1741. Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program (serversfor.dev)
270 points | 2025 | author zsoltkacsandi showed up | their comment | thread
“It was a bit emotional seeing this on the front page. My goal with this post and the whole (work in progress) series is to fill the gap between "here are the commands to…”
1742. Python Workers are now generally available (blog.cloudflare.com)
270 points | 2026 | author dom96 showed up | their comment | thread
“This isn't quite the case, you can choose between different versions using compatibility flags. For example, `python_workers_314` is the compat flag for Python 3.14[1].…”
1743. Scrapy Tips from the Pros (blog.scrapinghub.com)
269 points | 2016 | author stummjr showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions you have.”
1744. I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix (anildash.com)
269 points | 2016 | author anildash showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post the same day as the rest of the announcements; I don't know why my personal blog post took off now, but I'd definitely prefer to focus on the product,…”
1745. Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World (spectrum.ieee.org)
269 points | 2017 | author sangfroid showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of the article. Thanks for your interest. I'm glad the piece is sparking a deeper discussion of the technical trade offs of the technology. I just…”
1746. Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future (motherboard.vice.com)
269 points | 2018 | author ummjackson showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree! I was calling out Bitcoin's initial goals in the article but don't 100% align with them myself. Financial institutions came to exist for a reason and I'm really…”
1747. Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics (usefathom.com)
269 points | 2018 | author dvko showed up | their comment | thread
“Whoa, I did not expect to see Fathom show up on Hacker News. It's very early but our plan is indeed to go down a similar road as Matomo, albeit more opinionated.…”
1748. What the f*** is the edge? (arcentry.com)
269 points | 2018 | author wolframhempel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry about the confusion, I can see where you are coming from. But yes, the investor was very much enquiring about whether it is on "the edge" in a cloud computing…”
1749. How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms (medium.com)
269 points | 2019 | author pbiggar showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions!”
1750. Crafting Interpreters: Closures (craftinginterpreters.com)
269 points | 2019 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions, accept criticism, etc. :)”
1751. Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems (foxhound.systems)
269 points | 2021 | author Albert_Camus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Having written a lot of Haskell, I don't find lazy evaluation to be an issue nearly as often as it is a benefit. Yes, it can be difficult to reason about at times, but…”
1752. How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages (browser.engineering)
269 points | 2021 | author pavpanchekha showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“A basic styling engine is the very next chapter, so it should be out in about two months, depending on how the writing process goes.”
1753. Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go (threedots.tech)
269 points | 2021 | author m110 showed up | their comment | thread
“The example is exactly what we base the book on. The chapters go through refactoring of this app.”
1754. Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API (ch.at)
269 points | 2025 | author etaioinshrdlu showed up | their comment | thread
“was a bit surprised to see this here. I thought there needed to be a good zero-JS LLM site for computer people, and we thought it would be fun to add various other…”
1755. Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? (nicholasjohnpatrick.com)
268 points | 2010 | author nickpatrick showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a longtime HN lurker, so I was very excited to see it shared here. I've really enjoyed reading the discussion. A quick disclaimer: I have zero background in…”
1756. You are dangerously bad at cryptography (happybearsoftware.com)
268 points | 2013 | author alinajaf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I would have liked to have made useful suggestions, but having made so many errors with cryptography in the past, I don't really feel qualified to do so. I do however…”
1757. Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby (github.com)
268 points | 2014 | author sunkarapk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I covered almost everything in the documentation. And there is also a small example which is hosted at. Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks”
1758. Integrating a VT220 into my life (drewdevault.com)
268 points | 2016 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“I got the pictured one refurbished through vecmar.com, and I just bought a second one on eBay (for use at home).”
1759. Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer (forbes.com)
268 points | 2017 | author GCA10 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading. Not sure if you had a chance to read the actual article that ran between the headline and the comments section, but just in case ... In paragraph 10…”
1760. Perceptually uniform color spaces (programmingdesignsystems.com)
268 points | 2017 | author runemadsen showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the comment. Just for some background info: This book is written for people who want to begin using code as a creative tool, and many readers just learned the…”
1761. Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri (getrecut.com)
268 points | 2022 | author dceddia showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It varies by the length of the video and some other things, but on a 2019 Intel MBP it's loading up a 35min file in about 5 seconds. After that, it's interactive - you…”
1762. A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) (dampfkraft.com)
268 points | 2022 | author polm23 showed up | their comment | thread
“Nobody has ever asked about the art before. It depicts Maruyama Oukyo, a famous painter of ghosts (and other things), where one of his pieces comes to life and frightens…”
1763. How I Use Home Assistant in 2025 (vpetersson.com)
268 points | 2025 | author mvip showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“The problem with SQLite is when you start having a lot of sensors. That's when SQLite failed to keep up on a Pi. Mind you, this was back on Pi 3s. It might be better…”
1764. Code is clay now (albertodenia.com)
268 points | 2026 | author albertodenia showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“No analogy is perfect, but this is how working with code has felt for me for a while, so I wanted to write down my thoughts about it. I wrote this a couple of months…”
1765. GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 (github.com)
267 points | 2017 | author triplefault showed up | their comment | thread
“The size of the ELF for the laser projector program is 2.1M so it probably will not fit on a cortex-m :(. Additionally, I don't think GERT will be as useful on a…”
1766. Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX (blog.jez.io)
267 points | 2018 | author jez showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to take a second to point out that the audience I had in mind when writing this article was mostly my fellow classmates in college. In school we were hastily…”
1767. Lord of the io_uring: io_uring tutorial, examples and reference (unixism.net)
267 points | 2020 | author shuss showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“All examples in the guide are aimed at throwing light at the io_uring and liburing interfaces. They are not very useful or very real-worldish examples. The idea with…”
1768. It’s easier to manage four people than one person (staysaasy.com)
267 points | 2020 | author staysaasy showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd recommend two things. First, per the article, I'd aim to become an expert in whatever your report is doing. Being able to just do the thing yourself is a great…”
1769. Is the Kalman filter just a low-pass filter? (jbconsulting.substack.com)
267 points | 2022 | author jbay808 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, if the system has a high-pass behaviour, then the corresponding Kalman filter will converge to a high-pass filter, and so on. Non-low-pass-like behaviour can emerge…”
1770. I hacked a train toilet (devever.net)
267 points | 2024 | author hlandau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have seen videos (not on trains) of one hybrid - a power-operated round sliding door, but with a physical lock on it, that hooks onto the door frame. So that would be…”