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Rust Qt Binding Generator (github.com) |
| 206 points | 2018 | author oever showed up | their comment | thread
“There's a presentation on the project here: Happy to answer questions.” |
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In defense of functional CSS (mikecr.it) |
| 206 points | 2018 | author mcrittenden showed up | their comment | thread
“In retrospect a couple months after writing this post, I don't love it. I still am in love with Tailwind and Functional CSS, but I did a poor job defending it. I'd…” |
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Noticing You're Confused (arr.am) |
| 206 points | 2020 | author arram showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Your guess is as good as mine, but probably for the reasons other people have mentioned here. It would be making the lie in public, attached to his own name. The fake…” |
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Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library (github.com) |
| 206 points | 2021 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I preemptively apologized for the bad joke: It started with me reading seeing this tweet: And I was just thinking it'd be fun to implement an expander for those. ()” |
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Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C (github.com) |
| 206 points | 2022 | author alcover showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Thank you. The license will come but I have a harder time understanding them than pointers haha.” |
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We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work (blog.interviewing.io) |
| 206 points | 2022 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, the skills are left to the interpretation of the interviewer, but most of our interviewers are senior engineers at FAANG. We've done quite a bit of work internally…” |
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Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs (github.com) |
| 206 points | 2024 | author serjester showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’m very open to alternatives to PyMuPDF / tesseract because I agree OCR results are sub optimal and it has a restrictive license. I tried basic ones and found the…” |
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Don't Get Distracted (2017) (calebhearth.com) |
| 206 points | 2024 | author caleb_thompson showed up | their comment | thread
“I gave this as a talk at several conferences through 2017. I didn't realize that the video embed was broken until someone pointed out that this was making the rounds…” |
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Experts have it easy (2024) (boydkane.com) |
| 206 points | 2025 | author beyarkay showed up | their comment (+16 more) | thread
“Okay I know this is how the internet works, but I posted my essay here a month ago () and it died a silent death. Excited to read the comments! But damn the internet is…” |
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Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization (seve.blog) |
| 206 points | 2025 | author seveibar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don’t think the commenter here has set the same focal length, the focal length can make a surface appear curved, I set it explicitly to a low value to test the…” |
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I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface (openmymind.net) |
| 206 points | 2025 | author latch showed up | their comment | thread
“I finally got it working. I had to flush both the encrypted writer and then the stream writer. There was also some issues with reading. Streaming works, but it'll always…” |
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Open Source made me the man I am (cubiq.org) |
| 205 points | 2013 | author cubiq showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually haven't posted it on HN and it was a pleasant surprise. I believe the best way to "promote" yourself is by being active in your community. Connect with other…” |
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Pointer Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 205 points | 2014 | author studiomoniker showed up | their comment | thread
“The find-the-closest-finger algorithm was taken from another project we did, where we needed much more speed. We use a voronoi diagram with a distinct color for each…” |
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Queues Don't Fix Overload (ferd.ca) |
| 205 points | 2014 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“I use queues all the time. I program in Erlang and there is one unbounded queue in every single process' mailbox in every node. The problem is not queues themselves,…” |
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Swarm vs. Fleet vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos (radar.oreilly.com) |
| 205 points | 2015 | author amouat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would say it's a bit more subtle than that. If you have a very large cluster (1000s of machines), Mesos may well be the best fit, as you are likely to want Mesos's…” |
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My first ten-day Vipassana retreat (micaelwidell.com) |
| 205 points | 2016 | author mwidell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is very interesting, as it sounds very similar to how it was explained at the Vipassana camp. What is a good starting point to familiarise oneself with NLP?” |
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Virtual Memory with 256 Bytes of RAM (blog.robertelder.org) |
| 205 points | 2016 | author robertelder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I find it surprising that this has received 60 upvotes, but 0 comments. I had fun creating this, and might make similar visualizations in the future. If you have…” |
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Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable (medium.com) |
| 205 points | 2016 | author nayafia showed up | their comment | thread
“hi there! I wrote this article. Glad to see it on HN. I didn't see the original headline, but wanted to point out that the current headline is IMO inaccurate. OSS…” |
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Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf] (spw17.langsec.org) |
| 205 points | 2017 | author geal showed up | their comment | thread
“parser generators are generally good for one thing: parsing programming languages. For more complex formats, where you have to carry state around, or binary formats,…” |
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Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity? (influxdata.com) |
| 205 points | 2018 | author pauldix showed up | their comment | thread
“We have more work to do to make the happy path with the set of Influx tools (the TICK stack) more turn key and easier to run. The entire feature set is available in the…” |
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Leave Gmail in 10 steps (blog.dipasquale.fr) |
| 205 points | 2018 | author adipasquale showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I had completely missed that news. It is a bit concerning, you are totally right. I have edited the article to mention it and alternatives, thank you.” |
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Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013) (elastic.co) |
| 205 points | 2020 | author brasetvik showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey. I wrote that a long time ago. Funny to see it re-surface and glad it's helpful. :) There is a presentation version of it here: (I made the presentation first and…” |
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Undocumented CPU behavior: analyzing undocumented opcodes on Intel x86-64 (2018) [pdf] (cattius.com) |
| 205 points | 2020 | author cat_easdon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the aim of this project was to explore exactly why such opcodes are problematic for security. Even if they're implemented with entirely innocent intentions - e.g. for…” |
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My Favourite Diff (essays.jwatzman.org) |
| 205 points | 2020 | author jwatzman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“One of the nice advantages we had in using our static analysis tool for this, with real code intelligence, instead of a simpler linter, was that we could do a much more…” |
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Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators (crank.js.org) |
| 205 points | 2020 | author bikeshaving showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here, thanks for the interest. Your example will just work! The only thing to worry about when using `while (true)` with async generator components, is that…” |
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Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs (simonwillison.net) |
| 205 points | 2020 | author simonw showed up | their comment | thread
“I was really proud of this piece - it's a very detailed tutorial on how to use GitHub Actions, which for me fulfills exactly the kind of content I want to see on Hacker…” |
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Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor (observablehq.com) |
| 205 points | 2021 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment | thread
“you're right, completely missed adding a permissive license. Just added an explicit MIT license with the latest version, thanks for bringing it up!” |
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The web is fucked (thewebisfucked.com) |
| 205 points | 2021 | author kevq showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree - there's definitely a technical ransom to pay for hosting your own site, even with managed solutions, there's still domain names, hosting etc. to work though -…” |
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GitHub Snakes SVG (github.com) |
| 205 points | 2023 | author platane showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting!” |
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I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad (medium.com) |
| 205 points | 2024 | author alex_suzuki showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I never expected my rant to blow up like this, probably I‘ve hit a nerve. I‘m 42 and I‘m v busy building a library for barcode scanning in web apps: To this day I enjoy…” |
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