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| 2881. | TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer (strlen.com) | |
| 188 points | 2017 | author Aardappel showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA. Just discovered this is on hn again, it has been on here at least once before: But hey, I don't mind the attention :)” | ||
| 2882. | The internals of testing in Rust in 2018 (blog.jrenner.net) | |
| 188 points | 2018 | author djrenren showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I won't lie, it's rough. I definitely built this whole website and wrote the blog during my "compile breaks". On the bright side, typechecking is super fast so I only…” | ||
| 2883. | CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT (github.com) | |
| 188 points | 2020 | author NieDzejkob showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 2884. | A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly (mattkeeter.com) | |
| 188 points | 2020 | author mkeeter showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. I also appreciate the load testing! For the curious, we're at 30 open rooms, and I'm seeing: - 0.0 server load - 2.6 MB of RAM used by…” | ||
| 2885. | A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (arxiv.org) | |
| 188 points | 2020 | author denismerigoux showed up | their comment | thread
“You seem to be well-informed of the DGFiP jargon, do you know if news of my work has been spreading among the IT department there?” | ||
| 2886. | IT Without Software (ndt.instedd.org) | |
| 188 points | 2021 | author nditada showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! author here, funny to read this 11 years after! I'd be happy to provide more details. You can mail me at my username @ domain of the post. And yes, the title was…” | ||
| 2887. | Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 188 points | 2021 | author TaKO8Ki showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of gobang. gobang means a Japanese game played on goban, a go board. The appearance of goban looks like table structure. And I live in Kyoto, Japan.…” | ||
| 2888. | How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect (christine.website) | |
| 188 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“That was VSeeFace. I have been doing a lot of research and iteration on using vtubing avatar software to try and make it feel more "natural" without getting too far into…” | ||
| 2889. | JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI (github.com) | |
| 188 points | 2025 | author MatthewPhillips showed up | their comment | thread
“The reason for the pattern is to make it so you always can find why a mutation occured. So combining state variables and dom changes is ok as long as that's the only…” | ||
| 2890. | Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024) (alexshtf.github.io) | |
| 188 points | 2025 | author alexshtf showed up | their comment | thread
“I see it did some noise :) I partially agree with your claims. It indeed is an issue if you take high powers of numbers outside of the [-1, 1] interval, but I completely…” | ||
| 2891. | We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes (pavpanchekha.com) | |
| 188 points | 2025 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“in fact all the words you read I wrote, LLMs are not very good at writing.” | ||
| 2892. | Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales) | |
| 188 points | 2026 | author tuckerwales showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I dictated this article into my phone and got a model to transcribe and clean up / reword. I'd argue that counts as using AI as a tool for conveying my original thoughts.” | ||
| 2893. | Moving our warehouse off DuckDB (posthog.com) | |
| 188 points | 2026 | author roboben showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. We engineered, then we measured and then we tried to make it work, probably for a too long of a time before we decided to completely scrap our current…” | ||
| 2894. | IRCv3 (blog.irccloud.com) | |
| 187 points | 2016 | author jwheare2 showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, the changes detailed here are to do with IRC as a low level protocol. While these enhancements do have user benefit, many of the user experience improvements…” | ||
| 2895. | The Mandelwat Set (medium.com) | |
| 187 points | 2017 | author jfo showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a real, real joy to read all these memories about the set, thank you all! Can I meet you in the middle somewhere? No, but seriously, there are what I consider very…” | ||
| 2896. | Lwan: A high-performance and scalable web server (lwan.ws) | |
| 187 points | 2018 | author acidx showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a pun on another similarly-named web server. It's a terrible name, and I should have searched the web before, but it's too late now.” | ||
| 2897. | Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal (github.com) | |
| 187 points | 2019 | author felixse showed up | their comment | thread
“The main reason is that I already had some experience with 'hybrid' approaches and xterm.js made it possible to build something usable without spending too much time…” | ||
| 2898. | Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making (brick.do) | |
| 187 points | 2020 | author neongreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“me and a friend have been working on Brick for the past several months. It works like Notion as in "all your edits are instantly visible" — from experience, this feels…” | ||
| 2899. | Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features (fastpages.fast.ai) | |
| 187 points | 2020 | author jph00 showed up | their comment | thread
“dataclasses is not very extensible or flexible. It's fine for starting with, but it's not at all a replacement for store_attr etc. At fast.ai we used dataclasses…” | ||
| 2900. | Zero downtime migrations (kiranrao.ca) | |
| 187 points | 2022 | author KiranRao0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and a few things I'd like to clear up. I agree that most DBs are small enough to perform the migration operation in a single transaction. However the choice to have…” | ||
| 2901. | “Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft (blog.confiant.com) | |
| 187 points | 2022 | author eliya_confiant showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I liked this comment a lot and I can help to shed some light: We do see phishing pages like this increasingly popping up with obfuscation. I think at this time less than…” | ||
| 2902. | Thinking with pen and paper (ljvmiranda921.github.io) | |
| 187 points | 2022 | author ljvmiranda showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Been using pen and paper (for knowledge work) since 2017. Hope that helps” | ||
| 2903. | A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later (carlineng.com) | |
| 187 points | 2022 | author carlineng showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the mistake. You may now proceed with reading the remainder of the post ;)” | ||
| 2904. | Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law (sohl-dickstein.github.io) | |
| 187 points | 2022 | author jaschasd showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just for the record, I am very much in favor of metric-driven decision making. I suggest some ways we can make it more robust, and also that we should be aware that our…” | ||
| 2905. | Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022) (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 187 points | 2024 | author alin23 showed up | their comment | thread
“all monitor vendors are guilty of the same serial problem. It’s not present on all models, and most have transitioned to writing the Alphanumeric Serial Number in the…” | ||
| 2906. | OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub (arcprize.org) | |
| 187 points | 2024 | author mikeknoop showed up | their comment | thread
“Which aspects are misleading? How can it be improved?” | ||
| 2907. | The Hobby Computer Culture (technicshistory.com) | |
| 187 points | 2025 | author cfmcdonald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the reference, this is very helpful. The name "Colonel Whitney" came from a 1984 Stan Veit article: Obviously he misremembered the name. I wasn't able to…” | ||
| 2908. | In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python (darkcoding.net) | |
| 186 points | 2012 | author graham_king_3 showed up | their comment | thread
“The difference has nothing to do with epoll, these comments are correct. Thanks particularly to codeape for his pull request which made me realise this. Sorry everyone.…” | ||
| 2909. | Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies (arduino.cc) | |
| 186 points | 2012 | author mbanzi showed up | their comment | thread
“The objective of the post is to ask Kickstarter to provide a more direct way to report either trademark violations or lies (like this guy claiming to be a former…” | ||
| 2910. | Porting Python to GRUB: “Networking without an operating system” (lwn.net) | |
| 186 points | 2016 | author JoshTriplett showed up | their comment | thread
“and the presenter of the PyCon presentation this article discusses. Happy to answer any questions here.” | ||
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