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| 1561. | Coming Home to Vim (stevelosh.com) | |
| 285 points | 2010 | author stevelosh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm the author and submitter of the post and for what it's worth I don't mind his comment at all. It's relevant because OS X Vim users would probably like to use Vim…” | ||
| 1562. | Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly (github.com) | |
| 285 points | 2013 | author Overv showed up | their comment | thread
“I did look at some of the assembly output from C code, especially for frequently called functions like get_block/set_block, but other than that I used no reference but…” | ||
| 1563. | Designing an audio adblocker (adblockradio.com) | |
| 285 points | 2019 | author dest showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, author here. Thanks for your message. Please submit your podcasts on” | ||
| 1564. | AdTech Sucks (lockwood.dev) | |
| 285 points | 2019 | author tomlockwood showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“I wish I'd thought of your example before I wrote the article :D And I think my opinion on that is probably obvious, but I think the simplest answer is that Google…” | ||
| 1565. | Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps (jlongster.com) | |
| 285 points | 2019 | author jlongster showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the post and I should also say that I don't love Electron. It's a practical choice for getting an app of the ground, but I want something more…” | ||
| 1566. | The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications (markusstrasser.org) | |
| 285 points | 2021 | author markusstrasser showed up | their comment | thread
“Great discussion so far. Will update the post with some of the comments and critiques.” | ||
| 1567. | Bottle Plotter (vgnotepad.blogspot.com) | |
| 285 points | 2024 | author drmacak showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!” | ||
| 1568. | A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film (jackw01.github.io) | |
| 285 points | 2024 | author jackw01 showed up | their comment | thread
“I was curious about this too since I would have expected most film scanners from the 90s-2000s to use incandescent light sources if high-CRI light was really the way to…” | ||
| 1569. | Air Traffic Control Simulator (zlsa.github.io) | |
| 284 points | 2014 | author zlsa showed up | their comment | thread
“- I wanted to be a realistic as possible, hence the long callsigns. However, all you have to type is the shortest unique callsign and that aircraft will be selected. -…” | ||
| 1570. | SSH: Best practices (blog.0xbadc0de.be) | |
| 284 points | 2016 | author aris_ada showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article.” | ||
| 1571. | Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition (thorstenball.com) | |
| 284 points | 2017 | author misternugget showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sadly, I can't offer digital+print bundles. I sell the digital version through Gumroad and the paperback through createspace, so I don't have to worry about…” | ||
| 1572. | iOS 13's Music App Sucks (samuelstevens.me) | |
| 284 points | 2020 | author samstevens showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here; I agree that I'm not considering other users in my rants. I'm not a designer, and don't have solutions that would help everyone that Apple is targeting with…” | ||
| 1573. | How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client (missiveapp.com) | |
| 284 points | 2021 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“someone on Twitter asked to expand a bit on where our users came from, given some of you might have the same question. Early on we were featured by Apple couple of times…” | ||
| 1574. | The Case of the 50ms request (mysteries.wizardzines.com) | |
| 284 points | 2021 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote a post about the design of this game on my blog:” | ||
| 1575. | I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free (stackoverflow.blog) | |
| 284 points | 2022 | author rdonovan showed up | their comment | thread
“We did use Confluence, but as other folks had said, it went very stale. Not everyone could edit everything and there was no structure. Confluence is a mess in my…” | ||
| 1576. | Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? (htmx.org) | |
| 284 points | 2024 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“I think htmx is a library using the following definition: - a library you call - a framework calls your code in htmx you add attributes to HTML to "call" htmx, so, from…” | ||
| 1577. | Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 284 points | 2025 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Maybe you should get a sleep study done, especially if you have ever had trouble sleeping at night, or are excessively sleepy during the day! I went over twenty years…” | ||
| 1578. | Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim (pikuma.com) | |
| 284 points | 2025 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment | thread
“I remember struggling with the decision of adding that last sentence or not. But at the end I was sure most readers would get that it is obviously a joke. Maybe a bad…” | ||
| 1579. | How I keep up with AI progress (blog.nilenso.com) | |
| 284 points | 2025 | author ath_ray showed up | their comment | thread
“I understand the critique in the comments about not justifying the "why" part enough. The people who this was intended for and who benefited from it didn't need much of…” | ||
| 1580. | We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs (lalitm.com) | |
| 284 points | 2025 | author lalitmaganti showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Really glad to have sparked a lively discussion in the comments. Since there is so many threads since I last looked at this post, making one top level comment to provide…” | ||
| 1581. | I built a programming language that LLMs can't use (blog.picheta.me) | |
| 284 points | 2026 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post so that more people would see the language and benchmark. The goal was to create a language that would trick LLMs and I was genuinely curious how…” | ||
| 1582. | No more CSS and HTML, just JS (ojjs.org) | |
| 283 points | 2013 | author evanmoran showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“OJ is trying to solve the View layer by creating objects that act like website building blocks. So you can insert a YouTubeVideo or a TwitterButton as easily as you add…” | ||
| 1583. | Giving up on wlroots-rs (way-cooler.org) | |
| 283 points | 2019 | author timidger showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“The problem with that design (which is a great design given what I presented in the article by the way!) is that it doesn't allow you to share handles across callbacks,…” | ||
| 1584. | Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go (creekorful.me) | |
| 283 points | 2019 | author creekorful showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm fairly new to Golang too and it's my first project. Regarding the number of onion addresses available you are wrong. Addresses are encoded in Base32 which means…” | ||
| 1585. | AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage (lastweekinaws.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author QuinnyPig showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree; the trouble is "sound off on a random HackerNews thread that may or may not even be created in the first place" is a bit more hit-or-miss.” | ||
| 1586. | Chat Bubble Blindness (atlistmaps.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author steve-benjamins showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This links to an Indie Hackers post which doesn't have the full context. You can find the original post here: Sorry OP— just thought I'd point that out :)” | ||
| 1587. | Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash (github.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author mueslix showed up | their comment | thread
“it should actually automatically detect your background color and adjust its theme to it. Alternatively you can pick a different style with `-s`, or even write your own…” | ||
| 1588. | Nike.com's robots.txt (nike.com) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author jonty showed up | their comment | thread
“Of all the easter eggs I've hidden its still my favourite. Wired even wrote an awful article about it at the time: Absolutely delighted people remember it 12 years later.” | ||
| 1589. | Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook (playground.lexical.dev) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author trueadm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those…” | ||
| 1590. | Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies (1517.substack.com) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author areoform showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“based on my reading of your comment, I think we're talking at cross purposes. Your comment seems to be about how these technologies aren't useful for us in the present.…” | ||
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