181. 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…”
182. 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 :)”
183. 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.”
184. 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…”
185. 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.”
186. 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…”
187. 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…”
188. 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…”
189. 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…”
190. 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…”
191. 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…”
192. 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…”
193. 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…”
194. 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…”
195. 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”
196. 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)…”
197. 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”
198. 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.”
199. 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)!”
200. 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…”
201. 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…”
202. 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…”
203. 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…”
204. 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…”
205. 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”
206. 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!”
207. 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…”
208. 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…”
209. 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…”
210. 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”