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| 1651. | Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples (2013) (statweb.stanford.edu) | |
| 277 points | 2017 | author abowenmc showed up | their comment | thread
“I was pleased to see this while attending MCM 2017 (Monte Carlo methods). I'm open to reports about mistakes in the notes, or even thoughts on which further topics (from…” | ||
| 1652. | Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake (lucidchart.com) | |
| 277 points | 2019 | author thayne showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Let me clarify a couple things I've seen in a lot of the comments. First of all, we do load balance by request, not connections and we do not use sticky sessions.…” | ||
| 1653. | You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 277 points | 2019 | author excitedNerd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's actually a real conversation that happened over a year ago, and I ended up becoming technical lead on the project later! No signs of firing yet. Not all companies…” | ||
| 1654. | Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art (art42.net) | |
| 277 points | 2020 | author valentinvieriu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to share some technical details. The code can be found here The main code and modification were put together by. I've started with the pretrained ffhq model,…” | ||
| 1655. | Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation (source-separation.github.io) | |
| 277 points | 2020 | author pseeth showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there! One of the authors here (Prem). Thanks for reading, and for mentioning Spleeter! Spleeter is awesome. The idea behind this book is to give people the tools and…” | ||
| 1656. | Async Rust doesn't have to be hard (itsallaboutthebit.com) | |
| 277 points | 2022 | author Hirrolot showed up | their comment | thread
“Unfortunately, before publishing anything, it's very hard to predict all possible misinterpretations of my text. Most commentators viewed the text from the perspective…” | ||
| 1657. | An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS (cohost.org) | |
| 277 points | 2022 | author blackle showed up | their comment | thread
“the website that hosts this is a new social media website that allows a limited amount of html (only inline css, no js or <style> elements), and a small subculture/arms…” | ||
| 1658. | Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri (one-from-nippon.ghost.io) | |
| 277 points | 2024 | author kizunajp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the kind words! <Shameless plug> This post is part of a newsletter we write semi-regularly. If you found this interesting, do take a look at our other…” | ||
| 1659. | XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams (rheaeve.substack.com) | |
| 277 points | 2024 | author sihe showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for pointing this out – we switched the examples. (although we also are very bad with timezone math at 2 am.)” | ||
| 1660. | Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write (scannedinavian.com) | |
| 277 points | 2024 | author shae showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“mclare posted the other half with visualizations: Check it out!” | ||
| 1661. | Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs (jakelazaroff.com) | |
| 277 points | 2025 | author jakelazaroff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The scenario was meant to be high level — I guess I should have gotten more into the various architectures and tradeoffs, but the article is already pretty long. The way…” | ||
| 1662. | If all the world were a monorepo (jtibs.substack.com) | |
| 277 points | 2025 | author jubileet showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the copy-edit, I should have indeed said "expression".” | ||
| 1663. | Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich) (kys.llc) | |
| 277 points | 2025 | author ilovewater showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to clarify a few things from the discussion here. Just to be clear: I didn't post this on Hacker News myself, and I'm not trying to present myself as high and…” | ||
| 1664. | The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com) | |
| 277 points | 2026 | author computerbuster showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author if anyone has questions – AMA” | ||
| 1665. | Building websites in Python with Flask (maximebf.com) | |
| 276 points | 2012 | author emixam showed up | their comment | thread
“I plan to write another full tutorial on blueprints. I use them a lot but I already found this post long enough :)” | ||
| 1666. | No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month (runeksvendsen.github.io) | |
| 276 points | 2017 | author runeks showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“They can, but how large a part of the world's work force do you think is able to get their employer to pay out their wage within a Bitcoin layer 2 system? If layer 2…” | ||
| 1667. | What you should know as a founder of a software company (qotoqot.com) | |
| 276 points | 2017 | author ivm showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree that "good enough UI" will do but I can't remember Wikipedia or Gmail having a terrible user experience on launch. In case of Reddit and HN, I started to use…” | ||
| 1668. | Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit (pasztor.at) | |
| 276 points | 2018 | author janoszen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This whole setup is built for a comparatively low traffic blog, so DNS caching won't help much. (On normal days I get ~100 visitors.) This is compounded by the TTL which…” | ||
| 1669. | Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and Airflow (github.com) | |
| 276 points | 2018 | author martin_loetzsch showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Connection information is configured in code through [1], see [2] for an example. It's very easy to run other workloads. Either by directly invoking Python functions…” | ||
| 1670. | Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network (blog.sia.tech) | |
| 276 points | 2019 | author zherbert showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to say I am thrilled to see the HN community discuss decentralized cloud storage in more detail. There are many drawbacks today and narrow use-cases, but our…” | ||
| 1671. | Image GPT (openai.com) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author markchen90 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I ran some early experiments a while ago, and it looked like adversarial examples for convnet classifiers didn't transfer to transformer classifiers and vice versa.…” | ||
| 1672. | Just Write the Parser (tiarkrompf.github.io) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author tiarkrompf showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions, as always. Thanks also for feedback on the format of the article. It's a bit of an experiment on how to present dense information effectively.…” | ||
| 1673. | FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (invisibleup.com) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author InvisibleUp showed up | their comment | thread
“You might enjoy this other article I wrote on this subject: It discusses how most people's preferred social spaces recently have moved online into centralized silos, and…” | ||
| 1674. | The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off (berk.es) | |
| 276 points | 2022 | author berkes showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not go into this, but it really is a problem that I, and most of my fellow hobby beekeepers undercharge. That we don't count our hours into the price means that…” | ||
| 1675. | Home Assistant: Three years later (eamonnsullivan.co.uk) | |
| 276 points | 2024 | author eamonnsullivan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I cut that out at the last minute, but my feeling is that if you need to use the dashboard, the automation has failed. I put the app on my wife's phone, but she…” | ||
| 1676. | Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com) | |
| 276 points | 2024 | author jlongster showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the article and the intensity is referring to the level of the light source used in the study to generate the data. See the study explained here: but…” | ||
| 1677. | App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) (rogueengine.io) | |
| 276 points | 2024 | author BeardScript showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks thunderbong for sharing. I underestimated how much people cared about this. I'm so happy to see everyone sharing their arguments.” | ||
| 1678. | Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text (explainshell.com) | |
| 275 points | 2013 | author idank showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback guys! - adding support for shell syntax is definitely the next thing on my todo list. It's a bit tricky since Python's shlex (which I'm using to…” | ||
| 1679. | You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 275 points | 2014 | author bhouston showed up | their comment | thread
“so I take responsibility for any ignorance. It was some time ago (three years) so it maybe that we were not using the /m option at the time with MSBuild.” | ||
| 1680. | Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (petevilter.me) | |
| 275 points | 2020 | author vilterp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for this unfudging! I knew I was fudging things up a bit, and I didn't really understand the relationships between Prolog, Datalog, Horn clauses, and…” | ||
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