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| 4951. | What Silicon Valley gets wrong about math education again and again (blog.mrmeyer.com) | |
| 106 points | 2012 | author ddmeyer showed up | their comment | thread
“To summarize my argument in three lines: There ARE different ways of defining mathematics, and some of them contradict each other. Silicon Valley companies wrongly…” | ||
| 4952. | Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Part 1 (hypirion.com) | |
| 106 points | 2013 | author JeanPierre showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you talk about the persistent hashmaps, not the persistent vectors. I've been looking for papers explaining Clojure's persistent collections, and Bagwell seems…” | ||
| 4953. | Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. (swirl-project.org) | |
| 106 points | 2014 | author jsonified showed up | their comment | thread
“such as it is. In principle there's nothing stopping you from streaming anything with PPSPP. The current erlang implementation could run on an android tablet for…” | ||
| 4954. | Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash (coinprices.io) | |
| 106 points | 2014 | author mattodell showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions. Essentially what happened is that Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex allows you to trade with leverage. There were approximately $28M USD…” | ||
| 4955. | SwampDragon – Build real-time apps with Django (swampdragon.net) | |
| 106 points | 2014 | author hagsteel showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I'm the author of SwampDragon (I was rather surprised to see this on Hacker news today!). I'm celebrating my daughters first birthday today so I have to keep it a bit…” | ||
| 4956. | Run a script when police raid your house (github.com) | |
| 106 points | 2015 | author earthrise showed up | their comment | thread
“I really didn't want this to blow up. It's absolutely NOT a solution to getting raided by the police. While that was the original inspiration for writing the tool, I was…” | ||
| 4957. | How I Wrote an Ultra-Fast DNA Sequence Alignment Algorithm in JavaScript (medium.com) | |
| 106 points | 2015 | author keithwhor showed up | their comment | thread
“:) The article wasn't meant to be highly comprehensive, but if my method is indeed new, I'd be more than happy spending more time writing an article that's a bit more…” | ||
| 4958. | Some Problems Shouldn't Be Solved (patrickjamesmcguire.com) | |
| 106 points | 2015 | author patmcguire showed up | their comment | thread
“glad people found it interesting. If you're curious about anything, or want to tell me I'm wrong, I'd like to hear it.” | ||
| 4959. | Replete – a standalone ClojureScript REPL for iOS (github.com) | |
| 106 points | 2015 | author mfikes showed up | their comment | thread
“Willing to answer questions.” | ||
| 4960. | Show HN: Mycli – A CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting (mycli.net) | |
| 106 points | 2015 | author amjith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll be happy to answer any questions. Brief Intro: This is a command line tool that is intended as a replacement for MySQL client. It works with MySQL, MariaDB and…” | ||
| 4961. | The sad graph of software death (tinyletter.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author sandal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I linked the Reddit thread because there are some good thoughts there, but I'd also love to hear what HN has to say!” | ||
| 4962. | Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code (medium.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author philipplgh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“great to see all the feedback! And I agree that the title can be read in different ways. But anyways: it was hard for me to find simple examples of how to build a more…” | ||
| 4963. | A Future for R: A Comprehensive Overview (cran.r-project.org) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author HenrikB showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for this illustration of futures in R. About one port per future: This is the case for futures that uses the 'multisession' backend, which is a localhost + PSOCK…” | ||
| 4964. | Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline (otherside.site) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author killwhitey showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about…” | ||
| 4965. | From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js (lihaoyi.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author lihaoyi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this; ask me anything” | ||
| 4966. | Designing as a Developer (blog.benroux.me) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author liquidise showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the years, Zurb's grid has consistently stayed ahead of Bootstrap's in functionality (ex: Zurb was allowing embeddable grids while Bootstrap was still using fixed…” | ||
| 4967. | Is the C++ preprocessor still needed? (foonathan.net) | |
| 106 points | 2017 | author foonathan showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't intend to give a motivation for purging it, many people in the C++ community want to and I wanted to explore the feasibility of that in the current status. It…” | ||
| 4968. | Generating Images in JavaScript Without Using the Canvas API (medium.com) | |
| 106 points | 2017 | author _alastair showed up | their comment | thread
“The post is a combination of two separate things: creating a PNG file via JavaScript typed arrays, then using that PNG in an (Android-specific) web notification. I added…” | ||
| 4969. | Understanding LSTM Networks (2015) (colah.github.io) | |
| 106 points | 2017 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. I was also pretty surprised by the amount of attention this article has gotten. That said, I can give you my take on how it advanced the dialogue. As…” | ||
| 4970. | Anatomy of a DNS Lookup – Part II (zwischenzugs.com) | |
| 106 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It may be unfair, I didn't mean to imply any kind of judgement. 'This kind of thing' was vague, but was intended to get over the fact that systemd is taking over more…” | ||
| 4971. | Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping (ai.googleblog.com) | |
| 106 points | 2018 | author ericjang showed up | their comment | thread
“Many folks from our lab (including myself) are super bullish on "using robots to supervise representation learning and using representation learning to supervise…” | ||
| 4972. | Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers (hackaday.com) | |
| 106 points | 2019 | author MayaPosch showed up | their comment | thread
“I get why people trip over that comparison. Unfortunately it wasn't added by myself, nor part of the original draft. The comparison is (somewhat) obviously intended to…” | ||
| 4973. | A Visual Introduction to Morse Theory (bastian.rieck.me) | |
| 106 points | 2019 | author Topolomancer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“but it seems related to `MathJax`. I initially said that formulas should scale to 100% of the surrounding text... Can someone with more CSS knowledge chime in here?” | ||
| 4974. | What I Want from a Type System (2016) (gist.github.com) | |
| 106 points | 2019 | author _halgari showed up | their comment | thread
“a few things to keep in mind: Firstly, I wrote this about 3.5 years ago. I was wondering why people were suddenly commenting on it and now it all makes sense. Part of…” | ||
| 4975. | The Vision for Decentralized Web (tautvilas.lt) | |
| 106 points | 2019 | author brisky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would like to address some of your questions: 1) The web is decentralized by design - we only need to 'upgrade it' 2) We need to create tools that empower people to…” | ||
| 4976. | The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web (obsessivefacts.com) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author henriquez showed up | their comment | thread
“there's no scrolling hijack on my pages. I also dislike this sort of thing. Which iOS are you using?” | ||
| 4977. | Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling (speps.fr) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author speps showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the comments! Note the articles are completed already and all 4 parts are available! It was a very fun project overall :)” | ||
| 4978. | Defensive Programming (interrupt.memfault.com) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author tyhoff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Firmware, for better and worse, is stuck in C/C++ land, so many of the topics here are essential to keep a complex, multi-MCU, multi-board setup in working order. I'm…” | ||
| 4979. | Lmgrep: Lucene-based grep-like utility (jocas.lt) | |
| 106 points | 2021 | author dainius_jocas showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to hear that you liked it. I have a similar user use-case: searching for blog posts that are in markdown source files.” | ||
| 4980. | Unified Shader Programming in C++ (arxiv.org) | |
| 106 points | 2021 | author KerryASeitzJr showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Thank you very much for posting our paper! I have replied to some of the comments, and I am happy to answer questions and have further discussion about our work!” | ||
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