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Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform (github.com) |
| 120 points | 2014 | author epriest showed up | their comment | thread
“but I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Can you explain what's bad about it and how you'd improve it? --- To provide some context, this is the top-level entry point for…” |
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Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor (phantomjs-pad.ozaur.com) |
| 120 points | 2014 | author jakozaur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“oh no Google banned traffic from my AWS instance and google.com shows blank :-(.” |
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Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases (github.com) |
| 120 points | 2014 | author emirozer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am a rather newcomer to OSS projects and development. Any criticism is highly appreciated. Have a beautiful day !” |
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Sales for Hackers (stormpath.com) |
| 119 points | 2014 | author asalazar showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi folks. Author here. Happy to answer any questions if you like.” |
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Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development (blog.workhere.io) |
| 119 points | 2014 | author workhere-io showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some of you are saying that this will lead to bloated, JS-heavy websites. I disagree. The JS necessary for making a single page app can be done with something like 10…” |
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Show HN: The Markdown Resume (mszep.github.io) |
| 117 points | 2014 | author graphene showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“You're right; I considered this aspect, but thought it was more important to preserve the flexibility to e.g. name sections whatever I want, or order them however I…” |
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The Bézier Game (bezier.method.ac) |
| 117 points | 2014 | author duopixel showed up | their comment | thread
“That's the way Adobe Illustrator thinks Bézier curves should work, unfortunately. I have no idea why,I chose to follow their lead because the purpose is learning how to…” |
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Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server (tia.mat.br) |
| 117 points | 2014 | author acidx showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, you're right -- the whole structure is larger than 64 bytes, but the pointers to the child nodes all fit in 8 pointers only (in contrast with the previous version,…” |
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Lwan: Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server (github.com) |
| 117 points | 2014 | author acidx showed up | their comment | thread
“This gave me a chuckle. :) And, yes, that's pretty much it, although "rebimboca da parafuseta" is less obscure than "reticulation of the splines" (if you're Brazilian,…” |
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Show HN: Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby (sneakers.io) |
| 114 points | 2014 | author jondot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! :) Sneakers is a high-performance background-job processing framework based on RabbitMQ. It uses a hybrid process-thread model where many processes are spawned (like…” |
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Migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra (fullcontact.com) |
| 114 points | 2014 | author Xorlev showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry about that. It's not supposed to display on engineering posts but something must have changed/been broken recently. We know you guys aren't interested in marketing…” |
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How Quora Onboards New Users (useronboard.com) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author samuelhulick showed up | their comment | thread
“and I definitely wasn't intending to troll - I'm just documenting the experience and sharing my takeaways, with as little judgement as possible. Personally speaking, I'm…” |
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JSZip: Create, read and edit .zip files with JavaScript (stuk.github.io) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author stu_k showed up | their comment | thread
“This sentence is kind of awkward. What I meant is that a lot of data is generated in the browser, and traditionally (at least at the time I wrote this library almost 5…” |
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UX Crash Course: User Psychology (thehipperelement.com) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author JoelMarsh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree. After a few minutes of after-thought I have updated the article to reflect this feedback. Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the input.” |
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How to Measure the Speed of a Blender (joyofblending.com) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author arcticsilo showed up | their comment | thread
“If you check out the spectrograms you'll see that there are a lot of different frequencies in the audio. I wasn't sure if the most powerful frequency would be the true…” |
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Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses (anagramatron.tumblr.com) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author cmyr showed up | their comment | thread
“It's english only mostly because of volume, and because I review results. Making a french language version would mostly just be a matter of hosting. If you're interested…” |
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Security Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner (radsec.org) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author kmowery showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Lead author here. We'll be giving a talk on this work tomorrow at the USENIX Security, but I'm happy to answer any questions you have here before then.” |
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2.5M Installs Later, R.I.P. Downloader for SoundCloud (passy.svbtle.com) |
| 113 points | 2014 | author ch0wn showed up | their comment | thread
“I think they eat their own dogfood here. As far as I can tell, they have no special privileges for their owned and operated clients. If you for example look into the…” |
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The Day We Do Nothing Of Consequence (cryto.net) |
| 112 points | 2014 | author joepie91_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Had to register a new account, as I lost the password to my original account a while ago. Addressing a few of the points made in the comments here... This is false. That…” |
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My journey into the Berlin startup scene (medium.com) |
| 112 points | 2014 | author adamwiggins showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to know how things turned out, here's a follow-up / debrief from a few months after the first one: The second one is less about my personal experience and…” |
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The Worst SaaS Cancellation Policy on the Internet (sitebuilderreport.com) |
| 110 points | 2014 | author steve_benjamins showed up | their comment | thread
“actually the article talks about this- you're unable to cancel the My Website (their most popular service) using that website.” |
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Go’s Type System Is An Embarrassment (functionwhatwhat.com) |
| 109 points | 2014 | author DrJokepu showed up | their comment | thread
“What I’ve written regarding the reflect behaviour isn’t entirely true and I should probably update the article to reflect that. It’s possible to get (but not set) the…” |
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Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress (ofbrooklyn.com) |
| 109 points | 2014 | author conesus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a biker myself and I was thinking about creating something to that effect. Turn signals and better lights would go a long way towards making me feel safer without…” |
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GoLearn – Machine Learning in Go (sjwhitworth.com) |
| 109 points | 2014 | author sjwhitworth showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting it. As you can see, it's definitely incomplete as it stands, as I haven't been able to spend as much time on it as I would have liked. I'm hoping that…” |
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The bug that hides from breakpoints (drewdevault.com) |
| 107 points | 2014 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“The `xor a` was important - it pretended no key was pressed. I'm familiar with conditional RET. Thanks for the rest of your kind words, though.” |
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ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere (zerotier.com) |
| 107 points | 2014 | author api showed up | their comment | thread
“I think. My take on really slick polished valley hipster corporate pr is if you've got the resources to pull that off, sure, do it. But if you don't it's like a bad…” |
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Bleve – A modern text indexing library for Go (github.com) |
| 107 points | 2014 | author mschoch showed up | their comment | thread
“will try to answer questions as best I can from my phone. Yes, I think I was watching one of those amazing explosions shows on Netflix. I liked the way it sounded, and…” |
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Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World. (swirl-project.org) |
| 106 points | 2014 | author jsonified showed up | their comment | thread
“such as it is. In principle there's nothing stopping you from streaming anything with PPSPP. The current erlang implementation could run on an android tablet for…” |
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Bitcoin August 14 Flash Crash (coinprices.io) |
| 106 points | 2014 | author mattodell showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions. Essentially what happened is that Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex allows you to trade with leverage. There were approximately $28M USD…” |
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SwampDragon – Build real-time apps with Django (swampdragon.net) |
| 106 points | 2014 | author hagsteel showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi I'm the author of SwampDragon (I was rather surprised to see this on Hacker news today!). I'm celebrating my daughters first birthday today so I have to keep it a bit…” |
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