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An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development (blog.paralleluniverse.co) |
| 226 points | 2014 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“As I explain in the article, I cannot recommend any framework that encourages asynchronous code. It's simply the wrong approach, no matter what functional tricks are…” |
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Command-line file sharing (transfer.sh) |
| 226 points | 2014 | author z24z showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comment and I have reduced the gif size quite a lot. Please take a look.” |
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Gmail, We Need to Talk (techcrunch.com) |
| 226 points | 2015 | author jkturbo showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Gmail does not prefetch the image. Appending a unique image URL will still allow the sender to know when you've opened the email. The proxy eliminates your IP as well as…” |
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Why Suburbia Sucks (likewise.am) |
| 226 points | 2016 | author abalashov showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Just wanted to respond to a few broad themes I see in the comments: 1. "My neighbourhood isn't like that at all!" My criticism was directed at the specific type of…” |
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How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer (smo.nu) |
| 226 points | 2016 | author karlmcguire showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree to an extent. As I said in the "Spend Time With Them" section, a lot of developers also program as their hobby. In fact, you pretty much have to program in your…” |
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Taichi – Physically based Computer Graphics Library (taichi.graphics) |
| 226 points | 2017 | author yuanminghu showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for your attention on this project. As you may have noticed, Taichi is still a work in progress and far from perfect. Actually, I plan to bring this…” |
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Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways (ftfy.now.sh) |
| 226 points | 2018 | author rspeer showed up | their comment | thread
“Your statement is true, but in many cases, not useful. As quoted from the documentation [1]: [1]” |
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Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013) (tylerneylon.com) |
| 226 points | 2020 | author tylerneylon showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm delighted to see this is still interesting / useful to folks. In case anyone is curious, here's a short origin story for this tutorial. I learned Lua for a game jam…” |
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Principles for great product managers (reeve.blog) |
| 226 points | 2020 | author AlexDReeve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd love feedback – I'm also happy to answer any questions and/or debate!” |
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Readme Driven Development (2010) (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 226 points | 2020 | author mojombo showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun to see this come up on HN again, every so often. Readme Driven Development still serves me well (that’s how we drove RedwoodJS early on) and we even expanded that…” |
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Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015) (github.com) |
| 226 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this issue and I don't really know what you're talking about. Terseness is something I value in bug reports as a maintainer myself. I don't want to…” |
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C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014) (github.com) |
| 226 points | 2024 | author mcinglis showed up | their comment | thread
“10 years later -- I agree. I'd remove that rule wholesale in an update of this guide. Unsigned integer types can and should be used, especially for memory sizes. I would…” |
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A new generation of Tailscale access controls (tailscale.com) |
| 226 points | 2025 | author samlinville-ts showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are indeed converting the old syntax to grants behind the scenes. In fact, we have been quietly doing this for months :) As tczMUFlmoNk mentioned further down, we…” |
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Make Your Own Programming Language (mattias-.github.io) |
| 225 points | 2015 | author Pirate-of-SV showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is slightly embarrassing. I just added a custom domain/CNAME to my github pages so it should be reachable at” |
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Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification (arxiv.org) |
| 225 points | 2016 | author amooeba showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually the ballot counts do have some tendency to align with round numbers. We did not discuss this in the paper because we felt that this "anomaly" can easily be…” |
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The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos (matthewbilyeu.com) |
| 225 points | 2019 | author mbil showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the attention on this post, especially the feedback regarding CV techniques. i wanted to write about some basic computer vision tools in the context of a…” |
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Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine (rainforestqa.com) |
| 225 points | 2019 | author shosti showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“helm is the part of our stack we’re least happy with tbh (it’s turned into a huge pile of templated yaml files for each project that seems like it might not be…” |
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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables (code.fb.com) |
| 225 points | 2019 | author ngbronson showed up | their comment | thread
“Seeing the Google presentation at CPPCon convinced us that the potential wins were worth the effort to productionize, but the similarity in the designs is a case of…” |
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Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers (aiprobook.com) |
| 225 points | 2020 | author dragandj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Please consider an alternative viewpoint: you can try the book draft for $9, and if you don't like it, just don't continue subscription. Total cost: $9. If you like the…” |
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Programs are a prison: Rethinking the building blocks of computing interfaces (djrobstep.com) |
| 225 points | 2020 | author djrobstep showed up | their comment | thread
“yes this is a big problem (the biggest?), as the incentives are all wrong. As I noted in the post: "Often ... apps will have features to integrate with other apps and…” |
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages (masteringemacs.org) |
| 225 points | 2021 | author mickeyp showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, both are very useful, with some overlap of purpose, but work well together.” |
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Mold/macOS is 11 times faster than the Apple's default linker to link Chrome (twitter.com) |
| 225 points | 2022 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“If you have any questions about mold/macOS, feel free to ask me as a reply.” |
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Designing my own watch (2020) (willem.com) |
| 225 points | 2024 | author willemlaurentz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“With regard to value and cost I would like to add the factor 'time' to the discussion. A watch like this can easily last for decades, possibly longer (and it will retain…” |
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Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer (tiki.li) |
| 225 points | 2025 | author chkas showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a little surprised to see this on the front page of Hacker News. This is just a simple demo for my educational programming language Easylang. You can easily edit the…” |
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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 225 points | 2025 | author BotJunkie showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to tell you where it came from. I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on their robotic code…” |
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Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back (marmelab.com) |
| 225 points | 2025 | author fzaninotto showed up | their comment | thread
“I love reading the posts in this thread. It seems the waterfall vs Agile debate is still vivid in the HN community, which surprises me. I know that developers have…” |
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Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners (thorsell.io) |
| 225 points | 2025 | author xGLaDER showed up | their comment | thread
“A friend told me my post was gaining some momentum on HN and I've read through the comments and found a bunch of good insights. I especially liked the one from @arach:…” |
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons (alinpanaitiu.com) |
| 225 points | 2025 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Since the article publishing, I have found a widely available finish that's very similar to what I'm doing called Walrus Oil Furniture Butter: It's still a combination…” |
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P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com) |
| 225 points | 2026 | author pul showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, it will autocomplete the most popular domains first, then known registered domains, and then fall back to appending popular TLDs. The reason is that it's impossible…” |
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Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server (nerds.airbnb.com) |
| 224 points | 2013 | author frontendbeauty showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Jeremy, I think you're mistaking this for Keith Norman's SpainJS presentation (). He proposes the same approach, but I don't know if it ever got past a demo. Although it…” |
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