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| 2521. | Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing (pilabor.com) | |
| 208 points | 2022 | author sandreas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did (personally). CD: The Weeknd - The Highlights Drive: Pioneer BDR-XD05TB (not listed in my article) Accurate Rip reported errors on 3 Tracks. Ripping with hp GUE1N…” | ||
| 2522. | Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby (naildrivin5.com) | |
| 208 points | 2025 | author davetron5000 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the example doesn't allow logins now to avoid abuse. I wasn't 100% sure I'd make it public and just decided today to do it, so it's not yet ready for just anyone to…” | ||
| 2523. | Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful (matasano.com) | |
| 207 points | 2011 | author tptacek showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wrote the article and I don't think TLS is hard.” | ||
| 2524. | Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs (blog.sanctum.geek.nz) | |
| 207 points | 2012 | author tyrmored showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I generally recommend against Janus because I think there's much more value in learning Vim's core behaviour thoroughly, which is best done by starting with a relatively…” | ||
| 2525. | How I Beat Depression (hackerhmb.tumblr.com) | |
| 207 points | 2013 | author scottcha showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the article and I asked myself this question before I wrote it. I posted some data here which came out of that research: but it didn't get much…” | ||
| 2526. | Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi (jack.minardi.org) | |
| 207 points | 2013 | author doctoboggan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've had plenty of excuses to use my Pi in the past, this is just the latest one. I think you are incorrect in characterizing this as "fragile dogshit", this solution is…” | ||
| 2527. | Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard (minuum.com) | |
| 207 points | 2014 | author wxs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That video is an in-house demo of an early prototype on a Samsung Galaxy Gear, so yes it works on those! Minuum isn't yet shipping on any smart watches, but we're hoping…” | ||
| 2528. | Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages (github.com) | |
| 207 points | 2014 | author Dobiasd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, the basic intention is to have similar scales on the y axis. But of course it's not to be taken seriously. :)” | ||
| 2529. | Metaprogramming Elixir (pragprog.com) | |
| 207 points | 2015 | author chrismccord showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun to see this getting some HN love. Those who want a glimpse of what Elixir metaprogramming is all about can check out my Erlang Factory SF talk which gives a nice…” | ||
| 2530. | Escher Sketch (levskaya.github.io) | |
| 207 points | 2016 | author alevskaya showed up | their comment | thread
“If I thought people were going to rediscover this old project I might have invested some time in redoing the UI, apologies for the crudeness. I was inspired to make a…” | ||
| 2531. | Cell – A self-driving web app framework (celljs.org) | |
| 207 points | 2017 | author gliechtenstein showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of the work cell does internally is to let users interact with the dom as though they are touching them directly, but at the same time actually insulates them from…” | ||
| 2532. | Show HN: Visualizing disk IO activity using log-scale banded graphs (bvckup2.com) | |
| 207 points | 2018 | author apankrat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We had a need for a tool to graph IO activity at arbitrary sampling rates, so there was finally a solid excuse to do some datavis work :) The thing I wanted to show is…” | ||
| 2533. | Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 207 points | 2018 | author mjibson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Based on feedback I am going to make a sqlfmt binary for easy editor integration. You can currently already do this by using the CockroachDB binary () but understandably…” | ||
| 2534. | We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview (linkedin.com) | |
| 207 points | 2019 | author rsweeney21 showed up | their comment | thread
“My new company helps companies fill contract software positions. We're a lot like a recruiting or staffing agency, but trying to do it in a new, less spammy way. It's…” | ||
| 2535. | Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB (trek10.com) | |
| 207 points | 2020 | author abd12 showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS,…” | ||
| 2536. | Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0 (gravitational.com) | |
| 207 points | 2020 | author Vmody2 showed up | their comment | thread
“First off, thank you for taking the time to read this. The original draft started out much more technical than this version, but it was simplified to read less like a…” | ||
| 2537. | Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit (billpg.com) | |
| 207 points | 2021 | author billpg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In an act of divine justice, my website is down. (I'll send you a donation. Thank you!)” | ||
| 2538. | Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013) (files.righto.com) | |
| 207 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about old calculator chips...” | ||
| 2539. | Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II (antonhowes.substack.com) | |
| 207 points | 2022 | author antonhowes showed up | their comment | thread
“I mention this in Part I to link to a prior piece specifically on Ayanz, as this is hugely misunderstood. Ayanz’s machine only used the expansive force of steam, while…” | ||
| 2540. | Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust (github.com) | |
| 207 points | 2024 | author pcwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect this to make HN :) I don't deserve any credit for this; @SebAaltonen did all the work to write the C++ version. I just did a line-by-line translation.” | ||
| 2541. | CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js (codeanlabs.com) | |
| 207 points | 2024 | author ThomasRinsma showed up | their comment | thread
“This is indeed a bit confusing. You are right for the case where Firefox's PDF.js is used (local or remote file in a tab or iframe). The XSS problem however is with…” | ||
| 2542. | Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author pncnmnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“TTS and script generation can be a bit of an overhead for now, which is why I've worked with metric aggregates - 30+ bounces rather than exactly 33, for example. For…” | ||
| 2543. | Perverse incentives of vibe coding (fredbenenson.medium.com) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author mecredis showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. I don't actually think they're deliberately doing this, hence my choice of "perverse incentives" vs. something more accusatory. The issue is that they…” | ||
| 2544. | Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser (blog.craigie.dev) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author probablyrobert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions :)” | ||
| 2545. | Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that (vibe-coded.lol) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author Darmani showed up | their comment | thread
“It is. Almost one-shotted, in fact. In follow up, I just asked it to add the byline and to add more gradients. 85% the same as the initial one-shot. I gave it dagusa.com…” | ||
| 2546. | How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around (render.com) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author bstack showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeah that's a good point. tbh I was mostly unfamiliar with Vector so I took the shortest path to the goal but that could be interesting followup. It does seem like…” | ||
| 2547. | Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com) | |
| 206 points | 2013 | author enyo showed up | their comment | thread
“iOS has a bug (as already mentioned by other users) resizing images in canvas. There are workarounds, and I already started implementation (). Unfortunately…” | ||
| 2548. | AngularStrap v2.0 (mgcrea.github.io) | |
| 206 points | 2014 | author olouv showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the main difference is that AngularStrap has been rewritten from the ground up to leverage ngAnimate that came with AngularJS 1.2+, so it's leaner and brings way more…” | ||
| 2549. | Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co (metachris.com) | |
| 206 points | 2016 | author metachris showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the heads up, I've just added it!” | ||
| 2550. | Typing Nix (tweag.io) | |
| 206 points | 2017 | author regnat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“While I agree that the language could be improved, I wonder why you say that this makes it uglier, and how you'd imagine a better solution (this is still in development,…” | ||
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