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A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (bitecode.dev) |
| 723 points | 2025 | author BiteCode_dev showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. A.m.a” |
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150 days of living and coding in a van (ruby-on-wheels.github.io) |
| 720 points | 2017 | author classisch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey everyone! I'm the author of that article. I just started the blog and still have a ton of things to write about. I like all the (critical) feedback. That inspires me…” |
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Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites (medium.com) |
| 720 points | 2018 | author bubble_boi showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone in a comment pointed out that you if you could get your code in express middleware (or something depended on by express middleware or similar) you could…” |
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Learn Git Branching (pcottle.github.com) |
| 717 points | 2013 | author xxbondsxx showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow! Author here, did not expect this to get submitted to HN yet (was going to finish out a few more levels this weekend and clean everything up). Forgive the giant…” |
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I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (fasterthanli.me) |
| 717 points | 2020 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I apologize for pulling Rust into this, but for the life of me couldn't find any comparable language that solves those problems "the right way". I tried really hard. I…” |
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Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained (github.com) |
| 717 points | 2020 | author mkirchner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To add context that seems lost on some: this is a cleaned-up version of my own notes from when I tried to understand the technical detail behind what Linus called "good…” |
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Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid (joshwcomeau.com) |
| 716 points | 2020 | author joshwcomeau showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there! Author here. What I meant is that there is no way to tell certain children to disregard the constraints of a container; if a parent is 800px wide, there isn't…” |
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My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated (github.com) |
| 716 points | 2022 | author khuedoan showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep that's my goal too, hence the small form factor PCs. It costs me around 2-5$/month depending on how much I play with it.” |
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Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum (harshsikka.me) |
| 714 points | 2019 | author hsikka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I really appreciate the feedback. Are there any specific prerequisites to Real Analysis?” |
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I found Prezi's source code (blog.shubh.am) |
| 712 points | 2013 | author infosec_au showed up | their comment | thread
“I've masked last names from the post and PDF, hopefully meaning that they wont be indexed with that post. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.” |
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Programming Fonts – Test Drive (app.programmingfonts.org) |
| 712 points | 2019 | author klageveen showed up | their comment | thread
“org. Operator Mono certainly is pretty. I always loved consolas on Windows (honestly, it's the only thing that rendered properly on Win7). That said, I can only include…” |
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This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (nns.ee) |
| 711 points | 2021 | author xx_ns showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'll try to figure the power draw out some time in the future. Currently, the phone's just always plugged in and being powered over USB.” |
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“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason” (jasmcole.com) |
| 710 points | 2017 | author jasmcole showed up | their comment | thread
“As several of you have noted, there are a lot of tweaks to speed this simulation up - making it 2D increases (unphysically) the collision rate, the particles have overly…” |
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Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io) |
| 710 points | 2026 | author Labo333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Grateful for the kind words, human communities like HN really hit differently when you spend the whole day chatting with sycophantic and bullshitting agents (including…” |
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Operating Systems: From 0 to 1 (tuhdo.github.io) |
| 709 points | 2017 | author tuhdo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, it's a x86 operating system. However, rather than getting around A20, it focused on protected mode instead. The book not only teaches x86, but how to use the…” |
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de) |
| 709 points | 2026 | author inputmice showed up | their comment | thread
“Indeed, 15% is fine. They do provide some services. They provide the CDN for downloading the APK. They handle sales taxes in the various countries, which would be a PITA…” |
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A love letter to the CSV format (github.com) |
| 708 points | 2025 | author togakangaroo showed up | their comment | thread
“cool to see this is still getting passed around. Definitely agree there's no perfect solution. There's some escaping that seems to work ok, but that's going to break…” |
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Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack (lightbluetouchpaper.org) |
| 707 points | 2018 | author theomarkettos showed up | their comment | thread
“That was what I was thinking of - simply overdriving the lines to drag them high or low in opposition to the 'official' driver. That's pretty much all you can do with 6…” |
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Web by Google (TM) (landshark.io) |
| 706 points | 2020 | author alangibson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The article is making a case that Google has in fact captured the Web, and secondarily that there are some clear reasons for it. I had no intention of writing a…” |
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I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io) |
| 706 points | 2026 | author dr_pardee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Quick context: the tablet is a 2021 Fire HD 10 that ran my Home Assistant dashboard and kept powering itself off: the logs showed Amazon's own software issuing the…” |
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My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (mike.zwobble.org) |
| 701 points | 2021 | author mwilliamson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The open sourced code was rewritten from scratch, not least because the original version was in C# while the open source version is in JavaScript. So, the same idea, but…” |
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Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter (eff.org) |
| 700 points | 2015 | author dannyobrien showed up | their comment | thread
“It's always a little awkward to pick a term here, as we don't usually like to refer to ourselves at all much. "Brits" was too informal for this. UK citizens would have…” |
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com) |
| 700 points | 2024 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing the blog post on HN; it was a nice surprise to see it in the first page.” |
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Patio11 says Hello Ladies (akshat.posterous.com) |
| 699 points | 2011 | author patio11 showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wrote that into the slide primarily because you had seemed so affected by it. Thanks for calling it out for me.” |
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Persisting as a solo founder (vishnu.tech) |
| 699 points | 2020 | author vishnumohandas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To reiterate, this really is the happiest I've been. The initial few months were not smooth (as indicated by the article). Mostly because was an expectation mismatch…” |
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Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published (lunasec.io) |
| 698 points | 2021 | author freeqaz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's not actually a "bug", per se. It's actually a (very misguided) feature! Here it is in the docs: So that's where the LDAP portion comes from. This would be perfectly…” |
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How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (mazzo.li) |
| 698 points | 2022 | author rostayob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't digested this comment fully yet, but just to be clear, I am _not_ using SPLICE_F_GIFT (and I don't think the fizzbuzz program is either). However I think what…” |
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Get me out of data hell (ludic.mataroa.blog) |
| 698 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“You are exactly correct. Everything was so heavily interwoven that it was impossible to tell what would happen downstream without making an edit and then tracking the…” |
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iPhone dumbphone (stopa.io) |
| 695 points | 2025 | author stopachka showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found. The counter is pretty easy to set up. Here's how it works on the blog: 1. You set up a schema: 2. And then use…” |
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Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job (80000hours.org) |
| 693 points | 2017 | author BenjaminTodd showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take questions, and keen to hear ideas about what else we might add.” |
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