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| 31. | This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (nns.ee) | |
| 711 points | 2021 | author xx_ns showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'll try to figure the power draw out some time in the future. Currently, the phone's just always plugged in and being powered over USB.” | ||
| 32. | My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (mike.zwobble.org) | |
| 701 points | 2021 | author mwilliamson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The open sourced code was rewritten from scratch, not least because the original version was in C# while the open source version is in JavaScript. So, the same idea, but…” | ||
| 33. | Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published (lunasec.io) | |
| 698 points | 2021 | author freeqaz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's not actually a "bug", per se. It's actually a (very misguided) feature! Here it is in the docs: So that's where the LDAP portion comes from. This would be perfectly…” | ||
| 34. | Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application (github.com) | |
| 693 points | 2021 | author goostavos showed up | their comment | thread
“Linux, MacOS, and Windows all work A-OK! I'll update the readme to make that clearer. Also: whoa, didn't expect to see my project on the front page of HN this morning!…” | ||
| 35. | Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization (josephg.com) | |
| 686 points | 2021 | author josephg showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello HN! Post author here. I’m happy to answer questions & fix typos once morning rolls around here in Australia” | ||
| 36. | What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages (blog.roastmylandingpage.com) | |
| 684 points | 2021 | author ollymeakings showed up | their comment | thread
“I shared what I learnt across the 200 pages I reviewed and my focus is on landing page conversion. I am working on the assumption there is some sort of product market…” | ||
| 37. | Actually Portable Executables (ahgamut.github.io) | |
| 683 points | 2021 | author ahgamut showed up | their comment | thread
“As someone who has never messed around with Libc-level programming, it was surprisingly straightforward (and exciting!) to compile Lua all the way. Cosmopolitan is…” | ||
| 38. | I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed (blog.airplane.dev) | |
| 682 points | 2021 | author raviparikh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks to whoever posted this to HN!) This is a good point, if probability of success decreased 5x while average outcome increased 10x, then a 2x increase in seed…” | ||
| 39. | Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable (consoledonottrack.com) | |
| 668 points | 2021 | author beatcracker showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me anything. Btw, currently I have a huge backlog of telemetry to add, so I wouldn't mind some help. If anyone interested, have a look at the GitHub…” | ||
| 40. | We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem (heap.io) | |
| 654 points | 2021 | author jhk727 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“as others have noted, there's a lot of benefits to a company of our size operating infrastructure on AWS vs. managing physical hardware. A couple of the highlights for…” | ||
| 41. | Actually Portable Executable (justine.lol) | |
| 644 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wanted to honor Greece for the amazing cultural impact they've had, similar to how mathematics honors Greece. We got a lot of comments like this in the last thread.…” | ||
| 42. | Crafting Interpreters is available in print (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 623 points | 2021 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“It feels amazing to have this done and live. I'm happy to talk about whatever you might want to know about it. If you're curious how the sausage was made, I wrote a blog…” | ||
| 43. | Speed of Rust vs. C (kornel.ski) | |
| 619 points | 2021 | author pornel showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm a C programmer, who's replacing C with Rust. I've never liked C++ and never felt I fully get it. I've managed to fully grasp Rust though. I don't see that much…” | ||
| 44. | Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat (blog.zulip.com) | |
| 617 points | 2021 | author tabbott showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don't think most people need to read everything they receive, but in my role as the project leader of a large open source community, essentially every conversation in…” | ||
| 45. | It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage (keydiscussions.com) | |
| 607 points | 2021 | author spenvo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the gist is that it's practically impossible to scroll to the beginning of an iMessage chat, and that's the only way to get to the beginning of a conversation. These old…” | ||
| 46. | Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com) | |
| 607 points | 2021 | author grahamburger showed up | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“I see your posts often and have a lot of respect for you as someone who obviously has a deeper knowledge of networking than I probably every will. That being said I…” | ||
| 47. | No More Movies (jayriverlong.github.io) | |
| 605 points | 2021 | author riverlong showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've dug reasonably far into international cinema -- at a glance, about 250 - 300 outside US Cinema, across various time periods: French New Wave, Korean, Iranian, etc.…” | ||
| 48. | Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (eff.org) | |
| 604 points | 2021 | author cyphers showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. thank you for raising that, this was an oversight (due to moving text around in the editing process) that has been fixed. Totally agree that acronyms…” | ||
| 49. | Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries (github.com) | |
| 599 points | 2021 | author peterwaller-arm showed up | their comment (+14 more) | thread
“I've used bup, and elfshaker was partially inspired by it! It's great. However, during initial experiments on this project I found bup to be slow, taking quite a long…” | ||
| 50. | Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) | |
| 595 points | 2021 | author jefferickson showed up | their comment | thread
“You're of course welcome not to recommend my book to anyone for any reason. But in my own defense, my reluctance to release solutions is not a moral stance, or a belief…” | ||
| 51. | 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room (berthub.eu) | |
| 590 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“By all means ask around. I can only tell you that I've received may corroborating anecdotes over the past year. Many telcos even assumed I was writing about them…” | ||
| 52. | Kubernetes is our generation's Multics (oilshell.org) | |
| 589 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The post isn't claiming that you should be doing something differently right now. It's claiming that there's something better that isn't discovered. Probably 10 years in…” | ||
| 53. | Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C (blog.reverberate.org) | |
| 586 points | 2021 | author haberman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree that would be a very englightening benchmark. Protobuf can dump to JSON, so it shouldn't be too much work to dump my benchmark data to JSON and benchmark the…” | ||
| 54. | IBM creates 2nm chip (anandtech.com) | |
| 579 points | 2021 | author IanCutress showed up | their comment | thread
“but I've also made a video on the topic. Covers the same topic, but some people like video better than written. Also includes a small segment of a relevant Jim Keller…” | ||
| 55. | Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute (avi.im) | |
| 573 points | 2021 | author avinassh showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect this to reach front page of HN. I came here to submit and it was here already! I am looking for more ideas to experiment. Here's one idea which someone…” | ||
| 56. | Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++ (binji.github.io) | |
| 551 points | 2021 | author binji showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions. :-)” | ||
| 57. | TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics (zig.news) | |
| 551 points | 2021 | author ikskuh showed up | their comment | thread
“This is actually a limitation of chrome! The images are perfectly sharp when displayed as files: The are just up/downscaled to 3em height so the table looks uniform” | ||
| 58. | I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit (drewdevault.com) | |
| 550 points | 2021 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“I did write that extra free stuff, and I'm arguing that some people are being assholes because they perpetuate the lie that I didn't do the free work, and because…” | ||
| 59. | How my genius roommate changed my perspective (farhadg.com) | |
| 549 points | 2021 | author FarhadG showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+30 more) | thread
“I am deeply humbled by your engagement, comments, critiques, and insights. Needless to say, this inspires me to write and share more. Thank you Hacker News. You are…” | ||
| 60. | Cosmopolitan Libc 1.0 (github.com) | |
| 545 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The people who make virus scanners are going to have their heads explode when they learn about redbean's new StoreAsset() function where the executable edits itself as…” | ||
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