2281. Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font (verticalsysadmin.com)
222 points | 2017 | author atsaloli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've opened a ton of PowerPoint presentations (God help me) but this was the first time I've run into this issue. :) I usually crawl around inside of Web services /…”
2282. Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (raywang.tech)
222 points | 2017 | author ghostly_gray showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I guess what I was trying to say is that CompCert as a system has been trusted for over 10 years, yet only now do we find such a silly correctness bug. People won't read…”
2283. Pointless (ptls.dev)
222 points | 2020 | author caditinpiscinam showed up | their comment | thread
“Pointless originally had a static type-system, which I later ditched (the type-system was pretty experimental, and I never got it working to my liking). So the object /…”
2284. Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering (fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io)
222 points | 2021 | author sideshowb showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the link. You're right I have no expertise in the hypotheses you mention, for the post I intended them as light hearted framing. I'd be interested to know how…”
2285. The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past (fortressofdoors.com)
222 points | 2021 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Couple of things -- despite the admittedly click-baity headline, I'm not 100% convinced that "instant games" are definitely the future. Nobody can predict the future…”
2286. We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned (canvatechblog.com)
222 points | 2022 | author haizzz showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the article is a bit misleading in that .xlf files aren't really generated files, they're created through our translation pipeline by real humans. I considered them…”
2287. “Who Should Write the Terraform?” (zwischenzugs.com)
222 points | 2022 | author zwischenzug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yup Pendulum back to the center”
2288. CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion (blurbusters.com)
222 points | 2024 | author BlurBusters showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“here's some tips: - Throw as much native:emulated Hz ratio as you can. - 120Hz = up to 50% blur reduction - 240Hz = up to 75% blur reduction - 480Hz = up to 87.5% blur…”
2289. My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi (ellis.codes)
222 points | 2025 | author announcer4614 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's correct. The potentiometer has 5V going through it, with a current range of 30-164μA, which fell within limits of the digipot. I opted to use the digipot instead…”
2290. Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
222 points | 2026 | author scottbez1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions!”
2291. How I Start: Erlang (howistart.org)
221 points | 2014 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“I've used it professionally as a trainer and course developer (teaching Erlang), in Real Time Bidding systems for advertisement, and I'm currently at Heroku, where we…”
2292. Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go (github.com)
221 points | 2014 | author xiaq showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, I completely didn't expect this to hit HN this early. I did a talk at FUDCON Beijing 2014 (slides:) and warned that "this might eat your ~, so don't post this on HN…”
2293. Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go (github.com)
221 points | 2015 | author amscanne showed up | their comment | thread
“As noted at the top of the README (and by others here), this is not an official Google product. It's an experimental project, mostly to play with some ideas (and Go). I…”
2294. TrueCraft, An Open Source Implementation of Minecraft 1.7.3 (truecraft.io)
221 points | 2015 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Going to sleep soon but happy to answer questions when I awake if you leave them here for me.”
2295. ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel (thingiequery.com)
221 points | 2016 | author anakic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(I'm the author)”
2296. Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning (github.com)
221 points | 2016 | author nuclai showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“My biggest insight from this project is that super-resolution with neural networks benefits significantly from being domain specific. If you train on broader datasets,…”
2297. Magit Kickstarter fully funded (kickstarter.com)
221 points | 2017 | author tarsius showed up | their comment | thread
“The support I received during the last three weeks has been phenomenal! Thanks again! The only disappointment was that the campaign did not get a lot of press outside…”
2298. Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads (brandur.org)
221 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm storing `min_lsn` directly to the database, so anything connecting to it and loading a user record should be able to take advantage of the information. I have a note…”
2299. My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.com)
221 points | 2017 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“Any feedback welcome.”
2300. Reinforcement Learning from scratch (blog.insightdatascience.com)
221 points | 2018 | author e_ameisen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is aimed at an overview of the field, with links to relevant resources, but not a preview of courses we give at Insight since every project is different here!”
2301. The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt (spectrum.ieee.org)
221 points | 2018 | author IrishJourno showed up | their comment | thread
“this is the exact reason why I get paid for my job :)”
2302. Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten (dassur.ma)
221 points | 2019 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am very excited about WASI, but as I mentioned in a comment below, wanted to keep it to the fundamentals so you can appreciate what WASI does for you. And definitely…”
2303. Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (stripe.com)
221 points | 2019 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread
“and) Yeah, whatever you might call them, canonical lines are an "obvious" enough idea that I'd expect a lot of shops to have arrived at them independently. Besides…”
2304. Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds (attejuvonen.fi)
221 points | 2020 | author baobabKoodaa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Your criticism is correct. Deposit insurance is a fundamental difference between bank IOUs and non-bank IOUs. So it's incorrect for me to say that banks have _no_…”
2305. We still believe in private offices (2015) (stackoverflow.blog)
221 points | 2021 | author df07 showed up | their comment | thread
“surprising to see this blog post of mine trending, but it has held up pretty well! Happy to answer any questions about my time at Stack Overflow. I've since moved on to…”
2306. The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading (tenthousandmeters.com)
221 points | 2021 | author r4victor showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this article. Thanks for posting it. The GIL is an old topic, but I was surprised to learn recently that it's much more nuanced than I thought. So,…”
2307. The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out (twitter.com)
221 points | 2022 | author matthewdgreen showed up | their comment | thread
“so allow me to push back on this point of view. Technology people are not the solution to this problem, we are the problem. And we really need to stop being the problem.…”
2308. We build X.509 chains so you don't have to (blog.trailofbits.com)
221 points | 2024 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“I looked at NIST's PKITS while building the test suite. We ultimately decided to punt on it for the first round of tests, primarily because it fell slightly out of scope…”
2309. From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only (cloudbsd.xyz)
221 points | 2024 | author naguam showed up | their comment | thread
“I must say I made the basic git clone on Marcan's repository (named like this) without changing the default name. Then I just put my additions next to and into it. This…”
2310. Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023) (chernando.com)
221 points | 2024 | author reynaldi showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry you have to see my janky JavaScript solution XD but one good thing of going with Tauri is that developing the UI is pretty easy, since it's basically just some web…”