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| 1. | How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv) | |
| 3883 points | 2021 | author kuroguro showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“my bad, forgot to set it to public ^^;;” | ||
| 2. | Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (justine.lol) | |
| 1998 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+9 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Absolutely. I used to love Turbo Pascal and Delphi when I was younger. If Free Pascal uses GNU LD.BFD or LLVM LLD when it links programs, then all you'd need to do is is…” | ||
| 3. | Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup (gomox.medium.com) | |
| 1714 points | 2021 | author gomox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+16 more) | thread
“I don't think it's malice on their part, but their hammer is too big to be wielded so carelessly.” | ||
| 4. | It Can Happen to You (mattkeeter.com) | |
| 1683 points | 2021 | author mkeeter showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks to HN for warning me about sscanf at exactly the right time – within a day of me trying to load some ASCII STLs and noticing it was slow... Linked deep in the…” | ||
| 5. | Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community (mooreds.com) | |
| 1631 points | 2021 | author mooreds showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting! I wrote this a year ago as my employer was starting up their forum[0]. While we have since added slack, the forum is the main support mechanism…” | ||
| 6. | Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (surma.dev) | |
| 1290 points | 2021 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don’t think many people have researched or optimized on this, but I also work on, and from that experience I know that dithering makes compression _worse_ most of the…” | ||
| 7. | This word does not exist (thisworddoesnotexist.com) | |
| 1184 points | 2021 | author turtlesoup showed up | their comment | thread
“Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer…” | ||
| 8. | Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust (github.com) | |
| 1138 points | 2021 | author jpochyla showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Psst is definitely in alpha, and the CLI is indeed just an example (it's what I was using to test the core mechanisms). I'm sorry the accessibility is so bad now, but…” | ||
| 9. | Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads (danfabulich.medium.com) | |
| 1049 points | 2021 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is excellent advice for consumer apps/products, (it's especially important to keep enterprise accounts fully separate from your individual consumer accounts), but…” | ||
| 10. | I Still Use RSS (atthis.link) | |
| 1033 points | 2021 | author 0066cc showed up | their comment | thread
“QuiteRSS is also an excellent choice I should have mentioned!” | ||
| 11. | What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week (blog.immersed.team) | |
| 1028 points | 2021 | author ptom showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“and I do make note of it in the FAQ. There's a lot of VR content I still can't handle, even though I've built a tolerance to many others. But for a stationary experience…” | ||
| 12. | Screw it, I’ll host it myself (markozivanovic.com) | |
| 1019 points | 2021 | author markozivanovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you all so much for your comments. I didn't expect this will be this high on HN. I'm aware there are more simple solutions for self-hosting, even partially. I'm…” | ||
| 13. | Arm China Has Gone Rogue (semianalysis.substack.com) | |
| 995 points | 2021 | author dylan522p showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“there is a Singaporean investor as well, but they have deep Chinese ties. I agree with your assessment. Allen Wu is an American citizen too, but loyal to China with deep…” | ||
| 14. | It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency (twitter.com) | |
| 949 points | 2021 | author idlewords showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it's worth, I grew up as a refugee whose mother had to find incredibly inventive ways to send USD to family back home, where it was illegal to possess. What I…” | ||
| 15. | I spent 5 years writing my own operating system (github.com) | |
| 939 points | 2021 | author halfer53 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this project is just for fun, nothing more than that. The OS is designed for MIPS architecture at this stage, I don't think tcc supports MIPS at the moment.” | ||
| 16. | GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces (github.blog) | |
| 861 points | 2021 | author coryw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Blog post author here. Wanted to quickly comment on how we support offline folks or those working on an unstable connection! The short version: we publish a…” | ||
| 17. | Overkill objects for everyday life (neil.computer) | |
| 856 points | 2021 | author neilpanchal showed up | their comment | thread
“I need to push back on this. This whole post is tongue in cheek, totally over-the-top and my way of doing things. I thought that was obvious including a lofty claim of…” | ||
| 18. | Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt (cloudirregular.substack.com) | |
| 840 points | 2021 | author forrestbrazeal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just updated the post with an additional idea for fixing the free tier, suggested by several readers. It turns out there is a non-widely-known program called AWS…” | ||
| 19. | Google turned me into a serial killer (hristo-georgiev.com) | |
| 840 points | 2021 | author Kaizeras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Given that I‘m not in the US puts me at a disadvantage. But if you can forward me a good lawyer who is willing to work with me on this, I may give it a shot.” | ||
| 20. | GitHub Should Start an App Store (ankshilp.com) | |
| 814 points | 2021 | author quaintdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am afraid my blog is hosted on a Raspberry PI and it might go down because of HN traffic. If that happens, the mirror of the post is at Did not expected this to blow…” | ||
| 21. | Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors (dl.acm.org) | |
| 812 points | 2021 | author frizensami showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry, I didn't post this (but it is the paper's title). Hopefully it gets corrected.” | ||
| 22. | AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go (swyx.io) | |
| 797 points | 2021 | author swyx showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting this, i guess my original title wasn't HNbait enough huh :) happy to take any questions, and yes acknowledged that I dont follow pro chess at all,…” | ||
| 23. | Don't Feed the Thought Leaders (earthly.dev) | |
| 795 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing this. Let me know what you think. I'm trying to connect the dots on research on expert advice and our fields 'thought-leaders'. The connection is a…” | ||
| 24. | PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com) | |
| 763 points | 2021 | author nuvious showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Author here; it relates more with physical security and I've used them in the military and in corporate structures. Most duress word programs are designed to be spoken;…” | ||
| 25. | The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children” (piotr.is) | |
| 753 points | 2021 | author arespredator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To anyone upset or offended by the Linux/nerd paragraph: please chill, and please forgive my tone. I am a nerd myself indeed, and what I wanted to convey by this…” | ||
| 26. | Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission (mwcampbell.github.io) | |
| 751 points | 2021 | author mwcampbell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am taking your comments to heart. I'm not yet prepared to concede that we should give up on accessibility standards for platform and application developers and expect…” | ||
| 27. | New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects (anandtech.com) | |
| 747 points | 2021 | author IanCutress showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the few tech journalists that gets interview opportunities with Intel and AMD CEOs. I did both a couple of weeks back for CES. Been covering both (and others)…” | ||
| 28. | Security.txt (securitytxt.org) | |
| 746 points | 2021 | author nwcs showed up | their comment | thread
“Make sure you read through the actual latest draft (especially section 6): Also, we are in the end stages of the IETF approval process so this should be official later…” | ||
| 29. | Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun (kevinlynagh.com) | |
| 743 points | 2021 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I agree that the Rust embedded books are a nice read, and the idea of type state programming --- taking advantage of Rust's ownership and generics system to enforce at…” | ||
| 30. | Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 735 points | 2021 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback! Just a note that the title should be: Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday” | ||
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