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| 1. | The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games) | |
| 2365 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the best story I've ever been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have cried so many times thinking and…” | ||
| 2. | Equinox.space (equinox.space) | |
| 1639 points | 2024 | author guigui showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions! Some background info on the project:” | ||
| 3. | Mario meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io) | |
| 1583 points | 2024 | author superMayo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm using Svelte, which is great for interactive applications. For the event handling I'm very influenced by what does. The 3d plot is made with Threejs through the…” | ||
| 4. | Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero (saveflipper.ca) | |
| 1496 points | 2024 | author gepeto42 showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone just told me we were on the HackerNews front page, made me happy we just went with a static website on GitHub pages. I will go through the comments later, but…” | ||
| 5. | Spreadsheets are all you need (spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai) | |
| 1493 points | 2024 | author ianand showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, Jeremy Howard and fast.ai was one of the inspirations for this! I'd actually be curious what he thinks of the project if he ever sees it.” | ||
| 6. | Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games) | |
| 1484 points | 2024 | author darthdeus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“sorry about that, I just deployed a fix, should be readable now. If it's not, here's the first few points - Once you get good at Rust all of these problems will go away…” | ||
| 7. | Is My Blue Your Blue? (ismy.blue) | |
| 1426 points | 2024 | author pminimax showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I added fields so you can specify your first language (relevant link:) and colorblindness. FAQ: * I can't know your monitor's calibration, your ambient light, or your…” | ||
| 8. | An NFC movie library for my kids (simplyexplained.com) | |
| 1384 points | 2024 | author xafke showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie…” | ||
| 9. | Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript (github.com) | |
| 1204 points | 2024 | author satanacchio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I'm the author of the PR, AMA” | ||
| 10. | Is something bugging you? (antithesis.com) | |
| 1179 points | 2024 | author wwilson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry it was vague, but there's only so much detail you can go into in a blog post aimed at general audiences. Our documentation () has a lot more info. Here's my…” | ||
| 11. | The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (predr.ag) | |
| 1147 points | 2024 | author obi1kenobi showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“Among other things, it's a distance problem -- WiFi can go through walls when the router is right there. But distance attenuates the signal as distance squared, and in…” | ||
| 12. | My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1071 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As always, I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 13. | Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io) | |
| 1027 points | 2024 | author martz showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, basically all of what you said. I've edited the post.” | ||
| 14. | Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML (leanrada.com) | |
| 1020 points | 2024 | author Kalabasa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“to be honest I have no idea” | ||
| 15. | I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1016 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions about this post, the sale process, or my time running TinyPilot.” | ||
| 16. | Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (quantamagazine.org) | |
| 993 points | 2024 | author kuldeepmeel showed up | their comment | thread
“We have a follow-up work (admittedly, more technical) that can remove reliance on m completely: But yes, our theorems can be reworked to estimate the confidence/error…” | ||
| 17. | Please don't mention AI again (ludic.mataroa.blog) | |
| 968 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Someone sent me this comment this morning (along with a note saying: "I am not afraid of you") and it absolutely sent me. Probably because he knows I am of exactly…” | ||
| 18. | The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (righto.com) | |
| 930 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for all your NFC chip questions :-)” | ||
| 19. | After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018) (anandsanwal.me) | |
| 880 points | 2024 | author asanwal showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is a big question tbh and the lack of a succession plan is a function of many things: 1. This was my dad's baby. He loved the engineering and the science of it and…” | ||
| 20. | After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days (observationalhazard.com) | |
| 866 points | 2024 | author WoodenChair showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually discovered something in their terms of use today while looking up something else that someone had asked me in this thread: "2. CHANGES Yelp reserves the right…” | ||
| 21. | Our audit of Homebrew (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 845 points | 2024 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this post and one of the people behind the audit; happy to answer questions about it. If you're having trouble finding the audit itself (it's linked…” | ||
| 22. | One-man SaaS, 9 Years In (blog.healthchecks.io) | |
| 828 points | 2024 | author cuu508 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think most new signups are through traffic from search engines and through word of mouth, Healthchecks.io gets regular mentions in Reddit /r/selfhosted. I've dabbled…” | ||
| 23. | The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 (lwn.net) | |
| 817 points | 2024 | author jzb showed up | their comment | thread
“Users new to KDE don't know what's up with the feature. They miss a window and suddenly they're on a different virtual desktop. If they connect the behavior they may…” | ||
| 24. | Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely (github.com) | |
| 816 points | 2024 | author lotharrr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 25. | Frosted glass from games to the web (tyleo.com) | |
| 791 points | 2024 | author tyleo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 26. | Web Browser Engineering (2021) (browser.engineering) | |
| 770 points | 2024 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions!” | ||
| 27. | Exercises to Learn Rust (rust-exercises.com) | |
| 752 points | 2024 | author LukeMathWalker showed up | their comment | thread
“To be fair, there is no particular backstory. I picked a hermit crab as the book logo since crabs are strongly associated with Rust due to Ferris, Rust's mascot. I then…” | ||
| 28. | Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software (alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 730 points | 2024 | author alin23 showed up | their comment | thread
“Don't worry, I'm well aware that what I can create currently can't be sold :) what I can currently do is like an MVP in wood, I cut a lot of corners (literally) just to…” | ||
| 29. | How I keep myself alive using Golang (bytesizego.com) | |
| 726 points | 2024 | author mattboyle showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article- I’m very aware of Dexcom and it doesn’t have all this out the box” | ||
| 30. | The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development (pikuma.com) | |
| 700 points | 2024 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing the blog post on HN; it was a nice surprise to see it in the first page.” | ||
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