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| 241. | Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application (github.com) | |
| 693 points | 2021 | author goostavos showed up | their comment | thread
“Linux, MacOS, and Windows all work A-OK! I'll update the readme to make that clearer. Also: whoa, didn't expect to see my project on the front page of HN this morning!…” | ||
| 242. | Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io) | |
| 692 points | 2016 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. We hope that with time and data, the interview process can get better at predicting on-the-job performance -- one of the things we're really…” | ||
| 243. | Bullshit.js (mourner.github.io) | |
| 688 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up | their comment | thread
“really happy that a joke project I did 7.5 years ago (while working at a typical outsourcing company) finally got a spotlight on HN! Please feel free to contribute! I…” | ||
| 244. | My second year without a job (shilin.ca) | |
| 688 points | 2024 | author true_pk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. You are very much on point. I only recently started looking for part-time jobs, and perhaps I should have mentioned it in the post. It's precisely what…” | ||
| 245. | Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane (github.com) | |
| 687 points | 2026 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“There's no vendor lock-in here and no payment or account required. If Tailscale as a company fails, tailcat keeps working if you run your own DERP server. It's just open…” | ||
| 246. | Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com) | |
| 686 points | 2021 | author josephg showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello HN! Post author here. I’m happy to answer questions & fix typos once morning rolls around here in Australia” | ||
| 247. | Sit. (sonnet.io) | |
| 686 points | 2024 | author rpastuszak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I 100% agree, don't obsess about the tools, do whatever works for you. I use the app mainly for meditation and despite having decades of experience I tend to lose the…” | ||
| 248. | How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night (figma.com) | |
| 685 points | 2019 | author rudi-c showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is material on the internet that are relevant to the topic, but it's quite hard to piece together. After all, there are only a handful of players right now who…” | ||
| 249. | Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (gkogan.co) | |
| 685 points | 2020 | author gk1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My point is that simple-to-understand systems--not simple as in primitive--have less downtime, not that we shouldn't ever have complex systems. A container ship like the…” | ||
| 250. | What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com) | |
| 685 points | 2022 | author gregdoesit showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was wrong on this information and updated the article - got a correction since. L6 and above employees would receive this: staff+ engineers, eng leadership, sales etc.…” | ||
| 251. | The AI coding trap (chrisloy.dev) | |
| 685 points | 2025 | author chrisloy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree and have written about this before, though focusing a bit more on how far down the stack they might go, rather than up: Article being discussed in this thread…” | ||
| 252. | I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure (jonathanclark.com) | |
| 685 points | 2025 | author jclarkcom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes, this was written using guided AI. I consider this different than giving a vague prompt and telling it to write an article. My process was to provide all the…” | ||
| 253. | What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages (blog.roastmylandingpage.com) | |
| 684 points | 2021 | author ollymeakings showed up | their comment | thread
“I shared what I learnt across the 200 pages I reviewed and my focus is on landing page conversion. I am working on the assumption there is some sort of product market…” | ||
| 254. | How our free plan stays free (tailscale.com) | |
| 684 points | 2022 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“You're not that unusual, we just haven’t had time to address that use case directly yet. I expect an ecosystem of MSPs may arise to offer physical boxes, or some such…” | ||
| 255. | Actually Portable Executables (ahgamut.github.io) | |
| 683 points | 2021 | author ahgamut showed up | their comment | thread
“As someone who has never messed around with Libc-level programming, it was surprisingly straightforward (and exciting!) to compile Lua all the way. Cosmopolitan is…” | ||
| 256. | I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed (blog.airplane.dev) | |
| 682 points | 2021 | author raviparikh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks to whoever posted this to HN!) This is a good point, if probability of success decreased 5x while average outcome increased 10x, then a 2x increase in seed…” | ||
| 257. | Docker without Docker (chimeracoder.github.io) | |
| 681 points | 2015 | author chimeracoder showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm working on a blog post for this and didn't expect this to be posted on HN so soon, but I guess that's what I should expect for posting a link to it in another HN…” | ||
| 258. | Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock (hellorhei.com) | |
| 681 points | 2015 | author damjanstankovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i will be glad to answer any questions you guys have” | ||
| 259. | Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia (blog.wikimedia.org) | |
| 677 points | 2018 | author jdlrobson showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! (author here) I sincerely regret the use of that statement "people seem to like it" in my post. I've now removed it as I worry this confuses my message so thank you…” | ||
| 260. | Costs of running a macOS app studio business (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 677 points | 2023 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a tricky question to answer. I wrote Lunar v1 in 2017, and it was fully free for 4 years, but those years were essential for the app to mature and get a good…” | ||
| 261. | Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming (tryolabs.com) | |
| 675 points | 2020 | author lalord showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for taking the time to read the article! The objective of the demo was not to see which language could sum up a bunch of numbers the fastest. You could keep…” | ||
| 262. | YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) (arp242.net) | |
| 673 points | 2018 | author arp242 showed up | their comment | thread
“Apparently people read my website (how they get there, I don't know?) At any rate, it's worth mentioning that in the conclusion I wrote: I still use YAML myself even…” | ||
| 263. | Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains (leebutterman.com) | |
| 673 points | 2019 | author lsb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd figured they were big, but I had no idea that big until I did a www-wide TLS scan. Here for questions” | ||
| 264. | A new PNG spec (programmax.net) | |
| 672 points | 2025 | author ProgramMax showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! Feel free to ask me anything. I'll go ahead and dispel some doubts I already see here: - It isn't really a "new format". It's an update to the existing…” | ||
| 265. | αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (justine.storage.googleapis.com) | |
| 671 points | 2020 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I considered doing that. Then I learned about things like how MSVC 2017 would wrap the main() function of C programs with telemetry. The push for code signing,…” | ||
| 266. | I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs (mvakde.github.io) | |
| 671 points | 2026 | author evilmathkid showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. Surprised to see this on HN now. Happy to answer any questions! Some context about this: - This is NOT an LLM. its a small ar transformer trained from…” | ||
| 267. | You could have invented transformers from memory (alexwang.ai) | |
| 670 points | 2026 | author ketothekingdom showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I have a short summary here if people find it helpful:” | ||
| 268. | Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers (inc.com) | |
| 669 points | 2017 | author exolymph showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you are willing to talk about your experience — it can be off-the-record if you want — please email me: smann@inc.com” | ||
| 269. | Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (quantamagazine.org) | |
| 669 points | 2024 | author davidbessis showed up | their comment | thread
“Interestingly, the 100m metaphor is extensively discussed in my book, where I explain why it should rather lead to the exact opposite of your conclusion. The situation…” | ||
| 270. | City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io) | |
| 668 points | 2020 | author anvaka showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to thank you for the comments, feedback and shares! I 'm very happy! PS: If you liked that project you may find my other stuff interesting: - it's just a…” | ||
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