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| 2161. | How to run an event that doesn't suck (karmanivero.us) | |
| 232 points | 2022 | author karmaniverous showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I guess that was sort of my point: as long as I got what turned out to be the IMPORTANT stuff right, nobody really cared about the audio. I mean something like 80% of…” | ||
| 2162. | Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad (github.com) | |
| 232 points | 2024 | author justinnk showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your question. Yes, similar to what you describe but not quite. The prime use case is to apply DiscoGrad together with a gradient descent optimizer to…” | ||
| 2163. | Making your own hot sauce (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 232 points | 2024 | author hermitcrab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Fair comment. I did think about mentioning that. But I didn't want to get too much into the weeds. Better to watch some videos for all the details.” | ||
| 2164. | Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com) | |
| 232 points | 2025 | author sam showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“some other posters have touched on the reasons. Much of the focus on high performing tokamaks shifted to ITER in recent decades, though this is now changing as fusion…” | ||
| 2165. | UX Crash Course: Fundamentals (thehipperelement.com) | |
| 231 points | 2014 | author JoelMarsh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for pointing out my mistake: I TOTALLY AGREE about the new tab/window issue, and I have now fixed it. That must have been brutal on a mobile device. It was…” | ||
| 2166. | TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2014 | author vhz showed up | their comment | thread
“Getting around timing attacks is not too different in Haskell from doing the same thing in C. First, there's 2 different classes of timing issues: 1) cryptographic ones…” | ||
| 2167. | Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager (bitwarden.com) | |
| 231 points | 2016 | author xxkylexx showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all. I am the author of this project if you would like to ask any questions. Many have been answered on Reddit already but I will participate here as well. You can…” | ||
| 2168. | LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2016 | author andreaorru showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The reason for the single letters is that those are the actual names of the 6502 registers. Glad you like it overall. :)” | ||
| 2169. | Freeing the Web from the Browser (reinterpretcast.com) | |
| 231 points | 2018 | author joesavage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It’s definitely true that extending existing browsers is the fastest route to this kind of behaviour (though it’s not clear to me if it’s the best route). In fact, if…” | ||
| 2170. | Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years (hackernoon.com) | |
| 231 points | 2018 | author brennanm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry. I was just saying you have a point and I was being a little extreme in the article” | ||
| 2171. | Sample cloud-native application with microservices (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2019 | author alpb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We wanted to keep the demo app as simple as possible for readers. Adding Bazel would introduce another layer of complexity whereas most devs can read bash scripts that…” | ||
| 2172. | Numpy Clone in Common Lisp (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2019 | author guicho271828 showed up | their comment | thread
“IBM is currently focusing on the combination of machine learning and reasoning, also called neural-symbolic AI [1], to combine the best of both worlds (noise robustness…” | ||
| 2173. | Andreessen vs. Thiel (2017) (allenleein.github.io) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author allenleein showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you for the precious feedback! I'm working on it.” | ||
| 2174. | Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author rustshellscript showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your feedback. This library is calling std::process::command underneath without any shell dependency, which I believe is the same as plumbum’s run* APIs and I…” | ||
| 2175. | Zoomquilt 2 (2007) (zoomquilt2.com) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author baumgarn showed up | their comment | thread
“The original implementations of Zoomquilt 1+2 were done in flash. I created the HTML5 port in 2013. Zoomquilt 2 consists of 88 single images, each 1024x768px. Basically…” | ||
| 2176. | Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? (mtlynch.io) | |
| 231 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading! In my defense, it wasn't that I didn't realize one byte per syscall was inefficient; it was that I didn't realize that I was doing one syscall per…” | ||
| 2177. | R for Data Science (r4ds.had.co.nz) | |
| 230 points | 2016 | author hadley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to answer any questions. The book should be in print by (hopefully) the end of this year, or definitely by Jan 2017. The content will not change…” | ||
| 2178. | How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network (medium.com) | |
| 230 points | 2017 | author askldjd showed up | their comment | thread
“Completely agreed. My jaws dropped when I saw the INITIAL_JIFFIES. The kernel developers really saved our butt. I could not imagine debugging this problem if…” | ||
| 2179. | Boden – Native mobile cross-platform applications (boden.io) | |
| 230 points | 2019 | author gitoby showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We didn't expect so much attention and are happy about the feedback! Ask us anything. With regard to the GPL licensing issues brought up here: We are aware that the GPL…” | ||
| 2180. | Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous (pythonspeed.com) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author itamarst showed up | their comment | thread
“to reduce confusion I changed the article to use a new term, "hidden mutability".” | ||
| 2181. | United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus (bookwithcarry.com) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author tejasmanohar showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Didn't realize this blew up on HN... We don't know the cause of the difference in price, but we're comparing two basic economy tickets here so if there's any fare…” | ||
| 2182. | All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL (devguide.python.org) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author di showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. If you hover over the individual bars, it will give you more detail like start/end month and total lifespan.” | ||
| 2183. | Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) | |
| 230 points | 2021 | author MKarcher showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Well, this is not your run-of-the-mill Desktop Computer, but it is an Intel-based system designed as Server. Servers tend to have (a lot of) more RAM than desktop…” | ||
| 2184. | You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com) | |
| 230 points | 2021 | author lproven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“Hi. Article author here. I link to that site several times in the blog post – but I also explicitly point out that the DOS version is _not_ freeware. There is no such…” | ||
| 2185. | Which table format do LLMs understand best? (improvingagents.com) | |
| 230 points | 2025 | author mattcollins showed up | their comment | thread
“This has made me chuckle several times - thanks!” | ||
| 2186. | When did people favor composition over inheritance? (sicpers.info) | |
| 230 points | 2025 | author grahamlee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote “ But even a modestly more recent language like Java has visibility attributes that let a class control what its subtypes can view or change, meaning that any…” | ||
| 2187. | Show HN: Nim in Action (book.picheta.me) | |
| 229 points | 2017 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print! Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to…” | ||
| 2188. | AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford (medium.com) | |
| 229 points | 2018 | author mostafab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1. I agree that graph convolutions make a lot of sense. However, it is not shown yet that they are better than SMILES, although it might just be a matter of time. A lot…” | ||
| 2189. | Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet (interviewcake.com) | |
| 229 points | 2019 | author gameguy43 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions about data structures, algorithms, and coding interviews!” | ||
| 2190. | Interesting Programming Languages (btbytes.com) | |
| 229 points | 2019 | author btbytes showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me. At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.” | ||
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