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| 1711. | The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com) | |
| 272 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 1712. | Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js (akarshc.com) | |
| 272 points | 2025 | author akarshc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Not sure why everyone’s taking this as anti-rails or anti-laravel. It’s not. I just shared what worked best for my use case. Real-time updates are built into phoenix…” | ||
| 1713. | The tiniest yet real telescope I've built (lucassifoni.info) | |
| 272 points | 2025 | author chantepierre showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Other interesting builds or projects going on in the french amateur telescope maker community : - Sunscan, by the STAROS team : a fully integrated open-source solar…” | ||
| 1714. | Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone (downloadsquad.switched.com) | |
| 271 points | 2011 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“I've put 'co-founder' back into the post's title -- sorry about the ambiguity.” | ||
| 1715. | What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS (mir.aculo.us) | |
| 271 points | 2013 | author madrobby showed up | their comment | thread
“I replace my main computer (MacBook Pro) every 1-2 years with a maxed out top of the line model. I keep the one I had before around as a backup in case my laptop breaks…” | ||
| 1716. | Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C (kore.io) | |
| 271 points | 2015 | author jvink showed up | their comment | thread
“I see you picked out the few things that I consistently hear on the coding style I adopted which is based on my time hacking on openbsd. I have no real points to argue…” | ||
| 1717. | Immutability is not enough (codewords.recurse.com) | |
| 271 points | 2016 | author pdubroy showed up | their comment | thread
“You've actually summarized one of the main points of the article -- here's what I wrote in the "What's going on?" section:” | ||
| 1718. | Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS (v68k.org) | |
| 271 points | 2019 | author jjuran showed up | their comment | thread
“Proof: <, < It's nice to see such interest in my humble project. :-)” | ||
| 1719. | Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live (try.questdb.io) | |
| 271 points | 2020 | author bluestreak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few weeks ago, we wrote about how we implemented SIMD instructions to aggregate a billion rows in milliseconds [1] thanks in great part to Agner Fog’s VCL library [2].…” | ||
| 1720. | How to train large deep learning models as a startup (assemblyai.com) | |
| 271 points | 2021 | author dylanbfox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comments! In general - this is expensive stuff. Training big, accurate models just requires a lot of compute, and there is a "barrier to entry" wrt…” | ||
| 1721. | The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (righto.com) | |
| 271 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about this classic synthesizer's internals.” | ||
| 1722. | The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019) (explore.paulbutler.org) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author paulgb showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree, but I think there is some applicability of the Kelly Criterion to startups (at least qualitativey) in explaining why an entrepreneur who is all-in on a company…” | ||
| 1723. | PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide (gist.github.com) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author jtc331 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was also published here:, and I’ve updated it there at various times (though I’ll admit it doesn’t have the new features in PG13-14 yet) but had forgotten about the…” | ||
| 1724. | Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal (vaidik.bearblog.dev) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author apson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am 19. Trust me I really love to do things like these which have chances to promote a good behavior. For the same reasons, I am off of Instagram for a year now…” | ||
| 1725. | The container orchestrator landscape (lwn.net) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author jordemort showed up | their comment | thread
“This is my third for LWN and a follow-up to my previous one about container engines ( ) - I wasn't initially planning on writing this since I only have a wee bit of k8s…” | ||
| 1726. | Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1 (byroot.github.io) | |
| 271 points | 2024 | author byroot showed up | their comment | thread
“Oj has an extremely large API that I have no intent on emulating in the default json gem, things such as "SAJ" (SAX style parsing), various escaping schemes etc. My goal…” | ||
| 1727. | A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library (neilmadden.blog) | |
| 271 points | 2025 | author kentonv showed up | their comment | thread
“(Or at least, the author of the prompts that generated it.) I'll admin I think Neil is significantly more of an expert than me, so I'm delighted he took a pass at…” | ||
| 1728. | Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh (mill-build.org) | |
| 271 points | 2025 | author lihaoyi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“hope everyone finds it as interesting reading this as I did figuring this out for the first time!” | ||
| 1729. | I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture (overreacted.io) | |
| 271 points | 2026 | author danabramov showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“No one's asking mathematicians to check the generated proof. I explain it in this part: The only thing that needs a check is this 500-line file:. If this file is correct…” | ||
| 1730. | Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL (alteredqualia.com) | |
| 270 points | 2011 | author bd showed up | their comment | thread
“It's approximation of subsurface scattering, modeled by combination of multiple Gaussian blurs done in texture space (there are 4 blur layers plus original normal mapped…” | ||
| 1731. | How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad (alexp.github.io) | |
| 270 points | 2013 | author alexp showed up | their comment | thread
“Exactly as digitalboss commented plus a custom crafted html/css on top of twitter bootstrap. It's not perfect, but it does the job. Best, Alex.” | ||
| 1732. | Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good (github.com) | |
| 270 points | 2016 | author paulirish showed up | their comment | thread
“Steve helped with shipping it as a standalone script] NPM?!? :) A lot of people below are asking why a bash script (that depends on a perl script) is being recommended…” | ||
| 1733. | Why is no one signing their emails? (arp242.net) | |
| 270 points | 2019 | author Carpetsmoker showed up | their comment | thread
“looks like someone posted it here before I got the chance) If they were, phishing would be a thing of the past; but it's not. In addition it's a lot harder to filter out…” | ||
| 1734. | I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort (blog.adacore.com) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author touisteur showed up | their comment | thread
“We actually touched upon this subject in the article: 'Tip: Don’t prove what you don’t need to prove' and surrounding text. Also previous comment by Yannick:” | ||
| 1735. | The end of Optane is bad news (theregister.com) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Cost-competitive with what? I think there are two misconceptions here. 1. It is a kind of memory, not disk. But it is non-volatile large-scale RAM. There isn't any other…” | ||
| 1736. | Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy (michaelgv.uk) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author NesquikMike showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you're right that this can happen.” | ||
| 1737. | Non-interactive SSH password authentication (vincent.bernat.ch) | |
| 270 points | 2023 | author vbernat showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't claim sshpass is "broken by design". I claim it is brittle as it relies on the detection of a password prompt. passh author has several examples here:.” | ||
| 1738. | How Microchips Work (exclusivearchitecture.com) | |
| 270 points | 2024 | author ExAr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! I am the author of the website exclusivearchitecture.com. Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback - so rewarding to see! I have already made some…” | ||
| 1739. | Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system (blog.lucasholten.com) | |
| 270 points | 2024 | author Hytak showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to point out that rust-query does in fact read the schema from the database and compares it to the expected schema. There is no checksumming or comparison…” | ||
| 1740. | I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares (newslttrs.com) | |
| 270 points | 2025 | author spzb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely wrote it myself. As another commentator says, this is an accessibility thing. Individual images have alt tags but the Ghost gallery component didn't have an…” | ||
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