2251. Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability Engineer (blog.lambda-startup.com)
224 points | 2014 | author voidptr showed up | their comment | thread
“I just want to say that I appreciate the overwhelming feedback and all the positive and encouraging statements to not take that rejection too seriously. Furthermore, I'm…”
2252. The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] (littleosbook.github.io)
224 points | 2015 | author helino showed up | their comment | thread
“if you any questions, feel free to ask! Me and Adam,, wrote the book based on our experiences writing aenix,. If you find any issues with the text, please file an issue…”
2253. WhatsApp doesn't understand the web (andregarzia.com)
224 points | 2015 | author soapdog showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't knew about WeChat since it is not popular here in Brazil. Using a QR to facilitate login is not a bad decision. Having this as the only method to authenticate…”
2254. Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system (blog.frite-camembert.net)
224 points | 2015 | author bru showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's my goal, but I don't have their email address so I simply wrote it down there.”
2255. The Most Dangerous Writing App (themostdangerouswritingapp.com)
224 points | 2016 | author maebert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I know Flowstate, which itself was a copy of "Write or Die". I did not know they used the tagline "The Most Dangerous App" though, and now feel shitty - I don't want to…”
2256. Rust gets a faster sort implementation (github.com)
224 points | 2016 | author stjepang showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, this is an interesting problem TimSort used to have. A counterexample to incorrect TimSort is sequence "120, 80, 25, 20, 30". This simple sequence could have been…”
2257. Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids (arxiv.org)
224 points | 2017 | author dave1629 showed up | their comment | thread
“Good question - it means the whole system (that is, both the client and server) were designed with the goal of limiting the exposure of the user's passwords in all ways…”
2258. Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe (blog.aqnichol.com)
224 points | 2017 | author unixpickle showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I hadn't realized that the engineers were laid off. Where did you find this out?”
2259. Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API (github.com)
224 points | 2020 | author jeanloolz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sheetfu original goal was to port the Google Apps Script API for spreadsheet (made in javascript) to Python, so you'll see a lot of common ground between those 2 libs.…”
2260. SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI (github.com)
224 points | 2021 | author tiangolo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all! Author here! Thanks for sharing! This is the biggest thing I've built since FastAPI and Typer... SQLModel is a library for interacting with SQL DBs, based on…”
2261. NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art (jacquescorbytuech.com)
224 points | 2021 | author iamacyborg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if that's what you got from the article then maybe I need to rewrite it, but it's primarily around the issue of how art is displayed. Looking at a picture on a screen is…”
2262. MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua (microstudio.dev)
224 points | 2021 | author microgilles showed up | their comment | thread
“-) You access the exact same APIs with all 4 languages. In Python and Lua there are a few differences in how you should call an object method or how you can safely…”
2263. Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone (dumbph.com)
224 points | 2024 | author hbroadbent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely didn't mean to imply you should remove critical system apps (I don't think that's possible on vanilla iOS). More just that it's worth deleting most apps…”
2264. Rune is now open source (rune.build)
224 points | 2026 | author ernestrc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The post explains some of the details behind using Go as the primary language for building an IDE. It also introduces our novel contributor program, which will…”
2265. HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails (lostinjit.blogspot.com)
223 points | 2015 | author mrfijal showed up | their comment | thread
“we do sell commercial support for pypy and python performance problems at baroquesoftware.com. let's say it has not been a spectacular success so far and it's not enough…”
2266. Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
223 points | 2016 | author gratilup showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and optimizer. We had SSA since around 1999-2000, just that some important components like the expression optimizer were written…”
2267. Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many common data structures (github.com)
223 points | 2016 | author thejameskyle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I guess I'll comment on this thread since it got some attention. I think a lot of people that are in this thread went into this project with the complete wrong state of…”
2268. Teaching Kubernetes (blog.slashdeploy.com)
223 points | 2017 | author ahawkins showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yup! I dedicate a few minutes to this in the grab lesson because how important it is. Interesting point. You may like helm () as a tool for deploying Kubernetes…”
2269. When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job (medium.com)
223 points | 2017 | author taitems showed up | their comment | thread
“hi HN/Reddit. I had hoped I'd made it clear enough, but by no means am I recommending something I cobbled together in an hour on the couch be rolled out as a competitor…”
2270. Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com)
223 points | 2018 | author natdempk showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't actually think so. This is likely closer to 40 minutes of reading time, and I personally don't think it is the most difficult writing to read.”
2271. A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012) (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
223 points | 2018 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“Your comment is a common misconception, but the animal pictured is actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel. You can tell because the stripe doesn't extend to the eye.…”
2272. How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website (marketingexamples.com)
223 points | 2019 | author harrydry showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Ever since I knew of Hacker News, I've always been interested in the massive leverage it provide to both startups and individuals. Choose the correct title and your…”
2273. Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library (mattermost.com)
223 points | 2020 | author jupenur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Blog author here; Russell's implementation is backed by github.com/beevik/etree, but like you said, it's just an interface. The tokenizer is still encoding/xml. Adding…”
2274. Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time (lukashermann.dev)
223 points | 2020 | author _antix showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have thought about your and other peoples comments. It could well be just rounded to the nearest integer, making my +500ms assumption wrong. However, this would result…”
2275. MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs (macflim.com)
223 points | 2021 | author fstark showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I am the author of macflim. This is the old video, I am finishing the techdemo that have sound, there is a video on youtube (). I'll update the macflim.com website…”
2276. Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero (mindflash.org)
223 points | 2025 | author AntwaneB showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your comment. I agree with your first point, maybe AI will close some of those gaps with future advances, but I think a large part of the damage will have…”
2277. How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails (blog.brandonbloom.name)
222 points | 2010 | author snprbob86 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, there is a non-zero chance of that happening. However, I keep discovering more and more Rails design choices that either match or closely align with my…”
2278. Advancing the realtime web (rethinkdb.com)
222 points | 2015 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this was a bad example! You're right, this will become much more relevant as the `changes` command supports more and more complex queries.”
2279. Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain Security Vulnerabilities (banyanops.com)
222 points | 2015 | author jgummaraju showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to second this take-home message. The core of our work was to bring to the fore-front that package management using containers is important and we need to have…”
2280. My Interviews with Amazon (thesocietea.org)
222 points | 2016 | author thecodeboss showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey - I wrote this! =D”