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| 2641. | C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python (fendrich.se) | |
| 201 points | 2012 | author daivd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The program is I/O-bound, so the only speed improvement comes from not having to start up the Python interpreter. If the task was CPU bound, you would get a great…” | ||
| 2642. | The State of ZFS on Linux (clusterhq.com) | |
| 201 points | 2014 | author ryao showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to respond with questions. I will be watching for questions throughout the day.” | ||
| 2643. | A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To (cooltrainer.org) | |
| 201 points | 2016 | author Lammy showed up | their comment | thread
“There will be an update to this page soon that talks about FreeBSD 11, dual booting, laptops (Mac EFI weirdness, lagg for lan/wlan failover), updates to some out of date…” | ||
| 2644. | The often-overlooked random forest kernel (rmarcus.info) | |
| 201 points | 2017 | author RMarcus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author -- this is a technique to use a trained random forest as a kernel function for similar data. It can be used as a sort of primitive transfer learning, or…” | ||
| 2645. | The State of Caching in Go (blog.dgraph.io) | |
| 201 points | 2019 | author mrjn showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing this post! We've elaborated the various issues we encountered trying to use a concurrent LRU cache in Dgraph and our dissatisfaction at existing…” | ||
| 2646. | Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016) (queue.acm.org) | |
| 201 points | 2019 | author heinrichhartman showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see this on HN! This article is quite dated. I ran the Statistics for Engineers class at various conferences over the years, and updated the material. I…” | ||
| 2647. | A hidden gem in sound symmetry (soundshader.github.io) | |
| 201 points | 2020 | author gbh444g showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few comments on how I came up with this idea. I've been trying to find a "proper" connection between audible sound and visible shape, a connection that would not only…” | ||
| 2648. | Progress bars still lie (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 201 points | 2020 | author azhenley showed up | their comment | thread
“Anyone have thoughts on my data-driven approach described as Solution #2? Basically: tell me how long it took other people.” | ||
| 2649. | Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews (dropbox.tech) | |
| 201 points | 2021 | author wsuen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am very excited to share this post about how we use machine learning at Dropbox to optimize our document preview generation process. Enjoy! I'll be online for the next…” | ||
| 2650. | Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated (doesnotexist.codes) | |
| 201 points | 2021 | author moyix showed up | their comment | thread
“Some details on the model: * Trained 17GB of code from the top 10,000 most popular Debian packages. The source files were deduplicated using a process similar to the…” | ||
| 2651. | Elfcat: Visualize ELF Binaries (github.com) | |
| 201 points | 2021 | author higherhalf showed up | their comment | thread
“Don't know how I missed it on HN, must have been the grey link. First I'd like to say that right now this is just the first release, and it's a bit raw so far. That's…” | ||
| 2652. | When static makes your C code 10 times faster (mazzo.li) | |
| 201 points | 2021 | author rostayob showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree that marking the variable as const is the "right" thing to do here. I reported the investigation as-is because removing a static declaration made the code…” | ||
| 2653. | A Local-First Case Study (jakelazaroff.com) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author jakelazaroff showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“A few thoughts on this: - First and (maybe most importantly), WebRTC in browsers requires a central server for signaling. So unless web browsers loosen that constraint,…” | ||
| 2654. | Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS (sailor.li) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author Starlevel004 showed up | their comment | thread
“Oh. I wrote this post. I didn't expect it to make a second round here. I'll elaborate on anything in here if anyone wants to know things.” | ||
| 2655. | Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access (goodfire.ai) | |
| 201 points | 2024 | author tMcGrath showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 2656. | Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020) (ilograph.com) | |
| 201 points | 2025 | author billyp-rva showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“When I re-read this (it's from 2020) I had the same thought and wrote up an extended example of this just last month:” | ||
| 2657. | The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works (mindthenerd.com) | |
| 201 points | 2025 | author ednite showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn’t expect this to hit the front page. Thanks to the OP for sharing, and to everyone for reading and commenting. The mix of encouragement and critique is…” | ||
| 2658. | Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io) | |
| 200 points | 2013 | author egonschiele showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You're asking the right questions! There's a tutorial already that does this very well: My goal was just to provide a gentle introduction.” | ||
| 2659. | Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable (arxiv.org) | |
| 200 points | 2013 | author emin-gun-sirer showed up | their comment | thread
“Those of you looking for a tl;dr can check out this blog post () on the attack and its implications.” | ||
| 2660. | Golang concepts from an OOP point of view (github.com) | |
| 200 points | 2016 | author lucio showed up | their comment | thread
“any pull request fixing typos, spelling and grammar, is welcomed.” | ||
| 2661. | Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer (arxiv.org) | |
| 200 points | 2017 | author nshazeer showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes - overfitting is a problem. We employed dropout to combat overfitting. Even with dropout, we found that adding additional capacity provides diminishing returns once…” | ||
| 2662. | 3D scatterplot of an image (alexander.engineering) | |
| 200 points | 2017 | author Overv showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“not sure if I can easily fix this. The WebGL check is handled by the third-party scatter plot library.” | ||
| 2663. | The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization (gravitational.com) | |
| 200 points | 2018 | author kevin_nisbet showed up | their comment | thread
“Using crypto hashes to anonymize data is one of those mistakes I've seen several times, and wanted to draw some attention to the issue so that hopefully we can all learn…” | ||
| 2664. | Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript (raganwald.com) | |
| 200 points | 2018 | author braythwayt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I take that as a compliment. Not everything is meant to be deployed to production.” | ||
| 2665. | A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol (hal.inria.fr) | |
| 200 points | 2019 | author bblipp showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask questions about our work, I'll try to monitor this thread and come back to answer.” | ||
| 2666. | Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher (srvaroa.github.io) | |
| 200 points | 2019 | author srvaroa showed up | their comment | thread
“That was exactly the intent of the title, reflecting the reaction we (almost always) get from developers: "k8s is at fault", the result of most investigations is "not…” | ||
| 2667. | I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) (mtlynch.io) | |
| 200 points | 2019 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Cool to see this pop up on HN again. I was wondering why I was getting so many Twitter notifications all of a sudden. As a quick update, I continue to be happy with my…” | ||
| 2668. | RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website (github.com) | |
| 200 points | 2021 | author pedro1976 showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for those tough nuts :) I am working on a successor of this POC called rich-rss [0], which contains a full rewrite of rss-proxy in a strongly typed language. [0]” | ||
| 2669. | The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child (morganya.org) | |
| 200 points | 2022 | author morganya showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Apologies that my website host hasn't been able to handle the traffic generated by this - I'm working on fixing that. But I'd be happy to answer questions! I'll be able…” | ||
| 2670. | Painless desktop containers for everyday development (dock.orion3.space) | |
| 200 points | 2022 | author smoochy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“folks. If you have any questions that you're too lazy to email - I'll be checking on this thread for the next couple of hours.” | ||
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