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| 2011. | Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on (arstechnica.com) | |
| 244 points | 2022 | author JeremyReimer showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm really happy to see people getting into the nostalgia about these weird and wonderful devices. Researching the story was absolutely fascinating, and I loved getting…” | ||
| 2012. | Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? (trace.yshui.dev) | |
| 244 points | 2024 | author yshui showed up | their comment | thread
“I probably should have stated this more explicitly in the article, but my main concern with using it for day job is copyright. I don't want to accidentally commit…” | ||
| 2013. | Animated Cursors (tattoy.sh) | |
| 244 points | 2025 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“I just chose the fire cursor for the demo. There are lots of other shaders available, eg, they have a simple smear cursor like Neovide's.” | ||
| 2014. | Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata (github.com) | |
| 243 points | 2015 | author lazard showed up | their comment | thread
“The latency can be reduced by future work. For example, Section 9 in the paper mentions an idea for reducing the amount of noise (and thus reducing latency) by treating…” | ||
| 2015. | Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack (jamesknelson.com) | |
| 243 points | 2016 | author jamesknelson showed up | their comment | thread
“My target audience here was really people who've already decided they're going to use React, and are keen on understanding what is going on under the hood. And while I…” | ||
| 2016. | Show HN: Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game (flexboxdefense.com) | |
| 243 points | 2016 | author ChanningAllen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've always been a big fan of tower defense games so I thought it would be cool to make an open-source version of the game for teaching basic Flexbox properties. It's…” | ||
| 2017. | Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft? (nimbleindustries.io) | |
| 243 points | 2020 | author colinbartlett showed up | their comment | thread
“just put a CDN in front of the blog so maybe that will help.” | ||
| 2018. | Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust (bevyengine.org) | |
| 243 points | 2020 | author _cart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Bevy!” | ||
| 2019. | What a great technical resume can do for you (meetleet.com) | |
| 243 points | 2020 | author mcenedella showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is fair. For a developer at a small status, connecting their work to an increase in user engagement might be appropriate. At a mid- or large-size firm, your bullet…” | ||
| 2020. | Writing high performance F# code (bartoszsypytkowski.com) | |
| 243 points | 2021 | author Horusiath showed up | their comment | thread
“as weird as it sounds, I have a prefetched Power Point template with color palette and settings, and I'm just using it for all presentations and diagrams ;)” | ||
| 2021. | How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks (robinglen.medium.com) | |
| 243 points | 2022 | author thearegee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm the author of this post and its been really cool to see all the different comments and projects looking to solve this problem - they all make mine look like amateur…” | ||
| 2022. | Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data (github.blog) | |
| 243 points | 2024 | author geekjock showed up | their comment | thread
“Your critique is valid though by research standards, for this type of study, our sample is sufficient. We are planning to replicate this study on a larger scale in the…” | ||
| 2023. | Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock (old.reddit.com) | |
| 243 points | 2025 | author c10ned showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me clarify, as that was indeed worded rather vaguely in my post—I forgot to mention why exactly Android is at risk. On the Pixel 7, Airplane mode absolutely did not…” | ||
| 2024. | Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM (veracode.com) | |
| 242 points | 2013 | author abadidea showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I work in/study static analysis, so "running the program" would be entirely defeating the fun ;)” | ||
| 2025. | Loupe: Etsy's New Monitoring Stack (codeascraft.com) | |
| 242 points | 2013 | author aba_sababa showed up | their comment | thread
“Accuracy is okay - we err on the side of noise, but it does routinely pick up anomalies. It doesn't currently account for seasonal trends, though. We aim for 100% CPU…” | ||
| 2026. | Responsive Dashboard (ehesp.github.io) | |
| 242 points | 2014 | author aliasell showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm really a backend developer so my knowledge of Angular really isn't that great. I'll look into what you suggested, however I didn't want it to be too complex; quick…” | ||
| 2027. | Running the Let's Encrypt Beta (lolware.net) | |
| 242 points | 2015 | author zakjan showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the options you mention before, however I found it highly unreliable. I have replaced them with better manual error handling and tests. Please review the latest…” | ||
| 2028. | Four features that justify a new Unix shell (oilshell.org) | |
| 242 points | 2020 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah I've been asked that before, and there are some things you can fix with a transpiler, but somethings you can't. That's why the tagline to Oil is now "our upgrade…” | ||
| 2029. | The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway (brianli.com) | |
| 242 points | 2020 | author blymd showed up | their comment | thread
“Most Broadway shows have live keyboard players. There are a variety of things that can go wrong during a live show, and a live band is extremely useful in those…” | ||
| 2030. | Looking into Zig (ayende.com) | |
| 242 points | 2021 | author ayende showed up | their comment | thread
“I typically just throw things into the post queue and they drop every day. In this case, I replied to a question and it turned into a full blown post.” | ||
| 2031. | Hello, Youki (utam0k.jp) | |
| 242 points | 2022 | author utam0k showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of youki. Please let me know if you have any questions.” | ||
| 2032. | Congratulations: We now have opinions on your open source contributions (lucumr.pocoo.org) | |
| 242 points | 2022 | author the_mitsuhiko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The rules in a way are changing with the threshold of "criticality". In a way what you are proposing is suggesting to developers to unpublish if they do not want to deal…” | ||
| 2033. | The type system is a programmer's best friend (dusted.codes) | |
| 242 points | 2022 | author dustedcodes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry I didn't respond to any feedback yet. I've literally posted this before leaving my house and didn't think it would get many upvotes as it didn't get any votes the…” | ||
| 2034. | Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation (answer.ai) | |
| 242 points | 2024 | author austinvhuang showed up | their comment | thread
“Agh I was intending for the project to fly under the radar for a few more days before making the announcement and blog post (please look/upvote that when you see it haha…” | ||
| 2035. | Buttplug MCP (github.com) | |
| 242 points | 2025 | author neomantra showed up | their comment | thread
“What a Happy Friday to see this now, as I created it on April Fool's Day. I annually do silly personal projects on that day. That week I happened to be playing with MCP…” | ||
| 2036. | Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet (rubytune.com) | |
| 241 points | 2013 | author sudara showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to try the word out, see if it felt right. But yes, my impression is that it's normally a developer who "trends towards doing systems administration" – so…” | ||
| 2037. | Why is nobody using SSL client certificates? (pilif.github.io) | |
| 241 points | 2013 | author pilif showed up | their comment | thread
“Since then my views have changed a bit: for one, the added security is debatable as the client cert is easily accessible to malware and thus could easily be stolen. The…” | ||
| 2038. | The Star Trek Economy (medium.com) | |
| 241 points | 2014 | author rickwebb showed up | their comment | thread
“1) No trolling, just sarcasm. Not a comment on my personal beliefs, more along the lines of "wouldn't wash with a bunch of American TV writers during the cold war." I…” | ||
| 2039. | The State of Babel (babeljs.io) | |
| 241 points | 2016 | author hzoo showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone had questions or wanted to know more about how to help out! Personally, I'm most excited about babel-preset-env, and fixing how we work with the TC39 process…” | ||
| 2040. | Why I'm Making Python 2.8 (naftaliharris.com) | |
| 241 points | 2016 | author naftaliharris showed up | their comment | thread
“Imagine my surprise when I got back from a day of sightseeing (I'm on vacation in Spain) and saw that this had blown up. I had intended to "release" this project after…” | ||
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