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| 61. | Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program (syncthing.net) | |
| 545 points | 2021 | author gkya showed up | their comment | thread
“So, - I did not use it as a backup system. Due to circumstance, my backups were borked and I was too busy/poor to fix them up. Syncthing was used to sync my passwords,…” | ||
| 62. | The open calendar, task and note space is a mess (stevenvanbael.com) | |
| 543 points | 2021 | author vbsteven showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it's always fun to see your own articles pop up on HN unexpectedly. This post was written several months ago and in the meantime I have given up on trying to cobble…” | ||
| 63. | HTTP Toolkit (httptoolkit.tech) | |
| 538 points | 2021 | author pimterry showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“that's exactly it! The contents of that interceptors folder should give you an idea how it all works: It actually doesn't install system certificates at all though. It…” | ||
| 64. | Please commit more blatant academic fraud (jacobbuckman.com) | |
| 536 points | 2021 | author jacobbuckman showed up | their comment | thread
“don't worry, haha. I know that nobody would ever actually do this so I decided to just lean into it. If I had any real power by which to fix things, I would have a much…” | ||
| 65. | Bring Your Own Client (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 533 points | 2021 | author gklitt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry to hear that! Out of curiosity, what screen size are you reading on? Anyone else have similar problems? Sounds like I should add a button to disable the gradient.” | ||
| 66. | Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes (justine.lol) | |
| 513 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“You know it when you see it. LISP is a tool that people want to use. People write production software using it. For example, this website (Hacker News) was written in…” | ||
| 67. | PNG files can be animated via network latency (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk) | |
| 511 points | 2021 | author DavidBuchanan showed up | their comment | thread
“this was just a quick PoC, I'm pleasently surprised that it seems to be handling all the HN traffic. It's served from a python script using aiohttp, behind nginx, on a…” | ||
| 68. | Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server (cprimozic.net) | |
| 511 points | 2021 | author Ameo showed up | their comment | thread
“- Request rate is pretty low on average and peaks at around 15 requests/second. That's nothing really and it would probably take 100x or more request rate before I saw…” | ||
| 69. | A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap (protomaps.com) | |
| 508 points | 2021 | author bdon showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“so there are a few options: 1) If your information belongs in OpenStreetMap, you can add it via an editor like the web editor at - this will also benefit all other OSM…” | ||
| 70. | Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? (marker.medium.com) | |
| 506 points | 2021 | author mattydoincode showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My intention with "domain knowledge" point is mostly about all the non-coding stuff. Things like how your company functions, who to talk to about different issues, deep…” | ||
| 71. | Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016) (gkbrk.com) | |
| 504 points | 2021 | author gkbrk showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask questions both on HN and over email.” | ||
| 72. | Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation (tanelpoder.com) | |
| 497 points | 2021 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“This article was intended to explain some modern hardware bottlenecks (and non-bottlenecks), but unexpectedly ended up covering a bunch of Linux kernel I/O stack issues…” | ||
| 73. | How the Python import system works (tenthousandmeters.com) | |
| 497 points | 2021 | author r4victor showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this article. Thanks for posting it. I've been programming in Python for quite a while but didn't really understand how the import system works:…” | ||
| 74. | Deurbanising the Web [pdf] (lab6.com) | |
| 496 points | 2021 | author jl6 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. Original author here. I do realize how ugly PDFs are to work with (I wrote my own PDF/A generator for issue 2[2]). This is a Tagged PDF though, so you can extract…” | ||
| 75. | Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy (airgradient.com) | |
| 495 points | 2021 | author ahaucnx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I forgot to mention: With a Wemos D1 mini (ESP8266) MCU that costs around USD 2.00, you can pretty easily make the Vindriktning WiFi connected and get the data to a…” | ||
| 76. | Telegram publishes users' locations online (blog.ahmed.nyc) | |
| 488 points | 2021 | author Nullslash showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“No, that is called z-coordinate. It's not possible to get z-coordinate by just finding the distance between me and the user.” | ||
| 77. | Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors (justice.gov) | |
| 487 points | 2021 | author csmythe15 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm the author of the article -- just wanted to point out that what made this story interesting to me is the implication that this kind of conduct could be very…” | ||
| 78. | Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux (voice2json.org) | |
| 486 points | 2021 | author synesthesiam showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks to everyone for checking out voice2json! The TLDR of this project is: a unified command-line interface to different offline speech recognition projects, with the…” | ||
| 79. | A street snack that has baffled botanists (atlasobscura.com) | |
| 484 points | 2021 | author barkha2803 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I am the author of this article :) To sum up, most research as of now points to Agave but botanists who did the DNA barcoding don't want to commit to Agave. For two…” | ||
| 80. | How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com) | |
| 481 points | 2021 | author tbabb showed up | their comment | thread
“The particle filter has its own strengths and drawbacks. It makes more sense to use a particle filter in situations where the state search space is highly nonlocal…” | ||
| 81. | I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019) (blog.samuelmaddock.com) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author smaddock showed up | their comment | thread
“Since this post, there's now an option available for DRM-enabled Electron. However, it's only available through a single vendor, castLabs [0]. This is a closed source,…” | ||
| 82. | Automating my job with GPT-3 (blog.seekwell.io) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author mritchie712 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The idea (if we were to actually implement this in our product) would be to give the user some "boilerplate". We're no where near being able to automate a 100 line…” | ||
| 83. | Check If Email Exists (github.com) | |
| 479 points | 2021 | author amaurym10 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes the company is in France, and I'm currently writing those (called "CGV" and "Mention légales").” | ||
| 84. | Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (cfenollosa.com) | |
| 478 points | 2021 | author carlesfe showed up | their comment | thread
“I knew that if this got posted to HN I'd need to explain myself more :) To address some of the top comments: - I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is…” | ||
| 85. | Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility (github.com) | |
| 471 points | 2021 | author nuta showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm surprised to see my hobby project on Hacker News. I know this kind of stuff spark the ``it's meaningless to rewrite everything (especially Linux) in Rust'' debate. I…” | ||
| 86. | Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app (tldraw.com) | |
| 471 points | 2021 | author steveruizok showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship…” | ||
| 87. | How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016) (cbui.dev) | |
| 468 points | 2021 | author 147 showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this on the front page of HN since I wrote it 5 years ago. I've always been fascinated with talent acquisition and skill development and would probably…” | ||
| 88. | Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019) (webapp.io) | |
| 468 points | 2021 | author colinchartier showed up | their comment | thread
“A few updates since this was published two years ago: - The service mentioned (now called ) eventually made it into YC (S20) and still uses postgres as its pub/sub…” | ||
| 89. | Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor (fingerprintjs.com) | |
| 467 points | 2021 | author kdarutkin showed up | their comment | thread
“The accuracy can be low because of: - Custom browser settings or flags - The demo was designed for the default setup, but that doesn’t mean your custom setup is not…” | ||
| 90. | Programming for Cats (programmingforcats.com) | |
| 466 points | 2021 | author tigerlilythecat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Looking to get feedback from programmers before publishing. You can download a sample chapter at:” | ||
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