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| 2071. | Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code (forrestthewoods.com) | |
| 239 points | 2022 | author forrestthewoods showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm an Intel i7-8700k desktop. A few years old at this point, but quite beefy. Maybe this is a Windows issue? If I run "zig build" and then immediately run "zig build"…” | ||
| 2072. | I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author (medium.com) | |
| 239 points | 2022 | author izanagi1995 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the buzz here, it's amazing! I just published on Hackernoon for the non-Medium members:. Also, you can find me on Twitter: and Discord:” | ||
| 2073. | Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2025 | author HansHalverson showed up | their comment | thread
“very cool to see this get posted! Thank you @ivankra for adding this to and running those benchmarks, I really appreciate it! This started as a hobby project that I've…” | ||
| 2074. | Engineering management at Facebook (algeri-wong.com) | |
| 238 points | 2011 | author yishan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Someone alerted me that this showed up on HN, so I figured I should come by to clarify. I believe my statement might be clear. What I mean by that is "it's [everyone's]…” | ||
| 2075. | The Revel Web Framework for Go (robfig.github.io) | |
| 238 points | 2013 | author robfig showed up | their comment | thread
“to provide a bit of context. Initially, this was just a fun project to see if I could replicate the magical Play! 1.x experience in much-less-magical Go. (Spoiler alert:…” | ||
| 2076. | Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha (github.com) | |
| 238 points | 2014 | author mieko showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's the corresponding proggit thread:” | ||
| 2077. | How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson” (syrah.co) | |
| 238 points | 2015 | author joshdickson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There are really people who don't have either of those? But really, we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. We'll fix it in an upcoming…” | ||
| 2078. | How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio (twilio.com) | |
| 238 points | 2017 | author saamm showed up | their comment | thread
“When we did this for our actual registration site, we spent hours inspecting requests in a proxy[0] to get to ~194 lines of PHP. 0: We used” | ||
| 2079. | Reason ML toolchain (khoanguyen.me) | |
| 238 points | 2018 | author thangngoc89 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I'll look into this and update the post accordingly. Thank you” | ||
| 2080. | Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python (victorzhou.com) | |
| 238 points | 2019 | author vzhou842 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Any/all feedback is welcome, and I'm happy to answer questions. Previous discussion on HN of the "introduction to Neural Networks" referenced in this article: Runnable…” | ||
| 2081. | Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019) (nest.pijul.com) | |
| 238 points | 2020 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. Yes it is, which sometimes comforts me when I think of how long it's taken to get a version that works reasonable well. That said, it's also…” | ||
| 2082. | A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip (alexbakker.me) | |
| 238 points | 2020 | author alexbakker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should have made this clear in the blog post, but I'd be interested in seeing boot logs from Pixel 3 (or newer) devices. If the firmware update failed on more devices…” | ||
| 2083. | What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile (v8.dev) | |
| 238 points | 2020 | author Aardappel showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has specific questions :)” | ||
| 2084. | Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package (horizon-eda.org) | |
| 238 points | 2020 | author karotte showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me anything.” | ||
| 2085. | Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons (bef.no) | |
| 238 points | 2021 | author AgoRapide showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree :) What I do myself on sites like this is to use CTRL+ until the text is so large that I can read multiple lines in parallell (that is the secret behind speed…” | ||
| 2086. | Dark Patterns Hall of Shame (darkpatterns.org) | |
| 238 points | 2021 | author harrybr showed up | their comment | thread
“The website is built using webflow, which is a very reasonable choice for someone who wants to run a website who is not also a developer. Embedding or linking to content…” | ||
| 2087. | PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements (patrick.engineering) | |
| 238 points | 2023 | author ppati000 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you (and others) for mentioning SELECT FOR UPDATE. Definitely missing at least a footnote in the article. Note that "one step" updates (e.g., SET followers_count =…” | ||
| 2088. | The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs (rjp.io) | |
| 238 points | 2025 | author rjpower9000 showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a great idea. I didn't explore that for this session but it's worth trying. I didn't measure consistently, but I would guess 60-70% of the symbols ported easily,…” | ||
| 2089. | OpenVim: Learn Vim in Your Browser (openvim.com) | |
| 237 points | 2011 | author mushishi showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry about that. I didn't mean that this should get into the wild this fast. I fixed the link (I had renamed Bitbucket repository). Also, it is not supposed to cover…” | ||
| 2090. | What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com) | |
| 237 points | 2011 | author mikeyk showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, our uploads go to our servers first (where we resize for thumbnails, etc) then go to S3.” | ||
| 2091. | Show HN: G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics (omrelli.ug) | |
| 237 points | 2016 | author bijection showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! We just fixed a bug that was breaking this on mobile, everything should be working now.” | ||
| 2092. | A Revolution in Your Pocket (rbs.io) | |
| 237 points | 2019 | author rschulman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm actually really interested in what we can do about the battery situation. The vision I laid out is clearly more battery intensive than your average phone is today. I…” | ||
| 2093. | Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning (datto.engineering) | |
| 237 points | 2021 | author rachelwenzel showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! Article author here- This was written as an after-the-fact look back after a year long project and the target testing set did change a little along the way.…” | ||
| 2094. | Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase and A15 Based IP (semianalysis.substack.com) | |
| 237 points | 2022 | author dylan522p showed up | their comment | thread
“What do you mean die shot bleeding?” | ||
| 2095. | ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand (github.com) | |
| 237 points | 2022 | author janosdebugs showed up | their comment | thread
“The website contains a lot more information than the GitHub page: If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer.” | ||
| 2096. | Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks (eieio.games) | |
| 237 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry that some of the stuff went over your head! I wanted to include longer descriptions of the tech I was using but the post was already suuuper long and I felt like I…” | ||
| 2097. | Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C (educatedguesswork.org) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author ekr____ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“You're quite right that this isn't the thing you would normally do. I'm just trying to help people work through the logic of the system with as few dependencies as…” | ||
| 2098. | Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems (github.com) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author kormax showed up | their comment | thread
“As far as I know, Ubiquiti is not responsible for this 5$ per year "tax". Apple takes about 3$ per user per year for usage of "Apple Access Platform", and the rest is…” | ||
| 2099. | The model is the product (vintagedata.org) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author Dorialexander showed up | their comment | thread
“An important background is the imminent rise of actual LLM agents I discuss in the next post: So answering to a few comments: *The shift is coming relatively soon thanks…” | ||
| 2100. | Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev) | |
| 237 points | 2025 | author prateekkish showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there. I wrote the article. While I know the version numbers aren’t concrete, I added the proposal anyways as a way for readers to visualise what the maintainers had…” | ||
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