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| 121. | Turing Drawings (wry.me) | |
| 154 points | 2013 | author tachyonbeam showed up | their comment | thread
“It only has 3 states and 6 symbols, so the transition table is not that big. If you visualized it slow enough, you might be able to understand the process behind it, so…” | ||
| 122. | Tom, Dick & Harry (jasq.org) | |
| 153 points | 2013 | author dxbydt showed up | their comment | thread
“Story is loosely based on my real life. As in, I was/am the Harry. At bofa, my previous employer, I tried to be a nice quant & find math-y solutions to what turned out…” | ||
| 123. | Show HN: Make your app handle going offline (github.hubspot.com) | |
| 151 points | 2013 | author zackbloom showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree completely, this is definitely not an attempt to resurrect Google Gears. I would love to see how more people use it, and what sorts of problems they run into…” | ||
| 124. | Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison (blog.drewolson.org) | |
| 150 points | 2013 | author drewolson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“From what I've read/seen, the go blocks are lightweight thread-like processes multiplexed onto a thread pool. You may be correct about using Thread/sleep, ideally I…” | ||
| 125. | France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements (techcrunch.com) | |
| 148 points | 2013 | author romaind showed up | their comment | thread
“I see that everyone is as confused as I was with the "milliards de milliards" :) "Millions of trillions" is the right way to say it in English I believe (if you don't…” | ||
| 126. | Towards a better Erlang - The Excitement of Elixir (devintorr.es) | |
| 147 points | 2013 | author devinus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If Erlang's community is small, Elixir has an even smaller community. Elixir did just recently rise to the #56 most popular language on Github[1] from #57 however, so…” | ||
| 127. | 600K concurrent HTTP connections with Clojure and http-kit (shenfeng.me) | |
| 145 points | 2013 | author shenedu showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“The server is open source, on github: Test test code is also on github: Suggestions very welcome!” | ||
| 128. | Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go (tamber.com) | |
| 145 points | 2013 | author argusdusty showed up | their comment | thread
“They are unrelated. We did take the time to examine writing our own full search engine based on Lucene, like the aforementioned search library. The reasons why we didn't…” | ||
| 129. | Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative (yash.info) | |
| 144 points | 2013 | author yashg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would like to hold balance in My PayPal account only because of a possibility of a chargeback or a dispute. I lament RBI for not allowing me to do that. I lament…” | ||
| 130. | How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system (smritiweb.com) | |
| 144 points | 2013 | author ngkabra showed up | their comment | thread
“The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference. However, as notthetup points out, there are lots of…” | ||
| 131. | Graph: Abstractions for Structured Computation (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 143 points | 2013 | author w01fe showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'll be here to answer questions and read comments. Please let us know what you think, and help us make plumbing and Graph better. Thanks!” | ||
| 132. | Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-throughput Databases (engineering.linkedin.com) | |
| 142 points | 2013 | author apurvamehta showed up | their comment | thread
“We could use large pages directly. But, as I mentioned in the article, the performance gains would be negligible compared to the gains that come from having things in…” | ||
| 133. | Python Practice Projects (pythonpracticeprojects.com) | |
| 142 points | 2013 | author bmallerd showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“JadeNB you've hit the nail on the head! I have found that each language is better suited towards certain problems. This was a key motivation for making a set of problems…” | ||
| 134. | Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks (blog.balancedpayments.com) | |
| 141 points | 2013 | author npcomplete showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks! There are certain aspects of fraud which can be open and will definitely help the community of anti-fraudsters. This was our way of contributing something back.” | ||
| 135. | Don't write code first (blog.reemer.com) | |
| 141 points | 2013 | author kareemm showed up | their comment | thread
“This is demonstrably not true.” | ||
| 136. | Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite (mapbox.com) | |
| 140 points | 2013 | author celoyd showed up | their comment | thread
“We’re doing almost the opposite – as little non-permanent snow and ice as we can manage. The reason is simply that we want to make this as useful as possible as a…” | ||
| 137. | My self-published book on being a great developer (theseniorsoftwareengineer.com) | |
| 138 points | 2013 | author davetron5000 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Apologies that the design of the website has been so distracting. I ultimately decided that I needed to ship, but I can see where those commenters are coming from (and I…” | ||
| 138. | Non-blocking transactional atomicity (bailis.org) | |
| 136 points | 2013 | author pbailis showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hmm. The invariant we're trying to maintain is that any write in 'good' should have its transactional "siblings" in either 'good' or 'pending' on their respective…” | ||
| 139. | The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator (scruss.com) | |
| 136 points | 2013 | author scruss showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm guessing not everyone on HN is a huge fan of “Strictly Ballroom”, as the title is a key quote for dance movie otaku. It was also a weak joke about testing for random…” | ||
| 140. | How We Unexpectedly Got 60K Users in 60 Hours (2012) (slideshare.net) | |
| 135 points | 2013 | author patrickambron showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right, before the actual surge, there was a lot of upfront work understanding how to build our product and how to tell our story. That said, once you have the…” | ||
| 141. | Zombie VCs (daniellemorrill.com) | |
| 134 points | 2013 | author dmor showed up | their comment | thread
“I have presented Crunchbase data as is without any "cleaning" but I assure you I have run a sanity check on the companies involved, and emails are pouring in from…” | ||
| 142. | Self-Destructing Cookies – add-on for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org) | |
| 134 points | 2013 | author ove showed up | their comment | thread
“Maybe I can add to the discussion by outlining my motivation for writing SDC. I'm currently in the process of compiling the results of an automated crawl of thousands of…” | ||
| 143. | A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js (intentionjs.com) | |
| 134 points | 2013 | author joe8756438 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all of the comments it's been fun watching the dialog unfold! A few notes: This solution will, in most cases, be part of a broader "responsive" strategy.…” | ||
| 144. | Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit (berbaquero.github.com) | |
| 132 points | 2013 | author baquerober showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't had the chance to test Reeddit directly on the Nexus 7, but if the sidebar is hidden, you should be able to see it by swiping to the right or tapping the…” | ||
| 145. | How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime (blog.balancedpayments.com) | |
| 131 points | 2013 | author msherry showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there. I'm the author of this post. If I'm reading this correctly, your suggestion would alter a single table online, and at the end, I would end up with a table with…” | ||
| 146. | How Erlang does scheduling (jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author jlouis showed up | their comment | thread
“Haskell and Go just take a different approach. For some problems that approach is way better, so it is not a question of what the best way to do this is. In fact, the…” | ||
| 147. | Why is there only one Elon Musk? (blog.paintbottle.com) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author jnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In it, I clearly outline that the topic of discussion is -- specifically -- childlike wonder and what happens when it mixes with wealth. Not "that every wealthy person…” | ||
| 148. | Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author aria showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments.” | ||
| 149. | The RESTful CookBook (restcookbook.com) | |
| 129 points | 2013 | author jaytaph showed up | their comment | thread
“and yes: it's a cry for help :) I have too many projects that never gets off the ground, and hopefully this will trigger (at least some) developers to answer questions,…” | ||
| 150. | The OAuth Bible (github.com) | |
| 129 points | 2013 | author nijiko showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I am the author of this, never expected to see it here! I was extremely surprised when my friend mentioned it was on here and Hacker News wouldn't let me comment.…” | ||
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