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| 1861. | Authentication Techniques for APIs (docs.google.com) | |
| 257 points | 2017 | author ksri showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“The doc does acknowledge basic auth as a valid approach for server side usage, but the language was a bit too pessimistic about basic auth. I just modified it to say the…” | ||
| 1862. | Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies (yugeten.github.io) | |
| 257 points | 2019 | author yugeten showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot for that, this is very helpful! I was a bit confused about that myself, will make corrections.” | ||
| 1863. | RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages (rosettagit.org) | |
| 257 points | 2019 | author adius showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad this hit the top of HN, as any help would be highly appreciated! With your help this could become a really valuable asset. Looking forward to your merge requests…” | ||
| 1864. | Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids) (lunduke.substack.com) | |
| 257 points | 2022 | author abbix showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes I am somewhat aware of these issues and I am working on a better output with a runtime to do stuff in a less cursed manner. Note that the freestanding subset of it…” | ||
| 1865. | Tao: A statically-typed functional language (github.com) | |
| 257 points | 2022 | author zesterer showed up | their comment | thread
“I definitely didn't expect to see Tao on Hacker News. As is probably obvious, the language is extremely early in its life, and it's not practical to write anything but…” | ||
| 1866. | Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews (interviewing.io) | |
| 257 points | 2024 | author michael_mroczka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions if you have any. This was such a fascinating experiment!” | ||
| 1867. | Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch (flaky.build) | |
| 257 points | 2024 | author onnimonni showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“@dang other users here helped me to understand that the title is bit misleading. I was just eager to share about this and possibly help others with this knowledge…” | ||
| 1868. | Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging (mahesh-hegde.github.io) | |
| 257 points | 2025 | author never_inline showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree. I use IPython / JShell REPLs often when the code is not finished and I have to call a random function without entrypoint. In fact its possible to jump to the…” | ||
| 1869. | What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola? (good.is) | |
| 256 points | 2012 | author DanLivesHere showed up | their comment | thread
“Sweet! It's from my email newsletter, -- GOOD republished it w/my permission :) Love seeing it discussed here!” | ||
| 1870. | Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership (medium.com) | |
| 256 points | 2019 | author duncanriach showed up | their comment | thread
“To those commenters who write that deadlines are necessary because many, or most, employees are not motivated self-starters, I posit that this is a symptom of poor…” | ||
| 1871. | Performance Speed Limits (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 256 points | 2019 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback and to answer any questions! Some things are definitely missing - I realize I don't cover load or store buffers in the OoO part, for example. I am…” | ||
| 1872. | Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing (benjamindlee.com) | |
| 256 points | 2021 | author benjamin-lee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is spot on. The majority of the code I write is either piping data around to existing tools using shell scripting and Snakemake or writing the data processing code…” | ||
| 1873. | Automat (automat.org) | |
| 256 points | 2024 | author mafik showed up | their comment | thread
“There is no trick here actually. It's just HTML / JS / CSS. Browsers are pretty good at compositing CSS transforms - and know how to handle DOM updates coming from event…” | ||
| 1874. | Native dual-range input (muffinman.io) | |
| 256 points | 2024 | author stankot showed up | their comment | thread
“glad to see it popping up on HN. I see people started opening issues and leaving bug reports here. I’ll try to go through them tomorrow (it is getting late here). I…” | ||
| 1875. | The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com) | |
| 256 points | 2025 | author LinguaBrowse showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the return on investment will be modest, no doubt. I started the newsletter in order to share any thoughts on various topics without having to please a social media…” | ||
| 1876. | Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander (fireflyk64.github.io) | |
| 256 points | 2026 | author daniel_rh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“in 2015, I was playing the classic Wing Commander in DOSBox and suddenly realized the game state fit in the 64k data segment. Over ten years my brother and I went…” | ||
| 1877. | Why is nobody using SSL Client Certificates? (pilif.github.com) | |
| 255 points | 2012 | author pilif showed up | their comment | thread
“now quite dated, article and by now I really don't agree with its contents any more - at least not fully: 1) this is not truly two-factor authentication as the…” | ||
| 1878. | Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications (martyjs.org) | |
| 255 points | 2015 | author jfhollingworth showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I found that no other Flux implementation really helped with fetching data in a Fluxy way. There tended to be a lot of boiler plate code for binding stores to…” | ||
| 1879. | How I Built a Side Project (stayintech.com) | |
| 255 points | 2016 | author userium showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to get feedback!” | ||
| 1880. | Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming (kamalmarhubi.com) | |
| 255 points | 2016 | author kalmar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is a really valid criticism of the post, and I think it'll inform the next post I write on the topic. Thanks!” | ||
| 1881. | Is true hacking dead? What we lost (c0de517e.blogspot.com) | |
| 255 points | 2019 | author c0de517e showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“no, that link was to show something bizzarre, how (some) people lose their minds in weird elucubrations on the politics of software - instead of actual hacking. I am…” | ||
| 1882. | We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech (orbuch.com) | |
| 255 points | 2020 | author orbuch showed up | their comment | thread
“This is good feedback that this is buried in the appendix -- I pulled that section up and made it inline with the flow of the post. Does that help?” | ||
| 1883. | Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 255 points | 2020 | author cytzol showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect this to show up so soon, but I'm glad people like it — I only published v0.1 on Saturday. Over on the Rust forum I gave a brief overview of the crates and…” | ||
| 1884. | When should you give up on a project that doesn't work? (preethamrn.com) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author xmprt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think all the buzz that this is getting make me want to give it another shot. I'll probably throw away most of the code and start from scratch though - one thing I…” | ||
| 1885. | The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue (blog.funcall.org) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author varjag showed up | their comment | thread
“if you have any questions.” | ||
| 1886. | Numbers Are Leaves (christo.sh) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author openquery showed up | their comment | thread
“Wasn't expecting to see this on the front page! I'm really very far from a mathematician and this was a write up of a fun side project. I think the title would be…” | ||
| 1887. | Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment (andymasley.substack.com) | |
| 255 points | 2025 | author andymasley showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“To clear up a few points: I meant this post to tell individuals that worrying about the emissions they personally cause using ChatGPT is silly, not that AI more broadly…” | ||
| 1888. | A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best (arcfn.com) | |
| 254 points | 2012 | author kens showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm using voltage sag to describe how the voltage drops as the load increases. (This has nothing to do with the presence of a battery or not.) Chargers normally are…” | ||
| 1889. | My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One (catonmat.net) | |
| 254 points | 2015 | author pkrumins showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so that is close to 15 years of book research. I'm really passionate…” | ||
| 1890. | Doing an HD Remake the Right Way (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 254 points | 2015 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! I'm the author of this article. Would love to swap some notes with you sometime about your pipeline! Mind dropping me a line at lars {dot} doucet {at} gmail…” | ||
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