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| 1831. | How to hide your IP address (educatedguesswork.org) | |
| 260 points | 2022 | author ekr____ showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions, take criticisms, etc.” | ||
| 1832. | Systems Engineering, or "why james gets paid" (cohost.org) | |
| 260 points | 2022 | author jamesmunns showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Requirements changing are a reality. In safety critical fields, these changes are noticed by using traceability tools. I haven't written this far yet: but you should…” | ||
| 1833. | Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare (kevinchen.co) | |
| 260 points | 2024 | author kevinchen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the shorter reaction times you mentioned are collected under ideal conditions, like the person knows they are being tested and only needs to push a button or whatever.…” | ||
| 1834. | So you're a manager now (scottkosman.com) | |
| 260 points | 2025 | author scottkosman showed up | their comment | thread
“that's a great point. I've got a followup post coming soon about performance management (both high and low performers), but you're absolutely right, hiring and firing is…” | ||
| 1835. | Clojure 1.7 is now available (blog.cognitect.com) | |
| 259 points | 2015 | author puredanger showed up | their comment | thread
“In general, we strive to maintain binary compatibility (old AOT-compiled Clojure code should continue to run on newer version), we do not exhaustively test for or…” | ||
| 1836. | Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client (arxiv.org) | |
| 259 points | 2015 | author bluegate010 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd be happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 1837. | Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system (pijul.org) | |
| 259 points | 2017 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. The situation is slightly more complex than what you describe. Pijul was announced on the darcs blog, not by its authors, way before it was ready (about…” | ||
| 1838. | Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2017 | author kloud showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting. The project is still very early in the development and there is a lot of work to be done to make it ready for daily use. I would appreciate any…” | ||
| 1839. | AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis (ucsf.edu) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author m15i showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a co-author of this paper and happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 1840. | Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month (medium.com) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author gajus showed up | their comment | thread
“There are quite a few things that I had to leave out as the post was getting really long. I am writing a follow up article now titled "How Kubernetes and twelve-factor…” | ||
| 1841. | I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015) (sigbus.info) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“These days I'm writing a new C compiler () from scratch again to write a book about compilers. Since I'll be using the new one as a reference implementation for a book,…” | ||
| 1842. | JWT is Awesome (thehftguy.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author user5994461 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As a matter of fact, the world has already settled on JWT. Paseto is dead in the water and will never gain any traction. Every single company has no choice but to…” | ||
| 1843. | Anger Management (genevievefiles.blogspot.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It absolutely is about anger management. Sorry it doesn't seem to be your cup of tea, but it wasn't misnamed or something.” | ||
| 1844. | Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author ByronBates showed up | their comment | thread
“and will be here for a few hours in case there are any questions. (proof:)” | ||
| 1845. | So you want to buy a farm? (zenx.medium.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author zenxblr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks @happy-go-lucky for sharing that. This is indeed an India based pov. And based on real life experiences and learnings over 4 years now at this farm. Lots more to…” | ||
| 1846. | Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO) (tdinh.notion.site) | |
| 259 points | 2021 | author trungdq88 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a Notion page, I can't do much, sorry! Maybe I'll spend some time to migrate everything to a proper blog soon.” | ||
| 1847. | Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan (spacelift.io) | |
| 259 points | 2022 | author cube2222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The article describes a fun debugging and optimization session I’ve had recently. Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 1848. | Paginating Requests in APIs (2020) (ignaciochiazzo.medium.com) | |
| 259 points | 2022 | author ignaciochiazzo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback! I will update the article with some of the insights from here. I wrote the post when I was investigating cursor-based pagination, which I had to…” | ||
| 1849. | Learn Git Branching (learngitbranching.js.org) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author xxbondsxx showed up | their comment | thread
“It's actually not based on geolocation, I just directly look at navigator.language / navigator.browserLanguage:” | ||
| 1850. | Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author nobuyuki83 showed up | their comment | thread
“Nobuyuki Umetani from the University of Tokyo, who implemented all the codes. I am delighted to see so many good discussions here! I fully understand that the quality of…” | ||
| 1851. | Bayesian Neural Networks (cs.toronto.edu) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author duvenaud showed up | their comment | thread
“What a surprise. This was an abandoned project from 2019, that we never linked or advertised anywhere as far as I know. Anyways, happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 1852. | From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max (questdb.com) | |
| 259 points | 2025 | author jerrinot showed up | their comment | thread
“My superpower is spending unreasonable amounts of time researching things with no practical purpose. Occasionally I blog about it - as a warning to others.” | ||
| 1853. | Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2025 | author jesse__ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“It's actually more efficient to do a hybrid approach, especially at high view distances. Rasterizing triangles is extremely fast, and is basically a perfect primary-ray…” | ||
| 1854. | The End of Microservices (lightstep.com) | |
| 258 points | 2016 | author djspoons showed up | their comment | thread
“:) I totally agree that microservices can be a form of premature optimization, in particular because of the cost with today's tooling. But I think there's hope that lot…” | ||
| 1855. | Brooks, Wirth and Go (fredrikholmqvist.com) | |
| 258 points | 2021 | author fredrikholm showed up | their comment | thread
“This thread made my day. To the people who have commented, thank you. I seldom get to interact with SE people who enjoy their craft, and to see that so many have not…” | ||
| 1856. | Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets (inferable.ai) | |
| 258 points | 2025 | author lunarcave showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Having done this, I don't think I'd reduce it to "just a little bit of work" to make it hum in production. Everything in between your UI components and the database…” | ||
| 1857. | The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust (viralinstruction.com) | |
| 258 points | 2025 | author jakobnissen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, I don't like the borrowchecker. But the motivation for me writing the article is the almost religious zeal with which many Rustaceans refuse to even acknowledge…” | ||
| 1858. | WebAssembly from the Ground Up (wasmgroundup.com) | |
| 258 points | 2025 | author marianoguerra showed up | their comment | thread
“if you are interested in tail calls you just need to understand the call instruction which we cover in the book and then replace it with either: - return_call <funcidx>,…” | ||
| 1859. | Schwab password policies and two factor authentication (jeremytunnell.com) | |
| 257 points | 2014 | author jeremyt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To be fair, the bug only prevents you from activating 2fa. If you manage to activate it, it seems to work fine.” | ||
| 1860. | Google’s AMP is a gilded cage (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 257 points | 2016 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with you. My site was already fairly lightweight, but I wanted to see if AMP improved things and made a better user experience. It made it slightly faster, but…” | ||
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