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| 1681. | FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain (github.com) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author vrangan showed up | their comment | thread
“Not trying to promote myself but since you posted, the v3 of the board is available on the tinyvision.ai and tindie stores. I discontinued v2 as it was a terrible design…” | ||
| 1682. | Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster (drewdevault.com) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“It's hardly ruining my business, it's just a nuisance. I have long denounced cryptocurrencies since well before this incident, including on HN:” | ||
| 1683. | Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser (therecord.media) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author campuscodi showed up | their comment | thread
“With all due respect, but I will have to push back on your categorization as 'slightly misleading' here. Your explanation effectively explains the headline and is also…” | ||
| 1684. | Master’s Degree in Computer Science (evanp.me) | |
| 275 points | 2022 | author evanprodromou showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! author here. I've seen requirements for a master's in CS or related disciplines on job descriptions for technical leadership roles, mostly at larger, older, more…” | ||
| 1685. | How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising (demodexio.substack.com) | |
| 275 points | 2022 | author lkrubner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some people, who wrote comments in response to this essay, were focused on the intentional dishonesty of gerrymandering, and they wrote things like this: "You can easily…” | ||
| 1686. | A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023) (disruptingjapan.com) | |
| 275 points | 2024 | author timoth3y showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author and I'm delighted that people are still interested in this topic. There are a lot of great comments, but I'd like to collect and respond in bulk to…” | ||
| 1687. | Do Things, Tell People. (carl.flax.ie) | |
| 274 points | 2012 | author hebejebelus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is why I think every programmer should have at least these two things: a twitter account, and a github account. A github account to publish what you do, and a…” | ||
| 1688. | Outlier Detection at Netflix (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 274 points | 2015 | author diab0lic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll be around to answer any questions if anyone has them. I'm sure my colleague will be around as well.” | ||
| 1689. | Cassandra is not row level consistent (datanerds.io) | |
| 274 points | 2016 | author leastangle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great discussion around the CAP theorem but it misses the point. AP vs CP / Cassandra being AP is not relevant to this particular problem: 1) This is not a distributed…” | ||
| 1690. | Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released (dashbit.co) | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author josevalim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I will be glad to answer any questions. :)” | ||
| 1691. | Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author huksley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks, already done that, and waiting for it to be reviewed by AWS. Support was very responsive, though.” | ||
| 1692. | Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator (trianglify.io) | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author qrohlf showed up | their comment | thread
“interesting to see this pop up on HN again! Since there are a lot of questions in the comments that might be answered by prior writing/discussions, here are a couple…” | ||
| 1693. | Useful Uses of cat (two-wrongs.com) | |
| 274 points | 2024 | author kqr showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right. Originally I had a much longer excerpt but it got a bit rambly. I overcorrected and cut out too much; I'll see what I can do to fix it. Thanks!” | ||
| 1694. | Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (citylab.com) | |
| 273 points | 2015 | author armsmasher showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To your point: "They are not and should not be taxed like single family homes or condos." They are taxed like condos—they are condos. I think the larger issue in this…” | ||
| 1695. | Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day (99designs.com.au) | |
| 273 points | 2016 | author xzyfer showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be floating around for a while, happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 1696. | ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 273 points | 2016 | author sangfroid showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. Thanks for pointing this out. You were not the only one. We've reworked the attributions paragraph to include all of the institutions that had a hand…” | ||
| 1697. | Serve Videos Instead of GIFs (dannyguo.com) | |
| 273 points | 2020 | author dguo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That is good criticism! Thanks for bringing it up. I didn't consider other factors like ease of sharing. They are definitely tradeoffs. At least for my personal website,…” | ||
| 1698. | Tailscale ate my network (and I love it) (smackeyacky.blogspot.com) | |
| 273 points | 2022 | author smackeyacky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yep, I'm lazy and a cheapskate, so using the built-in AWS solution I thought was too expensive for something I only did occasionally. 99% of the time I'm hooked up to my…” | ||
| 1699. | Using SQLite as storage for web server static content (clace.io) | |
| 273 points | 2024 | author ajayvk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Clace is built for one specific use case: internal web apps, to run locally or on a shared server, for use by a team. Clace is not a general purpose web server. It is an…” | ||
| 1700. | The death and life of prediction markets at Google (asteriskmag.com) | |
| 273 points | 2024 | author ddp26 showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I agree with this critique in theory, but not in practice. The stakes don't need to be high to encourage strong participation. Corporate prediction markets have already…” | ||
| 1701. | Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ (blog.erodriguez.de) | |
| 273 points | 2024 | author RapperWhoMadeIt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“At least from my personal experience, there are still many jobs in which the main focus isn't frontend development, and per se React. I do have to work with React from…” | ||
| 1702. | Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App (nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 273 points | 2025 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“If you end up with an invalid lock file, it doesn't silently fail and move on with a generated lock file. The `uv lock` command fails with a helpful message and then…” | ||
| 1703. | How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB (radar.com) | |
| 273 points | 2025 | author j_kao showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We were really motivated to turn a "distributed system" problem into a "monolithic system" from an operations perspective and felt this was achievable with current…” | ||
| 1704. | (λove (print (eval (read)))) (readevalprintlove.fogus.me) | |
| 272 points | 2013 | author fogus showed up | their comment | thread
“The announcement with some preliminaries can be found at Enjoy.” | ||
| 1705. | By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation (blog.achernya.com) | |
| 272 points | 2017 | author achernya showed up | their comment | thread
“Although MIT did receive a /24 IPv6 allocation,, it's not routable everywhere on campus yet. Unfortunately, IPv6 deployment is still below 20% (as measured by Google,)…” | ||
| 1706. | Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] (github.com) | |
| 272 points | 2017 | author synctext showed up | their comment | thread
“short answer taken from our .PDF file: "Considering that Dropbox [53] currently holds around 500 petabytes of user data [54], one could argue that Filecoin is…” | ||
| 1707. | Tracing Paper (2020) (logicmag.io) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author xkeysc0re showed up | their comment | thread
“The dots themselves aren't printed with UV ink it's just that the UV light makes it easier to see them due to the yellow ink used. There were images I sent the magazine…” | ||
| 1708. | Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network (devever.net) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author hlandau showed up | their comment | thread
“These lawsuits involving Lee are also of interest:” | ||
| 1709. | Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows (mattferraro.dev) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author mferraro89 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's a fantastic question! I think you're right that a better solution would include adding curvature to the individual "pixels" in the lens mesh. Unfortunately I…” | ||
| 1710. | Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else (theregister.com) | |
| 272 points | 2024 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“No. (Although that sounds fun, I never heard of such a thing.) RISC/ix was Acorn's ARM UNIX. It had nothing of the Acorn GUI -- it was fairly standard X11, I think with…” | ||
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