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You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com) |
| 230 points | 2021 | author lproven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“Hi. Article author here. I link to that site several times in the blog post – but I also explicitly point out that the DOS version is _not_ freeware. There is no such…” |
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Starlink Satellites Tracker (findstarlink.com) |
| 229 points | 2021 | author gpm showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“my fault. I think it made more sense when there were less satellites, but this was a pretty common opinion from the start.” |
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Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers (berthub.eu) |
| 229 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“Nice! Added that to the page, very worthwhile. Thanks.” |
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Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019) (blog.benjojo.co.uk) |
| 229 points | 2021 | author benjojo12 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“These switches got a lot more expensive at the start of the pandemic, I think the chipsets became hard to source.” |
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Next Gen Static Blogging (inoads.com) |
| 227 points | 2021 | author mmackh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry for not considering accessibility more. I use solarize everywhere - I’ll look into fixing the low contrast issue. As for whether my approach is correct from an SEO…” |
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How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 227 points | 2021 | author peterbe showed up | their comment | thread
“We're still on FlexSearch 0.6 and the new 0.7 is a big refactor. I hope we can upgrade some time.” |
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages (masteringemacs.org) |
| 225 points | 2021 | author mickeyp showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, both are very useful, with some overlap of purpose, but work well together.” |
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SQLModel – SQL Databases in FastAPI (github.com) |
| 224 points | 2021 | author tiangolo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all! Author here! Thanks for sharing! This is the biggest thing I've built since FastAPI and Typer... SQLModel is a library for interacting with SQL DBs, based on…” |
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NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art (jacquescorbytuech.com) |
| 224 points | 2021 | author iamacyborg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if that's what you got from the article then maybe I need to rewrite it, but it's primarily around the issue of how art is displayed. Looking at a picture on a screen is…” |
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MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua (microstudio.dev) |
| 224 points | 2021 | author microgilles showed up | their comment | thread
“-) You access the exact same APIs with all 4 languages. In Python and Lua there are a few differences in how you should call an object method or how you can safely…” |
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MacFlim: Full-motion video on B&W Macs (macflim.com) |
| 223 points | 2021 | author fstark showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I am the author of macflim. This is the old video, I am finishing the techdemo that have sound, there is a video on youtube (). I'll update the macflim.com website…” |
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Deriving the piano keyboard from biological principles using clustering (fiftysevendegreesofrad.github.io) |
| 222 points | 2021 | author sideshowb showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the link. You're right I have no expertise in the hypotheses you mention, for the post I intended them as light hearted framing. I'd be interested to know how…” |
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The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past (fortressofdoors.com) |
| 222 points | 2021 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Couple of things -- despite the admittedly click-baity headline, I'm not 100% convinced that "instant games" are definitely the future. Nobody can predict the future…” |
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We still believe in private offices (2015) (stackoverflow.blog) |
| 221 points | 2021 | author df07 showed up | their comment | thread
“surprising to see this blog post of mine trending, but it has held up pretty well! Happy to answer any questions about my time at Stack Overflow. I've since moved on to…” |
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The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading (tenthousandmeters.com) |
| 221 points | 2021 | author r4victor showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this article. Thanks for posting it. The GIL is an old topic, but I was surprised to learn recently that it's much more nuanced than I thought. So,…” |
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SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (eisfunke.com) |
| 220 points | 2021 | author Eisfunke showed up | their comment | thread
“for editing SVGs by hand I use VSCode (or VS Codium to be precise) with the SVG Viewer add-on in split-screen: Works pretty well as split screen editor. The preview…” |
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Ultra fast Thunderbolt NAS with Apple M1 and Linux (chrisbergeron.com) |
| 220 points | 2021 | author cyberge99 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually used a thunderbolt nvme and adapter for a bit. Then, for kicks I got another one and combined them in a raid-0 on macos. Realizing I didn’t want to run…” |
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How a hypermedia approach can address usability concerns with multi-page apps (htmx.org) |
| 220 points | 2021 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“it is a response to a talk that Mr. Harris gave at JamStack entitled "Have Single-Page Applications Ruined the Web?": in the article I show how a hypermedia-oriented…” |
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Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages (blog.earthly.dev) |
| 219 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yeah, I am really excited about Dhall. I think this is the future, it supports the types of abstractions that we need without the mess of full templating or full turing…” |
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Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized (compiler.org) |
| 219 points | 2021 | author JoelJacobson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The generated LLVM IR at the bottom actually make uses of vector instructions, which will make LLVM generate SIMD instructions if supported by the CPU. For instance, try…” |
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Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps (nolanlawson.com) |
| 219 points | 2021 | author nolanl showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wasn't aware of your talk, but it's super interesting! Showing info about the retain chain is a great idea, but I didn't get around to doing it in fuite. IME just…” |
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Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly (cprimozic.net) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author Ameo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was on a week-long vacation at the time and had been working on the visualization as a side project before that. I started really getting into the deep end of the…” |
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T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks (huggingface.co) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author craffel showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper/model/code was just made public today. This may be why no one is talking about it yet. Regarding whether the size is a hassle: It's possible to run inference…” |
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Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (howtomarketagame.com) |
| 218 points | 2021 | author zukalous showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey whoever linked to my article thank you for post. I just got notified of this. To answer the most common questions, I am not advocating "build your own youtube."…” |
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Denoflare – develop, test, and deploy Cloudflare workers with Deno (denoflare.dev) |
| 217 points | 2021 | author johnspurlock showed up | their comment | thread
“yes this is exactly the goal of denoflare, I started it before miniflare existed, and Deno seemed much more aligned with the Cloudflare Worker model than Node, honestly.…” |
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Understanding Connections and Pools (sudhir.io) |
| 216 points | 2021 | author sudhirj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“self-posted. Can AMA.” |
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Ethereum Services Are Centralized (michaelgummelt.medium.com) |
| 216 points | 2021 | author mgummelt showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I would have fleshed this out more if I knew this was going to reach the front page. Yes, many smart contracts are deployed with distributed upgrade mechanisms, and I…” |
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Removing my site from Google search (btao.org) |
| 215 points | 2021 | author tao_oat showed up | their comment | thread
“Google stopped supporting robots.txt [edit: as a way to fully remove your site] a few years ago, so these meta tags are now the recommended way of keeping their crawler…” |
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Trying Out Generics in Go (markphelps.me) |
| 215 points | 2021 | author bullcitydev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I just removed the previous section I had around using build tags because I realized I was using `// +build 1.18` instead of the correct `// +build go1.18`. Oops.” |
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Fantasy Map Generator (2018) (azgaar.github.io) |
| 214 points | 2021 | author Azgaar showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. I'm the author. Please feel free to ask the questions if you have any” |
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