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| 31. | The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana (qz.com) | |
| 326 points | 2015 | author equartey showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Kindly let me know if you'd like me to get it and ship it to you: equartey at gmail.” | ||
| 32. | Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days (blog.triplebyte.com) | |
| 324 points | 2015 | author ammon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey! Author here. Yes, we did not know that the screening steps were meaningful, so for the first 300 applicants, we interviewed everyone, even people who performed…” | ||
| 33. | Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job (medium.com) | |
| 318 points | 2015 | author waxpancake showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote the article. First off, I find it disingenuous that you don't mention you work for Google. But, hey! I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it was a…” | ||
| 34. | The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About (adage.com) | |
| 314 points | 2015 | author katekaye showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this story and spent months trying to get these guys to talk. As I note in the story, "Verizon and Sprint declined to comment for this story. AT&T and T-Mobile…” | ||
| 35. | Favicon bug (github.com) | |
| 310 points | 2015 | author inglor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the GH repo and I just want to give full credit for figuring out Chrome does this to this guy: All I did was think "if it works for 65mb why not more?"…” | ||
| 36. | Unison: a next-generation programming platform (unisonweb.org) | |
| 308 points | 2015 | author pchiusano showed up | their comment | thread
“was not expecting this to end up here! This project is very much in development, it's not close to a finished product and I hope I didn't give that impression. I created…” | ||
| 37. | Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 305 points | 2015 | author yaronn01 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.” | ||
| 38. | Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting (github.com) | |
| 304 points | 2015 | author amjith showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm hoping to go public with the MySQL version before the end of this month. So a week or so. :)” | ||
| 39. | Pebble Seizure Detect (github.com) | |
| 301 points | 2015 | author PbblSzrDtct showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all! I am the author of this software. I didn't submit this to Hacker News -- someone else must have! Thank you, whoever you are. I'll try to answer the other…” | ||
| 40. | List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science (github.com) | |
| 300 points | 2015 | author krat0sprakhar showed up | their comment | thread
“My main motivation with this was to list down a few university courses that make their material available online for free. In contrast to MOOCs, I've found these…” | ||
| 41. | Less than 24 hours on Udemy as an instructor and I’m close to leaving (blog.nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 293 points | 2015 | author nickjj showed up | their comment | thread
“The beginning of the article praises Udemy's student experience. Trust me, I'm not a competitor to them. If I were, I would have just hosted my course on my own platform…” | ||
| 42. | D3.compose – compose reusable charts and components with D3.js (csnw.github.io) | |
| 288 points | 2015 | author timhall showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's a quick implementation of error bars for d3.compose [1]. The general goal of d3.compose was to provide the foundation for creating reusable charts and components…” | ||
| 43. | Prometheus: An open-source service monitoring system and time series database (prometheus.io) | |
| 287 points | 2015 | author bbrazil showed up | their comment | thread
“Just last night I wrote the, which you could do SNMP with. I do plan on writing a purpose-designed SNMP exporter in the next a few months to monitor my home network, if…” | ||
| 44. | Chord progressions of 25,000 songs (amitkohli.com) | |
| 282 points | 2015 | author datAmit showed up | their comment | thread
“and I signed up to ycombinator just to tell you I can't get over your visualization. It's just friggin top. Any chance you feel like explaining how you did it?…” | ||
| 45. | Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (automatetheboringstuff.com) | |
| 282 points | 2015 | author AlSweigart showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“The HTML version of the full book content will be up in a few days. (I'm formatting it right now.) Meanwhile, you can use PYBUTLER for a 30% discount on the book/ebook,…” | ||
| 46. | Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout (lyonheart.us) | |
| 282 points | 2015 | author lyonheart showed up | their comment | thread
“In our case the vendor was very proven, but the tech and their approach to it was not. What actually happened is a bit more complicated than _abandoned_, but those words…” | ||
| 47. | Random Acts of Optimization (engineering.riotgames.com) | |
| 279 points | 2015 | author RiotTony showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone, I'm the author of this article and I'm glad you've found it interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, so if you have any questions or comments…” | ||
| 48. | Outlier Detection at Netflix (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 274 points | 2015 | author diab0lic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll be around to answer any questions if anyone has them. I'm sure my colleague will be around as well.” | ||
| 49. | Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (citylab.com) | |
| 273 points | 2015 | author armsmasher showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To your point: "They are not and should not be taxed like single family homes or condos." They are taxed like condos—they are condos. I think the larger issue in this…” | ||
| 50. | Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C (kore.io) | |
| 271 points | 2015 | author jvink showed up | their comment | thread
“I see you picked out the few things that I consistently hear on the coding style I adopted which is based on my time hacking on openbsd. I have no real points to argue…” | ||
| 51. | RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability (rethinkdb.com) | |
| 264 points | 2015 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I think I didn't phrase it correctly. What I meant to say is that we hacked Jepsen tests to support RethinkDB, and then ran the tests internally for months. I added…” | ||
| 52. | Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code (github.com) | |
| 262 points | 2015 | author cristicbz showed up | their comment | thread
“no poo-poo-ing taken. You're completely right. The rendering code is shamelessly unoptimized indeed: doing frustum culling naively actually slows down the code because…” | ||
| 53. | Clojure 1.7 is now available (blog.cognitect.com) | |
| 259 points | 2015 | author puredanger showed up | their comment | thread
“In general, we strive to maintain binary compatibility (old AOT-compiled Clojure code should continue to run on newer version), we do not exhaustively test for or…” | ||
| 54. | Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client (arxiv.org) | |
| 259 points | 2015 | author bluegate010 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd be happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 55. | Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications (martyjs.org) | |
| 255 points | 2015 | author jfhollingworth showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I found that no other Flux implementation really helped with fetching data in a Fluxy way. There tended to be a lot of boiler plate code for binding stores to…” | ||
| 56. | My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One (catonmat.net) | |
| 254 points | 2015 | author pkrumins showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so that is close to 15 years of book research. I'm really passionate…” | ||
| 57. | Doing an HD Remake the Right Way (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 254 points | 2015 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey there! I'm the author of this article. Would love to swap some notes with you sometime about your pipeline! Mind dropping me a line at lars {dot} doucet {at} gmail…” | ||
| 58. | How to create NBA shot charts in Python (savvastjortjoglou.com) | |
| 253 points | 2015 | author savvas_tj showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for suggestions on improving the charts, especially regarding the marginal histograms. Just a couple of questions: What color maps would you use for those kde…” | ||
| 59. | How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware (highscalability.com) | |
| 252 points | 2015 | author kovyrin showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 60. | React JS Best Practices (blog.siftscience.com) | |
| 252 points | 2015 | author lopatin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions or discuss further!” | ||
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