211. 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”
212. 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…”
213. 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…”
214. 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…”
215. 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…”
216. 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…”
217. 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…”
218. 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.”
219. 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?”
220. 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.”
221. 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…”
222. 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.”
223. “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…”
224. 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…”
225. 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…”
226. 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…”
227. 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…”
228. 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…”
229. 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…”
230. 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…”
231. 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…”
232. 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…”
233. 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.”
234. 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.”
235. 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…”
236. 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…”
237. 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…”
238. 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…”
239. 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…”
240. 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.”