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Tailscale SSH (tailscale.com) |
| 759 points | 2022 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions. One of the fun technical details is that, when enabled on a machine (tailscale up --ssh), the userspace tailscaled process takes over all…” |
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Vibe code is legacy code (blog.val.town) |
| 758 points | 2025 | author stevekrouse showed up | their comment | thread
“very excited to chat with you all about this :)” |
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Slack's bait and switch (opkode.com) |
| 757 points | 2018 | author jcbrand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes I was confused about "emoji reactions", thanks for explaining. I've updated the article to clarify.” |
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More challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu) |
| 757 points | 2020 | author azhenley showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree! That was one of the projects from the original project list that I posted a year ago (). In fact, this summer I wrote a 3-part tutorial series on implementing a…” |
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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi (mtlynch.io) |
| 756 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.” |
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Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org) |
| 756 points | 2025 | author tipiirai showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“To clarify: a button installed via ShadCN/Vite’s official docs () ends up way heavier than a full Nue SPA. It’s not a jab at React devs—just showing how web standards…” |
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GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers (apility.io) |
| 755 points | 2018 | author logronoide showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“My most stupid post is in HN! crazy! I just wanted to be sarcastic and make some laughs about people blocking all traffic from Europe, which is crazy! It's a Friday…” |
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Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 (overreacted.io) |
| 753 points | 2018 | author danabramov showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’ve worked on C# codebases professionally for about four years. They’re not open source because half of that time I worked on enterprise software (ASP .NET MVC, Entity…” |
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The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” (piotr.is) |
| 753 points | 2021 | author arespredator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To anyone upset or offended by the Linux/nerd paragraph: please chill, and please forgive my tone. I am a nerd myself indeed, and what I wanted to convey by this…” |
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Exercises to Learn Rust (rust-exercises.com) |
| 752 points | 2024 | author LukeMathWalker showed up | their comment | thread
“To be fair, there is no particular backstory. I picked a hermit crab as the book logo since crabs are strongly associated with Rust due to Ferris, Rust's mascot. I then…” |
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Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission (mwcampbell.github.io) |
| 751 points | 2021 | author mwcampbell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am taking your comments to heart. I'm not yet prepared to concede that we should give up on accessibility standards for platform and application developers and expect…” |
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating (evanmiller.org) |
| 750 points | 2012 | author EvanMiller showed up | their comment | thread
“For the academically inclined, there is a critique of this approach in this paper: Of course, I think the authors miss the point of the algorithm, since I basically…” |
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Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) (mooreds.com) |
| 749 points | 2025 | author mooreds showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Ah, this is interesting feedback. I think that there's some nuance to this approach that I didn't capture in the post. You have to have some level of trust between…” |
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I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com) |
| 748 points | 2020 | author wes1350 showed up | their comment (+15 more) | thread
“I definitely don't feel completely automatic in French, but when having casual conversation I can be fairly automatic if the subject matter isn't too demanding. I think…” |
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Writing a good Claude.md (humanlayer.dev) |
| 748 points | 2025 | author 0xblacklight showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I didn’t dive into that because in a lot of cases it’s not necessary and I wanted to keep the post short, but for large monorepos it’s a good idea” |
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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects (anandtech.com) |
| 747 points | 2021 | author IanCutress showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the few tech journalists that gets interview opportunities with Intel and AMD CEOs. I did both a couple of weeks back for CES. Been covering both (and others)…” |
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev) |
| 747 points | 2025 | author rtfeldman showed up | their comment | thread
“:) I work at Zed and I like using Rust daily for my job, but outside work I also like Elm, and Zig, and am working on” |
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What really happened at PyCon 2013 (peak5390.wordpress.com) |
| 746 points | 2013 | author japhyr showed up | their comment | thread
“It's so nice to see the conversation get back to all the good things that go on at PyCon.” |
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Pure Bash Bible (github.com) |
| 746 points | 2019 | author dyanaraps showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions you may have. Here's an example of what bash is capable of: (a TUI file manager written in bash)!” |
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Security.txt (securitytxt.org) |
| 746 points | 2021 | author nwcs showed up | their comment | thread
“Make sure you read through the actual latest draft (especially section 6): Also, we are in the end stages of the IETF approval process so this should be official later…” |
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Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities (cacm.acm.org) |
| 743 points | 2014 | author pgbovine showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Please email course correction requests to philip@pgbovine.net ... I'll probably miss a few important corrections amidst the hundreds of comments. As a clarification, a…” |
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun (kevinlynagh.com) |
| 743 points | 2021 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I agree that the Rust embedded books are a nice read, and the idea of type state programming --- taking advantage of Rust's ownership and generics system to enforce at…” |
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Exa, a modern replacement for ls (the.exa.website) |
| 740 points | 2017 | author cytzol showed up | their comment | thread
“You know what's funny? Every time I have to use ls, I'm so used to seeing the colours that I have so much trouble finding anything. Which column in the permissions is…” |
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Moving from YouTube to PeerTube (battlepenguin.com) |
| 738 points | 2020 | author djsumdog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I host on a dedicated server in Germany; 64GB of ram and a recent generation processor. It costs less than all my crappy Vultr/DigitalOcean nodes, so I moved a ton of…” |
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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday (travisdowns.github.io) |
| 735 points | 2021 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback! Just a note that the title should be: Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday” |
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Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? (truthhawk.com) |
| 733 points | 2017 | author TruthHawk showed up | their comment | thread
“you're right. I've made an edit accordingly. Thanks!” |
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What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com) |
| 733 points | 2020 | author maest showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We've taken no intentional action to change the way the back button works - in fact, I too hate it when websites do that. Can you PM me with some details about what…” |
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software (alinpanaitiu.com) |
| 730 points | 2024 | author alin23 showed up | their comment | thread
“Don't worry, I'm well aware that what I can create currently can't be sold :) what I can currently do is like an MVP in wood, I cut a lot of corners (literally) just to…” |
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Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects (opensource.googleblog.com) |
| 727 points | 2017 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's some truth to what he's saying. One thing I've been meaning to do is get my hands on all the Maven pom.xml files that exist, so I can load them into a Guava…” |
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How I keep myself alive using Golang (bytesizego.com) |
| 726 points | 2024 | author mattboyle showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article- I’m very aware of Dexcom and it doesn’t have all this out the box” |
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