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| 4501. | Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com) | |
| 121 points | 2013 | author tsaoutourpants showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting! :) I filed the first lawsuit against the TSA's nude body scanners when they became primary screening in 2010, and you may also remember me from my…” | ||
| 4502. | Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays (cs.kau.se) | |
| 121 points | 2014 | author phw showed up | their comment | thread
“We believe that the Russian relays are actually controlled by the same person/group. More details are in Section 4.2 of the paper.” | ||
| 4503. | An overview of OCaml (simongrondin.name) | |
| 121 points | 2015 | author DonPellegrino showed up | their comment | thread
“I originally posted this to to gather some feedback prior to posting it here. It was a surprised when my boss told me "Hey, you're top 10 on HN right now". Glad to know…” | ||
| 4504. | Recurrent Neural Networks Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction (wildml.com) | |
| 121 points | 2015 | author dennybritz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“RNNs are used in the same places as most other Machine Learning models and may replace some of the older models in the future. What these models do is typically not…” | ||
| 4505. | 007, a small experimental language with a license to macro (github.com) | |
| 121 points | 2015 | author masak showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the kind words. README files are important, and I worked quite a bit on this one. Had some fun writing it. A quick summary of the language itself: I felt…” | ||
| 4506. | How to build a JavaScript package manager (yarnpkg.com) | |
| 121 points | 2017 | author arcatek showed up | their comment | thread
“Our goal in this article wasn't to build another package manager (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :), but rather to give JavaScript developers some insight as…” | ||
| 4507. | Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown (seyedi.org) | |
| 121 points | 2017 | author ne01 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are right about the name confusion! It has been several years since the last commit to the /vmg/sundown and even if it was active it's not a very common Markdown…” | ||
| 4508. | Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known (cnbc.com) | |
| 121 points | 2018 | author JeremyBloom showed up | their comment | thread
“and, being a professional, of COURSE I linked to the CNBC article. Twice. When I introduce the CNBC material, in the first paragraph, and again when I introduced the…” | ||
| 4509. | 25 Days of ReasonML (medium.com) | |
| 121 points | 2018 | author lilactown showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“BuckleScript itself doesn't actually do any sort of bundling or minification of the code - in fact, it prides itself in generating "human readable" code that, worst…” | ||
| 4510. | The forgotten 80s home robot trend (tedium.co) | |
| 121 points | 2018 | author enkiv2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“making a quick correction about the RB5X. When I wrote the article, I believed it was still produced by the original company. I later learned that while the same company…” | ||
| 4511. | Cracking Litter Box DRM (davidhampgonsalves.com) | |
| 121 points | 2018 | author dh-g showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've actually had good luck with my unit. I have two cats and run the unit two times a day. I haven't had to do any maintenance except cleaning the water sensor once. I…” | ||
| 4512. | SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files (github.com) | |
| 121 points | 2019 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“Browsers don't offer a way to register a (browser) extension with a given mime-type or filename extension. That's why SingleFileZ uses the HTML format to wrap the zip…” | ||
| 4513. | Mathematical marketing: a piece of calculus to change the way you advertise (mackgrenfell.com) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author mektrik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote it because I think a lot of brands tend to pluck numbers out of thin air when they're talking about marketing targets, without knowing how they're affecting…” | ||
| 4514. | Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3 (github.com) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author naftaliharris showed up | their comment | thread
“I built this a few years ago, and the main motivation at the time was that I'd heard people say that adding the new features in Python3 required breaking backwards…” | ||
| 4515. | Presentation Rules (jilles.net) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author ojilles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“late night writing, wanted to push it out. Was expecting it to be ignored completely on the internet. Editing today — real good feedback here. Thanks!” | ||
| 4516. | A REST View of GraphQL (hasura.io) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author gautambt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are right about REST not necessarily replicating the N + 1 Query problem. ORMs have already provided solutions for this problem. See for example. Looking at GraphQL…” | ||
| 4517. | Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance (blog.doctave.com) | |
| 121 points | 2021 | author NiklasBegley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually was not aware of cmark.ex - thanks for pointing it out. In this case the code reuse was more important than pure native speed. We already had a Rust library…” | ||
| 4518. | Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04 (rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author rep_lodsb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As mentioned in the post, LOAD/STOREALL only run in ring 0. Also you can't use it to return to real mode except from code running in ICE address space, which isn't…” | ||
| 4519. | It's not Ruby that's slow, it's your database (berk.es) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the confusion. 1. I didn't want to make the point that Rust is faster, per sé. But wanted to show why it is faster. Because that teaches us a lot about when it…” | ||
| 4520. | Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud (herrherrmann.net) | |
| 121 points | 2022 | author herrherrmann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that objectively, it’s not much work to maintain the Synology NAS once everything is correctly set up. But I personally just got tired after attempting to…” | ||
| 4521. | Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 121 points | 2024 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“That's very much a fair point. I was thinking more from the perspective of firmware developers maintaining fixed userlands when I wrote that. It would definitely be an…” | ||
| 4522. | Bicameral, Not Homoiconic (parentheticallyspeaking.org) | |
| 121 points | 2024 | author skrishnamurthi showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, very close. #4 is not a bit strong: there is value to doing this even if you don't have macros, for instance, because of other benefits (e.g., decent support from…” | ||
| 4523. | How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's (progressandpoverty.substack.com) | |
| 121 points | 2025 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m the author and a YIMBY for the record and it’s not meant as a snipe. The link is an article by that exact same title by Jerusalem Demsas” | ||
| 4524. | Infrastructure Debt (littlehart.net) | |
| 120 points | 2011 | author grumpycanuck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah, I figured it has been around a lot longer than 20 years but I thought the 20 year thing would get the point across.” | ||
| 4525. | How LinkedIn betrayed a 5-man startup (thenextweb.com) | |
| 120 points | 2012 | author jonrussell showed up | their comment | thread
“don't usually [ever] comment on my own work here - but am interested to hear if other devs have had similar or contrasting experiences working with LinkedIn.” | ||
| 4526. | Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author aria showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments.” | ||
| 4527. | Beware of these lame App Store techniques (neotokyo.vg) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author akirareiko showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this post and if anyone have a question I am more than happy to answer it.” | ||
| 4528. | How I got into YC S13 (aelag.com) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author aelaguiz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“FWIW I didn't have Alumni in my network until I decided to apply and then I started seeking them out. I went so far as to cold-email people on AngelList. Also I live in…” | ||
| 4529. | What "viable search engine competition" really looks like (blog.nullspace.io) | |
| 120 points | 2014 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry, but you're wrong. Understanding a good amount of detail about your users, and in particular, about their social context, is a massive win for search relevance.…” | ||
| 4530. | Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform (github.com) | |
| 120 points | 2014 | author epriest showed up | their comment | thread
“but I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Can you explain what's bad about it and how you'd improve it? --- To provide some context, this is the top-level entry point for…” | ||
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