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| 391. | Show HN: Lisp in C# (github.com) | |
| 144 points | 2024 | author codr7 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm afraid I've been out of the C# loop too long to know what's fast and what isn't these days. Now that maybe I have the attention of some serious C# nerds, any…” | ||
| 392. | Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024 (sleepeasy.app) | |
| 143 points | 2024 | author s3cur3 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've not been compensated by the Petal Pro devs at all. I've interacted with them exactly twice—once in support and once to submit the world's tiniest PR. I'm just a…” | ||
| 393. | Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 141 points | 2024 | author yoble showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I was wondering why I was seeing plenty of people from github on my meditation website so I checked HN, hi! Happy to answer any question you might have, and feel free to…” | ||
| 394. | Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip (righto.com) | |
| 141 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about ferroelectric RAM...” | ||
| 395. | Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS (9elements.com) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author molily showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. When I say absolute positioning, I mean it in the CSS sense (as in position: absolute) to contrast it with CSS Normal Flow, Flexbox, Grid, Floats…” | ||
| 396. | Rewriting Rust: A Response (gavinhoward.com) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author gavinhoward showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, you shouldn't believe it yet, but here is the status of each: "As powerful as C": unproven. I might need something like Rust's `unsafe`, and even though I have…” | ||
| 397. | How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) (alice.bsky.sh) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author __justplaying showed up | their comment | thread
“should you have questions!” | ||
| 398. | Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) (pncnmnp.github.io) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author pncnmnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I kinda wanna share another story about Dijkstra that I've always found interesting: I was wondering if anyone on HN took his course and could share their experience?” | ||
| 399. | Online censorship's institutional power (madattheinternet.substack.com) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author JoshuaMoon showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, my choice of pronoun was deliberate. I will allow you to determine why. In regards to the litigation, your interpretation is wrong. The main reason why the default…” | ||
| 400. | The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere (tangramvision.com) | |
| 139 points | 2024 | author ChickenSando showed up | their comment | thread
“Quaternions and SLERP are absolutely a fundamental part of 3D vision (and game development too). However, I wanted to focus this post mainly on the question "why is…” | ||
| 401. | Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet (blog.dhsdevelopments.com) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author lokedhs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Kap is inspired by APL which was very popular back in the day (70's and 80's), and has remained popular within certain segments. There is still enough interest in it to…” | ||
| 402. | Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis (blog.osm-ai.net) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author osm3000 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Wow! I didn't expect that! I love these discussions and comments :) I will do my best to go through all of them :) Cheers everyone” | ||
| 403. | Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe (louisabraham.github.io) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author Labo333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It was such a power trip and blissful experience to discover the game on HN, think about a strategy, implement a solution, write a blog post (thanks again to orlp for…” | ||
| 404. | Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical (blog.pgvecto.rs) | |
| 138 points | 2024 | author VoVAllen showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“I actually think the opposite of what you mentioned. IVF is more suitable for prefiltering compared to HNSW. For prefiltering in HNSW, there is a certain requirement for…” | ||
| 405. | Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn? (tedium.co) | |
| 137 points | 2024 | author shortformblog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You seem to be intentionally conflating the ability to post a link with my critique of how LinkedIn affects its reach through the algorithm. To be clear: Your links will…” | ||
| 406. | Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement (stripe.com) | |
| 135 points | 2024 | author ilganeli showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I am the author. Thank you for the comment. While Stripe does love to write, I think our core premise here was that being able to reason mathematically about…” | ||
| 407. | Revy – proof-of-concept time-travel debugger for the Bevy game engine (github.com) | |
| 135 points | 2024 | author teh_cmc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything!” | ||
| 408. | Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 135 points | 2024 | author michae2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We've spent the past year adding read committed isolation to CockroachDB. There were many interesting design decisions, such as: - whether to use multiple snapshots or a…” | ||
| 409. | A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) (oilshell.org) | |
| 135 points | 2024 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It's an old name for an old concept :) See the previous post The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, especially the appendix with some history The name was…” | ||
| 410. | Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 (jerpint.io) | |
| 135 points | 2024 | author jerpint showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“all the code to reproduce this is actually all on the huggingface space here [1]” | ||
| 411. | Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023) (jcarroll.com.au) | |
| 134 points | 2024 | author jonocarroll showed up | their comment | thread
“still getting over the first time I've seen one of my own posts on this site) The many recommendations for J here are a great nudge for me to give it a proper go. I've…” | ||
| 412. | Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components (mux.com) | |
| 134 points | 2024 | author dylanjha showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the problem might be more around bureaucracy mixed with bad & buggy code than it is a specific problem with web components. Can you expand on that?” | ||
| 413. | The PlanetScale vectors public beta (planetscale.com) | |
| 133 points | 2024 | author tanoku showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors of this feature. It's something quite novel, because it's not just a HNSW plug-in for MySQL (like e.g. pgvector is for Postgres). It's a fully…” | ||
| 414. | The math exams of my life (andreinc.net) | |
| 132 points | 2024 | author nomemory showed up | their comment | thread
“it's probably what I did, but i am sure i also had to memorize quite a few radicals, and also multiplying numbers up to 40X40 + other tricks to multiply fast.” | ||
| 415. | OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon (hiandrewquinn.github.io) | |
| 132 points | 2024 | author hiAndrewQuinn showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah, as I've learned more about OpenBSD I've realized that, while "don't fix it if it ain't broken" is still a valid claim about their overall approach, the OpenBSD…” | ||
| 416. | Python Has Too Many Package Managers (dublog.net) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author LarsDu88 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“wait, what? I believe pip (or at least older versions of pip) makes it possible to have cycles. Are you analyzing dep graphs made with older versions of pip?” | ||
| 417. | Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 (righto.com) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 418. | Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from? (blog.poisson.chat) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author syrak showed up | their comment | thread
“It's funny you mention this. I was (am still) writing a post about it, and I went on a rant that while it's a (fun!) way to do "algebra with types", it's not actually…” | ||
| 419. | Security Is a Useless Controls Problem (securityis.substack.com) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author too_pricey showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm excited to see this get attention here. I'll be responding to folks' comments where I feel like I have something to add, but please let me know if you have any…” | ||
| 420. | On Writing Well (zodvik.com) | |
| 130 points | 2024 | author zodvik showed up | their comment | thread
“TIL about the book. For reference” | ||
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