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| 91. | The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want (joemorrison.substack.com) | |
| 384 points | 2022 | author campchase showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“not an original insight, although it's clichéd enough that I can't point you to where I picked it up from. I also want to emphasize that I do not view bias as a bad…” | ||
| 92. | How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database (retool.com) | |
| 384 points | 2022 | author mrbabbage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This was my biggest Postgres project to date, and it proved quite tricky since I didn't rehearse with a test database of the same size. I learned a bunch about Postgres,…” | ||
| 93. | Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix (devenv.sh) | |
| 379 points | 2022 | author domenkozar showed up | their comment | thread
“and. I've been part of the Nix community for more than 10 years and in the last 4 years focused on making it documented, simple and accessible for any developer. After…” | ||
| 94. | Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls (github.com) | |
| 378 points | 2022 | author premysl showed up | their comment | thread
“this is implied from runtime dependencies, it's in generic packager speak. Ideally, I would provide pre-built packages from CI, of course.” | ||
| 95. | Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes? (ethanhein.com) | |
| 368 points | 2022 | author ethanhein showed up | their comment | thread
“I said that 5-limit is the basis for systems like meantone, which is true. Meantone systems take 5-limit as their starting point and then modify it. I deliberately…” | ||
| 96. | Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com) | |
| 366 points | 2022 | author michaelmure showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions. Version 0.8 just got out[1]. For the next one, I'll try to focus on making the codebase fully ready for multi-entities and introduce a Project…” | ||
| 97. | Why is Snowflake so expensive (blog.devgenius.io) | |
| 364 points | 2022 | author stassajin showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect it to blow up. Let me clarify a few points: 1. I like Snowflake and I think they brought several innovations to the field: Instant scale out/up,…” | ||
| 98. | Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap (wcedmisten.fyi) | |
| 363 points | 2022 | author wcedmisten showed up | their comment | thread
“the docker project for the tile server allows setting up automatic syncing fairly easily: I'm not sure about Nominatim or Valhalla's ability to auto-sync the latest…” | ||
| 99. | I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (2016) (disruptingjapan.com) | |
| 361 points | 2022 | author timoth3y showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm surprised (and delighted) to see this back on Hacker News. I'm happy that people find value in the article, and the process writing it forced me to put my thoughts…” | ||
| 100. | The animated elliptic curve (curves.ulfheim.net) | |
| 359 points | 2022 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“let me know if there are any questions or comments!” | ||
| 101. | A systems model of anxiety-driven procrastination (axle.design) | |
| 356 points | 2022 | author ryanjamurphy showed up | their comment | thread
“I hear ya on the rendering. This systems sketch was by me, for me, but I published it with minimal effort just in case it might help someone else. It probably would've…” | ||
| 102. | Learn Go with Tests (quii.gitbook.io) | |
| 352 points | 2022 | author quii showed up | their comment | thread
“The project is open-source () so there's a few options available to you. In releases, you'll find PDFs and epubs, I'm pretty sure most epub readers will let you use a…” | ||
| 103. | How SQLite Helps You Do ACID (fly.io) | |
| 351 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree there's been a resurgence lately. My working theory is that the performance of the underlying hardware has increased so much in the last decade that the…” | ||
| 104. | The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust (blog.singleton.io) | |
| 350 points | 2022 | author dps showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to stop by to say I'm delighted so many folks enjoyed the piece. I really did have a lot of fun :-)” | ||
| 105. | Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (mtlynch.io) | |
| 347 points | 2022 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I consider myself an intermediate homelabber and a TrueNAS beginner. I just built my first NAS server, so wrote this to capture everything I wish I'd known at the start.…” | ||
| 106. | How Uber Uses Zig (jakstys.lt) | |
| 345 points | 2022 | author motiejus showed up | their comment | thread
“Took a while to get thumbs-up to publish the talk. Happy to answer questions, if any.” | ||
| 107. | The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (blog.tmm.cx) | |
| 344 points | 2022 | author TMM2K showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The way the Qemu VM is setup there is no way to interface with the outside world at all. The only way to get any data in or out of that VM is through the keyboard and…” | ||
| 108. | We're moving on from Firebase (koptional.com) | |
| 344 points | 2022 | author jackconsidine showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for pointing out. I was getting at the fact that SQL systems don't scale as well horizontally (it's difficult to distribute the same column across multiple…” | ||
| 109. | The Hare programming language (harelang.org) | |
| 342 points | 2022 | author wchar_t showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair enough! Since writing that I've done a lot of Zig code, which has labeled loops, and I can say it's definitely made a lot of code clearer than it would be otherwise.” | ||
| 110. | Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 337 points | 2022 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“Absolutely! I love TypeScript and refuse to write JavaScript without it (even just in JS-checking mode with jsdoc annotations), but I'm already fighting, like, 4…” | ||
| 111. | Mimic 3 by Mycroft (mycroft.ai) | |
| 334 points | 2022 | author synesthesiam showed up | their comment | thread
“Besides the tech of Mimic 3 itself, I'm interested in training voices in as many (human) languages as possible. All it takes is one person willing to donate a dataset…” | ||
| 112. | Coping with Copilot (sigarch.org) | |
| 333 points | 2022 | author emeryberger showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I was also interviewed by The Register about this topic:.” | ||
| 113. | The wild world of non-C operating systems (theregister.com) | |
| 332 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. Author here. It's not all historical stuff by any means; in fact, I tried to skew it towards stuff from the recent or modern era and things that are still in…” | ||
| 114. | How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing (developermarkepear.com) | |
| 331 points | 2022 | author dev_markepear showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments. Learning so much.” | ||
| 115. | Teach your kids bridge, not poker (specbranch.com) | |
| 327 points | 2022 | author pclmulqdq showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and I have played bridge for a very long time: 1. Pick-up bridge is certainly possible, and you can walk into a club and find a partner. You have to be playing a…” | ||
| 116. | My free-software photography workflow (blog.fidelramos.net) | |
| 325 points | 2022 | author fidelramos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Would you believe I didn't notice the proper capitalization is RawTherapee and not RawTheRapee? I didn't think twice about the semantics, now I can't unsee it. Thanks…” | ||
| 117. | Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15 (citusdata.com) | |
| 321 points | 2022 | author davidrowley showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, thanks for raising this. I didn't manage to complete my analysis for the regression at 64MB work_mem before publishing the blog. I drew up my analysis on shortly…” | ||
| 118. | Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf] (nostarch.com) | |
| 320 points | 2022 | author tubetime showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask questions.” | ||
| 119. | Feel the power of the Manifest v3 (github.com) | |
| 320 points | 2022 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to add that most of the "features" should be fixed by Google this month [1]. That leaves me approximately 2 months to finish the work and hope to make the…” | ||
| 120. | On the Weaponisation of Open Source (beny23.github.io) | |
| 319 points | 2022 | author beny23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I do think the open source licence is framed to be non-discriminatory and I think that’s not a bad thing. Discrimination lends itself to politicisation and in turn…” | ||
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