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| 181. | Why Is Esbuild Fast? (esbuild.github.io) | |
| 320 points | 2021 | author constexpr showed up | their comment | thread
“Rest assured that I am very interested in supporting it and am actively working on it. It's just unfortunately very complicated to correctly, especially without…” | ||
| 182. | The Byte Order Fiasco (justine.lol) | |
| 319 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm improving upon Rob Pike's outstanding work. Standing on the shoulders of a giant.” | ||
| 183. | Never update anything (blog.kronis.dev) | |
| 319 points | 2021 | author KronisLV showed up | their comment | thread
“I see why you'd say this, but what i'm mostly advocating for in the article is that breaking changes often being the only option for updates (which may be forced upon…” | ||
| 184. | What is the inverse of a vector? (mattferraro.dev) | |
| 317 points | 2021 | author mferraro89 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I was mistaken about the 5 degrees of freedom bit. Bivectors have three. I'll fix the text tonight. I'm sorry you wasted ten minutes on my nonsense.” | ||
| 185. | An introverts guide to increasing energy (ashleyjanssen.com) | |
| 315 points | 2021 | author AshleyJanssen showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. I was pleasantly surprised to see this posted! I registered an account to say thanks for sharing. If anyone has any questions or wants to chat further,…” | ||
| 186. | Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR (alias.dev) | |
| 312 points | 2021 | author mehdim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The most simple and effective and rapid solution would be to impose API neutrality. As explained in the report, it would just obliges API providers to give back the same…” | ||
| 187. | Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook (lareviewofbooks.org) | |
| 311 points | 2021 | author gajeam showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to see it circulating HN again. You can find more of my writing on competition here in the Boston Globe —) in the Boston Globe” | ||
| 188. | The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application (rtpg.co) | |
| 310 points | 2021 | author rtpg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I do think it’s good to think about rollback strategies (especially given that your change might go out with something else that might need rollbacks). There is one…” | ||
| 189. | Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes (righto.com) | |
| 310 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about the chip...” | ||
| 190. | How did LastPass master passwords get compromised? (palant.info) | |
| 309 points | 2021 | author palant showed up | their comment | thread
“I’ve kept it short, some points made there could have been expanded considerably. So if there are questions, feel free to ask here.” | ||
| 191. | Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube (smokingonabike.com) | |
| 307 points | 2021 | author coldpie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm not very good at this stuff, it's just applying knowledge I've picked up over my career working in systems-level programming and various little game hacking…” | ||
| 192. | Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers (github.com) | |
| 307 points | 2021 | author foob showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and I agree that you're correct in assuming that what you ran should work. I just tested this with git on arch and I was able to reproduce the issue. I'll…” | ||
| 193. | The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System (blog.emacsen.net) | |
| 306 points | 2021 | author emacsen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions.” | ||
| 194. | The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple (letterspatent.org) | |
| 305 points | 2021 | author joemullin showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a bit late to the party here, but really appreciate the conversation——it's my first time on this site as a solo blogger (former Ars Technica writer). For those that…” | ||
| 195. | Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead) (blog.logrocket.com) | |
| 303 points | 2021 | author llogiq showed up | their comment | thread
“I blog about Rust as a hobby (and have been doing so since 2015 on my personal blog), and LogRocket is so nice to pay me to have my content hosted on their blog. And…” | ||
| 196. | A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009) (blog.rongarret.info) | |
| 303 points | 2021 | author lisper showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA.” | ||
| 197. | Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 302 points | 2021 | author IrishJourno showed up | their comment | thread
“a while back we decided to use illustrations rather than photography for this section of IEEE Spectrum—it was a style choice, but it gives us more options in terms of…” | ||
| 198. | Mold: A Modern Linker (github.com) | |
| 299 points | 2021 | author rui314 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Good point. I ended up not using fork() without exec(), so that should be fine now, but here is my original plan to use fork(): I wanted to keep a linker process running…” | ||
| 199. | Map of my personal data infrastructure (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 299 points | 2021 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer your questions!” | ||
| 200. | Hands-On Rust: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play (pragprog.com) | |
| 299 points | 2021 | author thebracket showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's the Roguelike tutorial I created, not the Hands-on Rust book. The two are quite different beasts, with a bit of overlap. Hands-on Rust is designed for the…” | ||
| 201. | Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool (github.com) | |
| 297 points | 2021 | author Wilfred showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions :)” | ||
| 202. | I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro (boilingsteam.com) | |
| 297 points | 2021 | author podiki showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions and discuss! This is the first in more Guix articles coming from me, as I started when building my newest desktop [0]. Next will be more…” | ||
| 203. | Writing maintainable code is a communication skill (max.engineer) | |
| 297 points | 2021 | author hakunin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Looks like we both have a similar length of experience. I wouldn't give up this battle yet, because My theory is that you only need to please a couple of maintainers…” | ||
| 204. | V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler (v8.dev) | |
| 295 points | 2021 | author Leszek showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“we did, and as other comments say we removed it in favour of Ignition, with the intent of at some point in the future bringing back some form of baseline compiler. The…” | ||
| 205. | Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it (mdolon.com) | |
| 293 points | 2021 | author mdolon showed up | their comment | thread
“back in January of 2020. I was able to snag a bike at a used bike sale a few weeks after writing it. Congrats on your new bikes!” | ||
| 206. | Peter Naur's view of programming (hiringengineersbook.com) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author cloogshicer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“What's the situation that you're in? You (or anyone else reading this) can ping me at alexander [at] hiringengineersbook [dot] com, maybe I can help you figure out if…” | ||
| 207. | Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf] (nature.com) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author krrrh showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi everyone, I'm a co-author on this paper and also the co-founder of Quantified Citizen (we built the mobile research platform used in this study). What a nice…” | ||
| 208. | “Open source” is broken (christine.website) | |
| 292 points | 2021 | author xena showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm the author of the post in case you have any questions for me.” | ||
| 209. | PyWhat: Identify Anything (github.com) | |
| 290 points | 2021 | author bbno4 showed up | their comment | thread
“that's because I made the gifs like weeks before the actual program was made and I am too lazy to spend an hour making gifs again” | ||
| 210. | BTC Endgame (github.com) | |
| 288 points | 2021 | author AffableSpatula showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you're absolutely right that there is a risk that demand for blockspace doens't generate sufficient block reward to provide useful security guarantees. If that…” | ||
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