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| 1. | Costs of running a macOS app studio business (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 677 points | 2023 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a tricky question to answer. I wrote Lunar v1 in 2017, and it was fully free for 4 years, but those years were essential for the app to mature and get a good…” | ||
| 2. | Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading (incident.io) | |
| 653 points | 2023 | author lawrjone showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for posting! Lots of stuff in this from profiling Go compilations, building a hot-reloader, using AI to analyse the build dataset, etc. We concluded that it was…” | ||
| 3. | Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) (english.stackexchange.com) | |
| 504 points | 2023 | author jaspax showed up | their comment | thread
“and I believe that this is the top-voted thing that I ever posted on any StackExchange site. It was a lovely surprise to see it here today, and I hope that everyone else…” | ||
| 4. | Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs (github.com) | |
| 377 points | 2023 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It does make use of mmap(). I worked on adding mmap() support to llama.cpp back in March, specifically so I could build things like Emacs Copilot. See: Recently I've…” | ||
| 5. | Non-interactive SSH password authentication (vincent.bernat.ch) | |
| 270 points | 2023 | author vbernat showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't claim sshpass is "broken by design". I claim it is brittle as it relies on the detection of a password prompt. passh author has several examples here:.” | ||
| 6. | PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements (patrick.engineering) | |
| 238 points | 2023 | author ppati000 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you (and others) for mentioning SELECT FOR UPDATE. Definitely missing at least a footnote in the article. Note that "one step" updates (e.g., SET followers_count =…” | ||
| 7. | GitHub Snakes SVG (github.com) | |
| 205 points | 2023 | author platane showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting!” | ||
| 8. | OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App (osmapp.org) | |
| 200 points | 2023 | author zbycz showed up | their comment | thread
“OsmAPP is my take on creating a universal OpenStreetMap app for broad public. It should be as easy to use as Google Maps, including clickable POIs and featuring as much…” | ||
| 9. | Ottopot, a sophisticated DIY MIDI controller (gerotakke.de) | |
| 156 points | 2023 | author gero_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing this. I'm in the process of making a introduction video for it but it's going to take a while. In the meantime, I uploaded this short snippet for…” | ||
| 10. | Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip (righto.com) | |
| 148 points | 2023 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“-) This is a change of pace from my x86 stuff, just a quick look at a 1982 Ethernet chip that unexpectedly used a second layer of polysilicon for resistors.” | ||
| 11. | Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware (devever.net) | |
| 136 points | 2023 | author hlandau-travel showed up | their comment | thread
“This is finally being given as a talk by me tomorrow at 37C3. I've wanted to give this as a talk for many years at CCC, but CCC's long hiatus got in the way. This will…” | ||
| 12. | Was BASIC that horrible or better? (retrofun.pl) | |
| 132 points | 2023 | author ikari_pl showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought my wordpress stats are broken, when instead of the usual 3-10 vitits it showed 3800 :'). Thank you. A personal background: writing this article was fun! I…” | ||
| 13. | Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming (theregister.com) | |
| 126 points | 2023 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“No. This is what happens when one of a dozen press releases I get every day, all containing loads of hype, has a few buzzwords I recognise from pre-Windows pre-Mac…” | ||
| 14. | Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now (github.com) | |
| 124 points | 2023 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“For additional context, please read The loading time performance has been a huge win for usability, and folks have been having the most wonderful reactions after using…” | ||
| 15. | What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 123 points | 2023 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“please get in touch (contacts are available via blog) if you want to discuss further.” | ||
| 16. | Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote (maya.land) | |
| 122 points | 2023 | author kixiQu showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“(A woman.) I think a fair criticism of my post might be that it was written in a moment of obvious annoyance, and failed to spend enough time connecting the griping…” | ||
| 17. | Do you really need foreign keys? (shayon.dev) | |
| 117 points | 2023 | author shayonj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! The author here. I appreciate your reply here and in few other threads for this post too. I think they are very well thought out. I also like how it brewed more…” | ||
| 18. | Counterfactual Regret Minimisation or How I won any money in Poker? (rnikhil.com) | |
| 117 points | 2023 | author whoami_nr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, you can still make money in online Poker. Its not as juicy as it was and rake is very high these days making micro stakes unbeatable. Moreover, highest stakes…” | ||
| 19. | Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate (drewdevault.com) | |
| 103 points | 2023 | author drewdevault showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have used Prusas, as well as many other 3D printers. I know how they are distinguished from the rest. The thing is, there really isn't much of a difference between an…” | ||
| 20. | I got robbed of my first kernel contribution (ariel-miculas.github.io) | |
| 100 points | 2023 | author ariel-miculas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've forwarded the original email thread for those curious about additional context:” | ||