481. OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2 (webzine.puffy.cafe)
128 points | 2021 | author raspbeguy showed up | their comment | thread
“glad you like it!”
482. Show HN: Espanso: detect a typed keyword and replace it while you're typing (espanso.org)
127 points | 2021 | author federicoterzi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Feel free to ask any question, I'll be happy to answer them :)”
483. Theatre.js: Animation motion design editor / library for high-fidelity graphics (github.com)
127 points | 2021 | author AriaMinaei showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Great to find this on the front page! I call Theatre.js a hackable animation tool. It helps you to: - craft detailed motion for JS values, - route those values to actual…”
484. Lessons from a year of AI research (jetnew.notion.site)
127 points | 2021 | author jetnew showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote it on Notion to seek feedback from a few friends, but seems like one friend shared the Notion link here :) Hope that my website would provide a better reading…”
485. Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers (github.com)
126 points | 2021 | author gscrivano showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of Crun and the name was chosen to emphasize it is in C, compete with runc and still read like "container run". In retrospect, I could have chosen a…”
486. Show HN: Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL (github.com)
126 points | 2021 | author scottrogowski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's exactly it. I think it would be very difficult to completely beat SQLite with a Python library. My goal wasn't to beat it but to have performance that's within an…”
487. Elm Compiler Written in Elm (github.com)
126 points | 2021 | author mjaniczek showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. Didn't expect to land on HN before the compiler is actually useful - Oto, you'll pay for this! :) Feel free to ask me anything about the project,…”
488. Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa (jsonmatic.com)
125 points | 2021 | author okumurahata showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I use fingerprint to get the number of visits (instead of using something invasive like Google Analytics): I get the fingerprint as a UID (which is like a random number…”
489. TinyPilot: Month 11 (mtlynch.io)
125 points | 2021 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect to see this pop up on HN. I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.”
490. Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search (pinecone.io)
125 points | 2021 | author jamesbriggs showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me any questions about the article!”
491. Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver (collabora.com)
125 points | 2021 | author Fahien showed up | their comment | thread
“:D The issue is triggered with some code that is not yet upstream in QEMU, so we do not know whether the bug is in the kernel, or whether it is in a problem with this…”
492. Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels (morling.dev)
124 points | 2021 | author gunnarmorling showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here; SQL Proxies definitely are a relevant use case. Also low latency scenarios, where you want to have the (query) capabilities and semantics of Postgres…”
493. Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags (ricardoanderegg.com)
124 points | 2021 | author polyrand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. It's true that my method can get complex very fast depending on what you want to do. I also wrote this to explain some concepts about git / docker. If I…”
494. Highres Spectrograms with the DFT Shift Theorem (soundshader.github.io)
124 points | 2021 | author gbh444g showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello HN! Author here. I was thinking to call the post "The underappreciated complexity of musical sounds" but decided to stick with the DFT one as it would probably get…”
495. Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation (arxiv.org)
123 points | 2021 | author ulysses4ever showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA!”
496. A Simple and Dynamic Method for Consistent Productivity (matthewsaltz.wordpress.com)
122 points | 2021 | author msaltz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Fortunately, I mostly don't idly browse the internet on my computer - that habit is attached to my phone, which I just leave in the other room :) But in general, yes, if…”
497. Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors (medium.com)
122 points | 2021 | author tschiller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions For our product (PixieBrix) we actually generally grab the data directly from the front-end framework (e.g., React props). It's a bit less…”
498. Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket (guillaume.baierouge.fr)
122 points | 2021 | author _mouvantsillage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This post is part of an ongoing experiment to use Racket as a platform for hardware description languages. Describing a RISC-V core in Racket is a step in this…”
499. Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases (google.github.io)
122 points | 2021 | author VanL showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this chapter of the casebook. I didn't expect it to show up here, but I'm happy to answer questions.”
500. Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance (blog.doctave.com)
121 points | 2021 | author NiklasBegley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually was not aware of cmark.ex - thanks for pointing it out. In this case the code reuse was more important than pure native speed. We already had a Rust library…”
501. Unifying iPadOS and macOS (screamingatmyscreen.com)
120 points | 2021 | author fallenhitokiri showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“first of all: I agree. I should have gone a bit more into detail how „not sure how she’s related“ is using her devices. She is also doing actual work for school on the…”
502. “It's not peaches and cream either for men” (avikdas.com)
120 points | 2021 | author akdas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article because the experience of these transgender men add to my own personal experiences, sometimes affirming my experiences, sometimes providing a new…”
503. Why are most climate models in Fortran? (partee.io)
119 points | 2021 | author spartee showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading!! Lots of great comments here. Happy Pi day!”
504. Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks (arxiv.org)
119 points | 2021 | author orbifold showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions you might have.”
505. Wild claims about K performance (mlochbaum.github.io)
119 points | 2021 | author mlochbaum showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article to link in response to evidence-free claims about K, and have in fact used it in this way twice in the two months since I wrote it. Didn't expect HN…”
506. Show HN: Add a command-line interface to any C++ program (github.com)
119 points | 2021 | author chrisaycock showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to add a REPL-like interface to existing programs. It can call normal functions with automatic parsing and type safety. class Arithmetic : public…”
507. LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups (blog.yossarian.net)
119 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; happy to answer any questions.”
508. Show HN: Python decorator that enables arbitrarily-deep tail/non-tail recursion (github.com)
119 points | 2021 | author tylerhou showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Admittedly Fiber is not the best name — in the current implementation we don't yield to the scheduler except for recursive function calls, and our "scheduler" only runs…”
509. Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (2019) (k3a.me)
118 points | 2021 | author neop1x showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry about the text-shadow. I added it there many years ago and it seemed like a good idea back then. After webs started over-using various shadows and animations, I…”
510. Functional Programming in Go with Generics (ani.dev)
118 points | 2021 | author jerf showed up | their comment | thread
“It will change what some people insist is idiomatic Go, but my contention is that when this all settles out, call it a year after production release of the generics, the…”