2401. The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft (doc.rust-lang.org)
215 points | 2015 | author Gankro showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't really want to post this to the wider programming community yet, but oh well. This is basically the first draft. Lots of errors and TODOs. Source is here if you…”
2402. Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron (github.com)
215 points | 2015 | author shockone showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. I'm the author of Black Screen, and I'm upset this post has appeared on Hacker News. The terminal is at a very early stage; I don't even use it by myself.…”
2403. Lisp in Your Language (danthedev.com)
215 points | 2015 | author codecurve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“would be interested to hear people's take on the addition of illustrations (illustration is being generous, I know). Do you find them distracting or do they help break…”
2404. Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next (blog.circleci.com)
215 points | 2016 | author peeja showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually glossed over some of the problems here, as the article was already getting quite long. In a trivial example like this, you're right. If you do this to the…”
2405. Balde: a microframework to develop web applications in C (balde.rgm.io)
215 points | 2016 | author rafaelmartins showed up | their comment | thread
“and it seems that someone shared it here because I started this blog post series this weekend: This is why most of the documentation is marked as TODO, but the API docs…”
2406. Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup (codingvc.com)
215 points | 2016 | author lpolovets showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's not exactly true but it's a decent approximation. Because the investment rate is so low (~1%), and because professional VCs often see 1000+ pitches per year, red…”
2407. I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos (redfin.engineering)
215 points | 2017 | author dfabulich showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I must begin by saying that lit-HTML is really interesting, and I hope it does well. It will be particularly exciting if Polymer 3 or Polymer 4 or whatever primarily…”
2408. We are complicit in our employer’s deeds (drewdevault.com)
215 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I decline to extend my comments to H1B workers, I agree that they don't enjoy the same level of mobility as programmers who are US citizens. This is a problem in and of…”
2409. Implementing the Exponential Function (pseudorandom.com)
215 points | 2020 | author fractionalhare showed up | their comment | thread
“You make a good point about subnormals, thank you. I will jot that down for a future update to the doc :) It is funny you mention the Padé approximation; I was debating…”
2410. Hell Yes CSS (wizardzines.com)
215 points | 2020 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“I always find it weird to see HN posts where you have to pay to read what it says (what's the point?) so here are 6 sample pages from the zine if you're interested in…”
2411. Removing my site from Google search (btao.org)
215 points | 2021 | author tao_oat showed up | their comment | thread
“Google stopped supporting robots.txt [edit: as a way to fully remove your site] a few years ago, so these meta tags are now the recommended way of keeping their crawler…”
2412. Trying Out Generics in Go (markphelps.me)
215 points | 2021 | author bullcitydev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just removed the previous section I had around using build tags because I realized I was using `// +build 1.18` instead of the correct `// +build go1.18`. Oops.”
2413. Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+ (theunderstatement.com)
214 points | 2011 | author degusta showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Your last point is very true, and the chart tries to make it very clear it's only talking about public posts. Obviously entirely true that they could be using it purely…”
2414. Technologies in HN “Who is Hiring?” threads (blog.whoishiring.io)
214 points | 2016 | author xando showed up | their comment | thread
“apologises. I didn't include .NET frameworks for only one reason numbers were marginal (it's Hacker News after all). I didn't want to add 20 different lines on the…”
2415. 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image (cs.nott.ac.uk)
214 points | 2017 | author aaronsjackson showed up | their comment | thread
“You are very right in saying that the there aren't many details. This limitation, we believe, is due to a lack of large, high quality training sets. The data we trained…”
2416. Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin (qz.com)
214 points | 2019 | author ogoldhill showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading, and if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them.”
2417. Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017) (misfra.me)
214 points | 2019 | author misframer showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry, resizing my droplet now.”
2418. Fantasy Map Generator (2018) (azgaar.github.io)
214 points | 2021 | author Azgaar showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. I'm the author. Please feel free to ask the questions if you have any”
2419. HTTP Feeds (http-feeds.org)
214 points | 2022 | author aiobe showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of http-feeds.org. Thank you for your feedback. For this spec I aimed to keep it as simple as possible. And plain polling-based JSON Endpoints are…”
2420. A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts (bhupesh.me)
214 points | 2024 | author bhupesh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“True, 31.4 MB is definitely a stopping point. But my the nerd inside me kicked in and wanted to know what "exactly" is required to run ugit. It was a fun experience.”
2421. Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate (ilograph.com)
214 points | 2025 | author billyp-rva showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a fair point and it would be worth revisiting, if not now then within the year. That said, I wouldn't expect things to change too drastically. TFA goes into…”
2422. The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions (arxiv.org)
214 points | 2026 | author martincsweiss showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“first paper from my postdoc accepted to NeurIPS main conference. We built a way to sample diverse ideas in machine learning - ideas that make scientific sense, but that…”
2423. Python For The Web (gun.io)
213 points | 2011 | author Mizza showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this for a friend who is just getting started out in python/web stuff. It might be a little n00bly for lots of people here, but it could be interesting for…”
2424. In 2005 Motorola Tried to Sue Me For Unlocking Phones (sina.is)
213 points | 2013 | author sinak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The petition to the White House still needs 40k more signatures to get a response. If you haven't done so, please sign it:”
2425. Why Chrome 53 Is Rejecting Chase Bank's Symantec Certificate (sslmate.com)
213 points | 2016 | author agwa showed up | their comment | thread
“It has gotten kind of hard to follow what has happened, so here's a chronology: 1. In September, Chrome 53 was released, which enabled mandatory Certificate Transparency…”
2426. Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase (keybase.io)
213 points | 2019 | author malgorithms showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you for the comment. "flip again" was added at the last minute, after a night at a bar...where some beta testers were making real-world decisions using the app. I…”
2427. Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust (vislyhq.github.io)
213 points | 2019 | author emilsjolander showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“After leaving Facebook I created Stretch to fix some core issues which would be hard to address in Yoga, mainly some web compatibility issues. Would love to know more…”
2428. Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first (instagram-engineering.com)
213 points | 2019 | author mrsharpoblunto showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, we don't actually replace it automatically - we show a pill notification that new stories are available. You can either choose to tap it and see the new…”
2429. From Rust to TypeScript (valand.dev)
213 points | 2020 | author valand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Did this too. I found some quirks (rather irrelevant) while compiling using TypeScript 3.6-ish. ``` const { value, error } = result; if (error) return doSomething(); if…”
2430. What we learned after a year on Kubernetes (about.gitlab.com)
213 points | 2020 | author jarv showed up | their comment | thread
“we are using Helm for our application because of how much we have already invested in our public Helm chart. We are not sold on using Helm however for K8s in general and…”