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| 151. | I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free (stackoverflow.blog) | |
| 284 points | 2022 | author rdonovan showed up | their comment | thread
“We did use Confluence, but as other folks had said, it went very stale. Not everyone could edit everything and there was no structure. Confluence is a mess in my…” | ||
| 152. | Nike.com's robots.txt (nike.com) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author jonty showed up | their comment | thread
“Of all the easter eggs I've hidden its still my favourite. Wired even wrote an awful article about it at the time: Absolutely delighted people remember it 12 years later.” | ||
| 153. | Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook (playground.lexical.dev) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author trueadm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those…” | ||
| 154. | Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies (1517.substack.com) | |
| 283 points | 2022 | author areoform showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“based on my reading of your comment, I think we're talking at cross purposes. Your comment seems to be about how these technologies aren't useful for us in the present.…” | ||
| 155. | Consciousness is not computation (joe-antognini.github.io) | |
| 282 points | 2022 | author antognini showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“This is the crux of it. The main objection to the triviality argument is that we've just used far too broad a definition of a "computer." If we're thinking that a hot…” | ||
| 156. | Show HN: Caddy-SSH (caffeinatedwonders.com) | |
| 280 points | 2022 | author m_sahaf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here This has been my stress-reliever for the past ~2 years. I'm sticking around, so feel free to ask any questions. Github Repo:” | ||
| 157. | TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++ (zaplib.com) | |
| 280 points | 2022 | author janpaul123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. Really curious what you all think. It's a pretty crazy idea but maybe there's something to it! Hacker News is always a special place for ideas like this…” | ||
| 158. | Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution (engineering.fb.com) | |
| 280 points | 2022 | author uvdn7 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I believe the methodology described should be applicable to most if not all invalidation-based caches. I am serious when I say that cache invalidation might no longer be…” | ||
| 159. | An SPA Alternative (htmx.org) | |
| 278 points | 2022 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions. I know my alternative approach, htmx-enhanced hypermedia, isn't right for every application, but it can be a much simpler approach for many…” | ||
| 160. | Async Rust doesn't have to be hard (itsallaboutthebit.com) | |
| 277 points | 2022 | author Hirrolot showed up | their comment | thread
“Unfortunately, before publishing anything, it's very hard to predict all possible misinterpretations of my text. Most commentators viewed the text from the perspective…” | ||
| 161. | An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS (cohost.org) | |
| 277 points | 2022 | author blackle showed up | their comment | thread
“the website that hosts this is a new social media website that allows a limited amount of html (only inline css, no js or <style> elements), and a small subculture/arms…” | ||
| 162. | The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off (berk.es) | |
| 276 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not go into this, but it really is a problem that I, and most of my fellow hobby beekeepers undercharge. That we don't count our hours into the price means that…” | ||
| 163. | Master’s Degree in Computer Science (evanp.me) | |
| 275 points | 2022 | author evanprodromou showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! author here. I've seen requirements for a master's in CS or related disciplines on job descriptions for technical leadership roles, mostly at larger, older, more…” | ||
| 164. | How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising (demodexio.substack.com) | |
| 275 points | 2022 | author lkrubner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some people, who wrote comments in response to this essay, were focused on the intentional dishonesty of gerrymandering, and they wrote things like this: "You can easily…” | ||
| 165. | Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released (dashbit.co) | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author josevalim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I will be glad to answer any questions. :)” | ||
| 166. | Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lambda Edge and got a $4.5k bill | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author huksley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks, already done that, and waiting for it to be reviewed by AWS. Support was very responsive, though.” | ||
| 167. | Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator (trianglify.io) | |
| 274 points | 2022 | author qrohlf showed up | their comment | thread
“interesting to see this pop up on HN again! Since there are a lot of questions in the comments that might be answered by prior writing/discussions, here are a couple…” | ||
| 168. | Tailscale ate my network (and I love it) (smackeyacky.blogspot.com) | |
| 273 points | 2022 | author smackeyacky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yep, I'm lazy and a cheapskate, so using the built-in AWS solution I thought was too expensive for something I only did occasionally. 99% of the time I'm hooked up to my…” | ||
| 169. | The Kelly criterion: How to size bets (2019) (explore.paulbutler.org) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author paulgb showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree, but I think there is some applicability of the Kelly Criterion to startups (at least qualitativey) in explaining why an entrepreneur who is all-in on a company…” | ||
| 170. | PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide (gist.github.com) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author jtc331 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was also published here:, and I’ve updated it there at various times (though I’ll admit it doesn’t have the new features in PG13-14 yet) but had forgotten about the…” | ||
| 171. | Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal (vaidik.bearblog.dev) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author apson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am 19. Trust me I really love to do things like these which have chances to promote a good behavior. For the same reasons, I am off of Instagram for a year now…” | ||
| 172. | The container orchestrator landscape (lwn.net) | |
| 271 points | 2022 | author jordemort showed up | their comment | thread
“This is my third for LWN and a follow-up to my previous one about container engines ( ) - I wasn't initially planning on writing this since I only have a wee bit of k8s…” | ||
| 173. | I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort (blog.adacore.com) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author touisteur showed up | their comment | thread
“We actually touched upon this subject in the article: 'Tip: Don’t prove what you don’t need to prove' and surrounding text. Also previous comment by Yannick:” | ||
| 174. | The end of Optane is bad news (theregister.com) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Cost-competitive with what? I think there are two misconceptions here. 1. It is a kind of memory, not disk. But it is non-volatile large-scale RAM. There isn't any other…” | ||
| 175. | Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy (michaelgv.uk) | |
| 270 points | 2022 | author NesquikMike showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you're right that this can happen.” | ||
| 176. | Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri (getrecut.com) | |
| 268 points | 2022 | author dceddia showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It varies by the length of the video and some other things, but on a 2019 Intel MBP it's loading up a 35min file in about 5 seconds. After that, it's interactive - you…” | ||
| 177. | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) (dampfkraft.com) | |
| 268 points | 2022 | author polm23 showed up | their comment | thread
“Nobody has ever asked about the art before. It depicts Maruyama Oukyo, a famous painter of ghosts (and other things), where one of his pieces comes to life and frightens…” | ||
| 178. | Is the Kalman filter just a low-pass filter? (jbconsulting.substack.com) | |
| 267 points | 2022 | author jbay808 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, if the system has a high-pass behaviour, then the corresponding Kalman filter will converge to a high-pass filter, and so on. Non-low-pass-like behaviour can emerge…” | ||
| 179. | 25+ years of personal knowledge management (dsebastien.net) | |
| 263 points | 2022 | author dSebastien showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great points, there's indeed a lot of subjectivity in this one. I decided to keep it that way because I cared as much about writing down my story (and diving back into…” | ||
| 180. | Convert curl commands to code in several languages (curlconverter.com) | |
| 262 points | 2022 | author NickC_dev showed up | their comment | thread
“Many smart people have contributed code over the years, but one warrants special mention. About a year ago, verhovsky showed up out of nowhere. He rewrote the core of…” | ||
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