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| 31. | 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 606 points | 2022 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“This was my burnout recovery project in April of 2020. Very much a labor of love and a surprising way to realize I still liked programming. I wrote some scattered…” | ||
| 32. | Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others (thezbook.com) | |
| 591 points | 2022 | author zachlloyd showed up | their comment | thread
“would love any feedback / similar experiences / contrasting opinions!” | ||
| 33. | I stopped advertising and nothing happened (theantistartup.com) | |
| 590 points | 2022 | author deeeej showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great point. In fact other firms seems to be able to get away with even using your brand-name in their advertising. Simply put, nothing stops this, and it will happen.…” | ||
| 34. | Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf] (nabstreamingsummit.com) | |
| 590 points | 2022 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here. AMA” | ||
| 35. | SSH tips and tricks (carlosbecker.dev) | |
| 589 points | 2022 | author caarlos0 showed up | their comment | thread
“I suggested disabling host key checking ONLY on localhost...” | ||
| 36. | Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes (justine.lol) | |
| 568 points | 2022 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“Love SectorLambda for its mathematical beauty. If you're hungry for more efficient practical computation, check out my C language projects like Cosmopolitan Libc and…” | ||
| 37. | App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 561 points | 2022 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Man that camera app sounds so good! I love gesture based apps, and I'm tired of going looking for buttons on the most used functions of a device.. The biggest problem I…” | ||
| 38. | Google rewrites many page titles (zyppy.com) | |
| 547 points | 2022 | author cyrusshepard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Frustrating situation. As the title is long at 84 characters, we know that Google is definitely going to rewrite it. The simplest way is to break it into parts and get…” | ||
| 39. | Lapce – Fast open-source code editor (lapce.dev) | |
| 538 points | 2022 | author dzhou121 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback. I'm aware that Lapce lacks lots of basic stuff. It's a personal project so the initial set of features and key bindings are tight to my…” | ||
| 40. | Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS (leemeichin.com) | |
| 536 points | 2022 | author ljm showed up | their comment | thread
“While it's true that this depends on JS to work (because of the various new CSS Object Model APIs in the browser), I think there's enough doubt about my technique here…” | ||
| 41. | Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities (billmei.net) | |
| 530 points | 2022 | author Kortaggio showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here - thanks for the feedback. I added the following footnote to the article to clarify: In response to "How can you trust and be loyal to someone you just…” | ||
| 42. | Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic (christine.website) | |
| 528 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not being paid to say this. If you don't trust me, I'm sure one of the fly.io people will chime in to confirm this. I haven't accepted paid sponsorship and…” | ||
| 43. | I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020) (superr.in) | |
| 525 points | 2022 | author rohan_shah showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author and here's the clarification: That was the official response I got from the district administration so had to post it. Also was being pressured by…” | ||
| 44. | Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 524 points | 2022 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“My intuition says that's probably a faulty backlight panel. Not sure if you know that, but the liquid crystal that creates the image and colors is very dark by itself,…” | ||
| 45. | I put my whole life into a single database (krausefx.com) | |
| 515 points | 2022 | author krausefx showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“Yes, I agree. For this project, only 5% of the 383,000 data points were collected manually, the rest came from various data sources like RescueTime, Apple Health,…” | ||
| 46. | What chroot taught me about containers (earthly.dev) | |
| 501 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this and the consistent feedback I've gotten was that people hate the title, so thanks for changing it. I'd pick 'What chroot taught me about containers' but…” | ||
| 47. | Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021) (engineering.skroutz.gr) | |
| 497 points | 2022 | author apoikos showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Your comment resonates with me. Indeed, we had been working around the issue for a number of years before we decided to tackle it head-on and even then we set a deadline…” | ||
| 48. | High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime (github.com) | |
| 493 points | 2022 | author LightMachine showed up | their comment | thread
“HVM is the ultimate conclusion to years of optimal evaluation research. I've been a great enthusiast of optimal runtimes. Until now, though, my most efficient…” | ||
| 49. | How to Design Better APIs (r.bluethl.net) | |
| 492 points | 2022 | author rbluethl showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I generally agree - IF something goes terribly wrong within the application, a 500 is definitely the way to go. The thing is - these just shouldn't happen that often.…” | ||
| 50. | The balance has shifted away from SPAs (nolanlawson.com) | |
| 486 points | 2022 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree and feel that Service Workers are still underexplored in this area. If your main reason for writing an SPA is speeding up navigation (e.g. the Turbolinks…” | ||
| 51. | We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel (scottantipa.com) | |
| 486 points | 2022 | author escot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Graphs are used for tons of purposes across a lot of disciplines, but we don't have a fast general-purpose graph editor. That's what I'm trying to do with knotend [0].…” | ||
| 52. | You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list (ctrl.blog) | |
| 484 points | 2022 | author d2wa showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“My router isn’t a domestic router. It’s a MikroTik running RouterOS, completely unsupported by the ISP. Outgoing connections and DNS is logged. UPnP is only allowed for…” | ||
| 53. | I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021) (electrek.co) | |
| 480 points | 2022 | author micahtoll showed up | their comment | thread
“and it is true. You've linked to the correct law, but you didn't read it fully. Even if we drill down on a single item, like the backup camera you mentioned, then a more…” | ||
| 54. | Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software (berk.es) | |
| 476 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I use Django and Rails as examples. Both are, indeed, "just a bunch of libraries". But many of those libraries, and especially their bundled collection, enforce certain…” | ||
| 55. | Crypto is an unproductive bubble (alexkolchinski.com) | |
| 473 points | 2022 | author kolchinski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks – great point. Mind leaving it as a comment on the essay itself as well for posterity? Or I'm happy to add a footnote/comment quoting you.” | ||
| 56. | Principles of Engineering Management (acjay.com) | |
| 465 points | 2022 | author acjohnson55 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the lack of specificity is a fair criticism of what I wrote in the piece, but this is also something I was very aware of when I wrote it, which is why this…” | ||
| 57. | Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (opensource.googleblog.com) | |
| 460 points | 2022 | author janwas showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to discuss.” | ||
| 58. | Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image (pub.towardsai.net) | |
| 460 points | 2022 | author joooyzee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I didn't specify that part, which is exactly why I love that image. The full prompt was "Action photo of a llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan,…” | ||
| 59. | Generics can make your Go code slower (planetscale.com) | |
| 449 points | 2022 | author tanoku showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the kind words! This is a custom pipeline that I designed for the article. It's implemented as a Node.js library using SVG.js and it statically generates the…” | ||
| 60. | Ante: A low-level functional language (antelang.org) | |
| 446 points | 2022 | author jfecher showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“As the website says, the compiler itself is still in a very early state where basic things like functions, types, traits, inference, monomorphisation, and codegen are…” | ||
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