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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com) |
| 205 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't know why this popped up 13 years later, but hi :-)” |
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Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming (scattered-thoughts.net) |
| 204 points | 2012 | author jamii showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Strucjure has much more expressive power. Strucjure views are first-class values and can call other views (or recursively call themselves). This allows them to recognise…” |
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Dataset: Databases for lazy people (dataset.readthedocs.org) |
| 204 points | 2013 | author pudo showed up | their comment | thread
“As for 1.: CSV files are encoded as a stream, so they can be as large as needed. JSON is dumped as a whole from memory, I'd be keen to see if someone has written a…” |
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Immutable Data Collections for Javascript (github.com) |
| 204 points | 2014 | author leebyron showed up | their comment | thread
“It's definitely inspired by mori (and clojure and Haskell) and the reason I ended up building something different was to present a more JavaScript friendly API (and…” |
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Some notes on Rust (lambda-the-ultimate.org) |
| 204 points | 2015 | author Animats showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow. I wrote that article on LtU last night, after going over there to see what the language theorists were saying about Rust. (And after, for the third time in three…” |
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Dive into Machine Learning with Jupyter and Scikit-Learn (github.com) |
| 204 points | 2015 | author hangtwenty showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you! Glad you find it useful!” |
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Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform (blog.evernote.com) |
| 204 points | 2017 | author belril showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. (Nice to meet you.) I can tell you that Evernote, not Google, pitched this story to me. While the Google Cloud PR team was aware of its existence, they…” |
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Vimflowy – A productivity tool drawing inspiration from Workflowy and Vim (github.com) |
| 204 points | 2017 | author wuthefwasthat showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't see this coming - time to update all the documentation :) Thanks for the comments, everyone, and feel free to ask questions here. Some background: I started…” |
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Turning a side project into an open-source project (reaktor.com) |
| 204 points | 2018 | author jehna1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hit me with questions if you got some!” |
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The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow (drewdevault.com) |
| 204 points | 2018 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't load all of the advantages into a single conveniently-quotable part of the article, but I think I covered them all the same. In addition to what you quoted: The…” |
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Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena (aws.amazon.com) |
| 204 points | 2018 | author iamsomewalrus showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I’m the author of this post. I’m pretty chuffed to see this here. Happy to answer any questions.” |
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A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3 (davidwong.fr) |
| 204 points | 2019 | author baby showed up | their comment | thread
“It includes errata, hides paragraphs that are not relevant with TLS 1.3, has nicer diagrams, and has videos going throug (a few) sections.” |
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How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website? (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 204 points | 2020 | author lowtechmagazine showed up | their comment | thread
“Good you mention this. I could have chosen a more elegant citation, but data on the embodied energy of PV modules is generally outdated and confusing. The number I chose…” |
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Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (2020) (dl.acm.org) |
| 204 points | 2021 | author synctext showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, PeerReview is the most important piece of literature for us. We use a lot of similar concepts. Difference is that we're working for the past 18 years on getting…” |
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On Depression and Founders (startupstrats.substack.com) |
| 204 points | 2021 | author jdbiggs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey guys. I wrote this. If you need help ask someone for it and if you’re too cool to get help good luck.” |
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Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker (webapp.io) |
| 204 points | 2022 | author colinchartier showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The three big differences are: 1. Docker doesn't deal with running processes (like postgres or redis), only the filesystem state 2. Docker doesn't have enough isolation,…” |
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I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck (fangpenlin.com) |
| 204 points | 2024 | author fangpenlin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the interest. Crazy things happened in life last year, so I barely find a time to write anything. Recently finally find a time to pick up writing again.…” |
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Compilers for free with weval (bernsteinbear.com) |
| 204 points | 2024 | author tekknolagi showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask questions or leave comments or whatever.” |
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Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency (r.ena.to) |
| 204 points | 2024 | author napsterbr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that (re)aligning indexes are a different beast entirely, but (as mentioned in my recommendation) ideally the developer should keep this in mind when creating…” |
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The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan (tokyodev.com) |
| 204 points | 2024 | author tkgally showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this article and will be interested to read HNers’ thoughts and discussion about the topic. I will also be happy to respond to questions.” |
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No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming (blog.reverberate.org) |
| 204 points | 2025 | author haberman showed up | their comment | thread
“What browser/OS are you on? I haven't had anyone else report this problem before.” |
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CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) (behind.pretix.eu) |
| 204 points | 2025 | author _rami_ showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, every kind of lottery/raffle is a possible solution but only with strong identity verification to avoid double-entry and hence only with sacrificing privacy, as…” |
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The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work (justoffbyone.com) |
| 204 points | 2025 | author cancan showed up | their comment | thread
“It was something I put together as a curiosity and wanted to play with Astro. Hope you all enjoyed it!” |
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A vector graphics workstation from the 70s (justanotherelectronicsblog.com) |
| 204 points | 2025 | author riktw showed up | their comment | thread
“if someone has specific questions, or ideas on programs to run on this, do let me know!” |
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Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net) |
| 204 points | 2026 | author marckerbiquet showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The language has still many inconsistencies but not these ones. Import functions is done the same way: func foo(a: Int): Int import func foo(Int): Int May be the doc is…” |
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European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu) |
| 204 points | 2026 | author ymz5 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer technical questions: about HFI BIOS, partitioning hypervisor (gRouvr), QSOE RTOS. I hope that leading European industrial computer manufacturers notice…” |
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros (forrestthewoods.com) |
| 203 points | 2014 | author forrestthewoods showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Can you point me to a set of tier lists for Street Fighter? I actually looked very briefly but couldn't find anything. It's possible to find a single tier list but what…” |
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MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage (inc.com) |
| 203 points | 2018 | author exolymph showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I highlighted this as an issue because MailChimp said it would allow cryptocurrency newsletters that weren't pumping ICOs to keep doing their thing, but didn't follow…” |
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Chess over ActivityPub (castling.club) |
| 203 points | 2018 | author kosinus showed up | their comment | thread
“Let's hope my little hobby server holds up against HN. :) This was very much an experiment in building something that talks ActivityPub Server-to-Server. Chess happened…” |
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The state of gRPC in the browser (grpc.io) |
| 203 points | 2019 | author jbrandhorst showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this blog post _and_ the author of this repository - so happy to hear you're finding it useful! I agree that the grpc-gateway is very useful still,…” |
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