391. Goodbye Brave (arunmozhi.in)
164 points | 2021 | author tecoholic showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the suggestions. 1. I haven't followed Ghostery, AdBlock+ devs since I started using Brave. Sad to learn of their status. I will look at uBlock Origin. 2.…”
392. Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work (tenthousandmeters.com)
163 points | 2021 | author r4victor showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting this! The Python behind the scenes series covers how different aspects of Python are implemented in the CPython interpreter. This time we'll ask and…”
393. Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? (gavinhoward.com)
163 points | 2021 | author ghoward showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I have code in FreeBSD. Does that count?”
394. Decoding the Peloton (ihaque.org)
162 points | 2021 | author _ihaque showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“This work actually dates back from August-October of last year for the most part, but I didn't get to finish writing it up till the holidays. Happy to take questions…”
395. Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015) (egamebook.com)
162 points | 2021 | author filiph showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The game has several levels (explored more in my 2017 "fractal stories article"[1]) - from top to bottom it can be something like OR It's basically a stack of…”
396. Kubernetes at Home with K3s (blog.nootch.net)
162 points | 2021 | author bantunes showed up | their comment | thread
“I meant "free" as in full featured - I remember Nomad having features that I quite liked behind the Enterprise paywall.”
397. Branchless Coding in Go (mattnakama.com)
161 points | 2021 | author gnum4n showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the advice! That's a very good point. Maybe it's worth doing a follow-up on this? I originally thought of doing unit tests to ensure it's actually running in…”
398. Julia's multiple dispatch explained with Pokemons (moll.dev)
161 points | 2021 | author ThomasMoll showed up | their comment | thread
“1) Including the "Onyx holding a hard stone executing Earthquake in a Sandstorm against a Flygon with the ability Hover?" state is just doing an N-constraint solver.…”
399. Tmpfs inode corruption: introducing inode64 (chrisdown.name)
161 points | 2021 | author cdown showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! Article author here -- just found out this was posted here and going through the comments :-) One of the earliest test versions of my patch actually did inode…”
400. Where is the CRDT for syntax trees (writer.zohopublic.com)
161 points | 2021 | author lewisjoe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This looks like a very useful perspective to have! i.e CRDTs with unresolved conflicts as part of the model with composable properties. Can you talk a bit more on this…”
401. Enzyme – High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM (enzyme.mit.edu)
160 points | 2021 | author vchuravy showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! (Particularly about the Julia integration)”
402. I self-learned to code at 30 (kaapi.team)
160 points | 2021 | author adityarao310 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of that article. I kinda agree with you. One usually does NOT make a career in 3 months. But who says you can't? I definitely will fail all coding…”
403. Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django (blog.clubhouse.com)
160 points | 2021 | author lddemi showed up | their comment | thread
“We do and did use autoscaling heavily but at a certain scale we just ran out of headroom on the smaller instance types we were using. Jumping to a much larger instance…”
404. We are now Solar Powered (andrewjvpowell.com)
160 points | 2021 | author eldersnake showed up | their comment | thread
“your question is actually a really good one as I'm a bit of an Nginx newb and your comment had me wondering that too. However for the past few hours since this article…”
405. A Tour of the Oil Language (oilshell.org)
159 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't think anything you wrote should be a surprise to regular readers of the blog. Many of my blog posts in the last year say "the scope of the project is too large"…”
406. Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem (gilesbowkett.com)
159 points | 2021 | author tessierashpool showed up | their comment | thread
“maybe I'll cave and just set up a regular UI. email might work also.”
407. Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP (docs.statetrace.com)
159 points | 2021 | author hansonkd13 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“combining Redis protocol and MsgPack is a much more platform independent way of building a protocol. The redis protocol and Msppack are both only a a hundred lines or so…”
408. An underrated idea: the priority view (atis.substack.com)
159 points | 2021 | author samglover97 showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for catching that error.”
409. My startup journey (johnjianwang.medium.com)
158 points | 2021 | author johnjwang showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I started by making really small patches at the beginning and building up credibility with the team. For example, one of my earliest commits was just to add better…”
410. Spork: Peer-to-peer socket magic in the air (spork.sh)
156 points | 2021 | author pfraze showed up | their comment | thread
“Just want to give credit to the Hypercore Protocol team as they’re responsible for 99% of this tool. They’re going to be speaking at NodeConf on Wednesday so check that…”
411. Data fetching on the web still sucks (performancejs.com)
155 points | 2021 | author bcherny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Data fetching, caching, consistency, and UX are all closely related. If you treat them as separate problems, you're punting the problem onto product engineers, who won't…”
412. Lisp in Forth (github.com)
155 points | 2021 | author mark-probst showed up | their comment | thread
“I never benchmarked it, but probably not fast. This was just a fun programming exercise.”
413. Path Tracing Quake in Blender (matthewearl.github.io)
155 points | 2021 | author kipi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I intersect the view frustum with the light's sphere of influence (and also take into account PVS info) so it still includes lights that are reachable by one bounce.…”
414. HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS (jacobkiers.net)
155 points | 2021 | author jacobkiers showed up | their comment | thread
“I made it as a proof of concept, just because I could. I used DoH because to the best of my knowledge it's not possible to open raw sockets from the browser. Otherwise…”
415. Busting the 10x software engineer myth (swarmia.com)
155 points | 2021 | author cyberpunkdyst showed up | their comment | thread
“There definitely are people, who perform better than others, even when the environment is not built to favor them and hinder others from performing well. If we believe…”
416. Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX) (arhamjain.com)
154 points | 2021 | author ajusa showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! The inputs aren't sanitized in this example, but the output (the generated HTML) actually is in this case. Specifically this part: text ": " &…”
417. Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking (github.com)
153 points | 2021 | author sambigeara showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions if there are any!”
418. How do I safely store my files? (photostructure.com)
152 points | 2021 | author mceachen showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“fun to see this on the home page! I had so many of my family, friends, and beta users ask me this question that I decided to do some research and write it up. If you've…”
419. How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner (alextoussaint.com)
152 points | 2021 | author belzebalex showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's all digital (square waves!). There were definitely well-known circuits for driving transducers, but I had to improvise to make a circuit small and simple enough to…”
420. How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance? (debugbear.com)
152 points | 2021 | author mostlystatic showed up | their comment | thread
“Not a typo, I just cut off the chart at 3s because otherwise you can't see any useful info about the other extensions.”