2341. 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.”
2342. 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!”
2343. 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…”
2344. 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…”
2345. 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…”
2346. 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.”
2347. 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.”
2348. 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…”
2349. 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…”
2350. 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…”
2351. 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…”
2352. 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!”
2353. 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…”
2354. 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…”
2355. 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."…”
2356. 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…”
2357. 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.”
2358. 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…”
2359. 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…”
2360. 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…”
2361. 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…”
2362. 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…”
2363. 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…”
2364. 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…”
2365. 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…”
2366. 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…”
2367. 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…”
2368. 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…”
2369. 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…”
2370. 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:…”