Threads from 2022 where the author showed up, ranked by points. How it works
1. I regret my website redesign (mtlynch.io)
2011 points | 2022 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.”
2. Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle (dogbunnypuzzle.com)
1859 points | 2022 | author drcode showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guy Sorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a quick "reward effect", I…”
3. Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) (chromium.woolyss.com)
1384 points | 2022 | author pixeldetracking showed up | their comment | thread
“good to see this on HN, raising awareness on the topic I don't know who made the translation and when it was made, but the original article in french () contains more…”
4. Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died (theregister.com)
1252 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article under discussion here and I did link that paper at the end of it, FWIW.”
5. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo (jacobmartins.com)
1045 points | 2022 | author cube2222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! The logo was created for OctoSQL[0] and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole…”
6. Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project (justine.lol)
1040 points | 2022 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would happily share information like hashes and build artifacts with Microsoft and other virus scanners if it would fix all these false positives. However I don't know…”
7. Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls (ipde.com)
987 points | 2022 | author Andrew_Russell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's actually kind of hard to say at this stage, and the judge suggested amicus briefing to help the Court figure out what to make of all this.”
8. So I took a corporation to arbitration (shuchow.com)
986 points | 2022 | author snapetom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Thank you for the tips, and thank you for the feedback!”
9. SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file (github.com)
958 points | 2022 | author gildas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it makes me really happy to see SIngleFile on the front page of HN. Thank you! I take the opportunity to make you aware of the upcoming impacts of the Manifest V3 [1],…”
10. Amazon Pip Horror Story (linkedin.com)
902 points | 2022 | author wy35 showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m a software engineer who likes to have fun on LinkedIn, not a recruiter/spammer. And yes, I was actually an SDE at Amazon!”
11. Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices (dolthub.com)
901 points | 2022 | author sl-dolt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A question I have is: how did so many prices ever get negotiated in the first place? What kind of systems are in place to do this kind of micro-negotiation?”
12. DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion (dreamfusion3d.github.io)
833 points | 2022 | author poolio showed up | their comment | thread
“we were also surprised :) The breadth of knowledge of the visual world embedded in these 2D models and what they unlock is astounding.”
13. I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now (cushychicken.github.io)
785 points | 2022 | author cushychicken showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Questions, comments, vitriol - all gratefully accepted.”
14. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS (hacks.mozilla.org)
780 points | 2022 | author gsvelto showed up | their comment | thread
“`__ulock_wait2` is used under the hood by `os_unfair_lock()`. I considered it but it would have required more scaffolding, especially to support all the versions of…”
15. Tailscale SSH (tailscale.com)
759 points | 2022 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions. One of the fun technical details is that, when enabled on a machine (tailscale up --ssh), the userspace tailscaled process takes over all…”
16. My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated (github.com)
716 points | 2022 | author khuedoan showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep that's my goal too, hence the small form factor PCs. It costs me around 2-5$/month depending on how much I play with it.”
17. How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (mazzo.li)
698 points | 2022 | author rostayob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't digested this comment fully yet, but just to be clear, I am _not_ using SPLICE_F_GIFT (and I don't think the fizzbuzz program is either). However I think what…”
18. What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
685 points | 2022 | author gregdoesit showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was wrong on this information and updated the article - got a correction since. L6 and above employees would receive this: staff+ engineers, eng leadership, sales etc.…”
19. How our free plan stays free (tailscale.com)
684 points | 2022 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“You're not that unusual, we just haven’t had time to address that use case directly yet. I expect an ecosystem of MSPs may arise to offer physical boxes, or some such…”
20. Tailscale Funnel (tailscale.com)
666 points | 2022 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We might do BYODomain later. It was easier to launch with only *.ts.net. If you're using this for things like webhooks, the URL doesn't matter much.”
21. How I learned French in 12 months (2020) (runwes.com)
664 points | 2022 | author wes1350 showed up | their comment | thread
“didn’t expect to see this here again after two years! I guess I’ll give a quick update on how things have been since this article was written. I haven’t used or studied…”
22. EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers (adguard.com)
661 points | 2022 | author ameshkov showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually, it's getting better, I've just looked up the stats and for the last 30 days we only served 70TB of access denied pages, this is about 33-34B requests.”
23. The fastest GIF does not exist (biphelps.com)
657 points | 2022 | author NotSoVeteran showed up | their comment | thread
“loving all the discussion! I was a bit intimidated to submit this to hn - I'm humbled that someone else thought it was worth posting. Of course, happy to answer any…”
24. Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore (rubenerd.com)
655 points | 2022 | author rubenerd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this was just a bit of silly/pointless fun, though people overanalysing it here is just as delightful.”
25. PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL (github.com)
650 points | 2022 | author maximilianroos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“because I find SQL wonderfully elegant in its function, but really frustrating in its form. Let me know any feedback — as you can see it's still at the proposal stage.…”
26. Accounting For Developers, Part I (moderntreasury.com)
648 points | 2022 | author lucasrocha259 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is helpful feedback, we could have perhaps taken more time before jumping in on the Modern Bagelry example. A common misconception is that one account needs to…”
27. It wasn't for nothing (gexp.no)
644 points | 2022 | author mbakke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the concern! Actually this blog [post] came about by stopping up and looking at my core values. Earlier this year I decided to quit alcohol for good and…”
28. SMS phishing is way too easy (bejarano.io)
637 points | 2022 | author ricardbejarano showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“What I ask is for iOS and Android to have the "this message was not verified" warning, as shown in the last screenshot, whenever the sender ID is displayed without any…”
29. An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation (singlelunch.com)
622 points | 2022 | author VHRanger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I considered this, but rejected most of those hypotheses. True Algorithmic traders, yes. Market makers absolutely not. MMs want to be there as much as possible in…”
30. An update on the threat landscape (blog.google)
609 points | 2022 | author huntsman showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah. Much of this activity is pretty consistent with what TAG generally sees in the region and from these actors.”