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| 271. | PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet (ericdaigle.ca) | |
| 195 points | 2024 | author e_daigle showed up | their comment | thread
“the exploit is so simple it kind of speaks for itself, but if anyone has any questions feel free.” | ||
| 272. | Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (seanmoriarity.com) | |
| 194 points | 2024 | author seanmor5 showed up | their comment | thread
“All of the chapters are done, but there are still some minor updates as APIs change. It should be going to production soon” | ||
| 273. | Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM (christopher.engineering) | |
| 193 points | 2024 | author llcoolchris_ showed up | their comment | thread
“I knew about F# since my university days and I'm guilty for not really dig into it except for toys projects. I worked in many companies and most of them were Microsoft…” | ||
| 274. | Playing guitar tablatures in Rust (agourlay.github.io) | |
| 193 points | 2024 | author agourlay showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 275. | Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust (pnut.sh) | |
| 193 points | 2024 | author laurenth showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Because all shell variables in code generated by pnut are numbers, variables never contain whitespace or special characters and don't need to be quoted. We considered…” | ||
| 276. | The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023) (righto.com) | |
| 193 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“P.S. there are two more parts to the series, going into more details on the Globus, explaining the circuitry and the "algorithms":” | ||
| 277. | Losing faith in testing (registerspill.thorstenball.com) | |
| 192 points | 2024 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I worked at Sourcegraph and I do think we built some high-quality stuff and we did write tests. I also think a lot of them were necessary. But, like I wrote here,…” | ||
| 278. | Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build (nextword.substack.com) | |
| 192 points | 2024 | author nextworddev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I think the tarpit extends to most chatgpt wrappers as well, which is why I called out pivoting prematurely to application layer is a futile exercise.” | ||
| 279. | Jerk (ivanish.ca) | |
| 191 points | 2024 | author spiralganglion showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes that's the point. Tried it on a lark, and it created weird feelings so I leaned into it. This is my personal website, and I've been trying to make it more deeply…” | ||
| 280. | Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch (adam.math.hhu.de) | |
| 191 points | 2024 | author kevinbuzzard showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yes, it was beta tested on many Imperial College London mathematics undergraduates)” | ||
| 281. | How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft (clarkwakeland.com) | |
| 190 points | 2024 | author linebeck showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should clarify the satellite is not running Windows. Instead, it’s running its own custom OS written in C called Flight Software (FSW) specifically designed for the…” | ||
| 282. | Common misconceptions about compilers (sbaziotis.com) | |
| 190 points | 2024 | author baziotis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm really happy the article has gotten such attention. I hope it's good attention and that you folks learned something! Unfortunately, though, it's _very_ hard to keep…” | ||
| 283. | Developing inside a virtual machine (blog.disintegrator.dev) | |
| 190 points | 2024 | author disintegrator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for all the tips. I especially like the idea of using ssh from guest to host to enable pbcopy/pbpaste and open. Now I know what all the WSL users experience…” | ||
| 284. | Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab (amoses.dev) | |
| 189 points | 2024 | author amosesdev showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. The yml is from a configuration in Home Assistant. Whenever it received an event from the sensors, it would fire the corresponding POST request (which…” | ||
| 285. | Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022) (notes.alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 187 points | 2024 | author alin23 showed up | their comment | thread
“all monitor vendors are guilty of the same serial problem. It’s not present on all models, and most have transitioned to writing the Alphanumeric Serial Number in the…” | ||
| 286. | OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub (arcprize.org) | |
| 187 points | 2024 | author mikeknoop showed up | their comment | thread
“Which aspects are misleading? How can it be improved?” | ||
| 287. | Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices (assembled.com) | |
| 186 points | 2024 | author johnjwang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, there are certain functions where writing good tests will be difficult for an LLM, but in my experience I've found that the majority of functions that I write don't…” | ||
| 288. | The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020) (sudhir.io) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author sudhirj showed up | their comment | thread
“feels really nice to be HN famous (as defined by your stuff being on front page without you posting it). AMA and feedback welcome I guess. Wanted to write a book on this…” | ||
| 289. | As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production (roblh.substack.com) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author rob_lh showed up | their comment | thread
“In short, no, I wasn't surprised, I just wanted to cover it. I worked in 3D printing, albeit on the polymer side. On the metal side, there's been a lot of progress and…” | ||
| 290. | The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside (righto.com) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8086/8088 questions...” | ||
| 291. | The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres (brandur.org) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author brandur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The behavior of notify with respect to transactions is indeed notable, and definitely a great feature that makes them distinct from pub/sub in other systems. Notifies…” | ||
| 292. | The Software Crisis (wryl.tech) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author wryl showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. I think it's important to address certain aspects of this post that people tend to misunderstand, so I'll just list them here to save myself the effort.…” | ||
| 293. | Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala (mill-build.org) | |
| 185 points | 2024 | author lihaoyi showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Hope you take a look at the project and find it cool. There's a lot of interesting stuff here. In particular, the Video linked on the landing page is a great intros from…” | ||
| 294. | Context Control in Go (zenhorace.dev) | |
| 184 points | 2024 | author chemcube showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey. Author here. Yeah, the Go style guide at Google (the setting for the dcode review) is quite prescriptive. I don't mind labeling things "anti-patterns". It doesn't…” | ||
| 295. | Forced to upgrade (herman.bearblog.dev) | |
| 184 points | 2024 | author HermanMartinus showed up | their comment | thread
“I decided on the 16 since its support lifetime started this year. If I'd gotten the SE (which I seriously considered since it has a more appealing form factor and…” | ||
| 296. | Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal (github.com) | |
| 183 points | 2024 | author tconbeer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for more love for Harlequin. I’ll be checking back and responding to feedback and questions for the next few hours.” | ||
| 297. | Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000% (dolthub.com) | |
| 183 points | 2024 | author zachmu showed up | their comment | thread
“This result is not accurate, mea culpa. The headline should read: errors.Is() is 500% slower. Basically: the critical functions in the benchmark are small enough they…” | ||
| 298. | Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground (muffinman.io) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author stankot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm really glad to see this getting some traction on HN, it is one of those projects that really brings me joy. It is inspired by a project that I saw on HN a while ago.…” | ||
| 299. | GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices (wired.com) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author AfurikanTedoku showed up | their comment | thread
“Here is our pre-print. I am happy to answer questions in this thread. :)” | ||
| 300. | SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties (blog.spawek.com) | |
| 182 points | 2024 | author Spawek showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Elo is commonly used and most gamers understand it. It's nice to be able to show each player their Elo. I love the idea to use per-player embedding and to add a…” | ||
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