totally over-the-top and my way of doing things. I thought that was obvious including a lofty claim of…” | ||
| 132. | Fastpotify (fastpotify.rocks) | |
| 855 points | 2026 | author earcar showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 133. | How I got to 200 productive hours a month (qotoqot.com) | |
| 853 points | 2017 | author ivm showed up | their comment | thread
“I read HN and other distracting sites in the bed or from the "gym" room where we don't have a chair or a couch – only a yoga mat. It's not comfortable to sit there for…” | ||
| 134. | Claude Code is all you need (dwyer.co.za) | |
| 851 points | 2025 | author sixhobbits showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I did feel kinda bad about it as I've always been a 'good' HNer until that point but honestly it didn't feel that spammy to me compared to some human generated slop I…” | ||
| 135. | China (drewdevault.com) | |
| 847 points | 2019 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your earnest concern. I'm a pretty risk-averse person and I take lots of pains to address those contingencies for all of my digital services.” | ||
| 136. | Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (open_nsfw.gitlab.io) | |
| 846 points | 2016 | author gabrielgoh showed up | their comment | thread
“i just realized this site doesn't work on mobile. I used javascript to generate the tables of images. While I blunder through trying to fix this, you can view the…” | ||
| 137. | I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API (twitter.com) | |
| 845 points | 2020 | author rashiq showed up | their comment | thread
“the phrasing placing an order was probably wrong - mcdonald's lists the products they're currently out in their api. I'm just querying for those. No ice cream was harmed…” | ||
| 138. | Our audit of Homebrew (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 845 points | 2024 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this post and one of the people behind the audit; happy to answer questions about it. If you're having trouble finding the audit itself (it's linked…” | ||
| 139. | Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com) | |
| 840 points | 2021 | author forrestbrazeal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just updated the post with an additional idea for fixing the free tier, suggested by several readers. It turns out there is a non-widely-known program called AWS…” | ||
| 140. | Google turned me into a serial killer (hristo-georgiev.com) | |
| 840 points | 2021 | author Kaizeras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Given that I‘m not in the US puts me at a disadvantage. But if you can forward me a good lawyer who is willing to work with me on this, I may give it a shot.” | ||
| 141. | 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 838 points | 2020 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the nice comments (and helpful bug reports). This idea has been in the back of my mind for ~2 years now but I recently got a wave of motivation and…” | ||
| 142. | This JPEG is also a webpage (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 833 points | 2016 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“Rookie mistake! It's actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel. A chipmunk would have a stripe going across the eye. (Today, you learned your first squirrel fact!)” | ||
| 143. | DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion (dreamfusion3d.github.io) | |
| 833 points | 2022 | author poolio showed up | their comment | thread
“we were also surprised :) The breadth of knowledge of the visual world embedded in these 2D models and what they unlock is astounding.” | ||
| 144. | One-man SaaS, 9 Years In (blog.healthchecks.io) | |
| 828 points | 2024 | author cuu508 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think most new signups are through traffic from search engines and through word of mouth, Healthchecks.io gets regular mentions in Reddit /r/selfhosted. I've dabbled…” | ||
| 145. | Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 817 points | 2019 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“My first time here on Hacker News...very cool that it was picked up! I did my memory testing inside of Linux using memtester. I honestly want to do more thorough testing…” | ||
| 146. | The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 (lwn.net) | |
| 817 points | 2024 | author jzb showed up | their comment | thread
“Users new to KDE don't know what's up with the feature. They miss a window and suddenly they're on a different virtual desktop. If they connect the behavior they may…” | ||
| 147. | Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely (github.com) | |
| 816 points | 2024 | author lotharrr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 148. | GitHub Should Start an App Store (ankshilp.com) | |
| 814 points | 2021 | author quaintdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am afraid my blog is hosted on a Raspberry PI and it might go down because of HN traffic. If that happens, the mirror of the post is at Did not expected this to blow…” | ||
| 149. | Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster (tokio.rs) | |
| 813 points | 2019 | author carllerche showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be watching the comments and can answer any questions! I do want to make clear that most of the optimizations discussed are implemented in the Go scheduler, which…” | ||
| 150. | Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com) | |
| 812 points | 2015 | author aadrake showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Some have questioned why I would spend the time advocating against the use of Hadoop for such small data processing tasks as that's clearly not when it should be used…” | ||
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