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| 1981. | Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet (alexirpan.com) | |
| 246 points | 2018 | author alexirpan showed up | their comment | thread
“My intent was to say, "When someone I know asks me if RL is a good idea, the answer is no >= 70% of the time." The important missing piece is that it's conditioned on…” | ||
| 1982. | Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL (github.com) | |
| 246 points | 2018 | author alberteinstein showed up | their comment | thread
“You can open GraphiQL on any GraphQL endpoint using graphqurl: gq https://api.yelp.com/v3/graphql -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type:…” | ||
| 1983. | Clean your codebase with basic information theory (taylor.town) | |
| 246 points | 2024 | author surprisetalk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You may be interested in the programming language I've been working on :) [1]” | ||
| 1984. | I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey (ertu.dev) | |
| 246 points | 2025 | author ertucetin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thank you all for taking the time to read about my journey and, of course, for playing my game. I’m very glad that you liked it!” | ||
| 1985. | How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time (jdlm.info) | |
| 245 points | 2016 | author jdleesmiller showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“It's great to see my write-up on HN, and I'm glad to see it generating good discussion here. Since several people have asked, I have now made my 'metime' tracking app…” | ||
| 1986. | FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro (gist.github.com) | |
| 245 points | 2016 | author mpasternacki showed up | their comment | thread
“Debugging dual boot is interesting, debugging virtualbox is not. And I was curious if I can get it running. I just was too lazy to figure it out, I found a more…” | ||
| 1987. | A Virtual Machine (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 245 points | 2018 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“and uncomfortably excited to discuss this with any and all who are interested.” | ||
| 1988. | No Phd, No Problem: New Schemes Teach the Masses to Build AI (economist.com) | |
| 245 points | 2018 | author halhod showed up | their comment | thread
“No PR was involved. I’ve been following fast.ai for a while and I thought it was part of an interesting trend My basic rule with stories is that they must come from me…” | ||
| 1989. | Text Processing in the Shell (blog.balthazar-rouberol.com) | |
| 245 points | 2020 | author BaltoRouberol showed up | their comment | thread
“Quick sidenote: this is chapter 2 of a book aiming at teaching the terminal and related tooling (make, jq, regular expressions, etc) to beginners and people trying to…” | ||
| 1990. | Build a toy quantum computer at home (dhruvonmath.com) | |
| 245 points | 2020 | author dhruvp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here - If you have any feedback on what can improve please let me know! Thanks for reading and feel free to shoot me a note at dhruv.parthasarathy@gmail.com…” | ||
| 1991. | Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app) | |
| 245 points | 2020 | author thesephist showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal…” | ||
| 1992. | The life and death of email read tracking (missiveapp.com) | |
| 245 points | 2020 | author plehoux showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree.” | ||
| 1993. | Speeding up atan2f (mazzo.li) | |
| 245 points | 2021 | author rostayob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're right, I should have specified -- it is glibc 2.32-48 . This the source specifying how glibc is built: . I've amended the article so that it says `glibc` rather…” | ||
| 1994. | Windmill.dev (docs.windmill.dev) | |
| 245 points | 2022 | author rubenfiszel showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not plan to have a wide announcement today tbh. This is the repo: I have my YC interview in 10 minutes and wanted to OSS it before. Agree it lacks a lot of…” | ||
| 1995. | Friends don't let friends export to CSV (kaveland.no) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author rkaveland showed up | their comment | thread
“I see now that the title is too controversial, I should have toned that down. As I mention in the conclusion, if you're giving parquet files to your user and all they…” | ||
| 1996. | Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 (blog.benjojo.co.uk) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author benjojo12 showed up | their comment | thread
“No in fact, it is so much worse! I do agree we should use IPv6, The ending of the blog post says as such :)” | ||
| 1997. | Crafting Painterly Shaders (blog.maximeheckel.com) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author MaximeHeckel showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the RSS feed (and sitemap as well since both were not updated) Those scripts were silently skipped since January Apologies for the inconvenience, it should be…” | ||
| 1998. | You must read at least one book to ride (ludic.mataroa.blog) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Starting with Taleb at a young age was helpful for me, as he introduced me to the Narrative Fallacy. I.e, the easiest way to convince anyone of anything is to posit a…” | ||
| 1999. | The day my smart vacuum turned against me (codetiger.github.io) | |
| 245 points | 2025 | author codetiger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“And I tried unblocking every time it went down. But my experience was, once it got bricked, it never started. So flashing was necessary to get it up and running. I…” | ||
| 2000. | I can't recommend Grafana anymore (henrikgerdes.me) | |
| 245 points | 2025 | author kodama-lens showed up | their comment | thread
“I know the old way still works and I respect that. Given the history I ask myself how long will it work, since ist not the default anymore.” | ||
| 2001. | Confessions of A Job Destroyer (decomplecting.org) | |
| 244 points | 2013 | author canweriotnow showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, I wrote this post and it's gotten more points than my cumulative HN karma. But it's also gotten better discussion than anything I've ever posted to HN, so I'm…” | ||
| 2002. | Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures (lukauskas.co.uk) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author Sauliusl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is a difference between C/C++, but for the purposes of this article it does not matter -- the point I am trying to make is that you would not use a hash table in…” | ||
| 2003. | A 30-minute Introduction to Rust (doc.rust-lang.org) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author steveklabnik showed up | their comment | thread
“it ended up being the actual intro. I hope to go over it again soon, and make it better. There's nothing super wrong with it, but you can always improve! Feedback…” | ||
| 2004. | Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple (fix-macosx.com) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author ljfuller showed up | their comment | thread
“Howdy. Author here. By way of introduction, I'm also the author of PLCrashReporter (), ported Java 6 to Mac OS X (a.k.a Soylatte), and -- this might lower some folk's…” | ||
| 2005. | LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB (github.com) | |
| 244 points | 2015 | author geedy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am more than happy to answer any questions. It has mostly been an academic project while I was doing during my undergrad, but I am now looking at continuing the…” | ||
| 2006. | Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech (research.baidu.com) | |
| 244 points | 2017 | author PieSquared showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey there! I'm one of the authors of the paper and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have! Make sure to check out the paper on arxiv as well.” | ||
| 2007. | Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep (beyondgrep.com) | |
| 244 points | 2018 | author petdance showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't know about "The Secret" other than it being an Oprah thing, what, ten years ago? Abundance vs. scarcity has nothing to do with “Believe and you shall receive...…” | ||
| 2008. | So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 244 points | 2018 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment | thread
“GOG is a great service; their main limitations is that many AAA publishers absolutely refuse to release without DRM, though this is sloooooowly eroding, somewhat. GOG…” | ||
| 2009. | Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads (thehftguy.com) | |
| 244 points | 2019 | author user5994461 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Shockingly, the company is to blame as much as gmail in most cases. There are a few settings to configure to be able to receive and send emails and many companies can't…” | ||
| 2010. | An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers (github.com) | |
| 244 points | 2021 | author stephencanon showed up | their comment | thread
“Note this is not really a "new idea"; in a very reasonable sense it's simply the most obvious thing possible. I do think that it's likely the first mainstream…” | ||
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