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| 271. | Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On? (waywo.eamag.me) | |
| 229 points | 2025 | author eamag showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for all feedback! Answering some questions: - I wanted to publish it asap and get feedback, that's why it's a static website with some ui bugs, you can see a json…” | ||
| 272. | Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? (blog.glyphdrawing.club) | |
| 227 points | 2025 | author california-og showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, I also wrote another article digging into the history of the checkered box character:” | ||
| 273. | Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change (lwn.net) | |
| 227 points | 2025 | author jzb showed up | their comment | thread
“It was abandoned. I linked to one of the former maintainers who said as much. The current effort is by a few people who asked the LF to take out over, and have (so far)…” | ||
| 274. | A new generation of Tailscale access controls (tailscale.com) | |
| 226 points | 2025 | author samlinville-ts showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are indeed converting the old syntax to grants behind the scenes. In fact, we have been quietly doing this for months :) As tczMUFlmoNk mentioned further down, we…” | ||
| 275. | Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer (tiki.li) | |
| 225 points | 2025 | author chkas showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a little surprised to see this on the front page of Hacker News. This is just a simple demo for my educational programming language Easylang. You can easily edit the…” | ||
| 276. | How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 225 points | 2025 | author BotJunkie showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to tell you where it came from. I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on their robotic code…” | ||
| 277. | Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back (marmelab.com) | |
| 225 points | 2025 | author fzaninotto showed up | their comment | thread
“I love reading the posts in this thread. It seems the waterfall vs Agile debate is still vivid in the HN community, which surprises me. I know that developers have…” | ||
| 278. | Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners (thorsell.io) | |
| 225 points | 2025 | author xGLaDER showed up | their comment | thread
“A friend told me my post was gaining some momentum on HN and I've read through the comments and found a bunch of good insights. I especially liked the one from @arach:…” | ||
| 279. | Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons (alinpanaitiu.com) | |
| 225 points | 2025 | author alin23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Since the article publishing, I have found a widely available finish that's very similar to what I'm doing called Walrus Oil Furniture Butter: It's still a combination…” | ||
| 280. | Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero (mindflash.org) | |
| 223 points | 2025 | author AntwaneB showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your comment. I agree with your first point, maybe AI will close some of those gaps with future advances, but I think a large part of the damage will have…” | ||
| 281. | My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi (ellis.codes) | |
| 222 points | 2025 | author announcer4614 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's correct. The potentiometer has 5V going through it, with a current range of 30-164μA, which fell within limits of the digipot. I opted to use the digipot instead…” | ||
| 282. | Gate-level simulation of ASIC in browser (znah.net) | |
| 221 points | 2025 | author znah showed up | their comment | thread
“and this is how running your design on real hardware feels” | ||
| 283. | An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages (typesanitizer.com) | |
| 221 points | 2025 | author typesanitizer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm a big fan of Armstrong's work, I've watched several of his talks multiple times and always get something new out of them even if I don't agree entirely. :) I do…” | ||
| 284. | Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs (github.com) | |
| 221 points | 2025 | author nawazgafar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I tested it with this PDF of a handwritten doc [1], and it converted both pages accurately. 1.” | ||
| 285. | My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4 (jan.wildeboer.net) | |
| 220 points | 2025 | author jwildeboer showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the homelab.jhw mainly as part of my tests and experiments with my own certificate authority and to avoid going into split horizon DNS setup.” | ||
| 286. | OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad (bbenchoff.github.io) | |
| 220 points | 2025 | author wanderingjew showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“for this project, the backplane is as much of the computer as the 'daughter cards'. Think of it like the wire-wrap boards of _really old_ minicomputers. I'm using the…” | ||
| 287. | 10 Years of Pomological Watercolors (parkerhiggins.net) | |
| 219 points | 2025 | author thisisparker showed up | their comment | thread
“Always happy to see people looking at and reading about these paintings. Happy to answer any questions or job offers people here may have!” | ||
| 288. | Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (nolanlawson.com) | |
| 218 points | 2025 | author nolanl showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually did some research on CSS selector performance: The TL;DW is: yes, class selectors are slightly more performant than attribute selectors, mostly because only…” | ||
| 289. | Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev (ounapuu.ee) | |
| 218 points | 2025 | author hddherman showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a nice surprise to notice my own post here, but the timing is unfortunate as I'm shuffling things around on my home server and will accidentally/intentionally take…” | ||
| 290. | Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more (2022) (evalapply.org) | |
| 217 points | 2025 | author adityaathalye showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm not sure there is any one sync solution. To share with others, org-export and/or `pandoc -f org -t html` may be your friends. Also Github renders a subset org-mode…” | ||
| 291. | Implementing Logic Programming (btmc.substack.com) | |
| 217 points | 2025 | author sirwhinesalot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The one time I go straight to bed after posting on hackernews is the one time I get a bunch of comments hahaha. Yes you can add support for integers in various ways…” | ||
| 292. | Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate (ilograph.com) | |
| 214 points | 2025 | author billyp-rva showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a fair point and it would be worth revisiting, if not now then within the year. That said, I wouldn't expect things to change too drastically. TFA goes into…” | ||
| 293. | OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com) | |
| 212 points | 2025 | author atgreen showed up | their comment | thread
“It's still very much a work in progress.” | ||
| 294. | Intel's Battlemage Architecture (chipsandcheese.com) | |
| 212 points | 2025 | author clamchowder showed up | their comment | thread
“When I checked the 7600 XT was much more expensive. Right now it's still $360 on eBay, vs the B580's $250 MSRP, though yeah I guess it's hard to find the B580 in stock” | ||
| 295. | The Company Man (lesswrong.com) | |
| 212 points | 2025 | author TomasBjartur showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I am the author. If anyone is interested in following my writing, especially those not often on LessWrong, consider subscribing to my Substack: I plan to mirror any…” | ||
| 296. | Lua for Elixir (davelucia.com) | |
| 211 points | 2025 | author davydog187 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Luerl++ is not a valid module name :) More seriously, I considered alternate names, but settled on this because it was short, literal, and given that its in the context…” | ||
| 297. | Bringing Record and Replay debugging everywhere on Linux (github.com) | |
| 209 points | 2025 | author sidkshatriya showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes there are some tradeoffs: - Performance: slower than using rr with HW counters. Both dynamic and static instrumentation employed by _Software Counter mode_ rr slow…” | ||
| 298. | Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby (naildrivin5.com) | |
| 208 points | 2025 | author davetron5000 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the example doesn't allow logins now to avoid abuse. I wasn't 100% sure I'd make it public and just decided today to do it, so it's not yet ready for just anyone to…” | ||
| 299. | Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author pncnmnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“TTS and script generation can be a bit of an overhead for now, which is why I've worked with metric aggregates - 30+ bounces rather than exactly 33, for example. For…” | ||
| 300. | Perverse incentives of vibe coding (fredbenenson.medium.com) | |
| 207 points | 2025 | author mecredis showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. I don't actually think they're deliberately doing this, hence my choice of "perverse incentives" vs. something more accusatory. The issue is that they…” | ||
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