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| 451. | Git log is not a changelog (agateau.com) | |
| 124 points | 2022 | author agateau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, "release notes" is probably the appropriate term. The issue remains however: many projects generate their release notes from their git commit messages. Regarding…” | ||
| 452. | J40: Independent, self-contained JPEG XL decoder (github.com) | |
| 124 points | 2022 | author lifthrasiir showed up | their comment | thread
“As you can see it is only mature in the sense that it implements a large subset of the specification, and it has tons of rough edges (I know, I know, proper tests and…” | ||
| 453. | Understanding the Power of Lisp (2020) (joshbradley.me) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author jb_rad showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thank you for pointing this out! I was a LISP beginner when I wrote this, I'll certainly update this.” | ||
| 454. | Attackers exploit flaw in web’s security to steal $2M in cryptocurrency (freedom-to-tinker.com) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author birgelee showed up | their comment | thread
“and I felt it would be relevant to mention that this attack (where HTTPS traffic is forwarded back to the victim before a certificate is issued) is actually exactly what…” | ||
| 455. | TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy (trpc.io) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author colinmcd showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the initial proof of concept for tRPC a little over a year ago (though I'm no longer involved in the project). Seems like there's some confusion about how this…” | ||
| 456. | What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity? (rubick.com) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author jaderubick showed up | their comment | thread
“I would never advocate for pay levels to be based on years of experience personally.” | ||
| 457. | AWS SNS vs. SQS – Main Differences (blog.serverlessq.com) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author jack335 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your kind words. Regarding fanout. Yes exactly. Fanout doesn't mean it needs to involve SQS just it can involve SQS. It is also called a fanout pattern if you…” | ||
| 458. | SSO should be table stakes (tuple.app) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author r00k showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi folks! Author here. Big fan of this topic, and happy to answer any questions you might have about it. Also, the shameless self-promoter in me is required to let you…” | ||
| 459. | Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter (2012) (icrobotics.co.uk) | |
| 123 points | 2022 | author pifm_guy showed up | their comment | thread
“This code no longer works on new Pi's (it does a lot of low level very hardware stuff from userspace without a proper kernel driver). The code was written in a 24 hour…” | ||
| 460. | Hotcaml: An OCaml interpreter with watching and reloading (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2022 | author def-lkb showed up | their comment | thread
“There is actually some notion of persisting state in it. Reloading is done at the granularity of a module. The reverse dependencies of a module that changed are also…” | ||
| 461. | We automatically fixed thousands of Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings (about.gitlab.com) | |
| 122 points | 2022 | author kuahyeow showed up | their comment | thread
“and also GitLab team member. If you peek into the source code, I was actually inspired by the ruby-warning gem, and have directly credited it () :) Also in Ruby 2.7.2,…” | ||
| 462. | Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04 (rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author rep_lodsb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As mentioned in the post, LOAD/STOREALL only run in ring 0. Also you can't use it to return to real mode except from code running in ICE address space, which isn't…” | ||
| 463. | It's not Ruby that's slow, it's your database (berk.es) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the confusion. 1. I didn't want to make the point that Rust is faster, per sé. But wanted to show why it is faster. Because that teaches us a lot about when it…” | ||
| 464. | Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud (herrherrmann.net) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author herrherrmann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that objectively, it’s not much work to maintain the Synology NAS once everything is correctly set up. But I personally just got tired after attempting to…” | ||
| 465. | Online Spirograph Tool (nathanfriend.io) | |
| 120 points | 2022 | author nfriend showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun to see this old project pop up on HN. Happy to answer any questions. Last year I tried my hand at building a native mobile version for iOS and Android (using…” | ||
| 466. | SQLGlot: SQL parser, transpiler, optimizer – translate to Presto, Spark, Hive (github.com) | |
| 120 points | 2022 | author captaintobs showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me any questions! Something that I'm working on is a pure python SQL engine. It does the whole shebang, parsing, optimizations, logical planning,…” | ||
| 467. | One Million Database Connections (planetscale.com) | |
| 119 points | 2022 | author lizztheblizz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“interesting question! We didn't run into that issue, explicitly. Our setup was effectively as follows: - AWS Lambda functions being spawned in us-east-1, from a separate…” | ||
| 468. | T-Shaped People and Academia (bastian.rieck.me) | |
| 118 points | 2022 | author Topolomancer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+12 more) | thread
“I realise that this is a valid take, but it's not what I had in mind. Being based in European academia salaries for Ph.D. students and other personnel are more or less…” | ||
| 469. | Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime (ethanhein.com) | |
| 118 points | 2022 | author ethanhein showed up | their comment | thread
“and I got about ten times as many hits on the post as usual today, so thanks for reading!” | ||
| 470. | Wayflan: a from-scratch Wayland client for Common Lisp (sr.ht) | |
| 118 points | 2022 | author spelmachine showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Wayflan. I chose to use FFI for sockets so that I can have access to sendmsg(), which lets me send file descriptors on the same message as mundane…” | ||
| 471. | Provably space-efficient parallel functional programming (blog.sigplan.org) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author shwestrick showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the cool things about the property we're using here---disentanglement---is that it specifically allows for shared data, under only mild restrictions. This allows…” | ||
| 472. | SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS (theregister.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I used to, yes. In what way do you feel it is a hit piece? I certainly did not intend for it to be one.” | ||
| 473. | How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is (erichgrunewald.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author erwald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i read several of the papers involved and think it's more likely than not that qwerty was designed for fast typing, or at least not designed to type slowly. but i…” | ||
| 474. | What's the risk from fake Yubikeys? (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hoped it was rare because it seems like an obviously bad idea. I can see how it would be convenient - but that's often the opposite of secure. I wonder where it would…” | ||
| 475. | Progress toward fusion energy breakeven measured against Lawson criterion (twitter.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author sam showed up | their comment | thread
“The black curve represents the hot-spot ignition condition for a laser inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiment (like the NIF). This means that during the short…” | ||
| 476. | Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? (bbc.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author lockesmith showed up | their comment | thread
“The thought experiment was about a typical American in 1940 and what they would have in their home, i.e. what would be so common that the median American would have it…” | ||
| 477. | X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment (righto.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about obscure 1960s technology...” | ||
| 478. | Fgtrace – The Full Go Tracer (github.com) | |
| 117 points | 2022 | author felixge showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions :). I've also posted a few more comments in this twitter thread:” | ||
| 479. | AWS is not a dumb pipe (matt-rickard.com) | |
| 116 points | 2022 | author rckrd showed up | their comment | thread
“They missed the Snowflake opportunity by having the wrong architecture for Redshift (decoupled storage and compute). They shifted to the Snowflake model in 2019, but the…” | ||
| 480. | WebAssembly and C++ (neugierig.org) | |
| 115 points | 2022 | author evmar showed up | their comment | thread
“Very interesting, do you have a reference on how Java implements this? I just poked at v8 a bit and they seem to have an explicit 'null' object in the VM, though I don't…” | ||
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