Top Hackernews posts from tratt.net

  1. Using a "proper" camera as a webcam (tratt.net)
    575 points by ltratt over 2 years ago | 487 comments
  2. How I clean my glasses (tratt.net)
    314 points by ltratt about 2 years ago | 328 comments
  3. UML: My Part in Its Downfall (tratt.net)
    226 points by ltratt almost 2 years ago | 241 comments
  4. Why we need to know LR and recursive descent parsing techniques (tratt.net)
    188 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 70 comments
  5. Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth (tratt.net)
    175 points by ltratt over 1 year ago | 160 comments
  6. Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases? (tratt.net)
    159 points by ltratt over 1 year ago | 122 comments
  7. Choosing what to read (tratt.net)
    132 points by ltratt 9 months ago | 46 comments
  8. Four Kinds of Optimisation (tratt.net)
    120 points by ltratt 10 months ago | 56 comments
  9. Practising Programming (tratt.net)
    119 points by mattpogue over 2 years ago | 37 comments
  10. Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011) (tratt.net)
    117 points by contr-error 7 months ago | 84 comments
  11. What factors explain the nature of software? (tratt.net)
    117 points by ingve 4 months ago | 91 comments
  12. Practising Programming (2022) (tratt.net)
    114 points by luu 8 months ago | 41 comments
  13. Automatic Video Editing (tratt.net)
    104 points by todsacerdoti over 3 years ago | 23 comments
  14. Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms (tratt.net)
    101 points by ltratt over 2 years ago | 39 comments
  15. Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon (tratt.net)
    97 points by ltratt 7 months ago | 37 comments
  16. RPython-Based VMs: Fast Enough in Fast Enough Time (tratt.net)
    93 points by pcr910303 over 3 years ago | 17 comments
  17. Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth (tratt.net)
    92 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 59 comments
  18. How big should a programming language be? (tratt.net)
    91 points by ltratt over 1 year ago | 153 comments
  19. How hard is it to adapt a memory allocator to CHERI? (tratt.net)
    90 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 14 comments
  20. More evidence for problems in VM warmup (tratt.net)
    87 points by ltratt almost 2 years ago | 34 comments
  21. What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable? (tratt.net)
    80 points by Tomte about 2 years ago | 58 comments
  22. How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) (tratt.net)
    78 points by contr-error 7 months ago | 90 comments
  23. Making a Video of a Single Window (tratt.net)
    77 points by ltratt about 2 years ago | 39 comments
  24. Compiled and interpreted languages: Two ways of saying tomato (tratt.net)
    67 points by jasim over 1 year ago | 37 comments
  25. How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (tratt.net)
    67 points by ingve 10 months ago | 37 comments
  26. Debugging a Failing Hotkey (tratt.net)
    55 points by ltratt 9 months ago | 6 comments
  27. Static Integer Types (tratt.net)
    55 points by matt_d about 3 years ago | 42 comments
  28. Where Do Research Problems Come From? (tratt.net)
    53 points by ltratt over 2 years ago | 16 comments
  29. Which Parsing Approach? (2020) (tratt.net)
    52 points by tomas789 over 1 year ago | 18 comments
  30. What makes a good research proposal? (tratt.net)
    52 points by ltratt over 2 years ago | 10 comments