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Hacker News mentions (504)

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Thanks for the feedback! One big distinction with the "site:https://news.ycombinator.com" hack is that the search on Hacker Search directly runs against the underlying link's contents, rather than whatever happens to be on HN. We also more directly leverage HN's curation by factoring in scores. Appreciate your suggestions; will look into building those! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

WikiTrivia mentions (12)

• Chronosort

  I used to play https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/, basically the same and it allows playing nay number of games. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• So what would a -dle type game based on TVTropes look like? (I mean games like Wordle, Cine2Nerdle, Gamedle, TimeGuessr, Wikitrivia, etc)

  It could also be something like Wikitrivia which seems to pull from a curated list of history-related Wikipedia articles but makes them appealing easy-to-read cards you have to sort chronologically. Though I haven't thought of how you'd sort or play with TVTropes content. Source: 12 months ago

• Subreddit for quick brainy web games like Wordle, Wikitrivia, Chronophoto, Geoguesser...

  Examples are Wordle, Wikitrivia, and Chronophoto. The geoguesser games is another close example! Source: about 1 year ago

• Chronophoto

  In the U.S. We have Chronology, sounds like the same game. This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar. https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Chronophoto

  This is very similar to Wikitrivia: https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , except instead of photos it is general historical concepts/events. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago