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| 1921. | How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native (blog.discordapp.com) | |
| 251 points | 2019 | author mrkcsc showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As a native app developer, I would say that the trade off is similar to developing an app on native Android vs. native iOS. You inevitably must solve problems on Android…” | ||
| 1922. | We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure (blog.replit.com) | |
| 251 points | 2021 | author cbrewster showed up | their comment | thread
“tptacek is right on the money. The authority server is really small and simple, and writing it in Go meant we had access to our existing internal packages that had the…” | ||
| 1923. | My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs (jeremyaboyd.com) | |
| 251 points | 2021 | author jermaustin1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I've had multiple jobs since then (obviously), and I've always been given pretty substantial raises and bonuses throughout my career enough to nearly 10x my first jobs…” | ||
| 1924. | Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller (arxiv.org) | |
| 251 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It’s kinda both a crdt and an operational transform system. It’s a crdt in that all peers share & replicate the set of all editing events. (A grow-only set crdt if we’re…” | ||
| 1925. | Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta (untested.sonnet.io) | |
| 251 points | 2025 | author rpastuszak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback, most of my usual readers know about Ensō and it seems I forgot to leave my little bubble when writing this post!” | ||
| 1926. | To Master Vim, Use It Like Language (danielmiessler.com) | |
| 250 points | 2015 | author danielmiessler showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The irony in your comment is that I recommend Drew's book in the primer, and Drew has recommended this primer as well. Maybe they're both good ways to learn Vim.” | ||
| 1927. | Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014) (j2kun.svbtle.com) | |
| 250 points | 2016 | author j2kun showed up | their comment | thread
“I can't help but plug my mailing list for a book I'm writing, called "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics." Cheers, and thanks for reading!” | ||
| 1928. | A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor (digitalfreepen.com) | |
| 250 points | 2017 | author rudi-c showed up | their comment | thread
“There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet. often gets mentioned on HN and has a large volume of posts that follow…” | ||
| 1929. | The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) (digitalmars.com) | |
| 250 points | 2020 | author WalterBright showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA!” | ||
| 1930. | Writing a software book and making over $100k (twitter.com) | |
| 250 points | 2020 | author vladmihalcea showed up | their comment | thread
“The book is stored on GitHub and LeanPub fetches the files and renders it. My blog is running on WordPress.com. I'm using a Business plan so I can better customize the…” | ||
| 1931. | Open-Source Music Production Tools (midination.com) | |
| 250 points | 2020 | author ryan_midi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet,…” | ||
| 1932. | Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (0xfoobar.substack.com) | |
| 250 points | 2022 | author 0xfoobar showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Supermajority attestations and block finalization, as well as withdrawal queues, prevent long-range attacks. To attempt to reorg a finalized block (blocks are generally…” | ||
| 1933. | Building friend catchers (ferrucc.io) | |
| 250 points | 2022 | author 0xferruccio showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to see this got picked up!” | ||
| 1934. | Triptych Proposals (alexanderpetros.com) | |
| 250 points | 2025 | author alexpetros showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll let the proposal mostly speak for itself but one recurring question it doesn't answer is: "how likely is any of this to happen?" My answer is: I'm pretty…” | ||
| 1935. | How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io) | |
| 250 points | 2026 | author glinscott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is a sequel to my beam engine article:. I started digging into Watt's challenges getting an accurate cylinder bore for his pistons, and it spiraled out from there…” | ||
| 1936. | How Insects Breathe (noticing.co) | |
| 249 points | 2015 | author aatish showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting us up here. Hope you like what we're doing, and let us know what you think. If you're looking to read more of our posts, you can follow the blog on…” | ||
| 1937. | Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page (github.com) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author statoshi showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the pull request that made this change; feel free to AMA related to it.” | ||
| 1938. | Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017) (journals.plos.org) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author stochastician showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! Always a pleasant surprise to find stuff you do making it to HN.” | ||
| 1939. | Autopsy of a deep learning paper (blog.piekniewski.info) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author felippee showed up | their comment | thread
“not the paper). I think you don't understand how science works. The whole point of the exercise (which indeed may have been forgotten these days) is to attack…” | ||
| 1940. | WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games (prilik.com) | |
| 249 points | 2018 | author daniel5151 showed up | their comment | thread
“If you've got any questions, fire away!” | ||
| 1941. | How Tailscale Works (tailscale.com) | |
| 249 points | 2020 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, this is what DERP is for. Nowadays automatically designating nodes as supernodes doesn’t work as well as it used to, since many devices are battery constrained and…” | ||
| 1942. | I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage (rtpg.co) | |
| 249 points | 2020 | author rtpg showed up | their comment | thread
“Though theoretically any interpreted language gives you all of this, you actually might not have access to the internals in practice. JS (well, node.js and browsers)…” | ||
| 1943. | Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery (aposymbiont.github.io) | |
| 249 points | 2021 | author Symbiote showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the submitted site (although "remixer+maintainer" is more accurate – there was an older list [1] which I updated and converted to a gallery with…” | ||
| 1944. | Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure (leerob.io) | |
| 249 points | 2021 | author leerob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few other Rust projects to note that I didn't mention in the original post I've since found: - Boa (JS engine in Rust) – - RSLint (JS/TS linter in Rust) – - Node…” | ||
| 1945. | Logging C Functions (justine.lol) | |
| 249 points | 2022 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We have 364 separate test programs in the Cosmopolitan repository. However most of our testing comes from running the tests of huge existing projects that use libc, e.g.…” | ||
| 1946. | Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (nschloe.github.io) | |
| 249 points | 2022 | author nschloe showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“The kerning is probably a problem with their font config that can hopefully be fixed. I don't think -- and that's me personal estimation -- that people will write tons…” | ||
| 1947. | “Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong” (the.scapegoat.dev) | |
| 249 points | 2022 | author larve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“thanks for reading. I didn’t give much information about my life, but I am pretty adept at playing all these games. So much so that I thought there was no way I could be…” | ||
| 1948. | How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments? (blog.interviewing.io) | |
| 249 points | 2022 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Good call, just fixed to a more generic link about layoffs on Blind. No shortage of recent conversations.” | ||
| 1949. | Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search (assembled.com) | |
| 249 points | 2024 | author johnjwang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you're for sure right -- it's not a problem with RAG the theoretical concept. In fact, I think RAG implementations should likely be specific to their use cases (e.g. our…” | ||
| 1950. | Basic Category Theory (arxiv.org) | |
| 248 points | 2017 | author Tom_Leinster showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your interest in my book! I agree, the words "relatively little background" are too vague. What I had in mind was that the book requires little background…” | ||
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