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| 91. | Immutable Data Collections for Javascript (github.com) | |
| 204 points | 2014 | author leebyron showed up | their comment | thread
“It's definitely inspired by mori (and clojure and Haskell) and the reason I ended up building something different was to present a more JavaScript friendly API (and…” | ||
| 92. | The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros (forrestthewoods.com) | |
| 203 points | 2014 | author forrestthewoods showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Can you point me to a set of tier lists for Street Fighter? I actually looked very briefly but couldn't find anything. It's possible to find a single tier list but what…” | ||
| 93. | Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? | |
| 202 points | 2014 | author gordonguthrie showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the question and I agree that popularity isn't a good metric (on its own). But it is a valid metric, in the round. Making a language more popular has to start…” | ||
| 94. | 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.” | ||
| 95. | OCaml: what you gain (roscidus.com) | |
| 198 points | 2014 | author talex5 showed up | their comment | thread
“I certainly tried to treat them equally. If I cut-and-pasted from the web more often for the Haskell, it's because I got stuck more often. For example, I didn't need to…” | ||
| 96. | ButterDB (pypi.python.org) | |
| 198 points | 2014 | author Widdershin showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually renamed it to 'butterdb' a while ago because some people found fuckitdb hard to swallow. You can check out the code here:. I have grown a bit as a programmer…” | ||
| 97. | Traction Book – A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (tractionbook.com) | |
| 196 points | 2014 | author yegg showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually started exploring this book topic in late 2009 through an initial series of open-ended interviews that involved a lot of people from HN and were discussed on…” | ||
| 98. | Show HN: Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders (presslabs.com) | |
| 196 points | 2014 | author zalmanu showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm one of the authors of GitFS! It is supposed to work as a fully-fledged filesystem. Do you have in mind a particular use case?” | ||
| 99. | BankAPI (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2014 | author JoelJacobson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“That's a good question. Please see:” | ||
| 100. | Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox (mobilesecurityares.blogspot.com) | |
| 192 points | 2014 | author _ares__ showed up | their comment | thread
“I responded to the press release from Samsung and updated my blog article: As Samsung responded with an official press release regarding my blog article () I also want…” | ||
| 101. | Fetching.io: Search the full text of every web page you visit (fetching.io) | |
| 190 points | 2014 | author flippyhead showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks so much for the interest! It's funny, I've been hacking away at a major update that I plan to release in the next few days... Was assuming I'd stay under the…” | ||
| 102. | No-bullshit guide to linear algebra (gumroad.com) | |
| 185 points | 2014 | author ivan_ah showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for all your comments! This is the followup book from the No bullshit guide to math and physics and is written in the same style. I'm still doing some final…” | ||
| 103. | Semantic UI 1.0 released (github.com) | |
| 185 points | 2014 | author jlukic showed up | their comment | thread
“semantic doesn't refer to the misappropriation of the word "semantic" by developers as "adherence to W3C specification", but instead a reference to linguistic semantics,…” | ||
| 104. | TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds (httpshaming.tumblr.com) | |
| 184 points | 2014 | author tonywebster showed up | their comment | thread
“If you let me know some sources for the above, I'd love to add them. Contact info in profile. Thanks!” | ||
| 105. | How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases (palkeo.com) | |
| 183 points | 2014 | author fiveturns showed up | their comment | thread
“Somebody did set up a website somewhere that allowed users to see if their private key was in the "database". It would jump them to the correct page, and, steal their…” | ||
| 106. | How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup (nguonthieng.com) | |
| 183 points | 2014 | author VuongN showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Perhaps let me share a little bit more so that is it in context. First and foremost, most credits, indeed go to my wife and family. The reason why I didn't mention my…” | ||
| 107. | Some thoughts on Go and Erlang (blog.erlware.org) | |
| 182 points | 2014 | author kungfooguru showed up | their comment | thread
“I like Erlang's syntax :)” | ||
| 108. | Questioning the Lambda Architecture (radar.oreilly.com) | |
| 178 points | 2014 | author boredandroid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think in cases where you are running totally different computations in different systems the Lambda architecture may make a lot of sense. However one assumption you…” | ||
| 109. | All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score (contextly.com) | |
| 178 points | 2014 | author 10001110101 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“For context, here is the mentioned analysis: Here is the section that addresses the randomness you speak of: "For a given month, consider the collection of scores of…” | ||
| 110. | Why I do not want to work at Google (2011) (mail-archive.com) | |
| 176 points | 2014 | author kragen showed up | their comment | thread
“The Syrian civil war was still mostly Assad bombing his citizens. It would not have been possible for me to "qualify[] the consequences of the whole scenario from the…” | ||
| 111. | Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing (github.com) | |
| 173 points | 2014 | author jonathan_s showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The idea is indeed that ``ptpython`` could become the terminal front-end for IPython. The only thing on which ``prompt_toolkit`` is focussing, is reading input from…” | ||
| 112. | Elasticsearch – the definitive guide (elasticsearch.org) | |
| 172 points | 2014 | author andrewvc showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually just (soft) relaunched the book using a new backend, so the content's a little stale. Now that I've revamped all the formerly poor quality ebook generation I…” | ||
| 113. | Edge of the Creative Commons (2013) (blog.brentlaabs.com) | |
| 172 points | 2014 | author labster showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right. It hasn't gone anywhere in 6 months, because there's no real angle on getting involved in a legal dispute. There's no money to be gained in suing TVT. And…” | ||
| 114. | Minecraft clone in Python with Pyglet (slideshare.net) | |
| 171 points | 2014 | author fogleman showed up | their comment | thread
“Saw a lot of traffic to my GitHub repo and wondered where it was coming from. The Python clone I wrote is pretty cool and minimal, but I'm much more proud of a clone I…” | ||
| 115. | Python vs Julia – an example from machine learning (tullo.ch) | |
| 170 points | 2014 | author ajtulloch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the active set implementation in Cython is relatively slow - see [1] for where I discussed how I benchmarked the existing algorithm and demonstrated the PAVA…” | ||
| 116. | How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com) | |
| 170 points | 2014 | author DrPizza showed up | their comment | thread
“You know, I should have written about that a bit more. It makes sense in retrospect, I didn't even think about it at the time, even after leading off with the problems…” | ||
| 117. | Machine Learning in JavaScript (burakkanber.com) | |
| 169 points | 2014 | author bkanber showed up | their comment | thread
“xd! Let me know if you have any questions. I do intend to keep up with this series, although my pace is pretty slow at about one article every three months or so. There…” | ||
| 118. | Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end (duojs.org) | |
| 168 points | 2014 | author matthewmueller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“@tomdale We're on the same page. I've worked with many large JS codebases as well and consistency and repeatability are a must. However, as with any tool, it's…” | ||
| 119. | 2048 in the terminal (github.com) | |
| 167 points | 2014 | author hk__2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thank you for your feedback, but I can’t reproduce the bug. See Edit: I’m on this issue, currently trying to write a test to reproduce. Edit 2: fixed!” | ||
| 120. | We scraped the World Bank's website (cgdev.org) | |
| 167 points | 2014 | author bendykstra showed up | their comment | thread
“First, though I worked on the paper, I am not employed by CGD, so these comments are my own. The main reason for using the non-headless Firefox WebDriver was that we…” | ||
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