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| 91. | My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable (davesullivan.is) | |
| 460 points | 2021 | author dave_sullivan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There are two sections. There is the part where people reached out to me. Then there is the part where I went out and interviewed more proactively. And there is a lot of…” | ||
| 92. | Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion (notion.so) | |
| 459 points | 2021 | author garrettf showed up | their comment | thread
“Sharding our Postgres monolith was a huge undertaking for a small team. We got a huge boost from folks that joined within weeks before the switch-over date. If you’re…” | ||
| 93. | Ten Years of Logging My Life (chaidarun.com) | |
| 452 points | 2021 | author artnc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading - I'm happy to answer any (ok, most) questions!” | ||
| 94. | HTTP/3 Is Fast (requestmetrics.com) | |
| 445 points | 2021 | author eric_trackjs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am seeing a lot of comments about how the graphs are not anchored at 0. The intent with the graphs was not to "lie" or "mislead" but to fit the data in a way that was…” | ||
| 95. | Green vs. Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev) | |
| 438 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wanted to dig a little into data from the Stack Overflow survey on what made programming languages loved or hated and I think what I found is pretty interesting: it…” | ||
| 96. | StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data (github.com) | |
| 434 points | 2021 | author westnordost showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I too wish there could be an iOS version one day and it is also theoretically possible to do this, i.e. share code between the iOS version and the native Android…” | ||
| 97. | I was part of a human subject research study without my consent (christine.website) | |
| 434 points | 2021 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this article if anyone has any questions.” | ||
| 98. | 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev) | |
| 431 points | 2021 | author mcmillen showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of the Perl paint-splatter paper. "That lady" is Adrienne Porter Felt, who started as an engineer working on Google Chrome security a decade or so…” | ||
| 99. | Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL (supabase.com) | |
| 431 points | 2021 | author oliverrice showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions” | ||
| 100. | That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io) | |
| 428 points | 2021 | author epsilon-greedy showed up | their comment | thread
“I just fixed this. Very good catch. Off-by-one errors are hard indeed. :)” | ||
| 101. | Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets (christianheilmann.com) | |
| 428 points | 2021 | author chriscodepo8 showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“We'd love to know what we can do better. What are you missing at ? We lately spent a lot of time re-organising the documentation to cover different use cases, like…” | ||
| 102. | Command line tools for productive programmers (earthly.dev) | |
| 427 points | 2021 | author agbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing! Have you seen gron[1]? It can't do everything that jq can, but it is much more in the unix philosophy than jq. It simply flattens and unflattens json…” | ||
| 103. | That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job (keygen.sh) | |
| 427 points | 2021 | author ezekg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can promise you, after I left my job, I more than quartered my total income after taxes and other expenses such as insurance.” | ||
| 104. | Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years (businessinsider.com) | |
| 426 points | 2021 | author akanet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi I wrote this piece and am perhaps still better known here as the founder of CoderPad, etc. I'm happy to answer any questions throughout the day, so long as they are…” | ||
| 105. | Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work (ingrids.space) | |
| 423 points | 2021 | author intarga showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to succeed. I just pointed out my…” | ||
| 106. | 10 years-ish of Elixir (dashbit.co) | |
| 422 points | 2021 | author josevalim showed up | their comment | thread
“The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang/Elixir, my goal has always been to bring new developers to the platform. After…” | ||
| 107. | Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming (matt-rickard.com) | |
| 421 points | 2021 | author rckrd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for posting. Here's some more color on the reflection on comments, straight from the Linux Kernel documentation that capture my intention much better: *"Comments…” | ||
| 108. | Self-organising textures from cellular automata (distill.pub) | |
| 418 points | 2021 | author eyvindn showed up | their comment | thread
“If you have any questions we'll do our best to answer them! Glad to see people find our work interesting thus far. We also encourage anyone interested to play with the…” | ||
| 109. | Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (righto.com) | |
| 418 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 110. | Offline-First Database Comparison (github.com) | |
| 415 points | 2021 | author typingmonkey showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am using RxDB with Capacitor (iOS and Android app). You can use the SQLite based pouchdb adapter with capacitor. It keeps your data and is (sometimes) faster. Here [1]…” | ||
| 111. | Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 412 points | 2021 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“In this case, I wanted to share to Twitter. That would have resulted in the page title and URL being shared - so copy url wasn't a suitable. But the actual destination…” | ||
| 112. | Web Browser Engineering (browser.engineering) | |
| 409 points | 2021 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I wrote up my answer here: Basically: server-side JavaScript is just not as widely known as Python, and it'd be additionally confusing when our browser starts running…” | ||
| 113. | Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root (berthub.eu) | |
| 407 points | 2021 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“if there are any questions, please let me know!)” | ||
| 114. | Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? (iism.org) | |
| 406 points | 2021 | author GeneBond showed up | their comment | thread
“and I completely agree that the success of software engineers as CEOs is correlation, not causation. The likely cause is that software engineers learn to discover value…” | ||
| 115. | Numi – Calculator app for Mac (numi.app) | |
| 406 points | 2021 | author bbodi showed up | their comment | thread
“I have zero experience with Visual Studio API, and honestly, looking at what a giant and slow mess VS became, I would not even try it :) But providing a standalone…” | ||
| 116. | Why has no one made a better Goodreads (uxdesign.cc) | |
| 405 points | 2021 | author GCA10 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm going to join the argument that Goodreads may be clunky (in fact, it definitely is), but it's not broken. OP's criticisms all have some validity, but they overlook…” | ||
| 117. | Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings (javier.xyz) | |
| 405 points | 2021 | author javierbyte showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“that sounds soo cool! If you decide to try please let me know if you need any support!” | ||
| 118. | Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com) | |
| 404 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
| 119. | Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION (foxhound.systems) | |
| 402 points | 2021 | author Albert_Camus showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Between this and your other response, where you expound on the same point, I think you're being far too hand wavy about what causes performance issues. The number of…” | ||
| 120. | An Opinionated Guide to Xargs (oilshell.org) | |
| 402 points | 2021 | author chubot showed up | their comment | thread
“Hm I don't see either of these points because: GNU xargs has --verbose which logs every command. Does that not do what you want? (Maybe I should mention its existence in…” | ||
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