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| 151. | Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors (dl.acm.org) | |
| 812 points | 2021 | author frizensami showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry, I didn't post this (but it is the paper's title). Hopefully it gets corrected.” | ||
| 152. | Google Spreadsheets and Python (twilio.com) | |
| 811 points | 2017 | author gregorymichael showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Main advantage in our usecase is getting the CUD interface for free.” | ||
| 153. | Bézier Clock (jackf.net) | |
| 810 points | 2014 | author frigaardj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback - really good to hear you like the clock. I've added some more animation easings as per your suggestions. To clarify: when continual…” | ||
| 154. | I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me (grell.dev) | |
| 809 points | 2025 | author pentamassiv showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve” | ||
| 155. | Show HN: Strange Attractors (blog.shashanktomar.com) | |
| 804 points | 2025 | author shashanktomar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I have tried labeling the "More Information" sections as "AI Generated" where it was directly summarized from the wikipedia article, otherwise most of the post is…” | ||
| 156. | Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s (kristopolous.github.io) | |
| 803 points | 2014 | author kristopolous showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I had no idea this was posted until I just rolled out of bed. Feel free to ask any questions here or hit me up on gchat/skype/aim/facebook/yahoo with the same username…” | ||
| 157. | Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it (ephemeralp2p.durazo.us) | |
| 803 points | 2015 | author losvedir showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Amusingly, I wanted to link to the HN discussion on the page, but couldn't figure out how to... I don't think it's possible! Something I hadn't considered until just now…” | ||
| 158. | Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game (twitchinstalls.com) | |
| 802 points | 2015 | author jbott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!” | ||
| 159. | Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office (petitions.whitehouse.gov) | |
| 801 points | 2013 | author olefoo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so allow me to explain my thinking; and why I don't expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her job over this. 1. Obama appointed her, and by many metrics she is doing a good job. 2.…” | ||
| 160. | DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features (duckdb.org) | |
| 801 points | 2020 | author mytherin showed up | their comment | thread
“portability of the storage is indeed one of our goals. We test that the same file can be loaded everywhere on different systems, including between ARM and x86. I should…” | ||
| 161. | Yes, and (htmx.org) | |
| 799 points | 2026 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello all, I wrote this article to help students considering CS as a major. My own son has just started university studying CS, so I have skin in this game. I continue…” | ||
| 162. | AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go (swyx.io) | |
| 797 points | 2021 | author swyx showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting this, i guess my original title wasn't HNbait enough huh :) happy to take any questions, and yes acknowledged that I dont follow pro chess at all,…” | ||
| 163. | Don't Feed the Thought Leaders (earthly.dev) | |
| 795 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing this. Let me know what you think. I'm trying to connect the dots on research on expert advice and our fields 'thought-leaders'. The connection is a…” | ||
| 164. | Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code (github.com) | |
| 793 points | 2017 | author s-macke showed up | their comment | thread
“The main algorithm fits easily in 20 lines. However, the JavaScript code is optimized and contains also the initializing routines and input device logic. It is also a…” | ||
| 165. | Frosted glass from games to the web (tyleo.com) | |
| 791 points | 2024 | author tyleo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 166. | How to Get Promoted (defmacro.substack.com) | |
| 788 points | 2020 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“You can read it both ways, and I think it works.” | ||
| 167. | I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now (cushychicken.github.io) | |
| 785 points | 2022 | author cushychicken showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Questions, comments, vitriol - all gratefully accepted.” | ||
| 168. | Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables (blog.jim-nielsen.com) | |
| 784 points | 2026 | author jimniels showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn’t get into my organizational techniques, but agree with your take! Ziploc bags + a sharpie is exactly how I do it.” | ||
| 169. | Zod 4 (zod.dev) | |
| 782 points | 2025 | author colinmcd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“AMA! Regarding the versioning: I wrote a fairly detailed writeup here[0] for those who are interested in the reasons for this approach. Ultimately npm is not designed to…” | ||
| 170. | Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 780 points | 2022 | author gsvelto showed up | their comment | thread
“`__ulock_wait2` is used under the hood by `os_unfair_lock()`. I considered it but it would have required more scaffolding, especially to support all the versions of…” | ||
| 171. | Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014) (0a.io) | |
| 770 points | 2019 | author archibaldJ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm now studying Chinese and would like to write a Chinese version for Sinophone audience (with more Chinese humor, etc). Anyone knows a good place to share articles…” | ||
| 172. | Web Browser Engineering (2021) (browser.engineering) | |
| 770 points | 2024 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions!” | ||
| 173. | Pricing niche products (kevinlynagh.com) | |
| 769 points | 2019 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here --- you're welcome to copy whatever you want from the unminifed CSS:” | ||
| 174. | Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji (paulbutler.org) | |
| 769 points | 2025 | author paulgb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“some people in this thread and elsewhere asked me about whether an LLM could decode this, and the answer seems to be: not likely by itself, but it often can if it has…” | ||
| 175. | How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org) | |
| 769 points | 2026 | author tptacek showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not interested in "style suggestions" from the LLM; I'm interested in things I can verify for myself. Is this word or construction overused in the piece? Is there a…” | ||
| 176. | Semantic UI (semantic-ui.com) | |
| 768 points | 2017 | author jlukic showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the scroll issue in the docs. Should be glorious normal iOS scroll.” | ||
| 177. | Pixels don’t care (warpspire.com) | |
| 764 points | 2013 | author kneath showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to clarify, since it seems a lot of people seem to think I'm frustrated with being discriminated against. I'm not. It's a fact of life. I got over it pretty…” | ||
| 178. | Mercury Spill (jefftk.com) | |
| 764 points | 2015 | author cbr showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 179. | PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com) | |
| 763 points | 2021 | author nuvious showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Author here; it relates more with physical security and I've used them in the military and in corporate structures. Most duress word programs are designed to be spoken;…” | ||
| 180. | Defeated (orenhazi.com) | |
| 759 points | 2013 | author ohazi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this last night as a way to vent some of my frustration and was really floored by the responses I received in the morning. These solo protests are small battles,…” | ||
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