151. How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months (figma.com)
298 points | 2024 | author ianvonseggern showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think you ask a good question and I think you frame it well. I agree that, at least for some major decisions - including this one, "it is fundamentally difficult for…”
152. How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor (medium.com)
298 points | 2024 | author binshu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your suggestion! I will definitely go through that article, once I have some time. Just had a quick glance and it looks like there is also a section about…”
153. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet (snats.xyz)
296 points | 2024 | author snats showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, I wasn't expecting this to be at the top of HN, AMA”
154. LiveView Is Best with Svelte (blog.sequin.io)
295 points | 2024 | author _acco showed up | their comment | thread
“We did not. We briefly tried Alpine, which I think is comparable? I think Alpine is cool, but it didn't really stick with the team. I think that's because we were still…”
155. A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (joshtumath.uk)
294 points | 2024 | author joshtumath showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hello I am the author and that was indeed a mistake. Whoops!”
156. Cities need more trees (herman.bearblog.dev)
293 points | 2024 | author HermanMartinus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're correct that very few of them are native. That being said, when comparing to a city with no trees vs a city with non-native trees, I think the latter is still…”
157. Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown (llamaocr.com)
293 points | 2024 | author nutlope showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for sharing & for the kind comments! I built this earlier this week since I wanted a simple API to do OCR – it uses llama 3.2 vision (hosted on together.ai,…”
158. Spectral Ray Tracing (larswander.com)
292 points | 2024 | author lwander showed up | their comment | thread
“Waking up to seeing this on the front page with all the wonderful comments made my day! Thank you for sharing and reading”
159. Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized (arxiv.org)
291 points | 2024 | author protz showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought it'd be helpful to address a few of the points brought up in the various comment threads. 1. This is an academic paper that we posted on arxiv, not a release…”
160. I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL (pinaraf.info)
290 points | 2024 | author pinaraf showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for submitting my article on hackernews. I'll do my best to answer any question.”
161. Does “building in public” work? (laike9m.com)
290 points | 2024 | author laike9m showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm glad to see so many meaningful discussions triggered by this post. Despite raising concerns, overall I still see "building in public" as a positive trend. Like all…”
162. Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP (github.com)
289 points | 2024 | author jpillora showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to send any questions my way”
163. Building a highly-available web service without a database (blog.screenshotbot.io)
287 points | 2024 | author tdrhq showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I agree, the infrastructure required to make this happen eventually gets quite complicated. But the developer experience is what's super simple. If somebody had to take…”
164. A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters (samwho.dev)
286 points | 2024 | author samwho showed up | their comment | thread
“and am happy to answer any questions. :)”
165. Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned (chollinger.com)
286 points | 2024 | author otter-in-a-suit showed up | their comment | thread
“Bitwarden (as much as I appreciate them!) isn't something I self host, since it’s too critical an application for me (similar to email). I pay for 1Password.”
166. Bottle Plotter (vgnotepad.blogspot.com)
285 points | 2024 | author drmacak showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!”
167. A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film (jackw01.github.io)
285 points | 2024 | author jackw01 showed up | their comment | thread
“I was curious about this too since I would have expected most film scanners from the 90s-2000s to use incandescent light sources if high-CRI light was really the way to…”
168. Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? (htmx.org)
284 points | 2024 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“I think htmx is a library using the following definition: - a library you call - a framework calls your code in htmx you add attributes to HTML to "call" htmx, so, from…”
169. Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models (crowsonkb.github.io)
280 points | 2024 | author Birch-san showed up | their comment | thread
“this arch is of course nice for high-resolution synthesis, but there's some other cool stuff worth mentioning.. activations are small! so you can enjoy bigger batch…”
170. Some of us like "interdiff" code review (gist.github.com)
278 points | 2024 | author aseipp showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author and used the phrase "Code review is a pretty good idea, in general" in the opening very specifically, because it used be one of the selling points listed…”
171. Web components are okay (nolanlawson.com)
278 points | 2024 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“I cover this in another post [1], but basically the interop benefits you get on the client just aren't there (yet) on the server. My north star: [1]:”
172. Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri (one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
277 points | 2024 | author kizunajp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the kind words! <Shameless plug> This post is part of a newsletter we write semi-regularly. If you found this interesting, do take a look at our other…”
173. XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (rheaeve.substack.com)
277 points | 2024 | author sihe showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for pointing this out – we switched the examples. (although we also are very bad with timezone math at 2 am.)”
174. Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write (scannedinavian.com)
277 points | 2024 | author shae showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“mclare posted the other half with visualizations: Check it out!”
175. Home Assistant: Three years later (eamonnsullivan.co.uk)
276 points | 2024 | author eamonnsullivan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I cut that out at the last minute, but my feeling is that if you need to use the dashboard, the automation has failed. I put the app on my wife's phone, but she…”
176. Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com)
276 points | 2024 | author jlongster showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the article and the intensity is referring to the level of the light source used in the study to generate the data. See the study explained here: but…”
177. App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) (rogueengine.io)
276 points | 2024 | author BeardScript showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks thunderbong for sharing. I underestimated how much people cared about this. I'm so happy to see everyone sharing their arguments.”
178. A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023) (disruptingjapan.com)
275 points | 2024 | author timoth3y showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author and I'm delighted that people are still interested in this topic. There are a lot of great comments, but I'd like to collect and respond in bulk to…”
179. Useful Uses of cat (two-wrongs.com)
274 points | 2024 | author kqr showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right. Originally I had a much longer excerpt but it got a bit rambly. I overcorrected and cut out too much; I'll see what I can do to fix it. Thanks!”
180. Using SQLite as storage for web server static content (clace.io)
273 points | 2024 | author ajayvk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Clace is built for one specific use case: internal web apps, to run locally or on a shared server, for use by a team. Clace is not a general purpose web server. It is an…”