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| 2191. | Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register (righto.com) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“What part of the 8086 chip should I write about next?” | ||
| 2192. | How to take meeting notes (barehands.substack.com) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author flreln showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just to clarify: the process is for long personal meetings with people I know and respect, where we discuss ideas and things we’re curious about.” | ||
| 2193. | Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 (blog.ipfs.io) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author Ericson2314 showed up | their comment | thread
“I absolutely agree it's hard to go head-to-head with s3 in the short term --- this is why I am most excited about sharing sources. Once the ecosystem is bootstrapped, it…” | ||
| 2194. | Starlink Satellites Tracker (findstarlink.com) | |
| 229 points | 2021 | author gpm showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“my fault. I think it made more sense when there were less satellites, but this was a pretty common opinion from the start.” | ||
| 2195. | Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers (berthub.eu) | |
| 229 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“Nice! Added that to the page, very worthwhile. Thanks.” | ||
| 2196. | Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019) (blog.benjojo.co.uk) | |
| 229 points | 2021 | author benjojo12 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“These switches got a lot more expensive at the start of the pandemic, I think the chipsets became hard to source.” | ||
| 2197. | The integrated timetable of Switzerland (jokteur.com) | |
| 229 points | 2022 | author jokteur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it would be a good point of comparison, to generate a random network and look at the same statistics. I will do this maybe in a future article.” | ||
| 2198. | Faer-rs: Linear algebra foundation for Rust (github.com) | |
| 229 points | 2024 | author sarah-ek showed up | their comment | thread
“eigen is compiled with -fopenmp, which enables parallelism by default” | ||
| 2199. | Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi (smallstep.com) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author tashian showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your questions here. Yep, it's overkill. Homelabs are learning environments. People want tutorials when trying new things. It's a poor man's HSM because not…” | ||
| 2200. | My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) (fangpenlin.com) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author fangpenlin showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“So BeanHub is built on top of Beancount and uses double-entry accounting. It's one of the benefits of double-entry accounting. Many accounting software are not good at…” | ||
| 2201. | Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On? (waywo.eamag.me) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author eamag showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for all feedback! Answering some questions: - I wanted to publish it asap and get feedback, that's why it's a static website with some ui bugs, you can see a json…” | ||
| 2202. | Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud (linuxjournal.com) | |
| 228 points | 2013 | author davidstrauss showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Mature containers have been around since the the days of mainframes. The recent (say, last decade) disparity has been lack of mature containers on the platform of…” | ||
| 2203. | Python 3 is killing Python (medium.com) | |
| 228 points | 2014 | author postfuturist showed up | their comment | thread
“I've never worked at Microsoft (where did you get that?). I'm a Linux guy. The "lazy people" you refer to is 98% of the Python community. Python 3 didn't "gain" static…” | ||
| 2204. | My Resume Is Total Fiction (chrisbaglieri.com) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author chrisbaglieri showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Thanks so much for your kind and encouraging words. Happy New Year!” | ||
| 2205. | Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text (wcm1.web.rice.edu) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author wcaleb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Totally agree about version control. When I wrote that post I had not yet learned how to use Git. In a follow-up post I discuss how I now manage all of my notes and…” | ||
| 2206. | Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly (2ton.com.au) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author 2ton_jeff showed up | their comment | thread
“Feature request noted, although the one-logfile-per-day for me doesn't seem too unwieldy. I have not seen webserver logs stored in the way you describe, is that a common…” | ||
| 2207. | Slate.js: Customizeable rich text library inspired by Draft.js (docs.slatejs.org) | |
| 228 points | 2017 | author ianstormtaylor showed up | their comment | thread
“good question! I'd guess that there are definitely some x-browser issues with Android right now because I haven't tested there at all. So far I've been working on the…” | ||
| 2208. | Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared (kubedex.com) | |
| 228 points | 2018 | author stevenacreman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can say that this has pretty much gone as I'd expected. Microsoft have 80,000+ developers. Their partner ecosystem is absolutely massive. I've watched them hire…” | ||
| 2209. | Have lots of AWS accounts (src-bin.com) | |
| 228 points | 2022 | author rcrowley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have settled on account per service per environment with a couple of exceptions. Sometimes I run multiple services in one account if they’re so tightly coupled as to…” | ||
| 2210. | Takahē: An efficient ActivityPub Server for small installs with multiple domains (jointakahe.org) | |
| 228 points | 2022 | author andrewgodwin showed up | their comment | thread
“it's just to reduce support surface area. I know I'll need PostgreSQL's full text indexing and GIN indexes for hashtags/search eventually, and I probably also want to…” | ||
| 2211. | gRPC: The Bad Parts (kmcd.dev) | |
| 228 points | 2024 | author sudorandom showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“it's nerdy web trivia but HTTP trailers are actually in the HTTP/1.1 spec, although very few browsers, load balancers, programming languages, etc. implemented it at the…” | ||
| 2212. | Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably (ryanliptak.com) | |
| 228 points | 2024 | author squeek502 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author if anyone has questions” | ||
| 2213. | Show HN: Pgcli – A CLI for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting (pgcli.com) | |
| 227 points | 2015 | author amjith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is an FAQ page: I'll be happy to answer questions here as well.” | ||
| 2214. | AT&T stealing/misrouting 1.1.1.0/29 for some of their residential customers (dslreports.com) | |
| 227 points | 2018 | author eli showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone sent me a message a while back that it was happening again but I haven't investigated myself.” | ||
| 2215. | How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book (blakeboles.com) | |
| 227 points | 2020 | author blakebo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for commenting!” | ||
| 2216. | Next Gen Static Blogging (inoads.com) | |
| 227 points | 2021 | author mmackh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry for not considering accessibility more. I use solarize everywhere - I’ll look into fixing the low contrast issue. As for whether my approach is correct from an SEO…” | ||
| 2217. | How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 227 points | 2021 | author peterbe showed up | their comment | thread
“We're still on FlexSearch 0.6 and the new 0.7 is a big refactor. I hope we can upgrade some time.” | ||
| 2218. | Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? (blog.glyphdrawing.club) | |
| 227 points | 2025 | author california-og showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, I also wrote another article digging into the history of the checkered box character:” | ||
| 2219. | Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change (lwn.net) | |
| 227 points | 2025 | author jzb showed up | their comment | thread
“It was abandoned. I linked to one of the former maintainers who said as much. The current effort is by a few people who asked the LF to take out over, and have (so far)…” | ||
| 2220. | Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io) | |
| 227 points | 2026 | author tdullien showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To clarify: when I talk about dichotomy in this context, I refer to the idea that these two systems are in opposition, and that ignoring one system (and set of data) is…” | ||
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