Top Hackernews posts from tratt.net

1. Using a "proper" camera as a webcam (tratt.net)
   575 points by ltratt over 4 years | 487 comments
2. How I clean my glasses (tratt.net)
   314 points by ltratt about 4 years | 328 comments
3. UML: My Part in Its Downfall (tratt.net)
   226 points by ltratt almost 4 years | 241 comments
4. Why we need to know LR and recursive descent parsing techniques (tratt.net)
   188 points by todsacerdoti over 3 years | 70 comments
5. Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth (tratt.net)
   175 points by ltratt over 3 years | 160 comments
6. Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases? (tratt.net)
   159 points by ltratt over 3 years | 122 comments
7. Choosing what to read (tratt.net)
   132 points by ltratt over 2 years | 46 comments
8. Four Kinds of Optimisation (tratt.net)
   120 points by ltratt almost 3 years | 56 comments
9. Practising Programming (tratt.net)
   119 points by mattpogue over 4 years | 37 comments
10. Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011) (tratt.net)
    117 points by contr-error over 2 years | 84 comments
11. What factors explain the nature of software? (tratt.net)
    117 points by ingve over 2 years | 91 comments
12. Practising Programming (2022) (tratt.net)
    114 points by luu over 2 years | 41 comments
13. Automatic Video Editing (tratt.net)
    104 points by todsacerdoti over 5 years | 23 comments
14. Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms (tratt.net)
    101 points by ltratt over 4 years | 39 comments
15. Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon (tratt.net)
    97 points by ltratt over 2 years | 37 comments
16. RPython-Based VMs: Fast Enough in Fast Enough Time (tratt.net)
    93 points by pcr910303 over 5 years | 17 comments
17. Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth (tratt.net)
    92 points by todsacerdoti over 3 years | 59 comments
18. How big should a programming language be? (tratt.net)
    91 points by ltratt over 3 years | 153 comments
19. How hard is it to adapt a memory allocator to CHERI? (tratt.net)
    90 points by todsacerdoti about 3 years | 14 comments
20. More evidence for problems in VM warmup (tratt.net)
    87 points by ltratt almost 4 years | 34 comments
21. What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable? (tratt.net)
    80 points by Tomte about 4 years | 58 comments
22. How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) (tratt.net)
    78 points by contr-error over 2 years | 90 comments
23. Making a Video of a Single Window (tratt.net)
    77 points by ltratt about 4 years | 38 comments
24. Compiled and interpreted languages: Two ways of saying tomato (tratt.net)
    67 points by jasim over 3 years | 37 comments
25. How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools? (tratt.net)
    67 points by ingve almost 3 years | 37 comments
26. Debugging a Failing Hotkey (tratt.net)
    55 points by ltratt almost 3 years | 6 comments
27. Static Integer Types (tratt.net)
    55 points by matt_d over 5 years | 42 comments
28. Where Do Research Problems Come From? (tratt.net)
    53 points by ltratt over 4 years | 16 comments
29. Which Parsing Approach? (2020) (tratt.net)
    52 points by tomas789 over 3 years | 18 comments
30. What makes a good research proposal? (tratt.net)
    52 points by ltratt over 4 years | 10 comments