2581. 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 :-)”
2582. 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…”
2583. 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…”
2584. 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…”
2585. 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…”
2586. 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!”
2587. 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…”
2588. 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…”
2589. 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!”
2590. 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…”
2591. 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.”
2592. 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.”
2593. 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…”
2594. 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…”
2595. 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.”
2596. 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,…”
2597. 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.…”
2598. 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.”
2599. 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…”
2600. 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.”
2601. 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.”
2602. 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…”
2603. 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!”
2604. 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!”
2605. 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…”
2606. 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…”
2607. 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…”
2608. 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…”
2609. 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…”
2610. 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,…”