331. UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp) (github.com)
194 points | 2025 | author aabbdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The idea is simple: keep UUIDv7 internally for database indexing and sortability, but emit UUIDv4-looking façades externally so clients don’t see timing patterns. How it…”
332. Ruby Blocks (tech.stonecharioteer.com)
193 points | 2025 | author stonecharioteer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did use Gemini for the post image, I cannot draw and I'm not using my blog to monetize anything so I don't think there's anything wrong in AI generated images.”
333. Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch (github.com)
192 points | 2025 | author xcodevn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(1) We didn't remove the stddev term. (2) We use token-level loss (every token has the same weight), which is very similar to what Dr. GRPO does. However, we compute the…”
334. OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net)
190 points | 2025 | author Vonng showed up | their comment | thread
“The post here is a 3rd-party translation and may drifts from original wording in a few spots. Azure and OpenAI sent me some corrections today, so I published an updated…”
335. Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth (github.com)
190 points | 2025 | author lfnoise showed up | their comment | thread
“I also have a YouTube channel for my video synthesis experiments (over 2600 videos): SAPF was originally written in 2011 and only recently made open source.”
336. JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023 (blog.ret2.io)
189 points | 2025 | author gaasedelen showed up | their comment | thread
“March 1st I'll be giving a related conference talk at RE//verse () about my journey from software reversing into the realm of ludicrous hardware research while…”
337. Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)
189 points | 2025 | author ghiculescu showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Ask me anything! Since writing this a tangentially related thing we've added, is a github action that runs on any PR that includes a (Rails) database migration, and…”
338. Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting (lambdaland.org)
189 points | 2025 | author ashton314 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think it is well and good to replace human jobs with automation thereby freeing them up for more creative activities. My favorite appliances are my dish washer,…”
339. Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (jonathan.protzenko.fr)
189 points | 2025 | author protz showed up | their comment | thread
“that'll be a cool name for my next project :-)”
340. JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI (github.com)
188 points | 2025 | author MatthewPhillips showed up | their comment | thread
“The reason for the pattern is to make it so you always can find why a mutation occured. So combining state variables and dom changes is ok as long as that's the only…”
341. Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024) (alexshtf.github.io)
188 points | 2025 | author alexshtf showed up | their comment | thread
“I see it did some noise :) I partially agree with your claims. It indeed is an issue if you take high powers of numbers outside of the [-1, 1] interval, but I completely…”
342. We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes (pavpanchekha.com)
188 points | 2025 | author pavpanchekha showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“in fact all the words you read I wrote, LLMs are not very good at writing.”
343. The Hobby Computer Culture (technicshistory.com)
187 points | 2025 | author cfmcdonald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the reference, this is very helpful. The name "Colonel Whitney" came from a 1984 Stan Veit article: Obviously he misremembered the name. I wasn't able to…”
344. MCP vs. API Explained (norahsakal.com)
186 points | 2025 | author norsak showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“good point! I should have mentioned that MCP was created by Anthropic but is seeing wider adoption. Appreciate the feedback - brb I'll update the post to include this!”
345. How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012) (jherrm.github.io)
185 points | 2025 | author JeremyHerrman showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“fair point but I still think apple made the right call even if it leads to a bit of confusion at first. If a digital knob needs to be turned several times (e.g. 1080º,…”
346. Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry (righto.com)
183 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Pentium questions :-)”
347. The elegance of movement in Silksong (theahura.substack.com)
183 points | 2025 | author theahura showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Reading some of the comments, I feel compelled to emphasize that despite my flowery language in the post, I really really like Silksong”
348. Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration (codeintegrity.ai)
183 points | 2025 | author abirag showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“At CodeIntegrity.ai, we’ve built a platform that visualizes each of the control flows and data flows of an agentic AI system connected to tools to accurately assess each…”
349. The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators (blog.golioth.io)
181 points | 2025 | author hasheddan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Appreciate the comments and discussion on the post! Happy to continue the discussion or answer any follow-on questions folks have about our investigation and resolution.”
350. Build Your Own React (pomb.us)
181 points | 2025 | author pomber showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been trying. I'm even building something to make adoption easier, not launched yet but it's here”
351. NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices (blog.golioth.io)
180 points | 2025 | author hasheddan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You won't find any pushback from us on using Zephyr -- we are contributors, the firmware example in the post is using it (or Nordic's NCS distribution of it), and we…”
352. Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server (dangelov.com)
180 points | 2025 | author dangelov showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There's basically a couple of different ways to implement an MCP server - for this demo it's a local binary that communicates over stdio, so no OAuth process is taking…”
353. OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last (security.googleblog.com)
180 points | 2025 | author msuozzo showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Both nix and guix are exciting projects with a lot of enviable security properties. Many here can attest that using them feels like, and perhaps is, the future. I see…”
354. Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos (arxiv.org)
180 points | 2025 | author otrack showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Lamport simply calls his protocol "Paxos" to refer to both the single‑decree and multi‑decree versions. This is also the case in his other works, e.g., "Fast Paxos" and…”
355. Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting (dasl.cc)
178 points | 2025 | author dasl showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the awesome description of the various vm.dirty_* sysctls. The problem described in my post was not _directly_ related to the kernel flushing dirty pages…”
356. I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since (medium.com)
178 points | 2025 | author mikehall314 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The irony wasn’t lost on me haha.”
357. Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please (blog.yossarian.net)
178 points | 2025 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't think this is a fair characterization: it's not that I don't have a use for it, but that I think the uses are redundant with existing functionality while also…”
358. It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle (samkhawase.com)
176 points | 2025 | author FlyingSnake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the suggestion. I do have a wifi smart plug and I can take a look at this near trick. So far it's easier to charge it once a month as it runs fine for 2-3…”
359. Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform (app.getflowcode.io)
176 points | 2025 | author gabigrin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks! Lowering the barrier of collaboration is indeed a major goal for us. In the DRAKON analogy, Flowcode might help technical product managers collaborate with…”
360. Microsoft Dependency Has Risks (blog.miloslavhomer.cz)
176 points | 2025 | author ArcHound showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The main point is that it's not a financially rational decision to ditch Microsoft. There's just no real alternative for businesses, as most use AD, Teams,…”