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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple (matttproud.com) |
| 219 points | 2024 | author matttproud showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the hint! Do you have an image or two you can cite for this? I'd love to see a representative example of this.” |
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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors (parkerhiggins.net) |
| 219 points | 2025 | author thisisparker showed up | their comment | thread
“Always happy to see people looking at and reading about these paintings. Happy to answer any questions or job offers people here may have!” |
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An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform (betterexplained.com) |
| 218 points | 2012 | author kalid showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree. There are certain explanations out there which have orders-of-magnitude differences in ease of understanding (seeing i as a rotation, seeing radians as…” |
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The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go (togototo.wordpress.com) |
| 218 points | 2015 | author logicchains showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just a note that by latency-critical, I'm referring to >10 millisecond latencies. If you can tolerate occasional pauses of 400-500 milliseconds, then the GC wouldn't be…” |
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A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques (github.com) |
| 218 points | 2015 | author markdregan showed up | their comment | thread
“If you are interesting in contributing a section to this tutorial, please get in touch. Some suggested topics: survival analysis, mixture models, classification, time…” |
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Introducing Docker for Windows Server 2016 (blog.docker.com) |
| 218 points | 2016 | author friism showed up | their comment | thread
“people at Docker and Microsoft have worked on this for years. More to come during the day, also happy to answer any questions here.” |
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Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8 (anmonteiro.com) |
| 218 points | 2016 | author anmonteiro90 showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” |
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Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates (github.com) |
| 218 points | 2018 | author FiloSottile showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“:) Something I would love to collect some feedback on is: how would mkcert have to change, if at all, to support a production CA (for stuff like internal machines…” |
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Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web framework (moltenframework.com) |
| 218 points | 2018 | author Bogdanp showed up | their comment | thread
“while molten is API-first, there is built in support for things like sessions[1] and templates[2] for when you need them. The docs could definitely do a better job of…” |
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State of web browsers in 2018 (ferdychristant.com) |
| 218 points | 2018 | author fchristant showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Agree with your point when you read it like that, so I'll clarify what I meant. "Compatible with the web" in the context of this article means compatible with the web…” |
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Running an eInk Display with Elixir, Scenic and Nerves (underjord.io) |
| 218 points | 2019 | author lawik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry to hear that that's your take-away. I can see how it feels framework-loaded. But making a library that works with Scenic (UI framework) and Nerves (embedded…” |
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NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography (nerf-w.github.io) |
| 218 points | 2020 | author duckworthd showed up | their comment | thread
“Original author here. AMA!” |
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Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly (cprimozic.net) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author Ameo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was on a week-long vacation at the time and had been working on the visualization as a side project before that. I started really getting into the deep end of the…” |
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T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks (huggingface.co) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author craffel showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper/model/code was just made public today. This may be why no one is talking about it yet. Regarding whether the size is a hassle: It's possible to run inference…” |
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Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (howtomarketagame.com) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author zukalous showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey whoever linked to my article thank you for post. I just got notified of this. To answer the most common questions, I am not advocating "build your own youtube."…” |
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C Runtime Overhead (2015) (ryanhileman.info) |
| 218 points | 2022 | author lunixbochs showed up | their comment | thread
“Strace seems to add more overhead than I realized at the time, but not quite as much overhead as you suggest. For instance, you're measuring the time it takes to run…” |
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Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles (ijdykeman.github.io) |
| 218 points | 2022 | author ijdykeman showed up | their comment | thread
“It's awesome to see my post on hn! Happy to answer questions.” |
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Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping (github.com) |
| 218 points | 2022 | author ggerganov showed up | their comment | thread
“great to see this posted on HN again. Let me know if you have any questions. I notice comments that the approach is not working for various setups. I recommend starting…” |
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Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images (ificl.github.io) |
| 218 points | 2024 | author Agrodotus showed up | their comment | thread
“The title is a reference to "Objects that Sound" () which itself is a reference to "Pixels that Sound" (). Also thanks for the pointer to Venetian Snares! We had cited…” |
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Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia (discourse.mozilla.org) |
| 218 points | 2024 | author ilyaigpetrov showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We help Russians to circumvent state censorship while with some tricks the extension may also be used to bypass private discrimination or sanctions-based censorship. We…” |
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Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (nolanlawson.com) |
| 218 points | 2025 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually did some research on CSS selector performance: The TL;DW is: yes, class selectors are slightly more performant than attribute selectors, mostly because only…” |
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Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev (ounapuu.ee) |
| 218 points | 2025 | author hddherman showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a nice surprise to notice my own post here, but the timing is unfortunate as I'm shuffling things around on my home server and will accidentally/intentionally take…” |
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SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier (certsimple.com) |
| 217 points | 2015 | author nailer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The query format is (sadly) server dependent. For a ninja domain, use `whois.nic.ninja` as the server, and don't use the 'domain somedomain' query syntax. whois -h…” |
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AWS Java documentation is fucked (areallygoodrantblog.wordpress.com) |
| 217 points | 2016 | author AReallyGoodName showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I thought that too at first. It's actually straightforward though. I now have a video transcoding workflow that works well. It's not SWF that's the problem. It's…” |
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How to grow into your best developer self (reaktor.com) |
| 217 points | 2016 | author nizze showed up | their comment | thread
“Long time reader, first time writer. Just wanted to say thanks to HN community for such an enlightening discussion here. Helped me to grow and learn especially at times…” |
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A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter (francisstokes.wordpress.com) |
| 217 points | 2017 | author FrancisStokes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're completely right, but I hope the basic understanding will whet peoples appetites to try some more exotic stuff! Really I was just trying to lift the veil of what…” |
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Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language (github.com) |
| 217 points | 2018 | author Gabriel439 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You might be interested in this post on safety guarantees: The main risks in executing potentially malicious Dhall code that is not protected by a semantic integrity…” |
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Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go (github.com) |
| 217 points | 2020 | author cube2222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Christmas Eve, 22 pm, after having eaten with my family, I was browsing HN (because what else could you be doing then), and stumbled upon this comment: It inspired me to…” |
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Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter (dustycloud.org) |
| 217 points | 2020 | author paroneayea showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here... actually it does use unicode (which we'll use to mean non-ascii at the moment, even though ascii is part of unicode (pedantry, pedantry)) for the…” |
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Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated (afridigest.substack.com) |
| 217 points | 2020 | author thought showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a fan of KakaoTalk and I specifically include them in the visual: I think you're referring to where I quoted Ben Thompson, but he was speaking in a specific sense:…” |
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