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| 1771. | Why we picked AGPL (blog.paradedb.com) | |
| 267 points | 2024 | author philippemnoel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I couldn't agree more. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the academic perspective of using the AGPL - super interesting!” | ||
| 1772. | Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero (empiricalzeal.com) | |
| 266 points | 2013 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of the post. I realize that it's a somewhat challenging read, at least compared to my usual style, but my goal was to stay as true to the physics as…” | ||
| 1773. | Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 (econsultancy.com) | |
| 266 points | 2013 | author lakey showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all of your comments. To clarify: 1. The article clearly isn't an attack on HTML5 itself, but of designers who happen to be building HTML5 sites with a lack…” | ||
| 1774. | Ferret – A free software Clojure implementation (ferret-lang.org) | |
| 266 points | 2017 | author nakkaya showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I am actually curious about this myself. I originally released it under GPL but then on another HN thread someone said anything compiled with it also ends up being GPL,…” | ||
| 1775. | Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion (izbicki.me) | |
| 266 points | 2017 | author jackpirate showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I loaded the dice only once. The weighed 0.65 ounces before hand, and 0.75 ounces afterward. They kept that weight the whole week.” | ||
| 1776. | Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives (adit.io) | |
| 266 points | 2018 | author egonschiele showed up | their comment | thread
“This is what made derivatives finally click for me (as opposed to the tangent line) so that’s how I wanted to explain it...maybe the same thing would click for others!” | ||
| 1777. | ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C (github.com) | |
| 266 points | 2020 | author a3p showed up | their comment | thread
“fully agree that the description is vague and doesn't really tell you where it stands versus something like F* , SPARK, etc. That's partially because frankly i don't…” | ||
| 1778. | The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition (jamesward.com) | |
| 266 points | 2021 | author jlward4th showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the Go language feels very archaic when using more modern languages. Some things I miss when I use Go: immutability as a default, monadic error handling, type…” | ||
| 1779. | Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017) (girliemac.com) | |
| 266 points | 2021 | author girlie_mac showed up | their comment | thread
“This probably isn't for everybody but if you like tech && cats, I made "HTTP Status Cats" a long time ago too. I believe that one satisfies more of you. (I don't own the…” | ||
| 1780. | The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020) (kitze.io) | |
| 266 points | 2024 | author thekitze showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I need to update this article. Years later, I actually got motivated by the comments on HN (whenever this gets posted). P People are always like "why don't you just ship…” | ||
| 1781. | Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor (righto.com) | |
| 266 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I know this is a very obscure topic, but hopefully it will be interesting to some. Let me know if there are any questions...” | ||
| 1782. | Skype account hijack technique may affect all users (community.skype.com) | |
| 265 points | 2013 | author littletables showed up | their comment | thread
“27 Apr 2013 02:40 PDT. Here it is in its entirety with updates as of ten minutes ago:” | ||
| 1783. | Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007) (dheera.net) | |
| 265 points | 2014 | author dheera showed up | their comment | thread
“IIRC it first appeared on Slashdot. Not sure what prompted someone to repost it to HN today. But that's cool because I see people continue doing this on a daily basis.” | ||
| 1784. | 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats (lvh.io) | |
| 265 points | 2016 | author lvh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The Dell P2515Q I have has both DisplayPort and mDP2 in and out (for chaining).” | ||
| 1785. | Facebook's fake account problem (aarongreenspan.com) | |
| 265 points | 2019 | author thinkcomp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Funnily enough, Joseph Perla used to be my roommate in Palo Alto. But I had nothing to do with him writing that piece, and I think he later ended up working for…” | ||
| 1786. | Hypermedia Systems (hypermedia.systems) | |
| 265 points | 2024 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“this is a book about how hypermedia systems work in general, and how htmx (augmenting the standard web hypermedia system) and hyperview (a novel mobile hypermedia) work…” | ||
| 1787. | Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube (cjauvin.github.io) | |
| 265 points | 2025 | author cjauvin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“my learning objectives, in order of importance, are: (1) vocal understanding, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) typing and writing (far further). As I explain, I'm…” | ||
| 1788. | How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier (bionicspirit.com) | |
| 264 points | 2012 | author bad_user showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes you are right, it's better to convert the whole thing to a sum of logs, otherwise you end up with floating-point underflow. The article was getting already too long…” | ||
| 1789. | RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability (rethinkdb.com) | |
| 264 points | 2015 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I think I didn't phrase it correctly. What I meant to say is that we hacked Jepsen tests to support RethinkDB, and then ran the tests internally for months. I added…” | ||
| 1790. | Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013) (blog.dustinkirkland.com) | |
| 264 points | 2017 | author dustinkirkland showed up | their comment | thread
“This article is more pertinent today than ever before! Your face is your username, not your password. Use it like you use your username. But never as something secret,…” | ||
| 1791. | Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account (medium.com) | |
| 264 points | 2018 | author ondras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To clarify: as far as the organizational aspect is considered, those people are competent and top-notch. All the confs were highly professional, their experience with…” | ||
| 1792. | I’m only making business card sized games now (frankforce.com) | |
| 264 points | 2019 | author KilledByAPixel showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I actually am an indie dev myself and have many smallish games as well as worked in AAA for years. I think indie developers tend to get it right more often, but anyone…” | ||
| 1793. | Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects (rubick.com) | |
| 264 points | 2021 | author jaderubick showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Most teams don’t work in this way in my experience. The key is how “milestone” is defined in the article.” | ||
| 1794. | I also hacked my car (goncalomb.com) | |
| 264 points | 2024 | author goncalomb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, there is some good stuff in the logs, I found the Wi-Fi password there, that was useful. At the time I used some VSCode plugin to read the .dlt files (they are not…” | ||
| 1795. | Docker Image Insecurity (titanous.com) | |
| 263 points | 2014 | author Titanous showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did not quote this announcement, only linked to it. If this is intended to be prototype code, it should not be enabled by default, and certainly shouldn't be printing…” | ||
| 1796. | Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production (heap.engineering) | |
| 263 points | 2017 | author malisper showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me any questions. By the way, the 10 million number in the title is outdated. It's now about 30 million indexes. Also, I've been publishing one blog…” | ||
| 1797. | The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple (corbinstreehouse.com) | |
| 263 points | 2019 | author redwoodmonkey showed up | their comment | thread
“I always do dot upgrades, as they are (usually) security updates. I wouldn't say I am "stuck" on any particular OS; I choose to remain on it for stability.” | ||
| 1798. | Millions of Tiny Databases (blog.acolyer.org) | |
| 263 points | 2020 | author mjb showed up | their comment | thread
“along with Fan and Tao. I'm also a huge fan and religious reader of The Morning Paper, so it's really cool to see Adrian feature our work. If you don't know The Morning…” | ||
| 1799. | Replit now supports every programming language in Nix (blog.replit.com) | |
| 263 points | 2021 | author cbrewster showed up | their comment | thread
“The Nix environment on Replit is under development right now, we hid the configuration files to clean up the filetree as most users shouldn't need to know about the…” | ||
| 1800. | 25+ years of personal knowledge management (dsebastien.net) | |
| 263 points | 2022 | author dSebastien showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great points, there's indeed a lot of subjectivity in this one. I decided to keep it that way because I cared as much about writing down my story (and diving back into…” | ||
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