271. Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today? (scrapingbee.com)
199 points | 2022 | author ianwootten showed up | their comment | thread
“Just to say this was a really interesting piece to work on - I had a lot of fun poring through the data.”
272. So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
199 points | 2022 | author classichasclass showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. Thank you!”
273. Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres (supabase.com)
197 points | 2022 | author hardwaresofton showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey I wrote the article —- the way I think of HyperLogLog and similar (but different) approaches like bloomfilters and count-min sketches is that the key insight is…”
274. Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust (xeiaso.net)
196 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I don't identify as male. It would be nice if you could update your comment to not make a factual error when referring to me. Please use. Thanks!”
275. A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS (github.com)
196 points | 2022 | author susam showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I happened to stumble upon it today in my archives and thought of sharing it on GitHub. I was still learning microprocessors back then. While browsing the C:\Windows…”
276. Web Scraping with Python (scrapingbee.com)
195 points | 2022 | author daolf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Always to improve the content we're writing here. What else would you have expected to read in such an article?”
277. Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? (erikexamines.substack.com)
195 points | 2022 | author socialdemocrat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry about the paywall, I am trying to experiment with different ways of growing my readership and subscribers. You can get past the paywall by signing up for a 7-day…”
278. Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs (arxiv.org)
195 points | 2022 | author AdamGleave showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We evaluated our matches using KataGo. In fact, our adversary is just a forked version of KataGo. We use the same modified Tromp-Taylor rules for eval. We elaborate on…”
279. Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR (missiveapp.com)
194 points | 2022 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should not have put it there... I just wanted to highlight we were frugal.”
280. Exploring FPGA Graphics (projectf.io)
193 points | 2022 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“I've almost finished a complete overhaul of this series: animation and double-buffering are coming in October. I'd be happy to field any questions you have.”
281. Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit (2020) (thirtythreeforty.net)
192 points | 2022 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“Some very smart contributors have helped decode another layer of the Baichuan protocol - I actually missed the "media wrapper" because it happened to work without…”
282. Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator (github.com)
192 points | 2022 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“Right now it's being tested by running precompiled binaries. See Most of these test binaries are sourced from the cosmopolitan repository, and many of those come from…”
283. Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics (devlog.hexops.com)
190 points | 2022 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting! Happy to answer any questions about Mach (or my experience working with Zig.)”
284. Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby (stripe.com)
190 points | 2022 | author jez showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I wrote this article. If you have any questions about Sorbet or Stripe, please don’t hesitate to ask!”
285. Wrap Up: Bicycle trip logistics (peterispedaling.com)
190 points | 2022 | author peterispedaling showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Hi! I wrote the post. Yes, this was a weekly meeting at a community center where language learners speak, or nearly fluent people. Ideally a mix, and people can make…”
286. How to write a bootloader from scratch (2019) (interrupt.memfault.com)
189 points | 2022 | author fra showed up | their comment | thread
“It's surprising how hard CMSIS-DAP adapters are to find. The two options shared by codys look reasonable, but I'm working on putting together a better option.”
287. Chibicc – A Small C Compiler (github.com)
189 points | 2022 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm amused that I opened HN thinking that (which I posted today) might come to the front page and found this post instead. So the chibicc book is not available yet. I'm…”
288. How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect (christine.website)
188 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“That was VSeeFace. I have been doing a lot of research and iteration on using vtubing avatar software to try and make it feel more "natural" without getting too far into…”
289. Zero downtime migrations (kiranrao.ca)
187 points | 2022 | author KiranRao0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and a few things I'd like to clear up. I agree that most DBs are small enough to perform the migration operation in a single transaction. However the choice to have…”
290. “Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft (blog.confiant.com)
187 points | 2022 | author eliya_confiant showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I liked this comment a lot and I can help to shed some light: We do see phishing pages like this increasingly popping up with obfuscation. I think at this time less than…”
291. Thinking with pen and paper (ljvmiranda921.github.io)
187 points | 2022 | author ljvmiranda showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Been using pen and paper (for knowledge work) since 2017. Hope that helps”
292. A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later (carlineng.com)
187 points | 2022 | author carlineng showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the mistake. You may now proceed with reading the remainder of the post ;)”
293. Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law (sohl-dickstein.github.io)
187 points | 2022 | author jaschasd showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just for the record, I am very much in favor of metric-driven decision making. I suggest some ways we can make it more robust, and also that we should be aware that our…”
294. Python and Qt simplified (build-system.fman.io)
186 points | 2022 | author mherrmann showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you for sharing. Will be happy to answer any questions.”
295. The Illustrated QUIC Connection (quic.ulfheim.net)
185 points | 2022 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; let me know if there are any comments or questions I can answer.”
296. Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040 (blog.thea.codes)
185 points | 2022 | author theacodes showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you for the kind words! My goal is always to write the thing I would've wanted to have when I started out.”
297. Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility (shottr.cc)
184 points | 2022 | author ffitch showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Totally understand your concerns. I wasn't sure about the telemetry but it helped me to fix some issues so far, so I decided to keep it on an…”
298. JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (2019) (unencumberedbyfacts.com)
184 points | 2022 | author jasonmunro showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure who posted this old blog article but great to see an interesting discussion and new interest in the project. Development is active and we always appreciate new…”
299. Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances (pauley.me)
184 points | 2022 | author ericpauley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The key here is that customers can leverage these pools in addition to their existing pools, improving capacity and price. AWS actually supports this out of the box…”
300. Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive) (skins.webamp.org)
183 points | 2022 | author captbaritone showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for (re)posting! Happy to answer any questions. My GtiHub repo for Webamp (the interactive, in-browser Winamp clone) can be found here:”