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  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

    125 points by whoishiring | view on HN

  2. I shaved 80 MB from my TypeScript build by removing googleapis

    202 points by danvk | view on HN

    The article discusses how to use TypeScript performance to your advantage by looking at what TypeScript is compiling using a treemap visualization.

  3. Software engineering books

    123 points by colin-dumitru | view on HN

    The article discusses how "The Pragmatic Programmer" made the author a better software engineer and how pragmatism encompasses five key qualities.

  4. U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained – Part 1 (2013)

    89 points by BonoboIO | view on HN

    The article discusses the fallacies of the arguments against the U.S. Army's Phase IV Camouflage Improvement Effort.

  5. Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles

    16 points by stefan8r | view on HN

  6. Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers

    72 points by tosh | view on HN

  7. Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression

    76 points by phiresky | view on HN

    The article discusses a sqlite extension that provides transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for sqlite, which can reduce the size of the database by 80% while keeping performance mostly the same.

  8. How I Regained Concentration and Focus

    49 points by aiobe | view on HN

    The article is about a person's struggles with concentration and how they plan to improve their productivity and creativity.

  9. Particle Physicists Puzzle over a New Duality

    38 points by kzrdude | view on HN

    The article discusses the discovery of the antipodal duality by Lance Dixon and his team, which is a hidden connection between two different phenomena that couldn't be explained by our current understanding of physics.

  10. Faster CRC32-C on x86

    44 points by rostayob | view on HN

    This article covers two different ways to compute CRC-32C, with the second method being significantly faster than the first.

  11. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

    38 points by 2352500 | view on HN

    The article is written in French and cannot be translated.

  12. Show HN: Tech Compensation in Europe

    92 points by gdaramouskas | view on HN

    This site is being built in order to help people in the tech industry in Europe see what others in similar positions are being paid so they can have a better idea of what to expect and ask for when negotiating their own salaries.

  13. Formally Verifying Rust's Opaque Types

    5 points by BreakfastB0b | view on HN

    The article discusses how existential types work in Rust, and how they relate to intuitionistic logic.

  14. Peng Cheng on how ancient crafts inspire her masterful typographic posters

    8 points by bryanrasmussen | view on HN

    Peng Cheng is a graphic designer who is known for her masterful typographic posters.

  15. Google’s in-house desktop Linux

    32 points by signa11 | view on HN

    Google has its very own Linux desktop distribution that is based on Debian Linux.

  16. Silly Camera Numbers

    11 points by mkchoi212 | view on HN

    The article is discussing how depth of field changes with different f-stop settings.

  17. TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

    108 points by mrtedbear | view on HN

    Some teens are using TikTok to diagnose themselves with rare mental disorders and then seeking out treatment, which can be a challenge.

  18. The Slotted Counter Pattern

    12 points by hollylawly | view on HN

    The article discusses a database pattern where an column is incremented when an event happens, such as a download or page view, in order to avoid contention on a single row.

  19. Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?

    97 points by strzibny | view on HN

  20. You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)

    3 points by Tomte | view on HN

    The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.

  21. Show HN: Open-source Typeform Alternative (beta) – snoopForms live

    17 points by beanclap | view on HN

    The article is about a form-building tool that is quick and easy to use, with a variety of features and options.

  22. Rust Linux Kernel Development

    12 points by olalonde | view on HN

    The article explains how to create a linux kernel module using rust.

  23. A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017)

    40 points by hardwaresofton | view on HN

    The article describes how to write portable Makefiles.

  24. Cerbos and FusionAuth [video]

    4 points by mooreds | view on HN

    The article discusses how the website uses cookies to improve the browsing experience, analyze site traffic, personalize content, and serve targeted ads.

  25. Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]

    4 points by kloch | view on HN

  26. Karmem: A fast binary serialization format faster than Google Flatbuffers

    14 points by siddontang | view on HN

    Karmem is a fast binary serialization format that is easy to use while being as fast as possible. It is optimized to take Golang and TinyGo's maximum performance and is efficient for repeatable reads, reading different content of the same type. Karmem has proven to be ten times faster than Google Flatbuffers, with the additional overhead of bounds-checking included. Karmem is still under development, and the API is not stable. However, the serialization-format itself

  27. Show HN: BDC – Ergonomic, sub 1KiB virtual DOM library

    9 points by bwhmather | view on HN

    Ben's DOM Clobberer (BDC) is a tiny javascript library for updating the html DOM to match a javascript description.

  28. Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?

    55 points by nicbou | view on HN

  29. Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks (2003) [pdf]

    7 points by wglb | view on HN

  30. Show HN: International Legal Dictionary

    16 points by dogweather | view on HN