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| 2041. | Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum (blog.cloudflare.com) | |
| 241 points | 2018 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“TPROXY module is pretty special, it really would have been hard to handle any inbound port without it. I guess it shows that there are benefits in keeping firewall and…” | ||
| 2042. | Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output (singhkays.com) | |
| 241 points | 2021 | author singhkays showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I hear you. I had to double check a bunch of time whether you can get HDR with 8-bit displays. It seems like not all TV panels out there are 10-bit and they still claim…” | ||
| 2043. | I was wrong – CRDTs are the future (2020) (josephg.com) | |
| 241 points | 2022 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. I'm happy to answer questions. I wrote this a couple years ago. Since then I've been working on my own CRDT called Diamond Types[1], which uses…” | ||
| 2044. | Janet for Mortals (2023) (ianthehenry.com) | |
| 241 points | 2024 | author ianthehenry showed up | their comment | thread
“it's not a good connotation. i chose it because: 1. it is kinda memorable (look there are so many programming books with exactly the same name) 2. the language is named…” | ||
| 2045. | Migrating to Postgres (engineering.usemotion.com) | |
| 241 points | 2025 | author ScalaHanSolo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Optimizing bad queries was absolutely part of the issues with the performance. The issue with cockroach was that the visibility into those bad queries was not great. It…” | ||
| 2046. | Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com) | |
| 241 points | 2025 | author martinald showed up | their comment | thread
“I mix up American and British English all the time. It's pretty common for us Brits to do that imo. See also how all (?) Brits pronounce Gen Z in the American way (ie…” | ||
| 2047. | Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev) | |
| 241 points | 2026 | author airesQ showed up | their comment | thread
“thx). There's a video as well, a six-minute video on how it works and the various QoL that we added (made by AI with human assistance): *” | ||
| 2048. | Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer (venturebeat.com) | |
| 240 points | 2010 | author feross showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually, I never "announced" this site anywhere. I posted a status update to some friends to get their feedback. They shared it and it spread from there. I woke up this…” | ||
| 2049. | 2048 – multiplayer (emils.github.io) | |
| 240 points | 2014 | author Oculus showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the buggyness, this is my first stab at realtime. I can confirm that everybody you're playing is a real person. I wasn't sure how to simulate latency for…” | ||
| 2050. | Procedural City Generation in Python (josauder.github.io) | |
| 240 points | 2015 | author josauder showed up | their comment | thread
“While I admit to having skimmed over the paper above, this is NOT the main source of our information. We looked a bit further into this one: As soon as I get home I will…” | ||
| 2051. | ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs (twitter.com) | |
| 240 points | 2020 | author jph00 showed up | their comment | thread
“Wasn't sure anyone would read it - glad it's got noticed, because I do think it's an important issue! I'd love to know where that money at IEEE and ACM is going. The…” | ||
| 2052. | Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes (openai.com) | |
| 240 points | 2021 | author benchess showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi! Co-author here. We do keep the nodes running 24/7, so Kubernetes still provides the scheduling to decide which nodes are free or not at any given time. Generally…” | ||
| 2053. | MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C (github.com) | |
| 240 points | 2022 | author 4984 showed up | their comment | thread
“Tail calls can be implemented in MiniVM bytecode. There was once an instruction that performed a tail call, It bit-rotted due to not being used. MiniVM is moving very…” | ||
| 2054. | How SQLite scales read concurrency (fly.io) | |
| 240 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I hope the article didn't come off as me claiming SQLite is underrated. I find that it's a great piece of software for understanding database internals. There's not a…” | ||
| 2055. | Modern JavaScript for Django developers (saaspegasus.com) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author czue showed up | their comment | thread
“I would say the core principles still hold up well, though the tooling and libraries are constantly evolving. An incomplete list of things I'd add / change today (and…” | ||
| 2056. | Cancellations in async Rust (sunshowers.io) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author sunshowers showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- I'd recommend reading my blog post about how cargo-nextest uses Tokio + async Rust to handle very complex state machines:” | ||
| 2057. | Google Safe Browsing incident (statichost.eu) | |
| 240 points | 2025 | author ericselin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This is all true. The main assumption from my part is that anything remotely important or even sensitive should be and is hosted on a domain that is _not_…” | ||
| 2058. | Hacker News Web App for Mobile (hn.premii.com) | |
| 239 points | 2013 | author thekingshorses showed up | their comment | thread
“Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip…” | ||
| 2059. | Experiments to do with your baby (theatlantic.com) | |
| 239 points | 2013 | author jawns showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid"). I'm a big HN fan and would be happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 2060. | Everyday hassles in Go (crufter.com) | |
| 239 points | 2014 | author friendly_chap showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think that is a very valid point. However, a lot of features I mentioned are present in other imperative languages, like Rust. The Go authors however picked other…” | ||
| 2061. | Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD (homing-on-code.blogspot.com) | |
| 239 points | 2015 | author mulander showed up | their comment | thread
“Can you elaborate more clearly on what you are pointing out?” | ||
| 2062. | Relay FAQ: Facebook's Data-fetching Framework for React (gist.github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2015 | author wincent showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the gist; happy to answer questions (although out and on my phone right now so I won't be super fast).” | ||
| 2063. | Freely available programming books (github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2016 | author vhf showed up | their comment | thread
“which seems to end up here once a year. Since I don't want to answer to every post suggesting something, I'll do it here: I know we could do better in terms of curating…” | ||
| 2064. | Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust (chromium.googlesource.com) | |
| 239 points | 2017 | author zaxcellent showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Rust is not officially sanctioned at Google, but there are pockets of folks using it here. The trick with using Rust in this component was convincing my coworkers that…” | ||
| 2065. | Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes (nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 239 points | 2018 | author nickjj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Nice find. I just updated to 3.x (my screenshots were based on 2.x) and 3.x's UI is a pretty substantial improvement. Reports generate faster, fonts look better and the…” | ||
| 2066. | My First Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io) | |
| 239 points | 2019 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 2067. | Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison (github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2020 | author boramalper showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Copying my comment from the previous submission[x]: This was a quite common criticism over r/Python[0] as well, saying that using C modules and then benchmarking…” | ||
| 2068. | An update on Android's audio latency (android-developers.googleblog.com) | |
| 239 points | 2021 | author donturner showed up | their comment | thread
“My testing methodology was to run the round-trip latency test using OboeTester:. It's a simple test: produce a tone (either on built-in speaker or over wired headphones…” | ||
| 2069. | I booked my cheapest one-month trip (benbernardblog.com) | |
| 239 points | 2021 | author bbernard showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I can confirm that I 100% enjoyed it.” | ||
| 2070. | A simple way to build collaborative web apps (zjy.cloud) | |
| 239 points | 2021 | author thezjy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for mentioning Meteor, which also impressed me a lot when it first came out. I think it didn't take off because it tries to do too much (frontend + backend + db).…” | ||
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