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| 31. | Our Django Book is Launched (pydanny.com) | |
| 328 points | 2013 | author pydanny showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Because of the formatting issues of Kindle and ePub, the negative reviews Python books get when formatting breaks in those formats, we're not sure yet it we'll publish…” | ||
| 32. | DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (ds9a.nl) | |
| 322 points | 2013 | author ahubert showed up | their comment | thread
“Turns out I am a bioinformatician these days, ten years after writing this page. I work in an actual lab, with biologists, getting results. is what I do. DNA is not a…” | ||
| 33. | How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard (mikeperham.com) | |
| 316 points | 2013 | author mperham showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the kind words. Always nice to wake up to a DDoS of my site at 2AM. :-) Recurring revenue is a pricing change I'm seriously considering, I just don't have a…” | ||
| 34. | Fold the DOM like paper (oridomi.com) | |
| 315 points | 2013 | author dmotz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“OriDomi actually does granular feature tests and has no awareness of what particular browser you're using. While the recent versions of IE do support CSS 3D transforms…” | ||
| 35. | Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server (github.com) | |
| 311 points | 2013 | author joewalnes showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“If you use this on top of programs like bash, well ermm, you get what you deserve ;). Here's an example of how I used websocketd to create a little dashboard for…” | ||
| 36. | The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping (ecommerce.shopify.com) | |
| 310 points | 2013 | author spiredigital showed up | their comment | thread
“and a totally valid question! I started my blog about eCommerce / drop shipping for a number of reasons: 1) To expand my professional network and opportunities I just…” | ||
| 37. | SkyMall's SkyFall (priceonomics.com) | |
| 309 points | 2013 | author rohin showed up | their comment | thread
“We published this about a month and a half ago so the stock price information in the post is out of date. Since then, the stock price of the acquiring company (XBTC) has…” | ||
| 38. | Macros in Python (github.com) | |
| 300 points | 2013 | author lihaoyi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I just put up a Detailed Guide: That goes into more detail of how macros are written, and walks you through writing a simple but useful macro (the quicklambda macro).…” | ||
| 39. | Terra – a low-level counterpart to Lua (terralang.org) | |
| 289 points | 2013 | author zdevito showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right that we designed Terra primarily to be an enviornment for generate low-level code. In particular, we want to be able to easily design and prototype DSLs and…” | ||
| 40. | Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly (github.com) | |
| 285 points | 2013 | author Overv showed up | their comment | thread
“I did look at some of the assembly output from C code, especially for frequently called functions like get_block/set_block, but other than that I used no reference but…” | ||
| 41. | No more CSS and HTML, just JS (ojjs.org) | |
| 283 points | 2013 | author evanmoran showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“OJ is trying to solve the View layer by creating objects that act like website building blocks. So you can insert a YouTubeVideo or a TwitterButton as easily as you add…” | ||
| 42. | Math ∩ Programming (jeremykun.com) | |
| 282 points | 2013 | author j2kun showed up | their comment | thread
“Blog author here (all of my friends tell me immediately when I get on HN). I appreciate the criticism. I'm aware of the huge gaps, and I've had low-priority goals to…” | ||
| 43. | Probablistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io) | |
| 281 points | 2013 | author zenburnmyface showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't have any plans to write that blog post, but I'll can provide some resources: 1. 2. You mention: "trained in mathematical Bayesian Inference in an Econometrics…” | ||
| 44. | Why does Angular.js rock? (angular-tips.com) | |
| 281 points | 2013 | author Foxandxss showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think that there is a lot of comparison out there to create yet another one. On the other hand, I don't have a deep knowledge of the competence to compare and I don't…” | ||
| 45. | Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm (technotes.iangreenleaf.com) | |
| 278 points | 2013 | author youngian showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I posted a quick follow-up with some corrections and other items of interest that came out of the discussion:. And of course, if you would like more articles written by…” | ||
| 46. | 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…” | ||
| 47. | (λove (print (eval (read)))) (readevalprintlove.fogus.me) | |
| 272 points | 2013 | author fogus showed up | their comment | thread
“The announcement with some preliminaries can be found at Enjoy.” | ||
| 48. | What I’ve learned in 5 years of running a SaaS (mir.aculo.us) | |
| 271 points | 2013 | author madrobby showed up | their comment | thread
“I replace my main computer (MacBook Pro) every 1-2 years with a maxed out top of the line model. I keep the one I had before around as a backup in case my laptop breaks…” | ||
| 49. | How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad (alexp.github.io) | |
| 270 points | 2013 | author alexp showed up | their comment | thread
“Exactly as digitalboss commented plus a custom crafted html/css on top of twitter bootstrap. It's not perfect, but it does the job. Best, Alex.” | ||
| 50. | You are dangerously bad at cryptography (happybearsoftware.com) | |
| 268 points | 2013 | author alinajaf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I would have liked to have made useful suggestions, but having made so many errors with cryptography in the past, I don't really feel qualified to do so. I do however…” | ||
| 51. | Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero (empiricalzeal.com) | |
| 266 points | 2013 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of the post. I realize that it's a somewhat challenging read, at least compared to my usual style, but my goal was to stay as true to the physics as…” | ||
| 52. | Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 (econsultancy.com) | |
| 266 points | 2013 | author lakey showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all of your comments. To clarify: 1. The article clearly isn't an attack on HTML5 itself, but of designers who happen to be building HTML5 sites with a lack…” | ||
| 53. | Skype account hijack technique may affect all users (community.skype.com) | |
| 265 points | 2013 | author littletables showed up | their comment | thread
“27 Apr 2013 02:40 PDT. Here it is in its entirety with updates as of ten minutes ago:” | ||
| 54. | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) | |
| 251 points | 2013 | author baumgarn showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the mention! The project was done in 2004, first implementation in shockwave, later flash. I redid the whole thing in js+canvas a few weeks ago, finally with…” | ||
| 55. | The physics of that ‘kickalicious’ kick (empiricalzeal.com) | |
| 247 points | 2013 | author aatish showed up | their comment | thread
“and am happy to field questions on the post. Do people accept that the video isn't faked? The data isn't perfect, but it was good enough to convince me that the video is…” | ||
| 56. | DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy? (etherrag.blogspot.jp) | |
| 247 points | 2013 | author tokyovapr showed up | their comment | thread
“I did start that blog just for that post. I have never blogged before in any substantial way, but the naivete of comments from the CEO of DDG and the fact that users…” | ||
| 57. | Confessions of A Job Destroyer (decomplecting.org) | |
| 244 points | 2013 | author canweriotnow showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, I wrote this post and it's gotten more points than my cumulative HN karma. But it's also gotten better discussion than anything I've ever posted to HN, so I'm…” | ||
| 58. | Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM (veracode.com) | |
| 242 points | 2013 | author abadidea showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I work in/study static analysis, so "running the program" would be entirely defeating the fun ;)” | ||
| 59. | Loupe: Etsy's New Monitoring Stack (codeascraft.com) | |
| 242 points | 2013 | author aba_sababa showed up | their comment | thread
“Accuracy is okay - we err on the side of noise, but it does routinely pick up anomalies. It doesn't currently account for seasonal trends, though. We aim for 100% CPU…” | ||
| 60. | Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet (rubytune.com) | |
| 241 points | 2013 | author sudara showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to try the word out, see if it felt right. But yes, my impression is that it's normally a developer who "trends towards doing systems administration" – so…” | ||
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