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| 31. | Get me out of data hell (ludic.mataroa.blog) | |
| 698 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“You are exactly correct. Everything was so heavily interwoven that it was impossible to tell what would happen downstream without making an edit and then tracking the…” | ||
| 32. | My second year without a job (shilin.ca) | |
| 688 points | 2024 | author true_pk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. You are very much on point. I only recently started looking for part-time jobs, and perhaps I should have mentioned it in the post. It's precisely what…” | ||
| 33. | Sit. (sonnet.io) | |
| 686 points | 2024 | author rpastuszak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I 100% agree, don't obsess about the tools, do whatever works for you. I use the app mainly for meditation and despite having decades of experience I tend to lose the…” | ||
| 34. | Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (quantamagazine.org) | |
| 669 points | 2024 | author davidbessis showed up | their comment | thread
“Interestingly, the 100m metaphor is extensively discussed in my book, where I explain why it should rather lead to the exact opposite of your conclusion. The situation…” | ||
| 35. | Portable EPUBs (willcrichton.net) | |
| 659 points | 2024 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“I wished SingleFile would use less permissions, but it's unforntunately not possible from a technical point of view. Anyway, if you run some code I've written but are…” | ||
| 36. | I quit my job to work full time on my open source project (ellie.wtf) | |
| 637 points | 2024 | author ellieh showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here, thanks for sharing cwaffles Happy to answer any questions :)” | ||
| 37. | A search engine in 80 lines of Python (alexmolas.com) | |
| 634 points | 2024 | author alexmolas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If I wanted a catchy title for the post I needed to cut the number of LOC as much as possible;) Joking apart, thanks for your feedback. I agree that usually it's better…” | ||
| 38. | Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent (rknight.me) | |
| 626 points | 2024 | author rknightuk showed up | their comment | thread
“The page I asked it to summarize was posted after I implemented all blocking on the server (and robots.txt). So they should not have had any cached data.” | ||
| 39. | SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases (sqlitestudio.pl) | |
| 626 points | 2024 | author googie showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm surprised and honored to have my pet project here ;) As mentioned in another comment, I'm currently in the process of bugfixing/polishing 3.4.x branch. Then I will…” | ||
| 40. | Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law (amazingcto.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author KingOfCoders showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a fan of second-order thinking and unintended consequences, so I'm with you there. How would you frame a "don't track people without consent" without unintended…” | ||
| 41. | How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop (unterminated.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author tfvlrue showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Seeing how difficult it was to get a reliable OCR transcription with commercial software from a pristine, computer-generated representation of the text, I suspect trying…” | ||
| 42. | Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 607 points | 2024 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Seeing all of the positive comments about my book is really warming my heart. I appreciate everyone and I'm glad so many people have enjoyed the book. I put a ton of…” | ||
| 43. | Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019) (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 596 points | 2024 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this post five years ago. Since then, my conviction in the value of customizable software has only grown, but I've also updated my thinking in a few ways: 1) AI…” | ||
| 44. | Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check (berthub.eu) | |
| 593 points | 2024 | author ahubert showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“if you have any questions, please do let me know!” | ||
| 45. | Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA (nullpt.rs) | |
| 580 points | 2024 | author blackjackfoe showed up | their comment | thread
“Interestingly, the email registration/time-limit was added after I started this project, but before I told anyone about it.” | ||
| 46. | A Git story: Not so fun this time (blog.brachiosoft.com) | |
| 578 points | 2024 | author eliangcs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's a good catch, thanks! I've replaced it with a newer screenshot from August 2008.” | ||
| 47. | S3 is files, but not a filesystem (calpaterson.com) | |
| 571 points | 2024 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment | thread
“I can't reply to the GP because that comment is "dead" but yes, please, be specific! Then I can fix the sentences that are bad and perhaps also improve in the future.” | ||
| 48. | Using an 8K TV as a Monitor (daniel.lawrence.lu) | |
| 562 points | 2024 | author dllu showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my…” | ||
| 49. | The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) (interactionmagic.com) | |
| 562 points | 2024 | author george_cave showed up | their comment | thread
“You're on Android I think, based on the other comments here? I only have an iPhone to test, but I can pinch+expand the site on my phone no problem. Was not intentional…” | ||
| 50. | Advantages of incompetent management (yosefk.com) | |
| 543 points | 2024 | author yosefk showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm simultaneously quite pessimistic about, and very interested in heterodox organizational structures and especially real-world stories about them. I feel that failure…” | ||
| 51. | Does current AI represent a dead end? (bcs.org) | |
| 543 points | 2024 | author EerkeBoiten showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Nope, that is not my concern about humans in the loop. My concern on that is that any human in the loop has to reconstruct by themselves from the inputs whether the…” | ||
| 52. | AWS data center latencies, visualized (benjdd.com) | |
| 529 points | 2024 | author bddicken showed up | their comment (+13 more) | thread
“This is great feedback, thanks.” | ||
| 53. | I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension (alexgarcia.xyz) | |
| 526 points | 2024 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions! This is more of a "I'm working on a new project" rather than an official release, the extension itself is still a work-in-progress. A link…” | ||
| 54. | SQLite Schema Diagram Generator (gitlab.com) | |
| 523 points | 2024 | author thristian showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't bother submitting this to HN because I figured it would be too niche and trivial to get much attention. Evidently I was wrong!” | ||
| 55. | How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? (bxt.rs) | |
| 521 points | 2024 | author YaLTeR showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad you enjoyed the post! I don't have any results for Windows or macOS yet unfortunately. I wanted to run these tests on Windows eventually, and include things like…” | ||
| 56. | WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport (rxdb.info) | |
| 518 points | 2024 | author realPubkey showed up | their comment | thread
“The article is mostly about web apps. How would your signaling server emit new connection updates to clients in the scenario you describe?” | ||
| 57. | YC: Requests for Startups (ycombinator.com) | |
| 514 points | 2024 | author siyinghz showed up | their comment | thread
“We like to back strong technical founders, and some may be interested in working in AR/VR like I did years ago. You are right that the software is lacking which is more…” | ||
| 58. | Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 510 points | 2024 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a long, drawn-out project. For some context, I ordered the replacement regulators in February. The new LED driver chips were ordered in March, so that was…” | ||
| 59. | Bollards: Why and What (josh.works) | |
| 504 points | 2024 | author wonder_er showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Didn't find out until just a few minutes ago that this recent, random, draft post ended up on the HN front page. Huzzah. Absolutely not, not even close. I'm suggesting…” | ||
| 60. | We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs (publish.obsidian.md) | |
| 495 points | 2024 | author felarof showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“sorry for the delay in replying, was stuck in back-to-back meetings) I updated our github repo to include GPU, VRAM utilization data () Note: we couldn't run the…” | ||
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