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| 3211. | Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 170 points | 2013 | author kannanvijayan showed up | their comment | thread
“The "regular JS scores" do REALLY well on several benchmarks (faster than native, even), for one primary reason: the transcendental math cache (which every JS engine…” | ||
| 3212. | Python vs Julia – an example from machine learning (tullo.ch) | |
| 170 points | 2014 | author ajtulloch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the active set implementation in Cython is relatively slow - see [1] for where I discussed how I benchmarked the existing algorithm and demonstrated the PAVA…” | ||
| 3213. | How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com) | |
| 170 points | 2014 | author DrPizza showed up | their comment | thread
“You know, I should have written about that a bit more. It makes sense in retrospect, I didn't even think about it at the time, even after leading off with the problems…” | ||
| 3214. | Staffjoy’s Suite – A scheduling application for hundreds of workers (github.com) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author philip1209 showed up | their comment | thread
“Just noticed that this was submitted. I'm fixing some CI stuff now, and finishing the open sourcing of some other services like Cron, Chomp, and Mobius. This the V1 of…” | ||
| 3215. | Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot (wildml.com) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author dennybritz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree this is an assumption, but based on my experience it is very unlikely that this is trained on pixels. Training would've been orders of magnitude more expensive.…” | ||
| 3216. | BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author _chris_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Just to point out to others (and to be fair to the A15), IPC is just one part of the final performance equation. =)” | ||
| 3217. | Linear logic and deep learning [pdf] (therisingsea.org) | |
| 170 points | 2018 | author dmurfet showed up | their comment | thread
“The theoretical background can be found in: As neel_k notes, a good way to understand this picture is in terms of differential linear logic (a refinement of simply-typed…” | ||
| 3218. | The Power of Web Components (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 170 points | 2018 | author potch showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. I'm a fan of web components for widgets and embeddable third-party interfaces. I'm not as much a fan of them to wrap a site's primary content, for…” | ||
| 3219. | Archiving web sites (lwn.net) | |
| 170 points | 2018 | author anarcat showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA. since I wrote this, i started experimenting with grab-site: it's a wrapper around (and a fork of) wpull but the main advantage over it is it can do on-the-fly…” | ||
| 3220. | Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes (gravitational.com) | |
| 170 points | 2019 | author kevin_nisbet showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to reach out if you have questions or thoughts about the project.” | ||
| 3221. | Basic skeletal animation with geometric algebra (jeremyong.com) | |
| 170 points | 2020 | author ninepoints showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm the author of Klein and was surprised to see a sudden burst of traffic so I checked the usual suspects and ended up here :) My goals for authoring Klein was to…” | ||
| 3222. | The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016) (yomadic.com) | |
| 170 points | 2020 | author EB-Barrington showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Stolipinovo is one of several European Roma communities that I have visited over the years (several times now), and it's the largest that I'm aware of. The photos in the…” | ||
| 3223. | Performance Impact of Ad Blockers (2020) (debugbear.com) | |
| 170 points | 2021 | author mostlystatic showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of the negative performance impact comes running the injected JavaScript code, so it will be the same on all websites. I tested different sites in 2018, but it's…” | ||
| 3224. | The singularity is close? (mkaic.substack.com) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author mkaic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+13 more) | thread
“This is my first time submitting anything from my Substack to HN because it's the first time I've felt like I put enough effort into it to justify it. Obviously, this…” | ||
| 3225. | Patina and Intimacy (simonsarris.substack.com) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author simonsarris showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“For what it's worth, I designed my own kitchen (and house for that matter), and me and my wife spend upwards of 2 hours a day in this room because we cook almost every…” | ||
| 3226. | Running Containers on AWS Lambda (earthly.dev) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect this to show up here. I found containers on lambda to work really well. I can easily test them locally and they scale to zero when I'm not using them in…” | ||
| 3227. | The Linux cheat command (opensource.com) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author chrisallenlane showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“First of all, `tldr` is a lovely project, and if it's working for you, you should continue to use it. If there's distinction to draw between the two projects, it's that…” | ||
| 3228. | Writing Is Hard (blog.torh.net) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author torh showed up | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. I enjoy writing, it's fun, but once I start thinking that someone might read it, I get anxious and clam up. That's why I love to journal with…” | ||
| 3229. | Mystery Blips (mosquitocapital.substack.com) | |
| 170 points | 2022 | author MrAwesome showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and that's exactly right! I think it was in my second or third month on the job. And I really agree with your second point too! Without that in-person transfer of tribal…” | ||
| 3230. | Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture (news.gatech.edu) | |
| 170 points | 2024 | author anuroopsriram showed up | their comment | thread
“Our Github repo has been going through significant restructuring and it looks like the files were moved after the press release went out. Here are the updated links: - -…” | ||
| 3231. | Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry (righto.com) | |
| 170 points | 2025 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I hope you're not tired of the 386... Let me know if you have any questions.” | ||
| 3232. | Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer (nlpwp.org) | |
| 169 points | 2013 | author danieldk showed up | their comment | thread
“we wrote this during the Pragmatic Programmer's writing month in 2010 and some more in 2011. Then I got caught up writing my PhD thesis, and now a new job (as an NLP…” | ||
| 3233. | Machine Learning in JavaScript (burakkanber.com) | |
| 169 points | 2014 | author bkanber showed up | their comment | thread
“xd! Let me know if you have any questions. I do intend to keep up with this series, although my pace is pretty slow at about one article every three months or so. There…” | ||
| 3234. | Show HN: Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go (niltalk.com) | |
| 169 points | 2015 | author knadh showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Yes of course - PS: The "source" link is in the footer of the website as well.” | ||
| 3235. | Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io) | |
| 169 points | 2016 | author kentonv showed up | their comment | thread
“Of course. I'm arguing, though, that while user control of data is important, software and developer diversity is more important. I realize this is likely to be a…” | ||
| 3236. | The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring (priceonomics.com) | |
| 169 points | 2016 | author nemild showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions. I grew up with stories of the Challenger after my father - a statistician - and 2 of his co-authors were selected by National Academy of…” | ||
| 3237. | [ -z $var ] works unreasonably well (vidarholen.net) | |
| 169 points | 2017 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“The RAM requirement comes from my own experience, where I had to add a swap file to my VPS because 1.7GB RAM wasn't enough. I'm very surprised you've been getting by…” | ||
| 3238. | I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month (dnote.io) | |
| 169 points | 2018 | author stockkid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree. Some things we learn cannot be easily quantified. For example, the way I write code has changed compared to years ago. But I cannot put in words what it is that…” | ||
| 3239. | Linux Raw Sockets (schoenitzer.de) | |
| 169 points | 2018 | author nudin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the normal text is basically black on white. Do you mean the inline code parts? There contrast might be a bit to low, yes. I'm not happy in general with it's formatting…” | ||
| 3240. | Playing Atari with Six Neurons (arxiv.org) | |
| 169 points | 2018 | author giuse showed up | their comment | thread
“The idea is low-hanging indeed, several friends (including @togelius!) commented "I always wanted to do that -- eventually". Realization is another matter. Have a look…” | ||
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