1471. Be critical or be corrupted (cenizal.com)
297 points | 2022 | author cjcenizal showed up | their comment | thread
“I wish I had a solution to this problem! The idealistic side of me wants everyone to "think critically". Of course if all humans were critical about the decisions they…”
1472. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (blog.cloudflare.com)
297 points | 2026 | author necubi showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!”
1473. Good books for deep hacks (begriffs.com)
296 points | 2017 | author begriffs showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry, I should work on my tone. Sometimes it feels fun to write strong statements, knowing in your own mind that you're just trying them on. Then when other people read…”
1474. Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps (medium.com)
296 points | 2020 | author veeralpatel979 showed up | their comment (+10 more) | thread
“I did not mean to imply that state management is only useful to mitigate the prop drilling problem. In fact, in #2, I give another example where state management is…”
1475. How to take smart notes with Org mode (blog.jethro.dev)
296 points | 2020 | author jethroksy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, happy to answer any questions.”
1476. A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles (obedparla.com)
296 points | 2020 | author obedm showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“It's unbelievably amazing to be on spot #1 in here! Thank you to whoever uploaded it! I'm happy to answer any questions”
1477. Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence (devaboone.com)
296 points | 2020 | author devaboone showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Unfortunately I was not able to include every study on Vitamin D, and had to pare it back to the largest and/or most significant studies. Most of the studies you mention…”
1478. Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017) (gabrielgambetta.com)
296 points | 2020 | author ggambetta showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. Happy to answer any questions :) A bit of shameless self-promotion, if I may: I've been working with No Starch Press to turn this into an actual book,…”
1479. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet (snats.xyz)
296 points | 2024 | author snats showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, I wasn't expecting this to be at the top of HN, AMA”
1480. Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup (slightknack.dev)
296 points | 2025 | author isaacimagine showed up | their comment | thread
“Any questions, ask away.”
1481. Prime Number Grid (susam.net)
296 points | 2025 | author susam showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I wrote this simple prime number grid visualiser last night, just for fun. It is inspired by the "Show HN" post that I stumbled upon a few days ago. My tool uses…”
1482. Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site (prison.josh.mn)
296 points | 2025 | author joshmn showed up | their comment | thread
“This is funny to wake up to. A version of this microsite was posted previously () though it didn't have much of the content that exists here. If anyone has any general…”
1483. How to Build Muscle (julian.com)
295 points | 2016 | author julianshapiro showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“More than happy to spend the next few hours answering any questions if the admins find that appropriate. I will do my best to cite evidence/research for my responses.”
1484. Idle Until Urgent (philipwalton.com)
295 points | 2018 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, not hiding that fact (I could have easily used a trace with minified code, but I didn't to point this out). Two things though: 1. I used to work on Google…”
1485. Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (morrick.me)
295 points | 2019 | author morrick showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“and I would like to add a few things to hopefully make my point clearer. - While I'm flattered by the attention my piece got by 'making Hacker News', it is simply a…”
1486. The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (sudhir.io)
295 points | 2020 | author sudhirj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This was self-posted, so hope you find it useful. Please ask me anything.”
1487. V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler (v8.dev)
295 points | 2021 | author Leszek showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“we did, and as other comments say we removed it in favour of Ignition, with the intent of at some point in the future bringing back some form of baseline compiler. The…”
1488. AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing (noahlebovic.com)
295 points | 2022 | author lebovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“I agree with your points! I use AWS for a computational biology company I'm working on. A lot of scientific computing can spin up and down within a couple hours on AWS…”
1489. LiveView Is Best with Svelte (blog.sequin.io)
295 points | 2024 | author _acco showed up | their comment | thread
“We did not. We briefly tried Alpine, which I think is comparable? I think Alpine is cool, but it didn't really stick with the team. I think that's because we were still…”
1490. Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example (rti.github.io)
295 points | 2025 | author rttti showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks a lot for the honest feedback. It makes me realize that the title might have been overselling. While this project was a milestone on my personal learning journey,…”
1491. Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (introtcs.org)
294 points | 2019 | author boazbarak showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks to whomever posted it! Would appreciate any comments or typo/bug reports on the GitHub repository. (Linked from the page)”
1492. Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions (dhruvonmath.com)
294 points | 2019 | author dhruvp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! I wrote this article - “we” is referring to people who had a similar educational experience to me. I was introduced to matrices as a tool for solutions to systems…”
1493. A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (joshtumath.uk)
294 points | 2024 | author joshtumath showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hello I am the author and that was indeed a mistake. Whoops!”
1494. Thoughts on Daylight Computer (jon.bo)
294 points | 2025 | author jborichevskiy showed up | their comment | thread
“author here- great to know, thanks!”
1495. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (inkandswitch.com)
294 points | 2025 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“You make a fair point! Ease of use matters. We all want premade experiences some of the time. The problem is that even in those (perhaps rare!) cases where we want to…”
1496. Less than 24 hours on Udemy as an instructor and I’m close to leaving (blog.nickjanetakis.com)
293 points | 2015 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“The beginning of the article praises Udemy's student experience. Trust me, I'm not a competitor to them. If I were, I would have just hosted my course on my own platform…”
1497. Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access (medium.com)
293 points | 2016 | author mroth showed up | their comment | thread
“To be clear, I don't believe I deserve free or special access to anything. The point I was trying to make was actually more in the opposite direction: I wouldn't want to…”
1498. Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions (aws.amazon.com)
293 points | 2016 | author jeffbarr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post after spending all of about 15 minutes learning about this new feature. We did make things simpler. I am reading this. We made them simpler. Decide how…”
1499. Interactive Mind Map for learning (github.com)
293 points | 2017 | author neurocroc showed up | their comment | thread
“I was greatly inspired by this website. It was my goal to actually combine metacademy's idea of solving the dependency problems of knowledge and do it in a similar way…”
1500. Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1 (monokh.com)
293 points | 2020 | author monokh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Absolutely. Thanks for pointing this out. If difficulty adjusted in factors of two, the ability of the network to accurately maintain its 10 mins blocktime become…”