541. "Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019) (righto.com)
106 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“This was discussed on HN a while ago:”
542. When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred (tanelpoder.com)
105 points | 2025 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeah indeed. Earlier I was worried if eBPF verifier would even let me do plain integer arithmetic and then just use it as a struct pointer to an "arbitrary" kernel…”
543. Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms (nosferalatu.com)
105 points | 2025 | author nosferalatu123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Be careful because (ignoring scale for to keep things simple) a transformation T can be decomposed into a translation and rotation, such that T=Rotation Translation, but…”
544. Fast machines, slow machines (2023) (jmmv.dev)
105 points | 2025 | author jmmv showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for (re)sharing. We previously discussed this at length in. I think this article has "aged well" in the sense that... nothing has changed for the better :( Since…”
545. Yet Another Zip Trick (hackarcana.com)
105 points | 2025 | author gynvael showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“↑ Where did you get this from? I don't think nowadays there's such a thing as a canonical implementation — ZIP implementation world is too fragmented and implementations…”
546. Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022) (yuri.is)
105 points | 2025 | author yurivish showed up | their comment | thread
“I still like and miss my friends in the Julia community, but the technical and cultural issues persist. I may refresh the post with more recent information at some…”
547. Hyper Typing (pscanf.com)
104 points | 2025 | author pscanf showed up | their comment | thread
“Curious to hear if anyone's experience also matches mine, or if instead you find the trade-off to be worth it most of the times. :)”
548. Learn New Skills (attejuvonen.fi)
103 points | 2025 | author baobabKoodaa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Text is not AI-generated or AI-assisted in any way. It's a collection of great learning resources I have cultivated over multiple years, recently even removed something…”
549. Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location (dot.studio)
103 points | 2025 | author nikodotio showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here: what I was trying to say with this line is “we didn’t charge them for building tools they didn’t need or changing the way they work” — but I very…”
550. Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites (github.com)
103 points | 2025 | author zerodeux showed up | their comment | thread
“"Query" does mean "HTTP request" in the summary. It's reported as "Hits" in the stats. Sorry for the incoherent wording ... The SQL/wpdb support was added afterwards,…”
551. Building agents using streaming SQL queries (morling.dev)
103 points | 2025 | author gunnarmorling showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading and commenting! Indeed my conclusion is that "agent" means different things to different people. The idea for this post was to explore what's there…”
552. How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table (taylor.town)
102 points | 2025 | author surprisetalk showed up | their comment | thread
“Posting from phone while traveling so sorry for bad formatting. It was outside of the scope of this essay, but a lot of these problems can be resolved with a…”
553. SWE-Bench Pro (github.com)
101 points | 2025 | author kenstler showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the authors here -- we should clarify that strong copyleft license is a best attempt at decontamination for the public set. It's part of the tradeoff for having…”
554. Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby (brunosutic.com)
101 points | 2025 | author brunosutic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I confirm I actually do use the examples from the article in my code. Here's the example that runs in hundreds of integration tests: expect(billing_pricing_plans).to eq…”
555. Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly (simonlermen.substack.com)
101 points | 2025 | author DalasNoin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it is interesting to see that models like gemini will do basically whatever you want. this study was mainly designed to help an otherwise mostly anecdotal…”
556. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023) (ajxs.me)
100 points | 2025 | author ajxs showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for posting the article! I'm happy to answer any questions about the project. If you find this interesting, I wrote an overview of how I approach these…”
557. Don't unwrap options: There are better ways (2024) (corrode.dev)
100 points | 2025 | author mre showed up | their comment | thread
“I had the same impression, which is why I started writing these short-form articles about idiomatic Rust. The blog post overview is here:”
558. Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 (righto.com)
100 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if you have questions about some obscure circuitry in the 386.”
559. Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator (shkspr.mobi)
100 points | 2025 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“There used to be a GitHub repo - but it has subsequently been removed. Normally, I'd be comfortable sharing snippets under the UK's copyright "Fair Dealing" exemption -…”