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| 31. | Capsela, the game that changed my life (joseoncode.com) | |
| 328 points | 2014 | author jfroma showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot for the suggestion. I will definitely consider some of these. I have a daughter and I bought her two capselas back when I wrote the blog post two years ago…” | ||
| 32. | A tiling window manager written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 325 points | 2014 | author codingbinary showed up | their comment | thread
“I am sorry about the confusion. It happened later in the project when I split it into 3 components (4 as soon as I add Wayland support). I should probably mention that…” | ||
| 33. | What if journalists had story writing tools as powerful as those used by coders? (pudo.org) | |
| 320 points | 2014 | author pudo showed up | their comment | thread
“We're working on the code base and would love everybody's input here:” | ||
| 34. | Arrow: Better dates and times for Python (crsmithdev.com) | |
| 315 points | 2014 | author crsmithdev showed up | their comment | thread
“the other commenters here are correct, I used .now() and .utcnow() in order to match the stdlib API.” | ||
| 35. | An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2 (blog.paralleluniverse.co) | |
| 313 points | 2014 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“A capsule is not necessarily a fat jar. It can point to Maven dependencies that are downloaded on the first launch, and can later be shared by other capsules. A zip with…” | ||
| 36. | Python Best Practice Patterns (stevenloria.com) | |
| 311 points | 2014 | author sloria showed up | their comment | thread
“Must give credit where it's due: These patterns come from a talk by Vladimir Keleshev, author of docopt and excellent Pythonista. These are NOT my original work.” | ||
| 37. | Flappy Bird in Swift (github.com) | |
| 309 points | 2014 | author jashmenn showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect to see this here this morning. I'd intended to write a longer post :) In any case, here's a few things I learned about swift yesterday building this.…” | ||
| 38. | Winamp 2 in HTML5 (jordaneldredge.com) | |
| 299 points | 2014 | author captbaritone showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Looking for a new host for llama.mp3 () anyone want to help save my server?” | ||
| 39. | Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu) | |
| 298 points | 2014 | author amitp showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote most of these notes in 1997 while working on a game. Little did I realize that it'd be one of my most popular web pages. The diagrams are colorful but I don't…” | ||
| 40. | What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox (hackingdistributed.com) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author emin-gun-sirer showed up | their comment | thread
“I think there is some subtlety around the technical point that may be getting lost. Ittay Eyal and I were the ones who discovered an attack against Bitcoin called…” | ||
| 41. | Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python (github.com) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author thomasahle showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sorry things are not working out. I'd be very interested if you could open a report with the position involved. Sunfish move generation is tested pretty thoroughly,…” | ||
| 42. | Cello – Higher Level Programming in C (libcello.org) | |
| 291 points | 2014 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment | thread
“I always get asked two questions about libCello. 1. Why? 2. Is anyone using it for anything serious? The second one is easiest to answer: no. And most people are…” | ||
| 43. | Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme (itunes.apple.com) | |
| 290 points | 2014 | author rrradical showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the game and engine using the wonderful, and fast, Gambit Scheme (). I needed a lisp to manipulate the puzzles, because they aren't based in a strict grid. It…” | ||
| 44. | Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up (2013) (stefan.saasen.me) | |
| 288 points | 2014 | author stefans showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the kind comment, happy to see that other people and not just myself got something out of this exercise.” | ||
| 45. | An immutable operating system (augustl.com) | |
| 286 points | 2014 | author augustl showed up | their comment | thread
“The language is the part I also dread the most, and is also the part that will be the least unique and the least interesting to "re-invent".. I'll look into finding an…” | ||
| 46. | Air Traffic Control Simulator (zlsa.github.io) | |
| 284 points | 2014 | author zlsa showed up | their comment | thread
“- I wanted to be a realistic as possible, hence the long callsigns. However, all you have to type is the shortest unique callsign and that aircraft will be selected. -…” | ||
| 47. | Smashing Swift (nomothetis.svbtle.com) | |
| 281 points | 2014 | author afthonos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To be fully honest, it's somewhere between the two. Yes, I'm aware of the irony of the statement. But what I failed to make clear in the post is that the code in the…” | ||
| 48. | Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter (projectgus.com) | |
| 279 points | 2014 | author angusgr showed up | their comment | thread
“You're spot on about the PLL stage, a few people on Reddit pointed the same thing out when I first posted it. Makes sense, although I still think it's interesting they…” | ||
| 49. | Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA (moyix.blogspot.com) | |
| 278 points | 2014 | author moyix showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wanted to make it clear that the original technique for breaking Spotify DRM is not mine - it was developed by Wang et al. in their excellent paper, Steal This Movie:…” | ||
| 50. | You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 275 points | 2014 | author bhouston showed up | their comment | thread
“so I take responsibility for any ignorance. It was some time ago (three years) so it maybe that we were not using the /m option at the time with MSBuild.” | ||
| 51. | Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby (github.com) | |
| 268 points | 2014 | author sunkarapk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I covered almost everything in the documentation. And there is also a small example which is hosted at. Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks” | ||
| 52. | Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007) (dheera.net) | |
| 265 points | 2014 | author dheera showed up | their comment | thread
“IIRC it first appeared on Slashdot. Not sure what prompted someone to repost it to HN today. But that's cool because I see people continue doing this on a daily basis.” | ||
| 53. | Docker Image Insecurity (titanous.com) | |
| 263 points | 2014 | author Titanous showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did not quote this announcement, only linked to it. If this is intended to be prototype code, it should not be enabled by default, and certainly shouldn't be printing…” | ||
| 54. | Interactive SICP (xuanji.appspot.com) | |
| 262 points | 2014 | author zodiac showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry for forgetting to enable billing on appengine - the page should be displaying now. I shared Interactive SICP with HN last year (), and thought it was time to share…” | ||
| 55. | Schwab password policies and two factor authentication (jeremytunnell.com) | |
| 257 points | 2014 | author jeremyt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“To be fair, the bug only prevents you from activating 2fa. If you manage to activate it, it seems to work fine.” | ||
| 56. | How to write a developer resume that will get you hired (slideshare.net) | |
| 251 points | 2014 | author peteretep showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a tiny bit Perl/UK-centric, but I think you could easily apply it to other markets. Happy to answer any questions...” | ||
| 57. | Google outed me (zdnet.com) | |
| 246 points | 2014 | author violet_blue showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not entirely agree with his comment, but I included it because it made a strong, though extreme, point about the state of journalism in what he felt led to what…” | ||
| 58. | Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures (lukauskas.co.uk) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author Sauliusl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is a difference between C/C++, but for the purposes of this article it does not matter -- the point I am trying to make is that you would not use a hash table in…” | ||
| 59. | A 30-minute Introduction to Rust (doc.rust-lang.org) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author steveklabnik showed up | their comment | thread
“it ended up being the actual intro. I hope to go over it again soon, and make it better. There's nothing super wrong with it, but you can always improve! Feedback…” | ||
| 60. | Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple (fix-macosx.com) | |
| 244 points | 2014 | author ljfuller showed up | their comment | thread
“Howdy. Author here. By way of introduction, I'm also the author of PLCrashReporter (), ported Java 6 to Mac OS X (a.k.a Soylatte), and -- this might lower some folk's…” | ||
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