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| 2701. | Using GRPO to Beat o1, o3-mini and R1 at “Temporal Clue” (openpipe.ai) | |
| 199 points | 2025 | author kcorbitt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about our methods/results!” | ||
| 2702. | Touching the Elephant – TPUs (considerthebulldog.com) | |
| 199 points | 2025 | author alivetoad showed up | their comment | thread
“I was expecting some negativity but for whatever reason this one bites more than I imagined. The effort here was earnest and I'm sorry it reads as slop to you.…” | ||
| 2703. | Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling (airbnb.github.com) | |
| 198 points | 2012 | author reissbaker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The utility is just to improve scroll smoothness (aka repaint times) of very-expensive-to-render pages, like infinite feeds with nice CSS effects. If you check out the…” | ||
| 2704. | You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com) | |
| 198 points | 2013 | author nathanmarz showed up | their comment | thread
“You may also want to check out a more recent post I wrote about blogging that focuses on those "side benefits":” | ||
| 2705. | OCaml: what you gain (roscidus.com) | |
| 198 points | 2014 | author talex5 showed up | their comment | thread
“I certainly tried to treat them equally. If I cut-and-pasted from the web more often for the Haskell, it's because I got stuck more often. For example, I didn't need to…” | ||
| 2706. | ButterDB (pypi.python.org) | |
| 198 points | 2014 | author Widdershin showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually renamed it to 'butterdb' a while ago because some people found fuckitdb hard to swallow. You can check out the code here:. I have grown a bit as a programmer…” | ||
| 2707. | The cargo cult of versioning (akkartik.name) | |
| 198 points | 2017 | author akkartik showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I said tuples right after that sentence you quoted, and then I showed that tuples too could be dropped. So it's unclear to me why you feel the need for snark, and it's…” | ||
| 2708. | No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts (freedom-to-tinker.com) | |
| 198 points | 2017 | author englehardt showed up | their comment | thread
“We discuss this in the last section of the post. uBlock Origin uses lists to determine which requests to block. We tested the two largest, EasyList and EasyPrivacy, and…” | ||
| 2709. | Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap (stellar.org) | |
| 198 points | 2018 | author jlrubin showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about our protocol design.” | ||
| 2710. | Bowler: Safe code refactoring for modern Python (pybowler.io) | |
| 198 points | 2018 | author nuclear_eclipse showed up | their comment | thread
“I created Bowler as a "hackamonth" project when I joined Facebook's internal Python Foundation team. We've already used it for a bunch of random codemods that touch a…” | ||
| 2711. | Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi (dvt.name) | |
| 198 points | 2019 | author dvt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Would also love to know if any chemist/physicist knows the definitive answer to this :) Also: why do some watches purposefully leave an air bubble in the watch? Is this…” | ||
| 2712. | What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes (mooreds.com) | |
| 198 points | 2019 | author mooreds showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. The point is that he was was a software developer who was responsible for the back end systems. I don't think he was directly responsible for…” | ||
| 2713. | Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 198 points | 2019 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer your questions here!” | ||
| 2714. | Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2 (nextjournal.com) | |
| 198 points | 2020 | author kvlr showed up | their comment | thread
“I did run it a few times but you don’t have to take my word for it, you can rerun the notebook yourself if you sign up for Nextjournal and remix my notebook. Full…” | ||
| 2715. | Show HN: My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second (vnav.io) | |
| 198 points | 2021 | author crazypython showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm 17 years old and applying for college. If you work at or are an alum of a decently good college (or a great college like Yale and Stanford), I'd appreciate if you…” | ||
| 2716. | Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy? (microprediction.com) | |
| 198 points | 2021 | author microprediction showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA. TMA. I'm genuinely interested in understanding the popularity of prophet, which as I point out is a non-trivial statistical endeavor.” | ||
| 2717. | Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch (madeupexplorations.wordpress.com) | |
| 198 points | 2021 | author Slortibort showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“On one hand I wholly agree with you. Ubisoft has absolutely no right to go around selling products that don't work - it's abysmal. In my other "how to fix it" post, my…” | ||
| 2718. | Widdler is a single binary that serves up TiddlyWikis (github.com) | |
| 198 points | 2021 | author the_qbit showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any issues - let me know! :D” | ||
| 2719. | Segmenting comic book frames (vrroom.github.io) | |
| 198 points | 2024 | author matroid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would just like to say that this project is definitely work-in-progress and the AI elements often fail miserably. As amazing as recent AI progress has been, we do…” | ||
| 2720. | Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be) | |
| 198 points | 2026 | author mci-1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting the app! Two notes on what you are looking at: Not every vehicle is a live position. STIB-MIVB and TEC publish vehicle positions and those are shown…” | ||
| 2721. | Song of GitHub (song-of-github.herokuapp.com) | |
| 197 points | 2013 | author ajacksified showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues. This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests from some really talented…” | ||
| 2722. | Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL (callumprentice.github.io) | |
| 197 points | 2015 | author callumprentice showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Went to bed early with a nasty cold last night and woke up this morning to all these lovely comments - thank you for all the great feedback. I'll try to answer any…” | ||
| 2723. | Facebook to open-source AI hardware design (code.facebook.com) | |
| 197 points | 2015 | author spiantino showed up | their comment | thread
“in this case we are talking mostly about ~halving the time of a single minibatch in training a variety of standard neural networks. That type of training tends to be…” | ||
| 2724. | HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter (hella.cheap) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author rabidsnail showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it's a spambot network. If you click the link in that post to the interactive version (this:) you can see for yourself.” | ||
| 2725. | 1Password sends your password in clear text across the loopback interface (medium.com) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author nullrouted showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for responding. The reason I wrote this up is not to let people oh my god the world is ending but to let them know, hey if you are using the browser extension…” | ||
| 2726. | Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software (medium.com) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author chrismccord showed up | their comment | thread
“Hawking a book? Are you kidding me? I'm also the creator of Phoenix. I spent two years of my life outside of a FT job to get Phoenix to 1.0. We started a book because…” | ||
| 2727. | Search at Slack (slack.engineering) | |
| 197 points | 2017 | author isabellat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 2728. | Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs (elvish.io) | |
| 197 points | 2017 | author xiaq showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions. :)” | ||
| 2729. | An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it (media.ccc.de) | |
| 197 points | 2017 | author rft showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“in case you have any questions.” | ||
| 2730. | Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers & libdivide (lemire.me) | |
| 197 points | 2019 | author dlemire showed up | their comment | thread
“(I am the author of the blog post and I am answering here at the request of nkurz.) So nkurz is correct that, in the paper, N is always equal to the maximum bitwidth of…” | ||
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