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| 2941. | Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines (erlang-solutions.com) | |
| 185 points | 2020 | author olikas showed up | their comment | thread
“The problem with number crunching or maths is that it is very difficult to cut the whole computation into smaller units and pre-emptively schedule it. If it is possible…” | ||
| 2942. | The Illustrated QUIC Connection (quic.ulfheim.net) | |
| 185 points | 2022 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; let me know if there are any comments or questions I can answer.” | ||
| 2943. | Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040 (blog.thea.codes) | |
| 185 points | 2022 | author theacodes showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you for the kind words! My goal is always to write the thing I would've wanted to have when I started out.” | ||
| 2944. | The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020) (sudhir.io) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author sudhirj showed up | their comment | thread
“feels really nice to be HN famous (as defined by your stuff being on front page without you posting it). AMA and feedback welcome I guess. Wanted to write a book on this…” | ||
| 2945. | As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production (roblh.substack.com) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author rob_lh showed up | their comment | thread
“In short, no, I wasn't surprised, I just wanted to cover it. I worked in 3D printing, albeit on the polymer side. On the metal side, there's been a lot of progress and…” | ||
| 2946. | The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside (righto.com) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8086/8088 questions...” | ||
| 2947. | The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres (brandur.org) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author brandur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The behavior of notify with respect to transactions is indeed notable, and definitely a great feature that makes them distinct from pub/sub in other systems. Notifies…” | ||
| 2948. | The Software Crisis (wryl.tech) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author wryl showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. I think it's important to address certain aspects of this post that people tend to misunderstand, so I'll just list them here to save myself the effort.…” | ||
| 2949. | Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala (mill-build.org) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author lihaoyi showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Hope you take a look at the project and find it cool. There's a lot of interesting stuff here. In particular, the Video linked on the landing page is a great intros from…” | ||
| 2950. | How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012) (jherrm.github.io) | |
| 185 points | 2025 | author JeremyHerrman showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“fair point but I still think apple made the right call even if it leads to a bit of confusion at first. If a digital knob needs to be turned several times (e.g. 1080º,…” | ||
| 2951. | UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com) | |
| 185 points | 2026 | author 8organicbits showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading the post. I haven't seen UUIDv5 used very often but I'll have to think about the idempotency angle more. One thing that concerns me is that UUIDv5 is…” | ||
| 2952. | Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments (edweissman.com) | |
| 184 points | 2011 | author edw519 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a little side project to have some fun and maybe spread a little value. I frantically threw this together over the weekend to be ready for the traffic Marc…” | ||
| 2953. | TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds (httpshaming.tumblr.com) | |
| 184 points | 2014 | author tonywebster showed up | their comment | thread
“If you let me know some sources for the above, I'd love to add them. Contact info in profile. Thanks!” | ||
| 2954. | Web Bloat Score Calculator (webbloatscore.com) | |
| 184 points | 2016 | author ZeljkoS showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to measure visual information content of a page, and yes, PNG is maybe not the best to do that. JPEGs are smaller, but it introduces another problem of visible…” | ||
| 2955. | An Algebra of Graphs (blogs.ncl.ac.uk) | |
| 184 points | 2016 | author sn0wleopard showed up | their comment | thread
“I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in a different version of the algebra that modells hypergraphs with k-edges. For example, you can change the…” | ||
| 2956. | Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite (github.com) | |
| 184 points | 2017 | author sktrdie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes the SQLite engine returns an SQLITE_OK value when the query is complete, just like if it were a database file on disk. The insight here is that we can tell SQLite…” | ||
| 2957. | Avoiding Startup Tarpits (medium.com) | |
| 184 points | 2017 | author dtawfik1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Our story was different. I mentioned that one of the original sins of our company was how we budgeted solely into product development. The other original sin was that…” | ||
| 2958. | Transform ML models into native code with zero dependencies (github.com) | |
| 184 points | 2019 | author s0ck_r4w showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey folks! One of the authors here. Somehow this post went under our radar. Thank you all for your comments and feedback! We're super excited about the amount of…” | ||
| 2959. | Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer (symbolflux.com) | |
| 184 points | 2020 | author westoncb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 2960. | 3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com) | |
| 184 points | 2020 | author rbanffy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't use FreeBSD myself. Is there something I should change in the README? For the vt console, I'd suggest starting with the bitmap that comes with x3270, which is…” | ||
| 2961. | Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation (dkzlv.medium.com) | |
| 184 points | 2021 | author dkzlv showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. 1. it's hard to judge about that right away. It would be cool to see the ads data beforehand. If I saw the ad performs poorly I would change it…” | ||
| 2962. | Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility (shottr.cc) | |
| 184 points | 2022 | author ffitch showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Totally understand your concerns. I wasn't sure about the telemetry but it helped me to fix some issues so far, so I decided to keep it on an…” | ||
| 2963. | JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (2019) (unencumberedbyfacts.com) | |
| 184 points | 2022 | author jasonmunro showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure who posted this old blog article but great to see an interesting discussion and new interest in the project. Development is active and we always appreciate new…” | ||
| 2964. | Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances (pauley.me) | |
| 184 points | 2022 | author ericpauley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The key here is that customers can leverage these pools in addition to their existing pools, improving capacity and price. AWS actually supports this out of the box…” | ||
| 2965. | Context Control in Go (zenhorace.dev) | |
| 184 points | 2024 | author chemcube showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey. Author here. Yeah, the Go style guide at Google (the setting for the dcode review) is quite prescriptive. I don't mind labeling things "anti-patterns". It doesn't…” | ||
| 2966. | Forced to upgrade (herman.bearblog.dev) | |
| 184 points | 2024 | author HermanMartinus showed up | their comment | thread
“I decided on the 16 since its support lifetime started this year. If I'd gotten the SE (which I seriously considered since it has a more appealing form factor and…” | ||
| 2967. | Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com) | |
| 184 points | 2026 | author allenleee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“:) Great point. You're totally right. Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon. Pure Mac-only, I'd use it. (also smaller) Main reason I…” | ||
| 2968. | Sharding and IDs at Instagram (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com) | |
| 183 points | 2011 | author mikeyk showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I think this should also be possible with MySQL's stored functions, but one huge benefit to PostgreSQL is the schema/tablespace feature, since it means all our logical…” | ||
| 2969. | How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases (palkeo.com) | |
| 183 points | 2014 | author fiveturns showed up | their comment | thread
“Somebody did set up a website somewhere that allowed users to see if their private key was in the "database". It would jump them to the correct page, and, steal their…” | ||
| 2970. | How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup (nguonthieng.com) | |
| 183 points | 2014 | author VuongN showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Perhaps let me share a little bit more so that is it in context. First and foremost, most credits, indeed go to my wife and family. The reason why I didn't mention my…” | ||
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