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| 4381. | Common JavaScript Gotchas (jblotus.com) | |
| 125 points | 2013 | author jblotus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it wasn't about hiding private variables. i was demonstrating using closures to avoid global namespace collisions which i think is generally a big problem for beginners.” | ||
| 4382. | Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows (scoop.sh) | |
| 125 points | 2013 | author lucajona showed up | their comment | thread
“I use Chocolatey too, although not so often recently. Scoop is more focused on open-source command-line developer tools. I expect Scoop will appeal more to…” | ||
| 4383. | Not everything is an expression (codewords.recurse.com) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author rntz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“syntax-rules is a form of pattern matching (mentioned in footnote 2). But it's only for matching on syntax, not on ordinary values. I can't write the fibonacci function…” | ||
| 4384. | Json vs. simplejson vs. ujson (jyotiska.github.io) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author jyotiska showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for pointing this out. I wrote this article long back and forgot about it. I have made the changes .” | ||
| 4385. | Immutable Infrastructure is the future (michaeldehaan.net) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author mpdehaan2 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“"but left the project earlier this year to pursue other interests" - Hi Jeff! I haven't really shared reasons for leaving the company to date and can't go into that. I…” | ||
| 4386. | Why Invest in Tools? (medium.com) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author leebyron showed up | their comment | thread
“The moral obligation is real, and I personally feel quite strongly about it and I know most of my coworkers feel the same. Morality is relevant because it's a human…” | ||
| 4387. | Show HN: WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports (github.com) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author yaronn01 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything or come up with suggestions!” | ||
| 4388. | The last new subway line in Japan (gyrovague.com) | |
| 125 points | 2015 | author jpatokal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1) I think you just proved my point. The new Sendai subway uses a linear motor, but is not maglev, while the Linimo and Chuo are maglevs and thus use linear induction…” | ||
| 4389. | DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker (fermatslibrary.com) | |
| 125 points | 2017 | author mikebjohanson showed up | their comment | thread
“We had professional designers do the figures for this paper; Fig3 in particular was far better than what we could do ourselves.” | ||
| 4390. | The Building Blocks of Interpretability (distill.pub) | |
| 125 points | 2018 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I'm one of the authors; we'd be happy to answer any questions. Make sure to check out our library and the colab notebooks, which allow you to reproduce our…” | ||
| 4391. | Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2 (archagon.net) | |
| 125 points | 2018 | author archagon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Unfortunately, according to numerous accounts[1], the TB3 to TB2 adapter does not work when you're trying to use an Nvidia eGPU with a Macbook that has an Nvidia dGPU.…” | ||
| 4392. | An introduction to libuv (2016) (nikhilm.github.io) | |
| 125 points | 2018 | author nsm showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this book was written a long time ago when I was into the node ecosystem. A lot of the book was copied into the official docs later. The book definitely does not…” | ||
| 4393. | Dav1d: performance and completion of the first release (jbkempf.com) | |
| 125 points | 2018 | author jbk showed up | their comment | thread
“so if you need anything, just ask.” | ||
| 4394. | ‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs (ucsf.edu) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author momeara showed up | their comment | thread
“--A large-scale docking screen of 116M molecules takes ~1100 cpu days on our cluster, working out to about 1 mol/sec, which is very fast for virtual screening. What this…” | ||
| 4395. | A Type of Programming (atypeofprogramming.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author k0001 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your input :) The book is not free, this is not a paywall, and it's not a subscription: You are buying early access to the book so that you can start reading…” | ||
| 4396. | NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof (tenfourfox.blogspot.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author classichasclass showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Power consumption on this unit is about 21W. Is the CPU/watt ratio less than later units? You bet. But it's not bad, it's free, it's not in a landfill, and it's more…” | ||
| 4397. | Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover (arxiv.org) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author digama0 showed up | their comment | thread
“Regarding TLA+ and CakeML: TLA+ seems like a good idea, Leslie Lamport talks a lot of sense in most of his papers. I especially recommend "Composition: A Way to Make…” | ||
| 4398. | Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information (ai.facebook.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author noambrown showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors on the paper. We'd be happy to answer any questions. Ask us anything!” | ||
| 4399. | A Predictive Database (aito.ai) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author arauhala showed up | their comment | thread
“we made predictive database to help developers test, prototype and productize predictive functionality - lighting fast. Just to be clear, the predictive database's value…” | ||
| 4400. | Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python (hackeregg.github.io) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author Immortal333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry, If it feels misleading. I have no intention to mislead anybody. If you can suggest alternative title, I am happy to change title.” | ||
| 4401. | Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app (github.com) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author fabiospampinato showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“it's nice to see Notable linked to on HN by somebody else! I was planning on posting about it myself after v1.9 gets released though, as pretty much everything changed…” | ||
| 4402. | A Pipeline Made of Airbags (ferd.ca) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“For the first system, it was deprecated without replacement, and just let to run by managers and people who had moved on to other teams (but used to work on it) who did…” | ||
| 4403. | Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources (kofi.sexy) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author hkgumbs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here—my understanding of the GPL matches that in the sibling comment. "GPL never says you cannot sell your software. It just says you have to provide source with…” | ||
| 4404. | NYC taxi meter and options pricing (questdb.io) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author TheTank showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right this is convoluted and confusing. I wanted to write an informal introduction to options using a more tangible example for those who are put off by the…” | ||
| 4405. | Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa (jsonmatic.com) | |
| 125 points | 2021 | author okumurahata showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I use fingerprint to get the number of visits (instead of using something invasive like Google Analytics): I get the fingerprint as a UID (which is like a random number…” | ||
| 4406. | TinyPilot: Month 11 (mtlynch.io) | |
| 125 points | 2021 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect to see this pop up on HN. I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 4407. | Nearest neighbor indexes for similarity search (pinecone.io) | |
| 125 points | 2021 | author jamesbriggs showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me any questions about the article!” | ||
| 4408. | Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver (collabora.com) | |
| 125 points | 2021 | author Fahien showed up | their comment | thread
“:D The issue is triggered with some code that is not yet upstream in QEMU, so we do not know whether the bug is in the kernel, or whether it is in a problem with this…” | ||
| 4409. | The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory (devever.net) | |
| 125 points | 2022 | author hlandau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the sole focus here is on the ISA-relevant parts. Obviously disk formats are out of scope. It's correct that IBM originally used custom IBM disk drives with 520-byte…” | ||
| 4410. | Apple Vision Pro and ADHD (dansalva.to) | |
| 125 points | 2024 | author dansalvato showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’ve been a gadget enthusiast my whole life, and I deliberately left in the tone that I’m trying to justify owning an Apple Vision Pro, despite its flaws. I was also…” | ||
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