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| 61. | Vector databases are the wrong abstraction (timescale.com) | |
| 493 points | 2024 | author cevian showed up | their comment | thread
“We automatically retry on failures in a while. We also log error messages in the worker (self-hosted) and have clear indicators in the cloud UI that something went wrong…” | ||
| 62. | What I wish someone told me about Postgres (challahscript.com) | |
| 487 points | 2024 | author hibachrach showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“hmm it seems to work on my device. Are you scrolling within the code block?” | ||
| 63. | The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (righto.com) | |
| 484 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your obscure Pentium questions...” | ||
| 64. | Query Apple's FindMy network with Python (github.com) | |
| 483 points | 2024 | author malmeloo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! I'm the author of FindMy.py. I'd like to use this moment to give a shout-out to some other people that deserve way more credit than me, as the project…” | ||
| 65. | Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (bandysc.github.io) | |
| 482 points | 2024 | author bandysc showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I built everything from scratch. It supports only a subset of VB6 so it wasn't difficult or long. I wrote an interpreter for VB6 code” | ||
| 66. | Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (maragu.dev) | |
| 479 points | 2024 | author markusw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Well, it has worked pretty well for me so far, so I don't know why I would switch. Go is fast and expressive enough for my use, and it's probably outweighed by being…” | ||
| 67. | A* tricks for videogame path finding (timmastny.com) | |
| 478 points | 2024 | author tmastny showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a cool idea, I hadn't thought of that! It doesn't quite work in the current implementation, but would with some small tweaks. Basically we would need to have the…” | ||
| 68. | 2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution (sassnow.ski) | |
| 476 points | 2024 | author ksassnowski showed up | their comment | thread
“To give some context, this is only part one in a series of blog posts I plan on writing about rigid body physics. The post is aimed at people like myself, who aren't…” | ||
| 69. | Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades (tuwien.at) | |
| 475 points | 2024 | author drakebake showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm one of the authors on the paper and see that people are curious about things. I'm happy to answer any questions, cool to find this here!” | ||
| 70. | Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition (discrete.openmathbooks.org) | |
| 471 points | 2024 | author oscarlevin showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it's worth, deciding what percentage of the exercises should have solutions is a continual challenge. I chose to use a lot of interactive exercises (thanks to…” | ||
| 71. | 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (jdan.github.io) | |
| 471 points | 2024 | author prezjordan showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to see this posted again! This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently” | ||
| 72. | Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better (gkogan.co) | |
| 470 points | 2024 | author gk1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Unlikely. You can see why in these two examples that really happened: One user I spoke with said they assumed "queries per second" is calculated by (number of searches)…” | ||
| 73. | GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much (iter.ca) | |
| 465 points | 2024 | author smitop showed up | their comment | thread
“I removed the background.” | ||
| 74. | What can LLMs never do? (strangeloopcanon.com) | |
| 460 points | 2024 | author marquisdepolis showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I tried creating something similar in order to solve wordle etc, and the interesting part is that it is insufficient still. That's part of the mystery.” | ||
| 75. | Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs (leviathansecurity.com) | |
| 446 points | 2024 | author morattisec showed up | their comment | thread
“the intention was to provide a primer of the topics since we figured this would draw people from a nontechnical background too. That and half the information on the…” | ||
| 76. | Make Firefox Private Again (make-firefox-private-again.com) | |
| 445 points | 2024 | author eloy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! I just thought it was fun to make kind of a polyglot shell script-blog post :D "yeah but you could serve a different page with the curl UA" ok, then you just…” | ||
| 77. | Testing the F-35C Tailhook (the-engi-nerd.github.io) | |
| 443 points | 2024 | author euler_angles showed up | their comment | thread
“Did not expect to see this on HN at all. Just an engineering war story I shared.” | ||
| 78. | Keep Out – WebGL Game (playkeepout.com) | |
| 442 points | 2024 | author guigui showed up | their comment | thread
“not sure why this is posted today as this project is from 2015, but feel free check out our latest WebGL project if you liked Keep Out: EDIT: thanks for all the great…” | ||
| 79. | Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine (mitpress.mit.edu) | |
| 440 points | 2024 | author chaimgingold showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote this book. Ask me anything. I also was a designer on Spore. I'm also trying to feed my 8 month old lunch and he is very excited to asn``wer anything too.” | ||
| 80. | I sent an Ethernet packet (github.com) | |
| 426 points | 2024 | author fstokesman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the reason is pretty underwhelming: These are the parts I had on hand when I decided to start on the project. Using a chip with a builtin Ethernet peripheral would…” | ||
| 81. | CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished (fossil-scm.org) | |
| 422 points | 2024 | author SQLite showed up | their comment | thread
“My title was imprecise and unclear. I didn't mean that you should raise errors if CRLF is used as a line terminator in (for example) HTTP, only that a bare NL should be…” | ||
| 82. | Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' (corelatus.com) | |
| 417 points | 2024 | author matthiasl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yep, 44 is the UK country code. The problem I got stuck on is that the rest of the number, 1831, didn't make sense. I assumed the number was complete, since it had the…” | ||
| 83. | Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023) (eieio.games) | |
| 415 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment | thread
“If Recurse sounds fun and magical to you - it is! And you should consider applying :). You can always defer your acceptance until the timing works out. It's free (they…” | ||
| 84. | Examples of Great URL Design (2023) (blog.jim-nielsen.com) | |
| 415 points | 2024 | author jimniels showed up | their comment | thread
“There are so many great additional examples of intriguing URL patterns in the comments here. TY everyone for sharing ones you remember!” | ||
| 85. | Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s (ceph.io) | |
| 411 points | 2024 | author markhpc showed up | their comment | thread
“Large reads tend to require the least CPU of all of the tests that we ran in the post. This is especially true in a 3X replication scenario where reads are serviced by a…” | ||
| 86. | Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io) | |
| 410 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer take any feedback and answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 87. | A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker (syscalls.mebeim.net) | |
| 407 points | 2024 | author mebeim showed up | their comment | thread
“The website will not work with JS disabled simply because it's a static HTML "skeleton" page loading JSON tables with JS and populating a <table> element. If it's…” | ||
| 88. | Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine (github.com) | |
| 406 points | 2024 | author kcorbitt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes it often confidently declares success when it clearly hasn't performed the task, and should have enough information from the screenshots to know that. I'm somewhat…” | ||
| 89. | Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance (github.com) | |
| 406 points | 2024 | author pretzelhammer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I believe I generated both of those images using the Rust lib, they shouldn't be used for comparing the compression performance of the JS lib vs the Rust lib.” | ||
| 90. | 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 (matt.blwt.io) | |
| 404 points | 2024 | author mble_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than…” | ||
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