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| 1. | The Day AppGet Died (keivan.io) | |
| 1930 points | 2020 | author kayone showed up | their comment | thread
“Because it's sure to come up here is a comment I wrote on Reddit that clarifies somethings, I haven't updated the original article since I'm not sure what the etiquette…” | ||
| 2. | My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com) | |
| 1545 points | 2020 | author lazyjeff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Yeah it feels wrong because you're not using the calendar like it's "supposed to" be used. But who cares. But what this does is 1) reduce the stress of seeing that item…” | ||
| 3. | Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees (dystroy.org) | |
| 1448 points | 2020 | author dystroy showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the tip. I'll do that. edit: done. Note that broot is far from new and is reliable on linux. I used it daily in the past 10 months. The only thing which…” | ||
| 4. | Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com) | |
| 1320 points | 2020 | author _qulr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“A few notes: 1. I tested with many different sites and configurations in order to narrow down the issue. The screenshots in the article are just a small sample of my…” | ||
| 5. | Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams (github.com) | |
| 1307 points | 2020 | author oskarsv showed up | their comment | thread
“This is one of five similar reports for MS Teams. Even outside RCE, just consider the impact of access to SSO tokens and wormability :)” | ||
| 6. | CRDTs are the future (josephg.com) | |
| 1181 points | 2020 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I love this comment. Yes; but not yet. Right now if you want you can use yjs or sharedb. But the APIs aren't spectacular. Eventually I want these things integrated into…” | ||
| 7. | Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1134 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or hear feedback about this post.” | ||
| 8. | My Second Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1066 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback about this post. Discussion from my first annual update last year:” | ||
| 9. | I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov) | |
| 985 points | 2020 | author mhafez17 showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow. I am the author of this email. I have no idea how it resurfaced after 5 years, I was only made aware of this when a friend emailed me the HN link. The sad thing is…” | ||
| 10. | Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys (joealcorn.co.uk) | |
| 869 points | 2020 | author buttscicles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Would love to have a public API for readng but don't want supporting it slowing us down when we need to change something. It's just the three of us in our spare time at…” | ||
| 11. | Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead (secondbreakfast.co) | |
| 857 points | 2020 | author secondbreakfast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i promise this is not an ad for Hey haha, have no affiliation with basecamp and wish i was that good at content marketing.” | ||
| 12. | I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API (twitter.com) | |
| 845 points | 2020 | author rashiq showed up | their comment | thread
“the phrasing placing an order was probably wrong - mcdonald's lists the products they're currently out in their api. I'm just querying for those. No ice cream was harmed…” | ||
| 13. | 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 838 points | 2020 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the nice comments (and helpful bug reports). This idea has been in the back of my mind for ~2 years now but I recently got a wave of motivation and…” | ||
| 14. | DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features (duckdb.org) | |
| 801 points | 2020 | author mytherin showed up | their comment | thread
“portability of the storage is indeed one of our goals. We test that the same file can be loaded everywhere on different systems, including between ARM and x86. I should…” | ||
| 15. | How to Get Promoted (defmacro.substack.com) | |
| 788 points | 2020 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“You can read it both ways, and I think it works.” | ||
| 16. | More challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 757 points | 2020 | author azhenley showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree! That was one of the projects from the original project list that I posted a year ago (). In fact, this summer I wrote a 3-part tutorial series on implementing a…” | ||
| 17. | Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi (mtlynch.io) | |
| 756 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.” | ||
| 18. | I Learned French in 12 Months (runwes.com) | |
| 748 points | 2020 | author wes1350 showed up | their comment (+15 more) | thread
“I definitely don't feel completely automatic in French, but when having casual conversation I can be fairly automatic if the subject matter isn't too demanding. I think…” | ||
| 19. | Moving from YouTube to PeerTube (battlepenguin.com) | |
| 738 points | 2020 | author djsumdog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I host on a dedicated server in Germany; 64GB of ram and a recent generation processor. It costs less than all my crappy Vultr/DigitalOcean nodes, so I moved a ton of…” | ||
| 20. | What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com) | |
| 733 points | 2020 | author maest showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We've taken no intentional action to change the way the back button works - in fact, I too hate it when websites do that. Can you PM me with some details about what…” | ||
| 21. | I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 717 points | 2020 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I apologize for pulling Rust into this, but for the life of me couldn't find any comparable language that solves those problems "the right way". I tried really hard. I…” | ||
| 22. | Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained (github.com) | |
| 717 points | 2020 | author mkirchner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To add context that seems lost on some: this is a cleaned-up version of my own notes from when I tried to understand the technical detail behind what Linus called "good…” | ||
| 23. | Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid (joshwcomeau.com) | |
| 716 points | 2020 | author joshwcomeau showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there! Author here. What I meant is that there is no way to tell certain children to disregard the constraints of a container; if a parent is 800px wide, there isn't…” | ||
| 24. | Web by Google (TM) (landshark.io) | |
| 706 points | 2020 | author alangibson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The article is making a case that Google has in fact captured the Web, and secondarily that there are some clear reasons for it. I had no intention of writing a…” | ||
| 25. | Persisting as a solo founder (vishnu.tech) | |
| 699 points | 2020 | author vishnumohandas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To reiterate, this really is the happiest I've been. The initial few months were not smooth (as indicated by the article). Mostly because was an expectation mismatch…” | ||
| 26. | Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (gkogan.co) | |
| 685 points | 2020 | author gk1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My point is that simple-to-understand systems--not simple as in primitive--have less downtime, not that we shouldn't ever have complex systems. A container ship like the…” | ||
| 27. | Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming (tryolabs.com) | |
| 675 points | 2020 | author lalord showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for taking the time to read the article! The objective of the demo was not to see which language could sum up a bunch of numbers the fastest. You could keep…” | ||
| 28. | αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (justine.storage.googleapis.com) | |
| 671 points | 2020 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I considered doing that. Then I learned about things like how MSVC 2017 would wrap the main() function of C programs with telemetry. The push for code signing,…” | ||
| 29. | City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once (anvaka.github.io) | |
| 668 points | 2020 | author anvaka showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to thank you for the comments, feedback and shares! I 'm very happy! PS: If you liked that project you may find my other stuff interesting: - it's just a…” | ||
| 30. | Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 661 points | 2020 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
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