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| 1501. | Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it (mdolon.com) | |
| 293 points | 2021 | author mdolon showed up | their comment | thread
“back in January of 2020. I was able to snag a bike at a used bike sale a few weeks after writing it. Congrats on your new bikes!” | ||
| 1502. | Cities need more trees (herman.bearblog.dev) | |
| 293 points | 2024 | author HermanMartinus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're correct that very few of them are native. That being said, when comparing to a city with no trees vs a city with non-native trees, I think the latter is still…” | ||
| 1503. | Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown (llamaocr.com) | |
| 293 points | 2024 | author nutlope showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for sharing & for the kind comments! I built this earlier this week since I wanted a simple API to do OCR – it uses llama 3.2 vision (hosted on together.ai,…” | ||
| 1504. | The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands (conradbastable.com) | |
| 292 points | 2018 | author cjmb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Another long read -- apologies! The TL;DR of this essay might perhaps be: - College degrees are more valuable than ever in post-industrial economies, so applicants to…” | ||
| 1505. | macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS (antranigv.am) | |
| 292 points | 2020 | author antranigv showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not against the "concept" of systemd, I think the BSDs need a "system" layer as well, just not systemd. The ideas are amazing, the implementation is the problem.” | ||
| 1506. | Peter Naur's view of programming (hiringengineersbook.com) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author cloogshicer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“What's the situation that you're in? You (or anyone else reading this) can ping me at alexander [at] hiringengineersbook [dot] com, maybe I can help you figure out if…” | ||
| 1507. | Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf] (nature.com) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author krrrh showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi everyone, I'm a co-author on this paper and also the co-founder of Quantified Citizen (we built the mobile research platform used in this study). What a nice…” | ||
| 1508. | “Open source” is broken (christine.website) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author xena showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm the author of the post in case you have any questions for me.” | ||
| 1509. | Salary Transparency (xeiaso.net) | |
| 292 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me things I guess. I never expected this page of all things to get on the front page of Hacker News.” | ||
| 1510. | Spectral Ray Tracing (larswander.com) | |
| 292 points | 2024 | author lwander showed up | their comment | thread
“Waking up to seeing this on the front page with all the wonderful comments made my day! Thank you for sharing and reading” | ||
| 1511. | Fixing the Python subprocess interface (amoffat.github.com) | |
| 291 points | 2012 | author daenz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, there are a few ways to use it, including your suggestion (did you make your suggestion up or were you pulling from the docs?): # magical, designed only…” | ||
| 1512. | What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox (hackingdistributed.com) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author emin-gun-sirer showed up | their comment | thread
“I think there is some subtlety around the technical point that may be getting lost. Ittay Eyal and I were the ones who discovered an attack against Bitcoin called…” | ||
| 1513. | Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python (github.com) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author thomasahle showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sorry things are not working out. I'd be very interested if you could open a report with the position involved. Sunfish move generation is tested pretty thoroughly,…” | ||
| 1514. | Cello – Higher Level Programming in C (libcello.org) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment | thread
“I always get asked two questions about libCello. 1. Why? 2. Is anyone using it for anything serious? The second one is easiest to answer: no. And most people are…” | ||
| 1515. | Managing Remote Teams (klinger.io) | |
| 291 points | 2019 | author andreasklinger showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting the article on HN - i am a daily (more or less) lurker and a huge fan :) let me know if any parts in the article aren't clear or major points are…” | ||
| 1516. | Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe (qz.com) | |
| 291 points | 2019 | author akshatrathi showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article and a field guide on China's electric-car boom. Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 1517. | Sonos is spying on me (and you) (blog.gingerlime.com) | |
| 291 points | 2020 | author gingerlime showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If I use the Sonos radio, then they might need to check the location. Until I do, there's zero need for location. I don't use their Radio. Anonymous usage data works…” | ||
| 1518. | How and why I stopped buying new laptops (solar.lowtechmagazine.com) | |
| 291 points | 2020 | author lowtechmagazine showed up | their comment | thread
“That sentence will be deleted when the website regenerates, cause it doesn't seem to have the effect that I was aiming for. Thanks for pointing it out. That said, I was…” | ||
| 1519. | Modern PHP (dnlytras.com) | |
| 291 points | 2022 | author dimitrisnl showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree. I use ligatures mostly because I write JS and it's not that annoying. Now that I wrote something about PHP it's a bit problematic.” | ||
| 1520. | Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized (arxiv.org) | |
| 291 points | 2024 | author protz showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought it'd be helpful to address a few of the points brought up in the various comment threads. 1. This is an academic paper that we posted on arxiv, not a release…” | ||
| 1521. | The origin of the cargo cult metaphor (righto.com) | |
| 291 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“This is a change from my usual reverse engineering articles, but hopefully you'll find it interesting...” | ||
| 1522. | Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme (itunes.apple.com) | |
| 290 points | 2014 | author rrradical showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the game and engine using the wonderful, and fast, Gambit Scheme (). I needed a lisp to manipulate the puzzles, because they aren't based in a strict grid. It…” | ||
| 1523. | Why Are Enterprises So Slow? (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 290 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“that's funny, I also wrote about that book here:” | ||
| 1524. | How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner (blog.gregbrockman.com) | |
| 290 points | 2019 | author gdb showed up | their comment | thread
“If it's helpful, I dropped out of both schools — the vast majority of my knowledge is self taught!” | ||
| 1525. | Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files (github.com) | |
| 290 points | 2020 | author dinodaizovi showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I'm the author of this tool. That quote is from the data forensics report on Bezos' phone, so the missing context was them stating that even with a full logical…” | ||
| 1526. | PyWhat: Identify Anything (github.com) | |
| 290 points | 2021 | author bbno4 showed up | their comment | thread
“that's because I made the gifs like weeks before the actual program was made and I am too lazy to spend an hour making gifs again” | ||
| 1527. | I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL (pinaraf.info) | |
| 290 points | 2024 | author pinaraf showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting my article on hackernews. I'll do my best to answer any question.” | ||
| 1528. | Does “building in public” work? (laike9m.com) | |
| 290 points | 2024 | author laike9m showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm glad to see so many meaningful discussions triggered by this post. Despite raising concerns, overall I still see "building in public" as a positive trend. Like all…” | ||
| 1529. | Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua (terralang.org) | |
| 289 points | 2013 | author zdevito showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right that we designed Terra primarily to be an enviornment for generate low-level code. In particular, we want to be able to easily design and prototype DSLs and…” | ||
| 1530. | Configs suck? Try a real programming language (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 289 points | 2020 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“That's why 'conservative'. I.e. it's allowed to reject a valid, terminating program, but if it does pass the check, your program is guaranteed to terminate. This is…” | ||
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