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| 1. | 2048 (gabrielecirulli.github.io) | |
| 2903 points | 2014 | author terabytest showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another…” | ||
| 2. | Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org) | |
| 1557 points | 2014 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me anything. And don’t miss the related work section at the end — there’s a ton of links there to inspiring work.” | ||
| 3. | Game about squares (gameaboutsquares.com) | |
| 910 points | 2014 | author campugnatus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not very smart...” | ||
| 4. | Bézier Clock (jackf.net) | |
| 810 points | 2014 | author frigaardj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the feedback - really good to hear you like the clock. I've added some more animation easings as per your suggestions. To clarify: when continual…” | ||
| 5. | Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s (kristopolous.github.io) | |
| 803 points | 2014 | author kristopolous showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I had no idea this was posted until I just rolled out of bed. Feel free to ask any questions here or hit me up on gchat/skype/aim/facebook/yahoo with the same username…” | ||
| 6. | Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities (cacm.acm.org) | |
| 743 points | 2014 | author pgbovine showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Please email course correction requests to philip@pgbovine.net ... I'll probably miss a few important corrections amidst the hundreds of comments. As a clarification, a…” | ||
| 7. | Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com) | |
| 641 points | 2014 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“It took a few days to get the courage to share it online. It probably took you about 20 seconds to not read my book, dismiss it, and post a comment telling other to do…” | ||
| 8. | The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (nautil.us) | |
| 639 points | 2014 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting it up. Would love to hear your thoughts and constructive feedback. Cheers. (PS the references linked to at the bottom of the post are packed with…” | ||
| 9. | Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary (rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com) | |
| 600 points | 2014 | author danielsf showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“hit me up with questions you've got.” | ||
| 10. | The Rise and Rise of Television Torture (interpretthis.org) | |
| 524 points | 2014 | author aychedee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I pretty much figured that 24 was generally acknowledged to be torture full. I wrote that piece after spending the holidays binge watching X-Files and Fringe. Such…” | ||
| 11. | Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013) (helloerik.com) | |
| 503 points | 2014 | author eflowers showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to talk more or ask specific questions on problems you have or how to do certain things with the Less or grid, post it here or on the disqus comments on the…” | ||
| 12. | AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 492 points | 2014 | author nnethercote showed up | their comment | thread
“I was extremely careful to keep the tone of the post neutral. This paragraph sums it up: If you think this post is unreasonable, I think your skin is too thin.” | ||
| 13. | WebGL Water (madebyevan.com) | |
| 467 points | 2014 | author constexpr showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've done much more awesome stuff with WebGL since I made this demo but it's for my startup and is not public yet. We're actually looking for a backend engineer with…” | ||
| 14. | A Server Naming Scheme (mnx.io) | |
| 465 points | 2014 | author elasticdog showed up | their comment | thread
“the important thing isn't the abbreviations, but having a standard that you can agree upon and use consistently. The listed items are just an example scheme that tries…” | ||
| 15. | Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager (extremetech.com) | |
| 417 points | 2014 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“I was being ironic :) I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I was…” | ||
| 16. | Is It Better to Rent or Buy? (nytimes.com) | |
| 408 points | 2014 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“Thought I’d highlight my favorite, perhaps non-obvious feature: the slope of the charts tells you whether the variable is positively or negatively correlated with the…” | ||
| 17. | How to take over the computer of a Maven Central user (blog.ontoillogical.com) | |
| 405 points | 2014 | author ontoillogical showed up | their comment | thread
“Brian are you speaking as a representative of Sonatype, or are you a 3rd party?” | ||
| 18. | Fucking Shell Scripts (fuckingshellscripts.org) | |
| 385 points | 2014 | author dogas showed up | their comment | thread
“Well, this is a surprise! This project was mainly borne out of our frustrations with Chef and then Ansible for configuring our servers. A few thoughts: 1) This project…” | ||
| 19. | MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data (metricsgraphicsjs.org) | |
| 380 points | 2014 | author hamilton showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I believe to my knowledge the only thing that requires bootstrap.js is the popover stuff, which we plan to decouple anyway. Make an issue on github and we'll get to it…” | ||
| 20. | What it's like to use Haskell (engineering.imvu.com) | |
| 378 points | 2014 | author implicit showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“We've trained a few people up on Haskell at IMVU now, and I'm starting to think that learning Haskell is at its very hardest when you're building tiny toy applications…” | ||
| 21. | Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org) | |
| 375 points | 2014 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“These are the most important things I learned about engineering management after five years of doing it. There are lots of subtleties between the lines, so let me know…” | ||
| 22. | A Hacker’s Guide to Git (wildlyinaccurate.com) | |
| 372 points | 2014 | author wldlyinaccurate showed up | their comment | thread
“This is something I hear a lot, and I agree with it to a certain extent, but I purposely left out any mention of GUIs for a few reasons: 1. The guide is intended for…” | ||
| 23. | How I Start: Haskell (howistart.org) | |
| 369 points | 2014 | author coolsunglasses showed up | their comment | thread
“It's intentionally tiny, so a bit trivial, but here's a URL shortener in Scotty. Scotty is a library that gives you a toolkit for making webapps in a manner similar to…” | ||
| 24. | Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (oliveremberton.com) | |
| 359 points | 2014 | author oliveremberton showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given: 1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up to…” | ||
| 25. | Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr (medium.com) | |
| 356 points | 2014 | author mbohanes showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you very much for your comments, some of which were really thought-provoking. I will address them in a separate blog post when I find the time, probably next…” | ||
| 26. | Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python (lav.io) | |
| 352 points | 2014 | author saaaam showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Original author here. I'm not sure about the best tool for creating new .srt files, but for films, you can find pretty much anything on opensubtitles.org or…” | ||
| 27. | The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window (wired.com) | |
| 350 points | 2014 | author aatish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting it up to the front page. I love finding cool science in ordinary/everyday places, and am curious to hear people's responses to the piece. Cheers.” | ||
| 28. | Pigshell – Unix the Web (pigshell.com) | |
| 333 points | 2014 | author tubelite showed up | their comment | thread
“- Please use a desktop browser (Chrome preferred). While mobile browsers kinda-sorta work if you're just clicking through the examples, keyboard input doesn't work on…” | ||
| 29. | XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io) | |
| 329 points | 2014 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment | thread
“and I can't verify its accuracy towards real server behavior: It's fake in a lot of ways, especially in its input model. It's well-commented and designed as a codebase…” | ||
| 30. | Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 329 points | 2014 | author kenfox showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a nice trick to put the animations side-by-side. Thanks! I had looping versions of the images, but changed them to stop because it seemed confusing to not clearly…” | ||
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