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| 241. | Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (the.scapegoat.dev) | |
| 217 points | 2022 | author larve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’m not a song writer but I do have a fair amount of background in jazz and some metal, and while jazz requires a lot of practice to internalize music theory, and both…” | ||
| 242. | Documenting Sony Memory Stick (dmitry.gr) | |
| 216 points | 2022 | author dmitrygr showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if you have questions” | ||
| 243. | Time.gif (2017) (hookrace.net) | |
| 216 points | 2022 | author def- showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“my bad. There was a DoS attack against this a while ago and I set too strict limits after that. Didn't expect it to hit Hacker News again. Should be fine now.” | ||
| 244. | HTTP Feeds (http-feeds.org) | |
| 214 points | 2022 | author aiobe showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of http-feeds.org. Thank you for your feedback. For this spec I aimed to keep it as simple as possible. And plain polling-based JSON Endpoints are…” | ||
| 245. | Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and string representations (sudhir.io) | |
| 213 points | 2022 | author sudhirj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“self-posted. AMA.” | ||
| 246. | I don't need a VPS anymore (greenash.net.au) | |
| 213 points | 2022 | author jaza showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“A big part of why I'm saying "I don't need a VPS anymore", is because I'm also saying "I don't need dynamic sites anymore". I've been building dynamic sites for two…” | ||
| 247. | My macOS keyboard shortcuts (jamieonkeys.dev) | |
| 213 points | 2022 | author donbrae showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Programmer notation: I just mean it more or less as ‘whichever key’.” | ||
| 248. | Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitHub Copilot (surgehq.ai) | |
| 212 points | 2022 | author echen showed up | their comment | thread
“Agree with both you and the parent here! We work a lot in the NLP and Trust & Safety space, and many of the models and datasets we see do ignore context -- and so…” | ||
| 249. | Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus (theregister.com) | |
| 212 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“He does amazing work. I did a little profile piece on him a few months ago:” | ||
| 250. | Attacking Firecracker: AWS' MicroVM Monitor Written in Rust (graplsecurity.com) | |
| 212 points | 2022 | author chompie showed up | their comment | thread
“I walk through the process of developing the exploit and primitives, and was upfront that I ran into a mitigation which thwarted my exploit strategy. Similar to other…” | ||
| 251. | When to use Bazel? (earthly.dev) | |
| 212 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to get my head wrapped around when Bazel was an excellent build solution, so I interviewed six people with a lot of Bazel experience and picked their brains.…” | ||
| 252. | Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog (docs.microblog.pub) | |
| 212 points | 2022 | author tsileo showed up | their comment | thread
“I see the confusion, I tweaked the README to remove that claim. But I indeed meant "no external dependencies like postgres/redis..".” | ||
| 253. | In the 1990s a piece of Germany’s air traffic control software ran on Emacs (old.reddit.com) | |
| 211 points | 2022 | author cdegroot showed up | their comment | thread
“C worked on VMS but it was not a good match. VMS used complex data structures and async for kernel comms ($QIO) and the C standard library was built with other…” | ||
| 254. | I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX (commutative.xyz) | |
| 210 points | 2022 | author miguelmurca showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. This is a cool idea for a vector implementation, but you still need to work around the fact that the command definition can come after the \get” | ||
| 255. | Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published (zenodo.org) | |
| 210 points | 2022 | author mfranzen showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot for your feedback! We will make sure to clarify on the apartment_id field in the next version. The apartment id is actually the unique id for an apartment…” | ||
| 256. | In defense of complicated programming languages (viralinstruction.com) | |
| 209 points | 2022 | author jakobnissen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Indeed, when I tested off my idea on a friend, his first response what "But what is complexity? Is J a complex language? What about assembly?". It can get tricky once…” | ||
| 257. | Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers (github.com) | |
| 209 points | 2022 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't done much with the code in about 3 years. But I still have lots of plans for it. The big thing is I want to write my own UDP protocol for it. It'll be similar…” | ||
| 258. | TinyBIOS – A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun (github.com) | |
| 209 points | 2022 | author pwk4m1 showed up | their comment | thread
“there's indeed no relation at all between the projects apart from my unfortunate choice of name for my project.” | ||
| 259. | Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series (blog.gruntwork.io) | |
| 208 points | 2022 | author brikis98 showed up | their comment | thread
“I tried to answer your question in the first two paragraphs. But to add some context, given the nature of my work, I hear from developers on a nearly daily basis who are…” | ||
| 260. | IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers (medium.com) | |
| 208 points | 2022 | author katsi111 showed up | their comment | thread
“What problem we are solving at IKEA exactly is something I plan to write next about, once we get some numbers in from AB testing etc. We are not there yet to share…” | ||
| 261. | Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing (pilabor.com) | |
| 208 points | 2022 | author sandreas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did (personally). CD: The Weeknd - The Highlights Drive: Pioneer BDR-XD05TB (not listed in my article) Accurate Rip reported errors on 3 Tracks. Ripping with hp GUE1N…” | ||
| 262. | Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II (antonhowes.substack.com) | |
| 207 points | 2022 | author antonhowes showed up | their comment | thread
“I mention this in Part I to link to a prior piece specifically on Ayanz, as this is hugely misunderstood. Ayanz’s machine only used the expansive force of steam, while…” | ||
| 263. | Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C (github.com) | |
| 206 points | 2022 | author alcover showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Thank you. The license will come but I have a harder time understanding them than pointers haha.” | ||
| 264. | We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work (blog.interviewing.io) | |
| 206 points | 2022 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, the skills are left to the interpretation of the interviewer, but most of our interviewers are senior engineers at FAANG. We've done quite a bit of work internally…” | ||
| 265. | Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker (webapp.io) | |
| 204 points | 2022 | author colinchartier showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The three big differences are: 1. Docker doesn't deal with running processes (like postgres or redis), only the filesystem state 2. Docker doesn't have enough isolation,…” | ||
| 266. | Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust) (jless.io) | |
| 202 points | 2022 | author CodeIsTheEnd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“When I originally submitted it, it didn't get a lot of traction (it got on the front-page via the second chance pool a couple days later), and I definitely regretted not…” | ||
| 267. | The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child (morganya.org) | |
| 200 points | 2022 | author morganya showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Apologies that my website host hasn't been able to handle the traffic generated by this - I'm working on fixing that. But I'd be happy to answer questions! I'll be able…” | ||
| 268. | Painless desktop containers for everyday development (dock.orion3.space) | |
| 200 points | 2022 | author smoochy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“folks. If you have any questions that you're too lazy to email - I'll be checking on this thread for the next couple of hours.” | ||
| 269. | Show HN: A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code (gist.github.com) | |
| 200 points | 2022 | author p4bl0 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The language is intentionally very simple indeed, because the goal is to showcase all indispensable steps of a complete compiler. I initially wrote it for my students as…” | ||
| 270. | How to start a successful freelance business as a software developer (2017) (nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 199 points | 2022 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for submitting this. If anyone has any questions about anything let me know. The post is meant to be a getting started guide. Beyond answering questions here I'd…” | ||
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