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| 1891. | 3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500 (additivepartdesign.com) | |
| 254 points | 2016 | author MikeAPD showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am really enjoying the comments everyone has contributed. One major detail I left out was the amount of failed parts that came out of the professional machine prior to…” | ||
| 1892. | Must ride mule to and from work location (deepsouthventures.com) | |
| 254 points | 2020 | author eightturn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.” | ||
| 1893. | Oilslick – an elevation map showing fine detail in terrain (mrgris.com) | |
| 254 points | 2022 | author mrgriscom showed up | their comment | thread
“To provide some context, my main impetus for creating this map was to facilitate my interest in topographic prominence []. Prominence requires finding a mountain's "key…” | ||
| 1894. | Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) (blog.danieljanus.pl) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author nathell showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks! This is an interesting avenue of exploration that I hadn’t thought about. Exactly the kind of feedback I hoped for. I’ll try and give it a shot.” | ||
| 1895. | Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo (tomverbeure.github.io) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author tverbeure showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m well aware that there are similar autopilot systems. There’s a reason why my requirements list has “extensive charger network” before “autopilot just as good”.…” | ||
| 1896. | Battleships Logic Puzzle (lukerissacher.com) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author QuadrupleA showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“check that the revealed ships in your puzzle are keeping their particular shape. E.g. a revealed-at-start "D" shape ship-end can't be the middle of a ship, or an "O"…” | ||
| 1897. | Developing our position on AI (recurse.com) | |
| 254 points | 2025 | author nicholasjbs showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a really fascinating project to work on because of the breadth of experiences and perspectives people have on LLMs, even when those people all otherwise have a…” | ||
| 1898. | How to create NBA shot charts in Python (savvastjortjoglou.com) | |
| 253 points | 2015 | author savvas_tj showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for suggestions on improving the charts, especially regarding the marginal histograms. Just a couple of questions: What color maps would you use for those kde…” | ||
| 1899. | Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018) (blog.heckel.xyz) | |
| 253 points | 2019 | author binwiederhier showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to comment on the Certificate Transparency issues that some of you have raised: My company (Datto [1]; we're hiring, see [2]) sells backup appliances which…” | ||
| 1900. | Flowcharts of programming language constructs (progsbase.com) | |
| 253 points | 2020 | author martinfjohansen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for noting an error in the exception and finally diagrams! I have fixed the error where controlflow always went to the catch block.” | ||
| 1901. | We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud (about.gitlab.com) | |
| 253 points | 2021 | author dnsmichi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This post doesn't live up to its title, I'm sorry about that. The title should have been 'We are building a better Heroku FOR PRODUCTION APPS' (we'll add the 'for…” | ||
| 1902. | Authorization in a Microservices World (alexanderlolis.com) | |
| 253 points | 2022 | author damethos showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all thank you for making this article appear in the HN frontpage. I read some interesting comments and approaches but I feel that a piece is always missing (or…” | ||
| 1903. | The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst (glthr.com) | |
| 253 points | 2025 | author glth showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In a few weeks, I will publish the graph generator's source code and a DOT file encoding the Myst graph in this repository:. I would love to see how others render the…” | ||
| 1904. | Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (ergaster.org) | |
| 253 points | 2025 | author thibaultamartin showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“indeed I bought a JetKVM. A colleague had one and recommended it warmly! I'm Very happy with it so far, but my usage has been rather basic. I've heard that it might be…” | ||
| 1905. | I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one (snoutcover.com) | |
| 253 points | 2026 | author OmriHIllel showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks everyone for being mean, I mean that in the best way :) Fair points. I’m a designer, not a writer, so I used an LLM to help write it. The story and the dogs are…” | ||
| 1906. | How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware (highscalability.com) | |
| 252 points | 2015 | author kovyrin showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 1907. | React JS Best Practices (blog.siftscience.com) | |
| 252 points | 2015 | author lopatin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions or discuss further!” | ||
| 1908. | One Road Out of Depression (thinkfaster.co) | |
| 252 points | 2016 | author swimorsinka showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments, I'm surprised to see so much interest here on Hacker News. I figured this would be one of my posts that collected dust. For the record, my…” | ||
| 1909. | What CSS minifiers also leave behind (luisant.ca) | |
| 252 points | 2017 | author remy_luisant showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wow. #1 on HN. Wow. I'd usually hang around a bit more, but I'm really tired. I posted this past my midnight. 00:51 now, and I'm fading fast. Thanks for all the love,…” | ||
| 1910. | Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud (github.com) | |
| 252 points | 2018 | author konschubert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Very glad to see that nobody has noticed how slow it is and nobody has made a comment about how messy code is in some places :D Working on both issues. But first I will…” | ||
| 1911. | Functor, Applicative, and Monad (typeslogicscats.gitlab.io) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author TheAsprngHacker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have strong opinions about functor and monad tutorials, and here are my thoughts: Back when I didn't understand what a monad was, I would read a bunch of tutorials and…” | ||
| 1912. | A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs (mitogen.networkgenomics.com) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author dmw_ng showed up | their comment | thread
“The system the library was intended for has never been described. The intention was that Ansible had strong parity with what the library offered, so that made a useful…” | ||
| 1913. | Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers (sourcesort.com) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author mrskitch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“lots of comments about why would someone pay for this. I think the answer is simple if you step out of your developer shoes. There's a lot of complexity in managing and…” | ||
| 1914. | Indexing Billions of Text Vectors (0x65.dev) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author gravadlax showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The number 4 billion is made-up. It was chosen in order to illustrate the scale of the problem we are trying to solve. And it also happens to be just below the maximum…” | ||
| 1915. | 152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan (github.com) | |
| 252 points | 2021 | author vshymanskyy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In Wasm3, we have implemented some workarounds for that. We can easily run on Nordic nRF51 with just 16 KB of RAM!” | ||
| 1916. | A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (github.com) | |
| 252 points | 2021 | author woodrush showed up | their comment | thread
“HashLife actually does just that, by memoizing and reusing past occurrences and outcomes of the same pattern. Since one cell can only interact with its 8 neighbors in…” | ||
| 1917. | Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com) | |
| 252 points | 2025 | author benbreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that my read may not be correct either. It’s tough to make out. Although keep in mind that “ph” is used in Latin and Greek (or at least transliterations of Greek…” | ||
| 1918. | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) | |
| 251 points | 2013 | author baumgarn showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the mention! The project was done in 2004, first implementation in shockwave, later flash. I redid the whole thing in js+canvas a few weeks ago, finally with…” | ||
| 1919. | How to write a developer resume that will get you hired (slideshare.net) | |
| 251 points | 2014 | author peteretep showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a tiny bit Perl/UK-centric, but I think you could easily apply it to other markets. Happy to answer any questions...” | ||
| 1920. | Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks (github.com) | |
| 251 points | 2019 | author cloudkj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The path to Scheme was a bit haphazard - I got into Clojure a few years ago after exposure to some nice Clojure-based tools at work, and then worked on implementing…” | ||
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