2791. Writing a Unix Shell (indradhanush.github.io)
193 points | 2017 | author dhanush showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for pointing these out. I've corrected my assumption and put up a disclaimer on the post.”
2792. Unikernels are secure (unikernel.org)
193 points | 2017 | author perbu showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree wholeheartedly. I wasn't thinking in absolutes, but I absolutely can understand how it could read that way. I could have titled the post "Unikernels are…”
2793. Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres (benchling.engineering)
193 points | 2019 | author vineetg showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the kind words! We would love open source some of the work we did - there are a few edge cases to still work out with deprecated_column and renamed_to before…”
2794. Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML (dhall-lang.org)
193 points | 2019 | author Gabriel439 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the syntax is inspired by all three of Haskell/PureScript/Elm”
2795. Things Markdown got wrong (swyx.io)
193 points | 2020 | author swyx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“wow I didn't expect this to shoot up so quickly! Obviously I love Markdown and use it every day. But like with everything you live with every day, you notice the little…”
2796. Operating a Tor Relay (birb007.github.io)
193 points | 2020 | author birb007 showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought of it as "is one person escaping an authoritarian regime to communicate freely worth more or less than ten people buying drugs?". A criminal will always find…”
2797. Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along (redfin.engineering)
193 points | 2020 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You were not using native ESM in Node years ago. Node 14 shipped with unflagged ESM support just this year. (If I had to take a guess, you were probably transpiling…”
2798. Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch (shaneosullivan.wordpress.com)
193 points | 2021 | author shaneos showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Unfortunately no - we had many thousands of customers, most of whom had no control over their machines (low level employees at ad agencies). As a company, Facebook has…”
2799. Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro (gir.st)
193 points | 2021 | author girst showed up | their comment | thread
“What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here :) If you have any questions, shoot!”
2800. On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general (ruzkuku.com)
193 points | 2021 | author daptaq showed up | their comment | thread
“and didn't expect this to end up here. To clarify, I wrote the first section because polemics are fun, not because I am claiming to have discovered something radical. My…”
2801. Exploring FPGA Graphics (projectf.io)
193 points | 2022 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“I've almost finished a complete overhaul of this series: animation and double-buffering are coming in October. I'd be happy to field any questions you have.”
2802. Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM (christopher.engineering)
193 points | 2024 | author llcoolchris_ showed up | their comment | thread
“I knew about F# since my university days and I'm guilty for not really dig into it except for toys projects. I worked in many companies and most of them were Microsoft…”
2803. Playing guitar tablatures in Rust (agourlay.github.io)
193 points | 2024 | author agourlay showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
2804. Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust (pnut.sh)
193 points | 2024 | author laurenth showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Because all shell variables in code generated by pnut are numbers, variables never contain whitespace or special characters and don't need to be quoted. We considered…”
2805. The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023) (righto.com)
193 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“P.S. there are two more parts to the series, going into more details on the Globus, explaining the circuitry and the "algorithms":”
2806. Ruby Blocks (tech.stonecharioteer.com)
193 points | 2025 | author stonecharioteer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did use Gemini for the post image, I cannot draw and I'm not using my blog to monetize anything so I don't think there's anything wrong in AI generated images.”
2807. A practical use for space-filling curves (www2.isye.gatech.edu)
192 points | 2011 | author jjb3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello All! I am one of the authors. Thanks for the interesting comments. The web page is not intended to be a study but rather an enticement to read the technical papers…”
2808. LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census (thenextweb.com)
192 points | 2011 | author m4tt showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article and have been trying to trace the authenticity of the release. I am still waiting to hear back from the Office of National Statistics, which at the…”
2809. Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox (mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com)
192 points | 2014 | author _ares__ showed up | their comment | thread
“I responded to the press release from Samsung and updated my blog article: As Samsung responded with an official press release regarding my blog article () I also want…”
2810. Microservices? Please Don't (dzone.com)
192 points | 2016 | author StabbyCutyou showed up | their comment | thread
“Quickly, on the "elementary" nature of the post, this was adapted from a lightning talk I gave, and so it was sort of designed to be a very quick introduction into the…”
2811. Benchmarking Google’s new TPUv2 (blog.riseml.com)
192 points | 2018 | author elmarhaussmann showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Note that the TPU supports larger batch sizes because it has more RAM. We tested multiple batch sizes for GPUs and reported the fastest one. We'll try increasing the…”
2812. Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix (github.com)
192 points | 2019 | author tazjin showed up | their comment | thread
“The actual content layers (i.e. those containing Nix store paths) are going to be the same, but metadata layers (those containing the image name and the references to…”
2813. Remembering the LAN (crawshaw.io)
192 points | 2020 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“FWIW, I wrote this blog post a long time ago, when I was trying to understand what the product we were building is and why I like it. I sat on it for months because I…”
2814. Web Clipper Browser Extension with Automatic Content Extraction, Now Open Source (github.com)
192 points | 2020 | author laybak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this comment already made my day :) feel free to take the code and run with it, and let me know if you have any suggestions/questions”
2815. Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA (rainforestqa.com)
192 points | 2021 | author fredsters_s showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are absolutely right: the optimal setup is a cross-functional team of domain experts collaborating on solving the customer's problem. The article is meant to point…”
2816. Generics facilitators in Go (rakyll.org)
192 points | 2021 | author zyedidia showed up | their comment | thread
“I think there is definitely room for improvement in the iterator API. I intend to experiment with more implementations in the coming weeks with the goal of settling on…”
2817. Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes (andycallaghan.com)
192 points | 2021 | author acallaghan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Is an attack on me personally, nothing about the article. The article also took much longer than 30 minutes to 'knock out' - more like 3 hours all in all”
2818. Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit (2020) (thirtythreeforty.net)
192 points | 2022 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“Some very smart contributors have helped decode another layer of the Baichuan protocol - I actually missed the "media wrapper" because it happened to work without…”
2819. Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator (github.com)
192 points | 2022 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“Right now it's being tested by running precompiled binaries. See Most of these test binaries are sourced from the cosmopolitan repository, and many of those come from…”
2820. Losing faith in testing (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
192 points | 2024 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I worked at Sourcegraph and I do think we built some high-quality stuff and we did write tests. I also think a lot of them were necessary. But, like I wrote here,…”