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| 5101. | I Accidentally Some Machine Learning – My Story of a Month of Learning Elixir (fredwu.me) | |
| 102 points | 2016 | author fredwu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“When I was benchmarking my library against a ruby one, I did actually try the ruby one on 2.4. Interesting findings are: - Switching from =~ to Regex.match? did not…” | ||
| 5102. | Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? (nemil.com) | |
| 102 points | 2017 | author nemild showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this series over several months and am happy to answer questions. Part 2 will dive into the benefits of Mongo along with the mistakes that some teams made with…” | ||
| 5103. | The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (blog.chartmogul.com) | |
| 102 points | 2018 | author Mr_Ed showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the correction on this -- I'll update the article with correct info. I'm not a Prime subscriber and the information on Prime benefits are completely…” | ||
| 5104. | Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Native Performance, Java and CPU (dragan.rocks) | |
| 102 points | 2018 | author dragandj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm open for discussion. The source is in the text, but conveniently accessible here:” | ||
| 5105. | DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse (boristhebrave.github.io) | |
| 102 points | 2018 | author BorisTheBrave showed up | their comment | thread
“No. I saw some neat stuff from the author of WFC[1], and realized it combined perfectly with another proc gen algorithm I'd designed earlier[2]. Hence why this is the…” | ||
| 5106. | Canvas fingerprinting on the web (antoinevastel.com) | |
| 102 points | 2019 | author avastel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I run some fingerprinting tests sometimes for research purposes. Nevertheless I don't see which of the tests would ask for any audio or photos permissions. Which browser…” | ||
| 5107. | The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013) (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 102 points | 2019 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I just want to drop in to reiterate how awesome register renaming is. It's a bit weird to try and understand, but it is crucial to how these out-of-order processors run,…” | ||
| 5108. | Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 102 points | 2019 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't remember exactly when I did my investigation but I left the Xbox team in early 2009, so it would have been some time before that. The 2011 date from Wikipedia is…” | ||
| 5109. | Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language (akkartik.name) | |
| 102 points | 2019 | author akkartik showed up | their comment | thread
“You didn't really ask a question, but I thought I'd mention a few things that may be related. 1. Mu isn't intended to be portable. There are no other backends, not even…” | ||
| 5110. | Tarot for Hackers (christine.website) | |
| 102 points | 2019 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“Give me a tool that works better to understand Kubernetes than a tarot deck and I'll use it happily.” | ||
| 5111. | Containers from first principles (fzakaria.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author setheron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a long running joke that I've come to terms with.” | ||
| 5112. | Run PHP in the browser through Babel (gitlab.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author pornel showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, it's an approximate conversion favoring readable output over exact semantics, so it won't run WordPress. It might still be useful for smaller pieces of code. If you…” | ||
| 5113. | Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos (righto.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone wants to discuss the internals of the 8086.” | ||
| 5114. | Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core (hanselman.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author happypatrik showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, abstracting away ANSI escape sequences is one purpose of the lib, but first and foremost the purpose is to make it easier to render complex things as tables,…” | ||
| 5115. | The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014) (dwheeler.com) | |
| 102 points | 2021 | author dwheeler showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for pointing to it! However, can you change HN thread to the article title, which is: "The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned"? I never used the term…” | ||
| 5116. | The Apple-1's shift-register memory (righto.com) | |
| 102 points | 2022 | author kens showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has shift register questions :-)” | ||
| 5117. | My Future with Elixir: set-theoretic types (elixir-lang.org) | |
| 102 points | 2022 | author josevalim showed up | their comment | thread
“You do get a class of tests but I don't believe they are sufficient. For example, in the first article, we have this code: let contactFromEmail name emailStr = let…” | ||
| 5118. | TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$ (github.com) | |
| 102 points | 2024 | author atum47 showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions.” | ||
| 5119. | What docs-as-code means (passo.uno) | |
| 102 points | 2024 | author remoquete showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“No, I don't think it does.” | ||
| 5120. | How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table (taylor.town) | |
| 102 points | 2025 | author surprisetalk showed up | their comment | thread
“Posting from phone while traveling so sorry for bad formatting. It was outside of the scope of this essay, but a lot of these problems can be resolved with a…” | ||
| 5121. | Inside Votizen - Tech, Design, Culture (paulstamatiou.com) | |
| 101 points | 2012 | author PStamatiou showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here -- Please let me know what you think of this format. If it works, I'd love to do more of these immersive-get-to-know-a-startup articles with other startups.…” | ||
| 5122. | Myths about Hash Tables (hughewilliams.com) | |
| 101 points | 2012 | author kroidkrensen showed up | their comment | thread
“I've tried that -- the downside is that the data structures (nodes in particular) take more space, and have more costs to manage / reorganize. Using a linked list with…” | ||
| 5123. | Message Oriented Programming (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 101 points | 2012 | author silentbicycle showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. I'm advocating breaking the system into modules with messaging between them, at a fairly course grain (i.e., between subsystems). Within the modules,…” | ||
| 5124. | CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is faster on mobile? (mobify.com) | |
| 101 points | 2013 | author b1tr0t showed up | their comment | thread
“it would be interesting to see results. One reason for using more than a single image: no navigation timing API in iOS. iOS may now lag behind Android in handsets…” | ||
| 5125. | XSV – A fast CSV toolkit in Rust (github.com) | |
| 101 points | 2015 | author burntsushi showed up | their comment | thread
“I was really hoping to get binaries for Windows/Mac/Linux available before sharing it with others, but clearly I snoozed. I do have them available for Linux though, so…” | ||
| 5126. | Unpacking Git packfiles (codewords.recurse.com) | |
| 101 points | 2015 | author chimeracoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I discovered this while working on a clean-room implementation of Git in pure Go. While there are a lot of references to packfiles online, surprisingly, the actual…” | ||
| 5127. | ProseMirror: collaborative editing with a rigid semantic document model (prosemirror.net) | |
| 101 points | 2015 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be checking for comments here for the next hour or so. Ask me anything. [Well, time to sleep. I'll check back tomorrow.] If you check out one demo, look at this one:” | ||
| 5128. | Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools (engineering.pinterest.com) | |
| 101 points | 2015 | author rwultsch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote most of these tools last year and a lack of good example code definitely slowed me down. Even if we drop support for these tools, at least the code now is open…” | ||
| 5129. | Show HN: Micro – a microservice toolkit (blog.micro.mu) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author chuhnk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I built Micro based on my experience at Google and Hailo. At Hailo we built a global microservices platform with over 200 bespoke services in production by the time I…” | ||
| 5130. | Abusing Privileged and Unprivileged Linux Containers (nccgroup.trust) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author mytummyhertz showed up | their comment | thread
“author here. hi world!” | ||
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