421. Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
152 points | 2025 | author classichasclass showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it.”
422. Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality (publish.obsidian.md)
152 points | 2025 | author RyeCatcher showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've updated the article based on your feedback. Thank you. Key corrections: Ollama GPU usage - I was wrong. It IS using GPU (verified 96% utilization). My…”
423. Hachi: An Image Search Engine (eagledot.xyz)
152 points | 2025 | author warangal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have been working on this project for quite some time now. Even though for such search engines, basic ideas remain the same i.e extracting meta-data or semantic info,…”
424. Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU (righto.com)
151 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your Pentium questions...”
425. Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields (therasr.github.io)
151 points | 2025 | author 0x12A showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here -- Generally in single image super-resolution, we want to learn a prior over natural high-resolution images, and for that a large and diverse training set is…”
426. Say Goodbye (mooreds.com)
151 points | 2025 | author mooreds showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I was trying to walk the line between two concepts in tension: * you want to treat your former co-worker as a human being. That's the whole point of the post. * it can…”
427. A million ways to die from a data race in Go (gaultier.github.io)
151 points | 2025 | author broken_broken_ showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback on legibility, I have now just learned about the CSS `tab-size` property to control how much space tabs get rendered with. I have reduced it,…”
428. The App Store was always authoritarian (infrequently.org)
150 points | 2025 | author slightlyoff showed up | their comment | thread
“You seem to have missed the bleedingly obvious point that responsibilities are a function of scale. Nothing you allege was missed, and indeed it was considered at length…”
429. Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format (github.com)
150 points | 2025 | author eliasdejong showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“First of all, hello Hacker News :) Many of the comments seem to address the design of key hashing. The reason for using hashed keys inside B-tree nodes instead of the…”
430. The human only public license (vanderessen.com)
149 points | 2025 | author fvdessen showed up | their comment | thread
“in a sense I agree with you. I doubt it will ever be mass adopted, especially in this form, which is more a draft to spark discussion than a real license. I am not…”
431. What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
148 points | 2025 | author noleary showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I genuinely didn't mean it to be much of an ad for our company. I was just surprised how few people had written a simple explainer of reasonable quality.”
432. AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators (passo.uno)
148 points | 2025 | author theletterf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If the LLM revolution helps us get more accessible and better docs, I, for one, welcome it. Edit: I guess some commenters misunderstood my message. I'm saying that by…”
433. CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? (quesma.com)
148 points | 2025 | author piotrgrabowski showed up | their comment | thread
“So far in this benchmark we based the tasks on a couple of open-source projects (like curl, jq, GNU Coreutils). Even on those "simple" projects we managed to make the…”
434. WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home (garrido.io)
148 points | 2025 | author ggpsv showed up | their comment | thread
“Indeed, it is mostly HTTPS terminated by Caddy in the server at home. Otherwise, it is SSH.”
435. How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) (alexarmbr.github.io)
147 points | 2025 | author alexarmbr showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks so much for the feedback. I agree, 'more memory for accumulators' would be a better title for this section. and I also see the misconception you are pointing out…”
436. Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference (ddili.org)
147 points | 2025 | author acehreli showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here... AMA.”
437. 15 Years of Shader Minification (ctrl-alt-test.fr)
147 points | 2025 | author laurentlb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article mainly for the people in the demoscene. If anything is unclear or missing for the Hackernews audience, I'm happy to answer questions here. If anyone…”
438. Recto – A Truly 2D Language (masatohagiwara.net)
147 points | 2025 | author mhagiwara showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. You're right that music and speech carry more than just raw symbols such as intonation, pitch, dynamics, etc. all add important information. But in the…”
439. Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed (tzx.notion.site)
146 points | 2025 | author zxt_tzx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the last few months, I have built and launched a free semantic search tool for GitHub called SemHub (). In this blog post, I share what I’ve learned and why I’ve…”
440. Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023) (actamachina.com)
146 points | 2025 | author tlyleung showed up | their comment | thread
“funny to see this posted after a few years. Happy to answer any questions!”
441. HTMX is hard, so let's get it right (github.com)
144 points | 2025 | author bookofcooks showed up | their comment | thread
“Ask me anything! I want to make the intent of this blog post extremely clear (which tragically got lost when I got deep into the writing). I love HTMX, and I've built…”
442. Glicol: Next-generation computer music language (glicol.org)
143 points | 2025 | author chaosprint showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. I am building a SaaS startup in stealth mode (probably will apply YC)—finding it challenging to balance time between the startup and…”
443. WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari (github.com)
143 points | 2025 | author InfiniteVortex showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It converts filter lists to Safari's content blocking API using SafariConverterLib (by AdGuard) and stores advanced blocking (scriptlets, extended css, css & js) in a…”
444. iPhone DevOps (2023) (clearsky.dev)
143 points | 2025 | author richmans showed up | their comment | thread
“Awesome that this post got boosted by my latest post. As i wrote in an earlier post, my reason for wanting to develop on my phone is that i became a dad, and my kids did…”
445. Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol (tautvilas.lt)
142 points | 2025 | author brisky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Regarding backdating it is a valid concern. I did not mention in the article, but in my proposed architecture users could post links of others (consider that a retweet).…”
446. Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use (bitoff.org)
142 points | 2025 | author janv showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all: I didn't submit it to HN. As few people pointed out, this article was written in 2023 and it's intentionally focused just on pricing – I planned a follow…”
447. Requiem for a Solar Plant (7goldfish.com)
141 points | 2025 | author giblfiz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you look a little more carefully the thing that killed us was an actual physical infrastructure problem. Mineral rights were a nightmare, but we were humping our way…”
448. Packing the world for longest lines of sight (tombh.co.uk)
141 points | 2025 | author tombh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Well there's actually a term in the kernel to normalise the surface area of each visible point by a factor of tan(1 radian): I don't know if that's related to what…”
449. The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
141 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8087 questions...”
450. “You should never build a CMS” (sanity.io)
141 points | 2025 | author kmelve showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Of course, I'm biased! But in that bias is a ton of experience in the CMS field and a lot of observation of actual teams trying to solve for content operations…”