2671. Show HN: A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code (gist.github.com)
200 points | 2022 | author p4bl0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The language is intentionally very simple indeed, because the goal is to showcase all indispensable steps of a complete compiler. I initially wrote it for my students as…”
2672. OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App (osmapp.org)
200 points | 2023 | author zbycz showed up | their comment | thread
“OsmAPP is my take on creating a universal OpenStreetMap app for broad public. It should be as easy to use as Google Maps, including clickable POIs and featuring as much…”
2673. Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go (github.com)
200 points | 2024 | author jodah showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do get this critique, and of course API design is subjective, but there was a rationale behind the design choices. Putting each policy in its own package allowed the…”
2674. Geometric Algebra (bivector.net)
200 points | 2025 | author ajkjk showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I wrote that article and I would say that I am extremely aware of how quaternions are used in engineering. My stance on quaternions is that they are an opaque…”
2675. Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) (hey.earth)
200 points | 2025 | author pjot showed up | their comment | thread
“wild to see this at the top of HN! You can play it here: Pressing “L” enables (very) verbose logging in the dev console and prints much of the sql being executed.”
2676. The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money. (jacquesmattheij.com)
199 points | 2010 | author jacquesm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote that in response to another HN article that used that term. May I suggest:”
2677. Elements of Clojure (elementsofclojure.com)
199 points | 2016 | author prospero showed up | their comment | thread
“I would be very happy to discuss this point (or any other) in more depth on the mailing list:.”
2678. Stencila – Spreadsheet-like live reactive programming environment (stenci.la)
199 points | 2016 | author nokome showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have never used Improv but while researching for this work I did read about it and yes, it did seem to have introduced several innovations to address flaws in the…”
2679. Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
199 points | 2017 | author andyhonig showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of this post, AMA.”
2680. Trunk-Based Development (trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
199 points | 2017 | author paul_h showed up | their comment | thread
“Ask questions :)”
2681. Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (felixge.de)
199 points | 2017 | author felixge showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If the article above has you excited, come and join my team at Apple. We're hiring Go and PostgreSQL developers in Shanghai, China right now. Relocation is possible,…”
2682. Missed optimizations in C compilers (github.com)
199 points | 2017 | author gergo_barany showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone. I'm the author of the featured post; thanks for the interest. > If the code never calls the function with bad values, there's no UB Exactly. Even if a…”
2683. Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case (techcrunch.com)
199 points | 2018 | author devindotcom showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah he's 100% guilty of counterfeiting, pleaded guilty and acknowledged everything up front, faking the discs and everything. The issue I and others have been trying to…”
2684. What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job (mtlynch.io)
199 points | 2018 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post.”
2685. A dull, resilient stream processor in Go (github.com)
199 points | 2018 | author jeffail showed up | their comment | thread
“We use Benthos as a general stream swiss army knife for all the dull tasks, but you can also use it as a framework for writing your own stream processors in Go. It…”
2686. Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions (blog.anp.lol)
199 points | 2018 | author anp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“hi! author here if you want to ask questions or (nicely pls) let me know where I've made mistakes!”
2687. Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations (github.com)
199 points | 2019 | author toxmeister showed up | their comment | thread
“this post/thread completely hit my by surprise, so apols for late reply: 1) ta_free() is only O(n) if block compaction is enabled, else it's O(1), i.e. a simple cons of…”
2688. Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry (vox.com)
199 points | 2019 | author nosseo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN, I'm the author of this article (also the precursor predicting this, which was on the front page yesterday). My impression is that the best place to look for an…”
2689. AI competitions don’t produce useful models (lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com)
199 points | 2019 | author lukeor showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There are a range of ways the estimates can be improved, although many require data that isn't available. The main point is that having a ballpark idea of how reliable…”
2690. Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise (gustavlundin.com)
199 points | 2019 | author glun showed up | their comment | thread
“After posting this to reddit I realized that the original title is wrong, and poorly reflects the actual point I'm trying to make. Dependency injection is not dynamic…”
2691. Using mixed integer programming to assign air cargo to flights (flexport.engineering)
199 points | 2020 | author andrew771 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm very humbled that this made it to the front page! A few things I want to say: 1) Most of this work is a simplified copy of the papers I linked to. Special thanks to…”
2692. Restoring and MIDI-Fying a Baby Grand Piano (jacquesmattheij.com)
199 points | 2020 | author jacquesm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Unfortunately there is a pretty busy road passing my house which would preclude miking the piano and getting meaningful results. Also: that's a lot of combinations! But…”
2693. Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2M lines per second (twitter.com)
199 points | 2020 | author psykotic showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's some more context: The main purpose of the testing was to measure compile time scaling on simple code that has straightforward equivalents in all languages. This…”
2694. TimeTagger: Open-Source Time Tracker (timetagger.app)
199 points | 2021 | author almarklein showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your feedback. Right now you can click the record button and since a description is optional, click start right away. Could you please elaborate how you would…”
2695. Show HN: Open-source A/B testing framework (github.com)
199 points | 2021 | author jrdorn showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! One of the authors here. We're using MongoDB to store caches A/B test results (among other things), which are deeply nested JSON objects. MongoDB let us develop…”
2696. Learning APL (xpqz.github.io)
199 points | 2021 | author skruger showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this because I thought APL deserved an up to date introductory text. It's basically the notes I kept when learning it myself. Stoked to see it on HN.”
2697. How to start a successful freelance business as a software developer (2017) (nickjanetakis.com)
199 points | 2022 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for submitting this. If anyone has any questions about anything let me know. The post is meant to be a getting started guide. Beyond answering questions here I'd…”
2698. Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today? (scrapingbee.com)
199 points | 2022 | author ianwootten showed up | their comment | thread
“Just to say this was a really interesting piece to work on - I had a lot of fun poring through the data.”
2699. So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
199 points | 2022 | author classichasclass showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. Thank you!”
2700. Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome (developer.chrome.com)
199 points | 2024 | author jmayes showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello there, I am one of the authors of the piece. Fun fact just for the lols we have tried running a 1.3B parameter unoptimized TensorFlow.js model in this system just…”