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| 241. | We build X.509 chains so you don't have to (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 221 points | 2024 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“I looked at NIST's PKITS while building the test suite. We ultimately decided to punt on it for the first round of tests, primarily because it fell slightly out of scope…” | ||
| 242. | From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only (cloudbsd.xyz) | |
| 221 points | 2024 | author naguam showed up | their comment | thread
“I must say I made the basic git clone on Marcan's repository (named like this) without changing the default name. Then I just put my additions next to and into it. This…” | ||
| 243. | Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023) (chernando.com) | |
| 221 points | 2024 | author reynaldi showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry you have to see my janky JavaScript solution XD but one good thing of going with Tauri is that developing the UI is pretty easy, since it's basically just some web…” | ||
| 244. | Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple (matttproud.com) | |
| 219 points | 2024 | author matttproud showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the hint! Do you have an image or two you can cite for this? I'd love to see a representative example of this.” | ||
| 245. | Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images (ificl.github.io) | |
| 218 points | 2024 | author Agrodotus showed up | their comment | thread
“The title is a reference to "Objects that Sound" () which itself is a reference to "Pixels that Sound" (). Also thanks for the pointer to Venetian Snares! We had cited…” | ||
| 246. | Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia (discourse.mozilla.org) | |
| 218 points | 2024 | author ilyaigpetrov showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We help Russians to circumvent state censorship while with some tricks the extension may also be used to bypass private discrimination or sanctions-based censorship. We…” | ||
| 247. | Infinitown (demos.littleworkshop.fr) | |
| 216 points | 2024 | author guigui showed up | their comment | thread
“It's amusing to see this resurfacing today since it was released 7 years ago. I suppose it's due to the recent launch of our latest WebGL experience: It's an immersive…” | ||
| 248. | Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library (github.com) | |
| 216 points | 2024 | author nicbarkeragain showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thanks for pointing that out - I'll implement it now.” | ||
| 249. | A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts (bhupesh.me) | |
| 214 points | 2024 | author bhupesh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“True, 31.4 MB is definitely a stopping point. But my the nerd inside me kicked in and wanted to know what "exactly" is required to run ugit. It was a fun experience.” | ||
| 250. | Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties (contrapunctus.codeberg.page) | |
| 213 points | 2024 | author contrapunctus showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here, wasn't expecting that someone would share this hastily-hacked-together post on HN ^^' Thanks for reading, and ask me anything! PS - I suspect some may…” | ||
| 251. | I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (bold-edit.com) | |
| 212 points | 2024 | author levodelellis showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I haven't seen it drop a frame when running in a release build. I had experience with SDL and wrote a test to see if it performs as well as I remembered. It did, so I…” | ||
| 252. | Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane (righto.com) | |
| 212 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if there are any questions...” | ||
| 253. | Arraymancer – Deep learning Nim library (github.com) | |
| 211 points | 2024 | author mratsim showed up | their comment | thread
“Nim supports variadic generic, it's an arbitrary limitation so that shape and stride small vectors that describe a tebsor can be stack-allocated and fit in a cacheline.…” | ||
| 254. | Demystifying GPU compute architectures (thechipletter.substack.com) | |
| 210 points | 2024 | author klelatti showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to correct any mistakes. Sorry you don't think this is useful. However, as the post clearly points out it's not intended to make you a…” | ||
| 255. | Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust (github.com) | |
| 207 points | 2024 | author pcwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect this to make HN :) I don't deserve any credit for this; @SebAaltonen did all the work to write the C++ version. I just did a line-by-line translation.” | ||
| 256. | CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js (codeanlabs.com) | |
| 207 points | 2024 | author ThomasRinsma showed up | their comment | thread
“This is indeed a bit confusing. You are right for the case where Firefox's PDF.js is used (local or remote file in a tab or iframe). The XSS problem however is with…” | ||
| 257. | Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs (github.com) | |
| 206 points | 2024 | author serjester showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’m very open to alternatives to PyMuPDF / tesseract because I agree OCR results are sub optimal and it has a restrictive license. I tried basic ones and found the…” | ||
| 258. | Don't Get Distracted (2017) (calebhearth.com) | |
| 206 points | 2024 | author caleb_thompson showed up | their comment | thread
“I gave this as a talk at several conferences through 2017. I didn't realize that the video embed was broken until someone pointed out that this was making the rounds…” | ||
| 259. | I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad (medium.com) | |
| 205 points | 2024 | author alex_suzuki showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I never expected my rant to blow up like this, probably I‘ve hit a nerve. I‘m 42 and I‘m v busy building a library for barcode scanning in web apps: To this day I enjoy…” | ||
| 260. | I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck (fangpenlin.com) | |
| 204 points | 2024 | author fangpenlin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the interest. Crazy things happened in life last year, so I barely find a time to write anything. Recently finally find a time to pick up writing again.…” | ||
| 261. | Compilers for free with weval (bernsteinbear.com) | |
| 204 points | 2024 | author tekknolagi showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask questions or leave comments or whatever.” | ||
| 262. | Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency (r.ena.to) | |
| 204 points | 2024 | author napsterbr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that (re)aligning indexes are a different beast entirely, but (as mentioned in my recommendation) ideally the developer should keep this in mind when creating…” | ||
| 263. | The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan (tokyodev.com) | |
| 204 points | 2024 | author tkgally showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this article and will be interested to read HNers’ thoughts and discussion about the topic. I will also be happy to respond to questions.” | ||
| 264. | Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags (github.com) | |
| 203 points | 2024 | author drichelson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm paying more attention to GitHub than the comments here so please feel free to chime in there or ask any questions:” | ||
| 265. | A Local-First Case Study (jakelazaroff.com) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author jakelazaroff showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“A few thoughts on this: - First and (maybe most importantly), WebRTC in browsers requires a central server for signaling. So unless web browsers loosen that constraint,…” | ||
| 266. | Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS (sailor.li) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author Starlevel004 showed up | their comment | thread
“Oh. I wrote this post. I didn't expect it to make a second round here. I'll elaborate on anything in here if anyone wants to know things.” | ||
| 267. | Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access (goodfire.ai) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author tMcGrath showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 268. | Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go (github.com) | |
| 200 points | 2024 | author jodah showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do get this critique, and of course API design is subjective, but there was a rationale behind the design choices. Putting each policy in its own package allowed the…” | ||
| 269. | Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome (developer.chrome.com) | |
| 199 points | 2024 | author jmayes showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello there, I am one of the authors of the piece. Fun fact just for the lols we have tried running a 1.3B parameter unoptimized TensorFlow.js model in this system just…” | ||
| 270. | Segmenting comic book frames (vrroom.github.io) | |
| 198 points | 2024 | author matroid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would just like to say that this project is definitely work-in-progress and the AI elements often fail miserably. As amazing as recent AI progress has been, we do…” | ||
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