421. A Review of Shader Languages (alain.xyz)
134 points | 2022 | author alaingalvan showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing, I'll be lurking in the comments!”
422. The business case for fewer developers in meetings (blog.shimin.io)
134 points | 2022 | author recurrence showed up | their comment | thread
“Yea, a good meeting can absolutely be worth all the developer time it costs! I tried to carefully qualify all my calculations in terms of 'opportunity cost' and…”
423. Formally Verifying Rust's Opaque Types (dylanj.xyz)
133 points | 2022 | author BreakfastB0b showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Glad you liked it! I’ve had a real fear of writing since High School and so starting this blog is my attempt to work through it. It’s a shame that more engineers don’t…”
424. How stdbuf works (hmarr.com)
133 points | 2022 | author hcm showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't see that in Chrome so had no idea that was happening – thanks for pointing it out! I'm not a fan of coding ligatures so I just pushed a change to turn it off.”
425. Ws4sqlite: Query SQLite via HTTP (github.com)
132 points | 2022 | author mano78 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is a pet project of mine, and what a surprise to see on HN! :-) Your discussions on PostgREST and on using SQLite for different use cases are what motivated me for…”
426. Knowledge is like a house of cards (fhur.me)
132 points | 2022 | author fernandohur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback. I'm not really sure what you mean by all-caps, would you mind elaborating?”
427. Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018) (breck-mckye.com)
132 points | 2022 | author jbreckmckye showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I no longer think front-end suffers the instability people accuse it of. I think there are a lot of _vendors_ trying to usher in a revolution around their particular…”
428. Building a transformer in Julia (liorsinai.github.io)
132 points | 2022 | author the_origami_fox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Indeed, the HackerNews teams moved this to a second chance pool for me; very nice of them”
429. SaaS services behind a startup (bytebase.com)
132 points | 2022 | author tianzhou showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“We do rely on all mentioned tools, though for some tools, we only use them occasionally due to their nature (e.g. we don't need to visit Pulley every day to manage…”
430. The near future of AI is action-driven (jmcdonnell.substack.com)
132 points | 2022 | author jvm showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah I agree the real world is very complicated. For any given task I'm imagining something like 1. Use some sort of instruction tuning to get the thing "good enough"…”
431. The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft (righto.com)
131 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I encourage you to try out the interactive page that shows how the ranging system worked:”
432. Professional Programming: The First 10 Years (thorstenball.com)
131 points | 2022 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that I don’t think all forms of snark, sarcasm, and cynicism are bad. Or even negativity! But what I learned the hard way is that there’s a time and a…”
433. Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything (angg.twu.net)
131 points | 2022 | author edrx showed up | their comment | thread
“Please don't try to read the "article", it is VERY obsolete! The standard (meta-)starting point is this URL:”
434. Cpm65: CP/M for the 6502 (github.com)
131 points | 2022 | author david-given showed up | their comment | thread
“Responding to a few random things posted here: - yes, that 8080 emulator ought to work fine. Not sure what the performance would be like but it's certainly worth a try.…”
435. The State of AWS Security (datadoghq.com)
131 points | 2022 | author christophetd showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Hello! One of the authors here. We did release some (hopefully) actionable guidance alongside the study[1]. Trusted Advisor is a fair point, but note that most of its…”
436. Things I would like to see in a computer algebra system (fredrikj.net)
130 points | 2022 | author fdej showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm only talking about using formalizable and mathematically consistent type definitions in a CAS, not requiring formal proofs in the implementations of types. For…”
437. After the first tech job (lowlyswe.substack.com)
130 points | 2022 | author leesec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“had some positive feedback on the last one so wanted to keep sharing my experience of breaking into tech without a degree or related experience. As always reach out if…”
438. The Pine Formula (tuxphones.com)
130 points | 2022 | author cunidev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Can confirm that PINE64 is still way more hackable than COTS alternatives (Also, the article wasn't updated, apart from a couple of dead link fixes)”
439. SQLite-HTML: A SQLite extension for querying, manipulating, and creating HTML (github.com)
130 points | 2022 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions! A few other recent posts/tools that you may be interested in: - sqlite-lines discussion from a few days ago: - htmlq, Rust CLI for (like jq…”
440. A CSS-Inspired Syntax for Flowcharts (tone-row.com)
130 points | 2022 | author tonerow showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There's definitely nothing wrong with Mermaid. In fact, the current syntax at can be converted to Mermaid (in export window) and I'll continue to support that when I…”
441. The Story of Heroku (leerob.io)
129 points | 2022 | author leerob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did not know that! Thanks for sharing, will add it. I started using Heroku in 2012 for context, pre in-browser IDE form.”
442. Millet, a Language Server for SML (azdavis.net)
129 points | 2022 | author azdavis showed up | their comment | thread
“hope you like it!”
443. The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website (devever.net)
128 points | 2022 | author hlandau showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I have very, very similar childhood memories of PHP. It really was a magic thing to mess around with - I think a lot of people had this experience. I suspect back then a…”
444. Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions (rnikhil.com)
128 points | 2022 | author whoami_nr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Agreed that software projects regularly get sanctioned. I meant to imply "smart contracts". Also, Didn't the US try to also ban crypto algorithms and in-effect certain…”
445. What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? (erikexplores.substack.com)
128 points | 2022 | author socialdemocrat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I cannot vouch for exactly the competency level here, but I was paraphrasing a remark Andrew Kelley made in a video discussing Zig. From what I remember he said that…”
446. Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do? (reaktor.com)
128 points | 2022 | author nullzzz showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The article is about alternatives for running your hobby projects. I agree that it doesn't make sense to run, or expect to be able to run, your business applications on…”
447. Purism Librem 14 review (part 1): The ethical flagship (tuxphones.com)
127 points | 2022 | author author-of-post showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“- I went much deeper on that in the 2nd part, which was released some hours ago (), not sure if before or after this first bit was shared here)”
448. Don't compare yourself to other entrepreneurs (petecodes.io)
126 points | 2022 | author Pete-Codes showed up | their comment | thread
“Seems to have sparked some interesting discussions. The Courage to be Disliked is a game-changing book for me so I'd read that if you liked the article.”
449. 2D Global Illumination in Godot (2020) (samuelbigos.github.io)
126 points | 2022 | author pixelpoet showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article around the time of the Nvidia Riva TNT1/TNT2, many years before the first decently programmable GPUs (and the introduction of the term "GPU", they…”
450. The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory (devever.net)
125 points | 2022 | author hlandau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the sole focus here is on the ISA-relevant parts. Obviously disk formats are out of scope. It's correct that IBM originally used custom IBM disk drives with 520-byte…”