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| 61. | To Master Vim, Use It Like Language (danielmiessler.com) | |
| 250 points | 2015 | author danielmiessler showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The irony in your comment is that I recommend Drew's book in the primer, and Drew has recommended this primer as well. Maybe they're both good ways to learn Vim.” | ||
| 62. | How Insects Breathe (noticing.co) | |
| 249 points | 2015 | author aatish showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for voting us up here. Hope you like what we're doing, and let us know what you think. If you're looking to read more of our posts, you can follow the blog on…” | ||
| 63. | What does it take to make Google work at scale? (docs.google.com) | |
| 247 points | 2015 | author ms705 showed up | their comment | thread
“The talk for which I put the slide deck together was given at a summer school and unfortunately not recorded, but if there is sufficient interest, I might tape a re-run…” | ||
| 64. | LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB (github.com) | |
| 244 points | 2015 | author geedy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am more than happy to answer any questions. It has mostly been an academic project while I was doing during my undergrad, but I am now looking at continuing the…” | ||
| 65. | Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata (github.com) | |
| 243 points | 2015 | author lazard showed up | their comment | thread
“The latency can be reduced by future work. For example, Section 9 in the paper mentions an idea for reducing the amount of noise (and thus reducing latency) by treating…” | ||
| 66. | Running the Let's Encrypt Beta (lolware.net) | |
| 242 points | 2015 | author zakjan showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the options you mention before, however I found it highly unreliable. I have replaced them with better manual error handling and tests. Please review the latest…” | ||
| 67. | Procedural City Generation in Python (josauder.github.io) | |
| 240 points | 2015 | author josauder showed up | their comment | thread
“While I admit to having skimmed over the paper above, this is NOT the main source of our information. We looked a bit further into this one: As soon as I get home I will…” | ||
| 68. | Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD (homing-on-code.blogspot.com) | |
| 239 points | 2015 | author mulander showed up | their comment | thread
“Can you elaborate more clearly on what you are pointing out?” | ||
| 69. | Relay FAQ: Facebook's Data-fetching Framework for React (gist.github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2015 | author wincent showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the gist; happy to answer questions (although out and on my phone right now so I won't be super fast).” | ||
| 70. | How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson” (syrah.co) | |
| 238 points | 2015 | author joshdickson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There are really people who don't have either of those? But really, we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. We'll fix it in an upcoming…” | ||
| 71. | Design of a Vim-like text editor (lists.suckless.org) | |
| 234 points | 2015 | author martanne showed up | their comment | thread
“both by email or by using the aforementioned github repository is fine.” | ||
| 72. | My Resume Is Total Fiction (chrisbaglieri.com) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author chrisbaglieri showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Thanks so much for your kind and encouraging words. Happy New Year!” | ||
| 73. | Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text (wcm1.web.rice.edu) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author wcaleb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Totally agree about version control. When I wrote that post I had not yet learned how to use Git. In a follow-up post I discuss how I now manage all of my notes and…” | ||
| 74. | Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly (2ton.com.au) | |
| 228 points | 2015 | author 2ton_jeff showed up | their comment | thread
“Feature request noted, although the one-logfile-per-day for me doesn't seem too unwieldy. I have not seen webserver logs stored in the way you describe, is that a common…” | ||
| 75. | Show HN: Pgcli – A CLI for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting (pgcli.com) | |
| 227 points | 2015 | author amjith showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is an FAQ page: I'll be happy to answer questions here as well.” | ||
| 76. | Gmail, We Need to Talk (techcrunch.com) | |
| 226 points | 2015 | author jkturbo showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Gmail does not prefetch the image. Appending a unique image URL will still allow the sender to know when you've opened the email. The proxy eliminates your IP as well as…” | ||
| 77. | Make Your Own Programming Language (mattias-.github.io) | |
| 225 points | 2015 | author Pirate-of-SV showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is slightly embarrassing. I just added a custom domain/CNAME to my github pages so it should be reachable at” | ||
| 78. | The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] (littleosbook.github.io) | |
| 224 points | 2015 | author helino showed up | their comment | thread
“if you any questions, feel free to ask! Me and Adam,, wrote the book based on our experiences writing aenix,. If you find any issues with the text, please file an issue…” | ||
| 79. | WhatsApp doesn't understand the web (andregarzia.com) | |
| 224 points | 2015 | author soapdog showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't knew about WeChat since it is not popular here in Brazil. Using a QR to facilitate login is not a bad decision. Having this as the only method to authenticate…” | ||
| 80. | Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system (blog.frite-camembert.net) | |
| 224 points | 2015 | author bru showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's my goal, but I don't have their email address so I simply wrote it down there.” | ||
| 81. | HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails (lostinjit.blogspot.com) | |
| 223 points | 2015 | author mrfijal showed up | their comment | thread
“we do sell commercial support for pypy and python performance problems at baroquesoftware.com. let's say it has not been a spectacular success so far and it's not enough…” | ||
| 82. | Advancing the realtime web (rethinkdb.com) | |
| 222 points | 2015 | author coffeemug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this was a bad example! You're right, this will become much more relevant as the `changes` command supports more and more complex queries.” | ||
| 83. | Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain Security Vulnerabilities (banyanops.com) | |
| 222 points | 2015 | author jgummaraju showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to second this take-home message. The core of our work was to bring to the fore-front that package management using containers is important and we need to have…” | ||
| 84. | Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go (github.com) | |
| 221 points | 2015 | author amscanne showed up | their comment | thread
“As noted at the top of the README (and by others here), this is not an official Google product. It's an experimental project, mostly to play with some ideas (and Go). I…” | ||
| 85. | TrueCraft, An Open Source Implementation of Minecraft 1.7.3 (truecraft.io) | |
| 221 points | 2015 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Going to sleep soon but happy to answer questions when I awake if you leave them here for me.” | ||
| 86. | The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go (togototo.wordpress.com) | |
| 218 points | 2015 | author logicchains showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just a note that by latency-critical, I'm referring to >10 millisecond latencies. If you can tolerate occasional pauses of 400-500 milliseconds, then the GC wouldn't be…” | ||
| 87. | A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques (github.com) | |
| 218 points | 2015 | author markdregan showed up | their comment | thread
“If you are interesting in contributing a section to this tutorial, please get in touch. Some suggested topics: survival analysis, mixture models, classification, time…” | ||
| 88. | SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier (certsimple.com) | |
| 217 points | 2015 | author nailer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The query format is (sadly) server dependent. For a ninja domain, use `whois.nic.ninja` as the server, and don't use the 'domain somedomain' query syntax. whois -h…” | ||
| 89. | Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go (github.com) | |
| 215 points | 2015 | author shurcooL showed up | their comment | thread
“I was just about to go sleep when I noticed a retweet and a lot of new stars on Conception; this explains it. The linked C++ project was the result of an initial year of…” | ||
| 90. | Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (nbviewer.ipython.org) | |
| 215 points | 2015 | author RogerL showed up | their comment | thread
“I struggle a lot with the choice of medium. In many senses Jupyter (IPython Notebook) is fanstastic in terms of workflow. With latex+external program+external…” | ||
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