91. Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work (tomcritchlow.com)
358 points | 2019 | author topcat31 showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage. Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The…”
92. How I use the good parts of AWS (twitter.com)
357 points | 2019 | author DVassallo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Docker is the only one in that list I’m on the fence on. However, I feel that the EC2 AMI can be the equivalent of the container image, and Docker would only be adding…”
93. How to Secure a Linux Server (github.com)
350 points | 2019 | author imthenachoman showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey folks! I am the author of this guide. I did not know this was here or I would have commented sooner. This is my first time putting a guide like this together. I see…”
94. Bytecode compilers and interpreters (bernsteinbear.com)
349 points | 2019 | author tekknolagi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to understand bytecode compilers and interpreters. Please let me know what you think!”
95. Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi (cloudhead.io)
349 points | 2019 | author cloudhead showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Rx is actually built on WGPU[0] which will eventually have OpenGL support too. However, I don't really see much of a future for OpenGL - so building a graphics…”
96. Software Below the Poverty Line (staltz.com)
345 points | 2019 | author staltz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“"People writing open source software are not being exploited." Well, I got the curiosity to check the data after having just met with people writing open source…”
97. Generating a Java program with 90% less code (unitily.com)
344 points | 2019 | author rowland_street showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd just like to clear up my intent. Firstly the Java patterns. Obviously it's not really necessary to use them for my toy example, but I don't want to write a blog…”
98. Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager (github.com)
343 points | 2019 | author knadh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To give some context on why listmonk was built, at work (regulated financial business), we have to deliver e-mails, mostly important updates, to 1.5mn+ customers…”
99. Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees (nocsok.com)
343 points | 2019 | author Pete-Codes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You might remember me from posts such as "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers". I've made a job board for people without CS degrees. Since I am going…”
100. Why am I interested in Elixir? (underjord.io)
341 points | 2019 | author lawik showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right in that I haven't had a chance to see what a few-years-old Elixir project feels like to run and maintain. I've been following and experimenting with Elixir…”
101. Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com)
339 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for checking this out, everyone! Happy to answer any questions in comments.”
102. Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers (engineering.shopify.com)
339 points | 2019 | author jacktli showed up | their comment | thread
“Pull requests are our unit of work, and the queue was created to support all pull requests. We do have feature flags as a tool, but we let our developers make the…”
103. Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything (medium.com)
338 points | 2019 | author buss showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to email me at steven.buss@gmail.com with any questions or comments. Also if you have a few bucks to spare for my campaign, please donate at”
104. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com)
337 points | 2019 | author binarymax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Howdy. Author here. Really cool to see so much good discussion on this. I want to turn several of them into blog posts on their own with…”
105. If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? (stevenrosenberg.net)
336 points | 2019 | author passthejoe showed up | their comment | thread
“and I wanted to say that SICP, as well as HtDP, and even a book like Robert Sedgewick's Computer Science () are in a completely different category than more mainstream…”
106. Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles (github.com)
335 points | 2019 | author akling showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprising to see it on HN but life is surprising sometimes! I actually made a little demo video about this system just yesterday if you'd like to see it running:”
107. The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back (medium.com)
332 points | 2019 | author lukethomas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm the author of the post and have been working remotely for 6 years. There is no replacement for meeting up in person periodically. Anyone who tells you it's not…”
108. Unbundling AWS (tclauson.com)
331 points | 2019 | author taylorwc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are completely right. There are a million ways the analogy breaks down: consumer vs enterprise, marketplace vs IaaS... It was more just that looking at the console…”
109. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) (tylertringas.com)
328 points | 2019 | author tylertringas showed up | their comment | thread
“The team did not have equity but I paid out substantial bonuses voluntarily to all employees. There's a lot of work to be done on how to incentivize employees in…”
110. My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting (github.com)
327 points | 2019 | author bobblywobbles showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, that is one of the things I'd like to reduce. I will be focusing on reducing the size of the app. The app you linked, looks nice too.”
111. We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring (blog.interviewing.io)
327 points | 2019 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I went back and forth on the intro a bunch and couldn't find a clearer way to not dismiss systemic issues while calling out the fact that we're not being fair to…”
112. The creeping IT apocalypse (forrestbrazeal.com)
324 points | 2019 | author forrestbrazeal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm serious when I say that I'm happy to be a sounding board if you're at a career crossroads. Twitter DMs are open @forrestbrazeal.”
113. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction (basilica.ai)
324 points | 2019 | author mlucy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. Let me know if you have any questions, this is one of my favorite subjects in the world to talk about.”
114. How to Become the Best in the World at Something (forge.medium.com)
322 points | 2019 | author pbulises showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Actually Federer does not do tennis. In fact, he's famous for trying lots of different sports before settling on tennis.”
115. It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video (singhkays.com)
321 points | 2019 | author singhkays showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've uploaded the GIFs here”
116. Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org)
320 points | 2019 | author digitarald showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are monitoring both, but are recently managing all our work in bugzilla.”
117. Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch (cowlark.com)
320 points | 2019 | author david-given showed up | their comment | thread
“Eeeaggh. Yes, this took a while. I started after lunch and finished sometime after midnight (look at the clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen). I'm still…”
118. Understanding Kafka with Factorio (hackernoon.com)
318 points | 2019 | author pul showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article a couple of months ago and didn't expect it to appear on my news feed all of the sudden. Thanks for the love everyone. Any questions are welcome of…”
119. How to annotate everything (beepb00p.xyz)
315 points | 2019 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“That's exciting, you basically mirror my thoughts here :) I agree with what you're saying about siloes, that's especially sad considering that having all this stuff…”
120. Guix: An advanced operating system (ambrevar.xyz)
313 points | 2019 | author Ambrevar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right that the tone is unnecessarily harsh towards Nix. I actually admire Nix a lot, it's simply the the article suffers from too little editing and would…”