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| 5011. | Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube display (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2019 | author nategri showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Sorry about that! I’ll push a plaintext CSV version of the part list later today.” | ||
| 5012. | The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers (swyx.io) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author swyx showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the more interesting statement i was considering making, but didn't, was betting on whether they might IPO at all now (say within the next 5 years) given the troubles…” | ||
| 5013. | Clock Signal: A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author TomHa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here; I'm still not sure I've done the right thing here, but for the ColecoVision you need to type something that is literally a hash, since it's mapped…” | ||
| 5014. | TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author fniephaus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 5015. | A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015) (csvoss.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author csvoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the appreciation! Since this piece was written, I have discovered another notation by John Tromp which I consider to be the most breathtakingly beautiful: -…” | ||
| 5016. | How many pieces can a puzzle have? (gottwurfelt.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author madcaptenor showed up | their comment | thread
“n^2 seems reasonable to me as well. If you have n pieces, you have to make O(n) connections to solve the puzzle. But to find the piece that makes each connection, you…” | ||
| 5017. | Bit-sync: synchronizing arbitrary data using rsync algorithm in pure JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2021 | author claytongulick showed up | their comment | thread
“It's funny you mention this, I was just revisiting this lib and thinking that SubtleCrypto would be a better option. Also interesting idea to use the md5-wasm, thanks…” | ||
| 5018. | The metaverse is not bullshit (primoh.net) | |
| 105 points | 2021 | author realprimoh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wow! I’m the author and this is a really good response. I really appreciate the detail you’ve gone into here. I’m really thankful to hear your different viewpoints in a…” | ||
| 5019. | Copy This Book. An artist’s guide to copyright (copy-this-book.eu) | |
| 105 points | 2021 | author schrijver showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Throughout the years Hacker News has been really useful source in learning about the latest developments of copyright intersecting with the information society—it often…” | ||
| 5020. | The Sheer Terror of PAM (xeiaso.net) | |
| 105 points | 2022 | author xena showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Would my raw talk script without any of the visual aids I put in the talk be better here?” | ||
| 5021. | Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts (wcedmisten.fyi) | |
| 105 points | 2024 | author wcedmisten showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's true, and I actually used that dump[1] and OCR to automate about 80% of this project. The manual data entry was only required for the 20% that couldn't be found…” | ||
| 5022. | When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred (tanelpoder.com) | |
| 105 points | 2025 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeah indeed. Earlier I was worried if eBPF verifier would even let me do plain integer arithmetic and then just use it as a struct pointer to an "arbitrary" kernel…” | ||
| 5023. | Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms (nosferalatu.com) | |
| 105 points | 2025 | author nosferalatu123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Be careful because (ignoring scale for to keep things simple) a transformation T can be decomposed into a translation and rotation, such that T=Rotation Translation, but…” | ||
| 5024. | Fast machines, slow machines (2023) (jmmv.dev) | |
| 105 points | 2025 | author jmmv showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for (re)sharing. We previously discussed this at length in. I think this article has "aged well" in the sense that... nothing has changed for the better :( Since…” | ||
| 5025. | Yet Another Zip Trick (hackarcana.com) | |
| 105 points | 2025 | author gynvael showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“↑ Where did you get this from? I don't think nowadays there's such a thing as a canonical implementation — ZIP implementation world is too fragmented and implementations…” | ||
| 5026. | Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022) (yuri.is) | |
| 105 points | 2025 | author yurivish showed up | their comment | thread
“I still like and miss my friends in the Julia community, but the technical and cultural issues persist. I may refresh the post with more recent information at some…” | ||
| 5027. | A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (kevin.md) | |
| 105 points | 2026 | author thekevintang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“One thing that didn't make it into the post: there are no hand-drawn traces on this board. I find mouse-driven PCB layout maddening, so the whole card is a Python script…” | ||
| 5028. | The Don Stewart Method: write code every day, release a project every week (shimweasel.com) | |
| 104 points | 2011 | author mwotton showed up | their comment | thread
“so, this was an object lesson in not running every single one of your services on a single ec2 micro instance. sorry about that.” | ||
| 5029. | Pointfree style in Python (markshroyer.com) | |
| 104 points | 2011 | author Niten showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I admit part of me felt dirty implementing this by commandeering operators. But my brief time with Haskell and F# has biased me enough toward this style of…” | ||
| 5030. | LLVM Clojure Bindings (github.com) | |
| 104 points | 2012 | author jasonjackson showed up | their comment | thread
“I think of this project as a technology demo. I wanted to how difficult it would be to write a minimalist compiler with LLVM -- it was pretty quick & easy. This is a…” | ||
| 5031. | Microjs: an index of javascript micro frameworks (microjs.com) | |
| 104 points | 2012 | author madrobby showed up | their comment | thread
“The sizes are automatically generated from GitHub when I deploy, usually a couple times per week. Zepto's size includes only the core library, not additions like Ajax,…” | ||
| 5032. | Going Beyond Django ORM with Postgres (speakerdeck.com) | |
| 104 points | 2013 | author craigkerstiens showed up | their comment | thread
“this was a talk given at PyCon. Videos not live yet, but when it is it should be living here -” | ||
| 5033. | Eighteen months of Django (dangoldin.com) | |
| 104 points | 2013 | author dangoldin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for mentioning this! I've never used it but will give it a go.” | ||
| 5034. | Metaprogramming Python For Big Data (tuulos.github.io) | |
| 104 points | 2013 | author vtuulos showed up | their comment | thread
“i just checked this morning - we have 100B+ rows in our deliroll matrices, hosted on a single machine. I'm happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 5035. | Gen - a generics library for Go (clipperhouse.github.io) | |
| 104 points | 2014 | author mwsherman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“pleasantly surprised to see this on HN. There is a substantial set of changes happening out on this branch:. … for this reason:” | ||
| 5036. | Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008) (marijnhaverbeke.nl) | |
| 104 points | 2014 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“I am considering putting a "this is ancient, please don't submit it to social linking sites" header on top this. It's appeared on here two times in the past year. It…” | ||
| 5037. | Erlang/OTP – The fastest, cheapest way to build reliable clusters of computers (erlangotp.com) | |
| 104 points | 2014 | author gordonguthrie showed up | their comment | thread
“fire thoughts at me @gordonguthrie or gordon@vixo.com” | ||
| 5038. | Is JavaScript getting worse? (buzzdecafe.github.io) | |
| 104 points | 2015 | author buzzdecafe showed up | their comment | thread
“I very much agree with this point of view. The most important concern is a developer who thinks and writes clearly, irrespective of style or programming paradigm. That…” | ||
| 5039. | EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” (arxiv.org) | |
| 104 points | 2016 | author bwgoodman showed up | their comment | thread
“This feedback is awesome. I have a longer version in the works. if you're interested please feel free to email me, bryce dot goodman at stx dot ox dot ac dot uk. Thanks!…” | ||
| 5040. | Empirical Bayes for multiple sample sizes (chris-said.io) | |
| 104 points | 2017 | author csaid81 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Please see the section on mixed models in my post. As I mentioned there, I would love if an expert could expand on the relationship between mixed effects and Empirical…” | ||
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