1951. Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs (hnews.xyz)
248 points | 2017 | author valentinvieriu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at - right now that's the old version using Angularjs The project uses as a starting point…”
1952. Self-Crashing Cars (zachaysan.com)
248 points | 2018 | author 3pt14159 showed up | their comment | thread
“I was nodding in agreement with you for your first two points. I don’t think I’ve come to a perfect solution, but I want you to know that I actually have many of the…”
1953. Building a fast Electron app with Rust (keminglabs.com)
248 points | 2018 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“For more background on product development about Finda, there are notes on my personal website here: I started this as a UI research project to try and replace OS X…”
1954. Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman (github.com)
248 points | 2019 | author liyasthomas showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Ask me anything! Shoot me any doubts, asks and I'll rectify them.”
1955. Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better (medium.com)
248 points | 2020 | author judah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some teams use it, including ours (PWABuilder).”
1956. Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers (blog.cloudflare.com)
248 points | 2021 | author nilslice showed up | their comment | thread
“No websocket support yet, but it’s definitely on the roadmap. If you have ideas or suggestions for a nice Rust interface for it please share on the GitHub repo. Would…”
1957. TinyBase: A JavaScript library for structured state (tinybase.org)
248 points | 2022 | author jamesgpearce showed up | their comment | thread
“but I just woke up. AMA!”
1958. Watchman: Execute a command when something changes (github.com)
248 points | 2022 | author crodjer showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure what generated interest in this. This was a project I did for my personal use case. But I haven't been using it since years. I'd recommend [entr]() for the use…”
1959. Google banned me from Google Voice (dannyguo.com)
248 points | 2024 | author dguo showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies.…”
1960. DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught (nature.com)
248 points | 2025 | author danijar showed up | their comment | thread
“Dreamer learns to find diamonds from scratch by interacting with the environment, without access to external data. So there are no explainer videos or internet text…”
1961. LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust (jaysthoughts.com)
248 points | 2025 | author acedTrex showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Sorry about the JS stuff I wrote this while also fooling around with alpine.js for fun. I never expected it to make it to HN. I'll get a static version up and running.…”
1962. State of Devs 2026 (2026.stateofdevs.com)
248 points | 2026 | author sgdesign showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the feedback but I feel like there's a falacy here. If we asked respondents if they liked ice cream, and it turned out 95% of survey respondents hate it,…”
1963. The physics of that ‘kickalicious’ kick (empiricalzeal.com)
247 points | 2013 | author aatish showed up | their comment | thread
“and am happy to field questions on the post. Do people accept that the video isn't faked? The data isn't perfect, but it was good enough to convince me that the video is…”
1964. DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy? (etherrag.blogspot.jp)
247 points | 2013 | author tokyovapr showed up | their comment | thread
“I did start that blog just for that post. I have never blogged before in any substantial way, but the naivete of comments from the CEO of DDG and the fact that users…”
1965. What does it take to make Google work at scale? (docs.google.com)
247 points | 2015 | author ms705 showed up | their comment | thread
“The talk for which I put the slide deck together was given at a summer school and unfortunately not recorded, but if there is sufficient interest, I might tape a re-run…”
1966. Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python (github.com)
247 points | 2017 | author kwk236 showed up | their comment | thread
“This repo got popular before I had a chance to write README and organize code. I am going to make the code more consistent, add tests, and write brief tutorials by the…”
1967. AMP: the missing controversy (ferdychristant.com)
247 points | 2018 | author fchristant showed up | their comment | thread
“I have no idea how to stop it. Bad press doesn't seem to matter, as this has been around for years. One longshot I could think of is reporting it to the EU as…”
1968. How much free time do you have? (erikrood.com)
247 points | 2019 | author qwerty2020 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :) However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1…”
1969. Open-source firmware (mullvad.net)
247 points | 2019 | author kfreds showed up | their comment | thread
“Currently on my phone, but feel free to ask questions and I’ll answer as I’m able.”
1970. How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers (startupandrew.com)
247 points | 2019 | author mayop100 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi all - I hope you find this useful! If you have questions or want to know more I’m hosting a live stream Q&A today on Twitter at 1 PM Pacific. Tune in and bring your…”
1971. Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019) (dl.acm.org)
247 points | 2020 | author rwmj showed up | their comment | thread
“so ask away if you have questions.”
1972. Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide (causal.app)
247 points | 2020 | author refrigerator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for raising this — I intended for that example just to illustrate the underlying concept of having balanced entries for a transaction, rather than to show how…”
1973. Why is Snowflake so Valuable? (freshpaint.io)
247 points | 2020 | author malisper showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've worked with a large Postgres cluster before (~1PB of data) and have been experimenting with Snowflake recently. I would say there's two clear technical advantages…”
1974. Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions (posthog.com)
247 points | 2021 | author Twixes showed up | their comment | thread
“I sneakily put that bit in just to see who notices the absurd of it. ;) But sorry for the resulting triple-takes!”
1975. Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture (gabrielgambetta.com)
247 points | 2021 | author ggambetta showed up | their comment | thread
“Always a pleasant surprise and a weird feeling to open Hacker News (for the 14308560234th time today) and read my name like that :)”
1976. Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021) (blog.replit.com)
247 points | 2022 | author masfrost showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Glad to see the blogpost on HN! CodeMirror improved Replit's performance by a lot and by extension our retention. In fact, after releasing it to mobile in July[1] our…”
1977. The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf] (people.freebsd.org)
247 points | 2024 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment | thread
“Note that the 4 hours per bisection is the time to ramp the server up and down and re-image it. It does not count the time to actually do the bisection step. That's…”
1978. What Makes Android Revolutionary (osnews.com)
246 points | 2011 | author thomholwerda showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Nope. It doesn't mean "reaches the most people". It means "has the most impact on the world". I think that Android will be the technology that allows people in poorer…”
1979. No longer loving Google (somebits.com)
246 points | 2012 | author NelsonMinar showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't have many friends left at Google but from what I've heard there's a lot of internal debate about the direction of the company now. There's been years of…”
1980. Google outed me (zdnet.com)
246 points | 2014 | author violet_blue showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not entirely agree with his comment, but I included it because it made a strong, though extreme, point about the state of journalism in what he felt led to what…”