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How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft (clarkwakeland.com) |
| 190 points | 2024 | author linebeck showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should clarify the satellite is not running Windows. Instead, it’s running its own custom OS written in C called Flight Software (FSW) specifically designed for the…” |
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Common misconceptions about compilers (sbaziotis.com) |
| 190 points | 2024 | author baziotis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm really happy the article has gotten such attention. I hope it's good attention and that you folks learned something! Unfortunately, though, it's _very_ hard to keep…” |
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Developing inside a virtual machine (blog.disintegrator.dev) |
| 190 points | 2024 | author disintegrator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for all the tips. I especially like the idea of using ssh from guest to host to enable pbcopy/pbpaste and open. Now I know what all the WSL users experience…” |
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OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net) |
| 190 points | 2025 | author Vonng showed up | their comment | thread
“The post here is a 3rd-party translation and may drifts from original wording in a few spots. Azure and OpenAI sent me some corrections today, so I published an updated…” |
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Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth (github.com) |
| 190 points | 2025 | author lfnoise showed up | their comment | thread
“I also have a YouTube channel for my video synthesis experiments (over 2600 videos): SAPF was originally written in 2011 and only recently made open source.” |
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College was my biggest mistake (2012) (stevecorona.com) |
| 189 points | 2013 | author stevencorona showed up | their comment | thread
“I get alot of hate for this post, so let me sum it up here: College was my biggest mistake. Not your biggest mistake. I'm not giving advice, just being honest about my…” |
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Ripgrep code review (blog.mbrt.it) |
| 189 points | 2016 | author mbrt showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate that! I'm gonna edit the post with it. And don't worry about your code... it's the best crate I've seen so far ;) By the way,…” |
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Rasa: Extremely modular text editor built in Haskell (github.com) |
| 189 points | 2017 | author ChrisPenner showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; I can answer any questions you might have; It's still a really early project but it's growing quickly! Anyone who's interested should join in the discussion…” |
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Starting a Hardware Company with $60K (cobattery.com) |
| 189 points | 2017 | author vpontis showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to see that it's getting some traffic here. Let me know if y'all have any questions. I would love to see this post help other people start hacking on hardware,…” |
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Go at Digital Ocean (speakerdeck.com) |
| 189 points | 2017 | author farslan showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Thanks for the advice. I love Gitlab and what they are doing. Because the slides don’t reflect them very well I thought I chime in. Currently Drone and GoCD both are in…” |
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Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You (workaguide.com) |
| 189 points | 2018 | author BSVino showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I admit that the title is a bit clickbaity, but I paid careful attention while writing to make sure that the title is 100% correct. At the end of the process your…” |
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How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks (github.com) |
| 189 points | 2018 | author GChevalier showed up | their comment | thread
“Whoa, thank you all for the nice comments, I didn't expect to make such a buzz here nor today. I'm glad to see the reactions - even the bad ones, it seems aligned with…” |
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Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster (devopsdirective.com) |
| 189 points | 2020 | author spalas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the word of warning. I'll take a look at removing the battery to avoid any issues.” |
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Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos (trekview.org) |
| 189 points | 2020 | author panoramas4good showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That was a typo. Should read Differential GPS. Now corrected. Thank you!” |
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Building My Own Chess Engine (healeycodes.com) |
| 189 points | 2020 | author healeycodes showed up | their comment | thread
“I also hope more hobby chess engine builders join the fun on lichess! I recommend playing against which is based on Alan Turing's I debugged my bot by playing it on…” |
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How image search works at Dropbox (dropbox.tech) |
| 189 points | 2021 | author tb99 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I didn't notice it on hn until just now, but I'm happy to answer any questions about it.” |
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How to write a bootloader from scratch (2019) (interrupt.memfault.com) |
| 189 points | 2022 | author fra showed up | their comment | thread
“It's surprising how hard CMSIS-DAP adapters are to find. The two options shared by codys look reasonable, but I'm working on putting together a better option.” |
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Chibicc – A Small C Compiler (github.com) |
| 189 points | 2022 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm amused that I opened HN thinking that (which I posted today) might come to the front page and found this post instead. So the chibicc book is not available yet. I'm…” |
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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab (amoses.dev) |
| 189 points | 2024 | author amosesdev showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. The yml is from a configuration in Home Assistant. Whenever it received an event from the sensors, it would fire the corresponding POST request (which…” |
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JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023 (blog.ret2.io) |
| 189 points | 2025 | author gaasedelen showed up | their comment | thread
“March 1st I'll be giving a related conference talk at RE//verse () about my journey from software reversing into the realm of ludicrous hardware research while…” |
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Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com) |
| 189 points | 2025 | author ghiculescu showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Ask me anything! Since writing this a tangentially related thing we've added, is a github action that runs on any PR that includes a (Rails) database migration, and…” |
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Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting (lambdaland.org) |
| 189 points | 2025 | author ashton314 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think it is well and good to replace human jobs with automation thereby freeing them up for more creative activities. My favorite appliances are my dish washer,…” |
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Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (jonathan.protzenko.fr) |
| 189 points | 2025 | author protz showed up | their comment | thread
“that'll be a cool name for my next project :-)” |
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My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user (claude.ai) |
| 189 points | 2026 | author mi-rae showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm Korean, and I have cochlear implants in both ears, which I received in a clinical trial in 2025. No one could tell me what I actually hear, so between 11 October and…” |
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Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011 (downloadsquad.switched.com) |
| 188 points | 2011 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“There are 64-bit nightly builds of FF4, but _only_ nightlies: This suggests that there won't be an official 64-bit build of Firefox 4 -- we'll have to wait for Firefox…” |
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Wizard Modals for Bootstrap (github.com) |
| 188 points | 2013 | author daenz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've put a demo here temporarily. The docs page is still DDosed, but should be back shortly. EDIT>> docs are back” |
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USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” (weblaws.org) |
| 188 points | 2013 | author dogweather showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, it's part of the country's infrastructure. This kind of restriction adds costs in a million little ways.” |
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Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China (pentestpartners.com) |
| 188 points | 2016 | author cybergibbons showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My device sends an email at boot to the email address, and it has also been triggered at other times - I am not sure why. It looks like there are a number of variants of…” |
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How Eve unifies your entire programming stack (hackernoon.com) |
| 188 points | 2016 | author Liron showed up | their comment | thread
“I certainly understand that seeing progressively more sophisticated practical applications will help people "get" Eve. I look forward to that myself. In the meantime, I…” |
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Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper? (approximatelycorrect.com) |
| 188 points | 2017 | author zackchase showed up | their comment | thread
“Grisha Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture has never been (by him, to my knowledge) submitted to or published in any journal. He decided, as is his right, that…” |
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