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Writing Is Hard (blog.torh.net) |
| 170 points | 2022 | author torh showed up | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. I enjoy writing, it's fun, but once I start thinking that someone might read it, I get anxious and clam up. That's why I love to journal with…” |
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Mystery Blips (mosquitocapital.substack.com) |
| 170 points | 2022 | author MrAwesome showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and that's exactly right! I think it was in my second or third month on the job. And I really agree with your second point too! Without that in-person transfer of tribal…” |
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Things I hate about Rust, redux (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 169 points | 2022 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't written any Zig, but I've read a little bit about `comptime` (which I thought was very cool). I like compile-time programming, but I also recognize that it's…” |
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products (scastiel.dev) |
| 169 points | 2022 | author scastiel showed up | their comment | thread
“I was aware of this potential issue when I implemented PPP on my course. It turns out almost nobody uses this trick, although a few told my about it. I guess when you…” |
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The evolution of the data engineer role (airbyte.com) |
| 167 points | 2022 | author tbarrera showed up | their comment | thread
“Of course, data engineering involves building infra and being knowledgeable about DevOps practices, but that’s not the only area data engineers should be familiar with.…” |
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IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine (influxdata.com) |
| 167 points | 2022 | author alamb showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- it is "free" in the sense that all the effort we put into DataFusion flows directly into IOx. But we do put a lot of effort into DataFusion” |
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I plan to leave tech to pursue art (liamhz.com) |
| 167 points | 2022 | author LiamHz showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this post -- it was an unlisted draft that I shared with a few friends, was planning to rewrite most of this before publishing. Please forgive the…” |
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Don’t mock what you don’t own (hynek.me) |
| 166 points | 2022 | author hynek showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, I’m the author and happy to engage in constructive exchange with everyone who read the article and has thoughts or questions (NB the full title is ‘“Don’t Mock What…” |
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Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN (github.com) |
| 166 points | 2022 | author cmdli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The credentials are encrypted on-disk with a passphrase, so it wouldn't be trivial extract them, but yes it would be somewhat less secure than a hardware device. I would…” |
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WordPress WASM (github.com) |
| 166 points | 2022 | author adamziel showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it is super encouraging to see this trending on HN, thank you for the great discussion, links, and ideas! I hope to change how learning, using, and contributing to…” |
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Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing (jay.gooby.org) |
| 165 points | 2022 | author jaygooby showed up | their comment | thread
“I sent an email to mail-tester.com from an email alias I've set up as described in my post; it's gets a "Good stuff. Your email is almost perfect" and a score of 7.5/10…” |
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The Unbundling of Airflow (blog.fal.ai) |
| 164 points | 2022 | author gorkemyurt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, I am the author of the post which parts did you find hard to follow?” |
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Video Live Streaming: Notes on RTMP, HLS, and WebRTC (daily.co) |
| 164 points | 2022 | author kwindla showed up | their comment | thread
“In addition to what vr000m said above, I'll just add that when you make HLS chunks smaller, you're reducing the leverage you get from HLS's core design decisions. I…” |
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When rustc explodes (fasterthanli.me) |
| 164 points | 2022 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“I honestly expected it to be much worse. The tracing integration in particular is fantastic - being able to just slap a `#[instrument(...)]` attribute on any function…” |
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What not to say to someone who has just been laid off (sifted.eu) |
| 164 points | 2022 | author AnhTho_FR showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks, means a lot to me!” |
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Fuck Your Miracle Year (rogersbacon.substack.com) |
| 163 points | 2022 | author rogersbacon17 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“well said, in complete agreement. This is one of the best compliments I've gotten.” |
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Projects for Old Versions of OS X (jonathanalland.com) |
| 163 points | 2022 | author Wowfunhappy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm flattered this made it to the front page! You might also enjoy: • Me getting modern Unity games to run on Mavericks: • Me kind-of sort-of getting Mavericks to…” |
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Two Years of Life with PinePhone (linmob.net) |
| 163 points | 2022 | author linmob showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The blog post is not meant as a discouragement, but as a report. It does not help anyone if people get a PinePhone (or other Linux Phone) with the expectation that it's…” |
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Almost Always Unsigned (graphitemaster.github.io) |
| 161 points | 2022 | author graphitemaster showed up | their comment | thread
“I believe many of the complaints here are concerned about what is more common rather than what is universally better over all possible inputs which is actually the point…” |
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Building single-page-apps with PostgREST (blog.polyglot.network) |
| 161 points | 2022 | author nileshtrivedi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I really think there's a lot of value in this model for users to self-host apps. PostgreSQL can run cron jobs, operate on external data with foreign data wrappers, and…” |
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Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3 (github.com) |
| 160 points | 2022 | author polyrand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I would say the main advantage is that this just needs uploading a single file to S3. `sqlite-s3vfs` will split the database in pages and upload the pages separately to…” |
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Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy (lambdaland.org) |
| 160 points | 2022 | author ashton314 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. I was not expecting to get on the front page with this little thought I had in the shower this weekend! Someone reached out to me with the…” |
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Python Bytecode Explained (github.com) |
| 159 points | 2022 | author MichaelMoser123 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you all! really glad to see this on the frontpage! There is a second part that may be of interest: here a python tracer is implemented, one that shows the side…” |
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Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021) (softwareengineeringdaily.com) |
| 159 points | 2022 | author tschellenbach showed up | their comment | thread
“funny to see my old post. Any questions about how we use Go nowadays?” |
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People Staring at Computers (2021) (kylemcdonald.net) |
| 159 points | 2022 | author kcimc showed up | their comment | thread
“i'm deeply, genuinely grateful that you all care enough to revisit and discuss this decade-old work. special thanks to throwayyy479087 for stirring some shit on my…” |
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Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer (karimjedda.com) |
| 158 points | 2022 | author ilovefood showed up | their comment | thread
“happy you're liking my article. I have gotten a lot of feedback on this since I posted it. If there's anything I can add or update or even improve, let me know. I've…” |
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A SQLite extension for reading large files line-by-line (github.com) |
| 157 points | 2022 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! Also checkout this notebook for a deeper dive into sqlite-lines, along with a slick WASM demonstration and more thoughts on the codebase…” |
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea (blog.gitea.io) |
| 157 points | 2022 | author techknowlogick showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Hi everyone. I'm the author of the blog post above, and I am sorry that I caused so much confusion. I have spent much of today trying to clear things up, and will be…” |
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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool (joeldare.com) |
| 156 points | 2022 | author codazoda showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I had originally written something like, "I wrote my own tool but you might see these gains using any note tool". For whatever reason, I edited that out. Probably a…” |
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Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part V: the output circuitry (righto.com) |
| 156 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if there are any questions about my latest DX7 post.” |
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