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| 1. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 1479 points | 2015 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for all the feedback. In particular if I've mischaracterized the functionality of a service or you see something that's really off please email me at…” | ||
| 2. | Console.mihai(); (incompleteness.me) | |
| 1445 points | 2015 | author joewalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I've updated it to add that Mihai died recently.” | ||
| 3. | GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (blog.printf.net) | |
| 1038 points | 2015 | author cjbprime showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored…” | ||
| 4. | What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years (talkingquickly.co.uk) | |
| 865 points | 2015 | author talkingquickly showed up | their comment | thread
“My logic is usually that an NDA is a restriction on me, so I won't usually sign one unless I'm getting something in return. E.g. I'm happy to sign one in the context of…” | ||
| 5. | Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com) | |
| 812 points | 2015 | author aadrake showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Some have questioned why I would spend the time advocating against the use of Hadoop for such small data processing tasks as that's clearly not when it should be used…” | ||
| 6. | Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it (ephemeralp2p.durazo.us) | |
| 803 points | 2015 | author losvedir showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Amusingly, I wanted to link to the HN discussion on the page, but couldn't figure out how to... I don't think it's possible! Something I hadn't considered until just now…” | ||
| 7. | Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game (twitchinstalls.com) | |
| 802 points | 2015 | author jbott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!” | ||
| 8. | Mercury Spill (jefftk.com) | |
| 764 points | 2015 | author cbr showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 9. | Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter (eff.org) | |
| 700 points | 2015 | author dannyobrien showed up | their comment | thread
“It's always a little awkward to pick a term here, as we don't usually like to refer to ourselves at all much. "Brits" was too informal for this. UK citizens would have…” | ||
| 10. | Docker without Docker (chimeracoder.github.io) | |
| 681 points | 2015 | author chimeracoder showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm working on a blog post for this and didn't expect this to be posted on HN so soon, but I guess that's what I should expect for posting a link to it in another HN…” | ||
| 11. | Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock (hellorhei.com) | |
| 681 points | 2015 | author damjanstankovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i will be glad to answer any questions you guys have” | ||
| 12. | Who Y Combinator Companies Want (data.triplebyte.com) | |
| 667 points | 2015 | author ammon showed up | their comment | thread
“Ageism is real, and we'll be analyzing it in a future post. But in this case I don't think it's ageism. I think it's big-company-ism. Startups define themselves in…” | ||
| 13. | Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com) | |
| 577 points | 2015 | author mcfunley showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“It's PHP though. I'm fighting quota issues with my dumb host. I assure you migrating to something better is not my day job. Here's a pdf of it:” | ||
| 14. | A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS (airpair.com) | |
| 542 points | 2015 | author joshpadnick showed up | their comment | thread
“So, you're right that while AWS does continue to lower prices, they're still not the cheapest game in town. Frankly, they're not even necessarily the most performant…” | ||
| 15. | Move Fast and Fix Things (githubengineering.com) | |
| 538 points | 2015 | author tanoku showed up | their comment | thread
“5 years ago I would have agreed with you and logged e.g. 10 million merge requests to replay them offline. But one thing I've found over the years (which may seem…” | ||
| 16. | Goodbye, Sourceforge (helb.github.io) | |
| 459 points | 2015 | author helb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your pull requests, I added some of the suggested services. Maybe some comparison table (like the one at Wikipedia) would be better than a simple list. About…” | ||
| 17. | What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? (jmtd.net) | |
| 450 points | 2015 | author jmtd showed up | their comment | thread
“it was the pitch shifting behaviour in particular that I wanted to explore when I modified the random table. Early versions of doom (<1.4) did it, but they accidentally…” | ||
| 18. | The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp (jackm.co.uk) | |
| 404 points | 2015 | author jpeggg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“slightly overwhelmed by the response, but thanks for everyone's feedback! I never thought so many people would be as interested as I am in the lamp...” | ||
| 19. | How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator (medium.com) | |
| 379 points | 2015 | author charlierguo showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! Author here. First off, thanks for reading! To be honest, I really didn't expect to get this much attention. This is a story that I've wanted to share with…” | ||
| 20. | A cross-platform debugger for Go (blog.mailgun.com) | |
| 379 points | 2015 | author jschlatter showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree that this could cause surprises. Are there specific cases you have in mind? Two cases I have thought of are stack traces and logging that inspects the stack. In…” | ||
| 21. | How does a relational database work? (coding-geek.com) | |
| 377 points | 2015 | author mgachka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm 28 and I’m currently a Big Data developer (I use Hadoop, HBase, Hive …) and I don’t understand the buzz surrounding Big Data and NoSQL. With a relational database…” | ||
| 22. | Vue.js 1.0.0 (vuejs.org) | |
| 376 points | 2015 | author EvanYou showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the submission, I was actually planning to do it tomorrow :) Anyway, for those of you who are not familiar with Vue, here's a blog post explaining why it's…” | ||
| 23. | A Good Vimrc (dougblack.io) | |
| 355 points | 2015 | author dougblack showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. Fair points. I'm gonna start out on the defensive: I didn't post the article, which kinda stinks because if I knew it was going to get such attention I…” | ||
| 24. | A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React (github.com) | |
| 352 points | 2015 | author mcx showed up | their comment | thread
“the primer is still in the draft phase but feel free to share your feedback / make pull requests!” | ||
| 25. | Permission to Fail (keen.io) | |
| 347 points | 2015 | author mwetzler showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there - I wrote the piece and you pretty succinctly summed up some of my internal arguments for not sharing the story. I'll share some of my thoughts on those and why…” | ||
| 26. | Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons (gregkroleski.com) | |
| 341 points | 2015 | author greg-kroleski showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As we lived in that apartment I constantly reminded myself that compared to all families from around the world and across time, we had a luxurious life. Clean water,…” | ||
| 27. | Dragula: Simple drag and drop (github.com) | |
| 339 points | 2015 | author bevacqua showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's actually a way to do that. There's a `delay` option you can use so that click events get through.” | ||
| 28. | Intermediate Python (book.pythontips.com) | |
| 335 points | 2015 | author yasoob showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi guys! I am the author of this book. Thanks heyalexej for posting this here. If there is anything I can help you guys with then kindly let me know. :)” | ||
| 29. | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Reservoir Sampling (omniref.com) | |
| 332 points | 2015 | author timr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, reservoir sampling is O(N), but my point there was that it doesn't require instantiating every record at once. Also, the cost of the random number generation isn't…” | ||
| 30. | Introducing d3-scale (medium.com) | |
| 328 points | 2015 | author mbostock showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here, AMA.” | ||
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