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| 3961. | Accurate remake of Pac-Man in JavaScript (shaunew.github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2012 | author undershirt showed up | their comment | thread
“The framerate you see at the bottom right corner only indicates how often it is drawn. The game loop is actually sophisticated enough to keep the game updating at a…” | ||
| 3962. | A static website generator in Python (github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2012 | author koenbok showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't looked too much at Pelican, but Cactus was built for designers (eg. be simple). The goal was to get them from nothing to a fully hosted site on s3 in under a…” | ||
| 3963. | Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite (mapbox.com) | |
| 140 points | 2013 | author celoyd showed up | their comment | thread
“We’re doing almost the opposite – as little non-permanent snow and ice as we can manage. The reason is simply that we want to make this as useful as possible as a…” | ||
| 3964. | I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why (alexgivesup.com) | |
| 140 points | 2014 | author alexkorchinski showed up | their comment | thread
“This closely describes what what happened to me, although we didn't yet have the specialists to fill those roles (we did use agencies however). The two most notable…” | ||
| 3965. | How the backpropagation algorithm works (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com) | |
| 140 points | 2014 | author michael_nielsen showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd love if you could give me pointers to your favourite explanations of how neural networks function (even better, if you can say what you particularly liked about…” | ||
| 3966. | Stop wasting time getting estimates right (agileupgrade.com) | |
| 140 points | 2015 | author J_Boeg showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the essay and seems it sparked a good discussion in here :-) Can't comment on it all but the point I tried to get across was actually very closely related to the…” | ||
| 3967. | My favorite bug: segfaults in Java (lukeshu.com) | |
| 140 points | 2015 | author LukeShu showed up | their comment | thread
“As I recall, the memory hierarchy was actually simple--the issue was that it called some structure_free(parent) in C++, which freed the entirety of that part of the…” | ||
| 3968. | Bare Metal Rust 2: Retarget your compiler so interrupts are not evil (randomhacks.net) | |
| 140 points | 2015 | author ekidd showed up | their comment | thread
“As steveklabnik says, I'm figuring this out as I go along, with much help from the amazing OSDev wiki: Basically, this stuff is a ton of fun, and I'm just sharing my…” | ||
| 3969. | Analyzing Last.fm Listening History (geoffboeing.com) | |
| 140 points | 2016 | author gboeing showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks everyone for the comments! If you've got any other feedback or suggestions I am more than happy to hear it!” | ||
| 3970. | Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models (explosion.ai) | |
| 140 points | 2016 | author syllogism showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I'm planning to make two follow up posts, on each of the systems, that go through those details. I blurred them out in this post because I wanted to get across…” | ||
| 3971. | Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads [pdf] (usenix.org) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author keithwinstein showed up | their comment | thread
“The basic theme is that (a) purely functional implementations of things like video codecs can allow finer-granularity parallelism than previously realized [e.g. smaller…” | ||
| 3972. | Page Lifecycle API (developers.google.com) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of the comments so far are talking about using lots of tabs, but what I think is actually the most interesting part (or parts) of the article hasn't been mentioned…” | ||
| 3973. | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (extremelearning.com.au) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author extremelearning showed up | their comment | thread
“OMG! Someone submitted my post here and it's got to the front page!! Happy to try to answer any questions that people have. Enjoy!” | ||
| 3974. | The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code (medium.com) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author pavritch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“All common ciphers are available as open source already. I just packaged it into a product. Encryption done right does not suddenly become vulnerable if published to an…” | ||
| 3975. | Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 140 points | 2019 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken. If you are a member of CompTIA or…” | ||
| 3976. | Mental models (nesslabs.com) | |
| 140 points | 2019 | author anthilemoon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the hug of death! Currently on the phone with my hosting provider. A friend will help me move to Netlify later. If you did manage to read the article and…” | ||
| 3977. | Getting Hands-on with io_uring using Go (developers.mattermost.com) | |
| 140 points | 2020 | author agnivade showed up | their comment | thread
“To add to what couchand said, there are already comparisons of io_uring with SPDK and they are pretty close. So I would expect near about the same result for DPDK too.” | ||
| 3978. | Show HN: Switch Git Users CLI (github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2020 | author geongeorgek showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a freelancer working for multiple agencies at the moment. And One of the requirements was that I use the agency email for all commits. So I made this as a sugar for…” | ||
| 3979. | Tex – Use Elixir like a scripting language, across your system (github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2020 | author doawoo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! Author here. Good point! The name I was never super locked in on. Considering new ones for sure!” | ||
| 3980. | Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep (jemma.dev) | |
| 140 points | 2021 | author jemmaissroff showed up | their comment | thread
“let me know if you have any questions / suggestions for future blog posts. Planning a series around Ruby's GC, definitely with future posts on incremental marking,…” | ||
| 3981. | How to Evaluate Startup Offers (faingezicht.com) | |
| 140 points | 2021 | author avyfain showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions! I'm planning to write a more advanced version of this article in a few months, discussing tax implications, the "should I exercise my…” | ||
| 3982. | So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell (channable.com) | |
| 140 points | 2022 | author poorlyknit showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this article during a short internship at Channable. Not to be apologetic but I think these kind of articles are so prevalent because young or unpopular…” | ||
| 3983. | Should notes be end-to-end encrypted? (supernotes.app) | |
| 140 points | 2022 | author fastball showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you 100% need E2EE for your notes then not using Supernotes is actually our recommendation as well. But as I tried to show in the post, it's hard to do and arguably…” | ||
| 3984. | Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS (9elements.com) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author molily showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. When I say absolute positioning, I mean it in the CSS sense (as in position: absolute) to contrast it with CSS Normal Flow, Flexbox, Grid, Floats…” | ||
| 3985. | Rewriting Rust: A Response (gavinhoward.com) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author gavinhoward showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, you shouldn't believe it yet, but here is the status of each: "As powerful as C": unproven. I might need something like Rust's `unsafe`, and even though I have…” | ||
| 3986. | How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) (alice.bsky.sh) | |
| 140 points | 2024 | author __justplaying showed up | their comment | thread
“should you have questions!” | ||
| 3987. | Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters (nothing-to-watch.port80.ch) | |
| 140 points | 2025 | author viatorMMMCMXCIX showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The Cloudflare traffic led me here - apologies for all the bugs and crashes. This was semi-leaked. I only shared the link on a small subreddit yesterday, I'm aware of…” | ||
| 3988. | LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises (danfabulich.medium.com) | |
| 140 points | 2025 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's exactly what I said in the article. Many smart people have tried for more than 150 years to prove the Reimann Hypothesis; it might be impossible to prove. If it's…” | ||
| 3989. | Emacs under Clojure (github.com) | |
| 139 points | 2012 | author hraberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the support everyone! Seems like there is an interest in such a thing, so I'll better start hacking on this again. There are two parts to this. First, pure…” | ||
| 3990. | Reapp – hybrid apps, fast (reapp.io) | |
| 139 points | 2015 | author nwienert showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with a lot of what you say. One thing: "everythings hidden behind a thick layer of abstraction". Native does just that! Abstracts a bunch of stuff away for you.…” | ||
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