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| 2611. | When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t (segment.com) | |
| 203 points | 2019 | author guywithabike showed up | their comment | thread
“Absolutely! It's amazing how complex things get on the configuration side as you try to get smarter about autoscaling. The big downside of trying to be too clever here…” | ||
| 2612. | Rust GUI ecosystem overview (gitlab.com) | |
| 203 points | 2019 | author z0mbie42 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I understand the critics against the subjective criteria like "Look". Look means: the ability to create a native app which is at least beautiful as modern WebApps. e.g.…” | ||
| 2613. | An introduction to data processing on the Linux command line (blog.robertelder.org) | |
| 203 points | 2019 | author robertelder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few people commented noting that I included "Data Science" in the title, but the content doesn't include any statistics or machine learning which is closer to the core…” | ||
| 2614. | A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust (github.com) | |
| 203 points | 2020 | author oxymoron showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun to see it appear here a few years after I wrote it. I originally put this together in an attempt to fish for a Rust gig. It worked out! I current coworker of mine…” | ||
| 2615. | How SHA-2 works step-by-step (SHA-256) (qvault.io) | |
| 203 points | 2020 | author lanecwagner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“LMK if you have ideas for improvements, nice to see some interest in crypto(Graphy) from the community” | ||
| 2616. | Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi (github.com) | |
| 203 points | 2020 | author johndoe0815 showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer your questions... Beware, there's a bug on ARM11-based Raspberry Pis (BCM2835 on Pi 1/Zero/Zero W and CM1) that crashes the VM when executing drawing…” | ||
| 2617. | Hidden costs of constantly shipping new things (mindtheproduct.com) | |
| 203 points | 2020 | author michalbugno showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry you didn't like it :) It's tough to suggest detailed solutions to a problem which is in general very vague. Btw I hope the article shows my appreciation for what…” | ||
| 2618. | Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant (esghound.substack.com) | |
| 203 points | 2021 | author ESGHound showed up | their comment | thread
“FAA's document is subject to NEPA and table 2.1 in the PEA considers the gas plant and power plant to be in scope. FAA is the overseeing agency for this action so it…” | ||
| 2619. | Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags (github.com) | |
| 203 points | 2024 | author drichelson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm paying more attention to GitHub than the comments here so please feel free to chime in there or ask any questions:” | ||
| 2620. | Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs (github.com) | |
| 203 points | 2025 | author sgtpepper13 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for raising a good point. It will be better if we upload the paper to arxiv but it's MLK in the US so submissions will be delayed by a couple of days. And we just…” | ||
| 2621. | Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets (vine.dev) | |
| 203 points | 2025 | author tjjfvi showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 2622. | Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018) (behind.pretix.eu) | |
| 203 points | 2025 | author _rami_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Funny this ended up here again! These days, we don't use this any more. First, because we now use primarily original Boca printers and are allowed to use the official…” | ||
| 2623. | Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children (shaneosullivan.wordpress.com) | |
| 203 points | 2025 | author shaneos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I find this to be a pretty cynical take. I tried to express that if I build something and it makes my kids smile then it stays in the app. You appear to have a different…” | ||
| 2624. | How when AWS was down, we were not (authress.io) | |
| 203 points | 2025 | author wparad showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll try to add comments and answer questions where I can. - Warren” | ||
| 2625. | The Positive Programmer (rdegges.com) | |
| 202 points | 2013 | author rdegges showed up | their comment | thread
“I completely agree with you that those are real problems. I have a great wife (and sisters) who have experienced varying levels of sexism in the technical world as well,…” | ||
| 2626. | Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? | |
| 202 points | 2014 | author gordonguthrie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the question and I agree that popularity isn't a good metric (on its own). But it is a valid metric, in the round. Making a language more popular has to start…” | ||
| 2627. | The 100-Hour Rule (codingvc.com) | |
| 202 points | 2015 | author lpolovets showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't disagree that the amount you learn and how well you understand it might accelerate as you advance along the learning curve. My post was more about the…” | ||
| 2628. | Text Mining South Park (kaylinwalker.com) | |
| 202 points | 2016 | author walkerkq showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the time you've taken to read and provide constructive criticism of my work. Here's my full write up (on GitHub, so it should continue to work): I was…” | ||
| 2629. | Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries (blog.reverberate.org) | |
| 202 points | 2017 | author haberman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The quality of the reports that use debug info (like "compileunits") is entirely dependent on how complete said debug information is. There may be ways of mining the…” | ||
| 2630. | Progressing from Tech to Leadership (lcamtuf.blogspot.com) | |
| 202 points | 2018 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't there's a single answer. The "right" path is usually some combination of soft and hard skills, persistence, and dumb luck. Skill and persistence come into play…” | ||
| 2631. | Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) (geoff.greer.fm) | |
| 202 points | 2019 | author ggreer showed up | their comment | thread
“Soon after I wrote it, I got an X62 and did the daylight LED mod on it:” | ||
| 2632. | ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’ (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 202 points | 2019 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“This is absolutely not true. I worked for an AWS customer that wanted to use it and had a crystal clear strategy for why. The idea that AWS didn't have a business case…” | ||
| 2633. | Zettelkästen? (clerestory.netlify.com) | |
| 202 points | 2019 | author bryankam showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks very much for posting it here and for everyone who read/commented/corrected me :) It's also great to hear about the other projects in this area, so thanks again!” | ||
| 2634. | Signaling as a Service (julian.digital) | |
| 202 points | 2020 | author julian_digital showed up | their comment | thread
“There's a difference between a high price tag and a high price tag for the sake of signaling wealth / social status. I wouldn't classify professional software as luxury…” | ||
| 2635. | Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented (righto.com) | |
| 202 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 2636. | Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust) (jless.io) | |
| 202 points | 2022 | author CodeIsTheEnd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“When I originally submitted it, it didn't get a lot of traction (it got on the front-page via the second chance pool a couple days later), and I definitely regretted not…” | ||
| 2637. | The Simplicity of Prolog (bitsandtheorems.com) | |
| 202 points | 2025 | author Knaapje showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree with your criticisms - I originally designed the website for dark mode users and hadn't really revisited the styling afterwards. I'll be doing some tweaking to…” | ||
| 2638. | Why I find diffusion models interesting? (rnikhil.com) | |
| 202 points | 2025 | author whoami_nr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just messed up while posting.” | ||
| 2639. | JQuery Sparklines (omnipotent.net) | |
| 201 points | 2010 | author xeno42 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this a couple of years ago and it's been very nice to see the amount of attention it's received; I probably receive an email a day about it on average. Just wish…” | ||
| 2640. | About 33 bits (33bits.org) | |
| 201 points | 2012 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“Much of my previous deanonymization research has been discussed on HN; see Also, if you find the premise of the blog interesting check out the sitemap linked from the…” | ||
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