391. Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks (varunsrinivasan.com)
145 points | 2022 | author varunsrin showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“happy to answer questions folks have. we've also been building a sufficiently decentralized protocol called Farcaster, and you can check it out here: we've also built…”
392. The Inner Osborne Effect (2021) (raganwald.com)
145 points | 2022 | author a4isms showed up | their comment | thread
“I remember the Apple III well, we nearly bought one for my mother's Real Estate brokerage. Ended up with a fairly vanilla Intel-based PC. Whew! But thank you for the…”
393. Elasticlunr, a full-text search library for Elixir (atandarash.me)
144 points | 2022 | author heywhy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. I'm the author of the library, you should use the IndexManager () to store your index after making changes to it but note that the indexes will be lost on…”
394. Static site hosting hurdles (notes.volution.ro)
144 points | 2022 | author ciprian_craciun showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Indeed didn't mention anything about the shared webhosting solutions, just as I didn't mention anything about S3 + CloudFront, or Backblaze B2 + a CDN in front, or…”
395. Melody – a language that compiles to regular expressions (github.com)
143 points | 2022 | author yoav_lavi showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for posting Melody! This is my first attempt at a language and I'm learning Rust, so any input would be appreciated”
396. Clojure Scripting on Node.js (github.com)
143 points | 2022 | author Borkdude showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Ask me anything on nbb.”
397. Neptune OS: a WinNT personality of the seL4 microkernel (github.com)
142 points | 2022 | author cl91 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this project (I didn't post this on HN someone else did). We have implemented NT processes. All device drivers and user executable are NT processes…”
398. I Believe Zig Has Function Colors (gavinhoward.com)
142 points | 2022 | author ghoward showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Despite not liking the idea of function colors, I do think I like your idea of having functions express what capabilities you have to have permission for to call them. A…”
399. Analyzing iMessage with SQL (arctype.com)
142 points | 2022 | author dliff showed up | their comment | thread
“I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).”
400. What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like? (transitivebullsh.it)
142 points | 2022 | author transitivebs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I needed to split this up into multiple posts because it required a lot deeper dive than I had originally expected. What I'm really interested in, however, is help with…”
401. Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated (puri.sm)
142 points | 2022 | author dcz_self showed up | their comment | thread
“While the essay comes from the side of smartphones, it's not really limited to them. As I mention, even some laptops use setups that require complex infrastructure to…”
402. Map Data: False Assumptions (solutionspace.blog)
142 points | 2022 | author dme1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading my stuff! :-) I did not go into details of geopolitical issues because I covered that in an earlier article:”
403. Smolnes: A NES emulator in less than 5000 significant bytes of C++ (github.com)
142 points | 2022 | author binji showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions y'all have”
404. RETRO is fast (mitchgordon.me)
141 points | 2022 | author bitforger showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. I've noticed on certain mobile devices the contrast can be weird, not sure why. I updated the default theme's text color to be 10% darker, lmk if that…”
405. So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell (channable.com)
140 points | 2022 | author poorlyknit showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this article during a short internship at Channable. Not to be apologetic but I think these kind of articles are so prevalent because young or unpopular…”
406. Should notes be end-to-end encrypted? (supernotes.app)
140 points | 2022 | author fastball showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you 100% need E2EE for your notes then not using Supernotes is actually our recommendation as well. But as I tried to show in the post, it's hard to do and arguably…”
407. Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine (halestrom.net)
139 points | 2022 | author hales showed up | their comment | thread
“It's been many years, so my memory is a bit rusty. I think I recall it being fiddly to upload images for a page and possibly the themes were complex to modify (?) (I…”
408. Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs (blog.upbound.io)
139 points | 2022 | author negz showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the kind words! I wouldn't say Crossplane is _supposed_ to be used together with CD systems (that's optional) but that's certainly a common and practical use…”
409. Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig (github.com)
139 points | 2022 | author giann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few points make buzz a “scripting language” in my view: - runs in a VM - garbage collected - high level - “simple” meaning there’s only a handful of concepts to…”
410. Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift (swift.org)
138 points | 2022 | author avitzur showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post. AMA.”
411. Show HN: Jerrica, a 100% scheduled, Web Audio native, MOD player for JavaScript (github.com)
138 points | 2022 | author gtrevorjay showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is the major drawback of this approach. Since I'm tuning the sound tone by adjusting the playback rate, what algorithm the browser uses for up and down sampling is…”
412. Split Your Overwhelmed Teams (queue.acm.org)
138 points | 2022 | author YesThatTom2 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the positive feedback so far. AMA”
413. Mighty Retrospective (blog.chaselambda.com)
138 points | 2022 | author theicfire showed up | their comment | thread
“I just noticed this was on HN! There’s lots of great points raised here that I didn’t cover. I published this with very little feedback, so I’m not surprised I missed…”
414. Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications (securitylabs.datadoghq.com)
138 points | 2022 | author christophetd showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello there! I'm one of the authors of the post. Sorry you feel we "hyped it up", that was definitely not the intent. The malicious package is targeting FastAPI…”
415. A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera (righto.com)
136 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Polaroid camera questions :-)”
416. Migra: Diff for PostgreSQL schemas (github.com)
136 points | 2022 | author djrobstep showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“While this is on the front page, a couple of updates regarding migra that you might be interested in: - Development slowed on migra for a quite a while, but I've…”
417. Show HN: DevTools-X – a cross platform alternative of devutils and devtoys (github.com)
136 points | 2022 | author Sparkenstein showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am so sorry for releasing untested version, apparently every OS is seeing blank page somehow. Will fix this and release soon”
418. Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review (cppstories.com)
135 points | 2022 | author SuperV1234 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Our analysis of C++11/14 features aims to be as objective as possible. Could you please provide any example of what you consider "superstition"? Keep in mind that the…”
419. The slow march of progress in programming language tooling (earthly.dev)
135 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment | thread
“This was fun to write. I think there are counter-examples, but this was my main idea: When a new developer tooling innovation is discovered, newer programming languages…”
420. The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015) (thehustle.co)
134 points | 2022 | author samp615 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I’m the author. I had a strong opinion. My prediction was wrong! But I left the article up because I have a lot of opinions and hey, I’m wrong sometimes…no shame!…”