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| 2761. | Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free (victorqribeiro.itch.io) | |
| 195 points | 2020 | author atum47 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the thing with mobile and desktop on mind (touch and keyboard controls, render to several types of screen). Then this line does the magic: const isMobile =…” | ||
| 2762. | Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter? (calpaterson.com) | |
| 195 points | 2021 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment | thread
“you are absolutely right and I will correct that!” | ||
| 2763. | From Julia to Rust (miguelraz.github.io) | |
| 195 points | 2021 | author miguelraz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I specifically mentioned the `egg` crate because of it's capabilities for symbolic math. You can check a minimal application of arithmetic differentiation and some…” | ||
| 2764. | Web Scraping with Python (scrapingbee.com) | |
| 195 points | 2022 | author daolf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Always to improve the content we're writing here. What else would you have expected to read in such an article?” | ||
| 2765. | Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? (erikexamines.substack.com) | |
| 195 points | 2022 | author socialdemocrat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry about the paywall, I am trying to experiment with different ways of growing my readership and subscribers. You can get past the paywall by signing up for a 7-day…” | ||
| 2766. | Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs (arxiv.org) | |
| 195 points | 2022 | author AdamGleave showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We evaluated our matches using KataGo. In fact, our adversary is just a forked version of KataGo. We use the same modified Tromp-Taylor rules for eval. We elaborate on…” | ||
| 2767. | PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet (ericdaigle.ca) | |
| 195 points | 2024 | author e_daigle showed up | their comment | thread
“the exploit is so simple it kind of speaks for itself, but if anyone has any questions feel free.” | ||
| 2768. | Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig (aarol.dev) | |
| 195 points | 2025 | author aarol showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for your feedback! I was inspired by your comment on HN a while back and started learning about this stuff, reading the source code of `memchr` was especially…” | ||
| 2769. | Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2011 | author glenjamin showed up | their comment | thread
“didn't really expect this to get picked up anywhere but since it has I'd like to point out the idea was to demonstrate that computationally expensive algorithms can be…” | ||
| 2770. | Get that job at Facebook (2012) (facebook.com) | |
| 194 points | 2013 | author aristus showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi, author here -- the article focuses on "code prep" because that's something you can brush up in a short-ish period of time. You can't become a nicer or more…” | ||
| 2771. | BankAPI (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2014 | author JoelJacobson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“That's a good question. Please see:” | ||
| 2772. | Voxel Quest Fluid Dynamics and New Rendering Method (voxelquest.com) | |
| 194 points | 2015 | author gavanwoolery showed up | their comment | thread
“as mentioned I was not expecting this to get posted but I am happy to answer any questions or elaborate further. For so long as I can stay awake at least. :) Some other…” | ||
| 2773. | Redox: A Rust Operating System (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2015 | author jackpot51 showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't choose that line well, so I simply removed that text. I meant that I would like it to be well documented, not that it would be designed around documentation.” | ||
| 2774. | Perl 6 is fun (blog.urth.org) | |
| 194 points | 2015 | author autarch showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the traffic but my server doesn't. I'm working on getting this viewable again.” | ||
| 2775. | The Lisp Curse (2011) (winestockwebdesign.com) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author winestock showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“This must be at least the third time that it has appeared on Hacker News. I'm starting to get sick of it, myself, but I keep it up because so many people like it (at the…” | ||
| 2776. | Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind (facebook.com) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author blakeross showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. About me: I was formerly a director of product at FB and a founder of Firefox. My YC startup became FB's first acquisition. I'm focusing…” | ||
| 2777. | Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc. (devever.net) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author hlandau showed up | their comment | thread
“After musing on the comments here I wrote a followup about improv HSMs. These aren't tamperproof and as such are suitable for use in secure datacentres only.” | ||
| 2778. | Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive (jix.one) | |
| 194 points | 2017 | author jix showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 2779. | Show HN: An improved version of HyperLogLog (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2017 | author seiflotfy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the main 3 things that make this stand out is: 1) 4-bit register instead of 5 (HLL) and 6 (HLL++), but most implementations use 1 byte registers out of convenience 2)…” | ||
| 2780. | Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it (opensource.com) | |
| 194 points | 2017 | author waltman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and to be honest the only reason I did it this way was to make sure the period ended up in column 73. I've presented this in talks about half a dozen times now, and…” | ||
| 2781. | Art of chording (artofchording.com) | |
| 194 points | 2020 | author morinted showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of Art of Chording—I program full-time with steno in JavaScript (working mainly with React.) I'd love ideas on how to demonstrate coding in steno. I…” | ||
| 2782. | The day my script killed 10k phones in South America (new.pythonforengineers.com) | |
| 194 points | 2021 | author shantnutiwari showed up | their comment | thread
“I shared this yesterday, didnt get much upvotes and quickly vanished. Thanks to /u/nixcraft for sharing it again! Looks like 2nd time lucky. Im seeing the same type of…” | ||
| 2783. | Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR (missiveapp.com) | |
| 194 points | 2022 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should not have put it there... I just wanted to highlight we were frugal.” | ||
| 2784. | Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (seanmoriarity.com) | |
| 194 points | 2024 | author seanmor5 showed up | their comment | thread
“All of the chapters are done, but there are still some minor updates as APIs change. It should be going to production soon” | ||
| 2785. | Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2025 | author zone411 showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I'm planning to create game versions of this benchmark, as well as my other multi-agent benchmarks (,, and a few others I'm developing). But I'm not sure if a…” | ||
| 2786. | UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp) (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2025 | author aabbdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The idea is simple: keep UUIDv7 internally for database indexing and sortability, but emit UUIDv4-looking façades externally so clients don’t see timing patterns. How it…” | ||
| 2787. | Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely. (log.nadim.cc) | |
| 193 points | 2012 | author magikarp showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me ask you something: Have you checked if SSLv2 connections are actually dropped? The point of my article isn't SSLv2, it's privacy concerns. Also, I did actually…” | ||
| 2788. | The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (fpgacomputing.blogspot.com) | |
| 193 points | 2013 | author amirhirsch showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to point out that it's stereotypes for the sake of nomenclature.” | ||
| 2789. | Convert curl commands to Go code (mholt.github.io) | |
| 193 points | 2016 | author mholt showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN, I wrote this to scratch a perpetual itch after reading enough API documentations and re-writing basically the same code over and over. Right now it only supports…” | ||
| 2790. | Ethereum Contracts Are Going to Be Candy for Hackers (vessenes.com) | |
| 193 points | 2016 | author vessenes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I agree with Vitalik. I thought it was interesting to dig into the wild west of live contracts and see what was happening right now. The early days of Bitcoin had…” | ||
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