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| 121. | Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang (medium.com) | |
| 177 points | 2015 | author jlouis showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll try to watch this and answer questions.” | ||
| 122. | Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches (medium.com) | |
| 176 points | 2015 | author jlrubin showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- curious to hear HN's thoughts on if this should be fixed or is acceptable.” | ||
| 123. | Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server (morris.guru) | |
| 175 points | 2015 | author andrewballs showed up | their comment | thread
“You mention a tough philosophical quandary that I struggle with every time I share information with the rest of the world. As much as I hate giving attackers anything, I…” | ||
| 124. | WhatsApp doesn't understand the web (andregarzia.com) | |
| 174 points | 2015 | author soapdog showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“will monitor this thread waiting for feedback and general comments.” | ||
| 125. | How Cheap Can Solar Get? (rameznaam.com) | |
| 174 points | 2015 | author RamezNaam showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of this blog post. Happy to answer questions people have, as time allows, on Wednesday. Upcoming posts will look at the future of wind power, the…” | ||
| 126. | Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5 (blog.jetbrains.com) | |
| 173 points | 2015 | author pauleveritt showed up | their comment | thread
“When I gave a preview of this at the PyRVA meetup, I gave this exact illustration, even using "my future self". So...jinx. :)” | ||
| 127. | Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards (viccuad.me) | |
| 171 points | 2015 | author viccuad showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“No, I'm using no blobs; just the mainline Kernel and U-Boot. All the software stack is leveraged on Debian.” | ||
| 128. | Show HN: Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go (niltalk.com) | |
| 169 points | 2015 | author knadh showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Yes of course - PS: The "source" link is in the footer of the website as well.” | ||
| 129. | Alleged $7.5B fraud in online advertising (moz.com) | |
| 167 points | 2015 | author sjscott80 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hello! I'm the author. I just needed to use "alleged" a lot because I was citing second-hand -- though credible -- information and did not do any independent research. I…” | ||
| 130. | Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (boingboing.net) | |
| 166 points | 2015 | author increment showed up | their comment | thread
“The long quote from you is sourced from a (pre-raid) article you wrote for Steve Jackson's house organ of the time "Roleplayer" #15; be happy to send you a scan if…” | ||
| 131. | How much of your audience is fake? (bloomberg.com) | |
| 166 points | 2015 | author joshuab2893 showed up | their comment | thread
“Can I pick your brain a bit? jbrustein at bloomberg dot net.” | ||
| 132. | Useful Techniques in Go (arslan.io) | |
| 165 points | 2015 | author farslan showed up | their comment | thread
“It was not written back then :) However it was used so much Rob decided to write a tool to auto generate the String method. So it's now very easy to generate and and…” | ||
| 133. | PicoC: A very small C interpreter (github.com) | |
| 164 points | 2015 | author zik showed up | their comment | thread
“When I started writing PicoC it was mostly because I was thinking about how small AppleSoft BASIC was back in the day and I was curious how small you could make a C…” | ||
| 134. | France's Government Aims to Give Itself Carte Blanche to Spy on the World (eff.org) | |
| 164 points | 2015 | author dannyobrien showed up | their comment | thread
“What you describe, while astute, isn't what's going on here, because at the level these agreements are being made, the French intelligence services don't care that the…” | ||
| 135. | Google Photos – Can I get out? (rocketeer.be) | |
| 163 points | 2015 | author rubenv showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Note that I did select Original and it still seemed to compress the RAW file in Google Drive view. Single downloads do yield the original.” | ||
| 136. | A game whose source code fits in one tweet (github.com) | |
| 162 points | 2015 | author Omnus showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll implement some of these suggestions and see if the extra space might allow for something a little more interesting. It's a pleasant surprise to see a pull request…” | ||
| 137. | What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect (hugs.io) | |
| 159 points | 2015 | author hugs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree with you, there are several factors at play in what happened to MakerBot. I believe Bre learned the wrong lesson -- going closed might have looked like the…” | ||
| 138. | What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server (furbo.org) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author chockenberry showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the clarification about ServerName. I spent a lot of time reading that documentation and got pretty confused about how it was actually being used.” | ||
| 139. | 84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel (blog.nullspace.io) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Continuing our thread from Twitter, one of the things I wanted to say here is that things like pipelining and threading are good, but there is still improvement to be…” | ||
| 140. | Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature” (edge.org) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author brchr showed up | their comment | thread
“Delighted to see this near the top of HN this afternoon, and to see the healthy discussion it's provoked. Happy to answer any questions as best I can if you've got 'em.” | ||
| 141. | The Google Stack [pdf] (malteschwarzkopf.de) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author ms705 showed up | their comment | thread
“This is interesting -- I tried to do my best to find out what's still in use and what is deprecated based on public information; happy to amend if anything is incorrect.…” | ||
| 142. | Making Netflix.com Faster (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 158 points | 2015 | author kristoferbaxter showed up | their comment | thread
“Apologies for not making this more clear in the post. The 70% reduction is for time to interactive (tti).” | ||
| 143. | Elixir – The next big language for the web (creativedeletion.com) | |
| 155 points | 2015 | author laut showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote some reasons to why I think it is likely that it will be. It is not a sure thing of course.” | ||
| 144. | The Interim Operating System (interim.mntmn.com) | |
| 155 points | 2015 | author mntmn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you all for the positive feedback. This motivates me a lot to seriously continue this project. I have a port to i386 (bare metal) in the pipeline and a lot of…” | ||
| 145. | Dropbox starts using POST, and why this is poor API design (evertpot.com) | |
| 154 points | 2015 | author treve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely understand the thought process that went behind dropbox's decision, and which arguments got the most weight. It must have been pragmatic and valid design…” | ||
| 146. | MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit (ntoll.org) | |
| 154 points | 2015 | author ntoll showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the linked article and involved in bringing Python to the BBC micro:bit. Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 147. | The long process of creating a Chinese font (qz.com) | |
| 153 points | 2015 | author nsonnad showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's a very good question, and the answer may simply be that script systems are inferior, but anecdotally I would say there are two advantages: First, it makes the…” | ||
| 148. | Lessons from Freelancing (joelklettke.com) | |
| 152 points | 2015 | author joelklettke showed up | their comment | thread
“new to HackerNews, so forgive me if I stink of "n00b". You are absolutely right in that your freelance experience might differ from mine - and I did try to say at the…” | ||
| 149. | What I Wish I Knew When Starting Out as a Software Developer: Slow the Fuck Down (blog.salsitasoft.com) | |
| 150 points | 2015 | author mgertner showed up | their comment | thread
“I linked to your post and there are comments on the blog (which you took advantage of). No need to be pissed off. I still disagree with this particular point (and I'm…” | ||
| 150. | What is wrong with NULL (lucidchart.com) | |
| 150 points | 2015 | author paulddraper showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't know that about Haskell. Admittedly, the "rating" is pretty rough, maybe even a bad idea. I've seen std::ptr::null more than I ever have Foreign.Ptr.nullPtr.…” | ||
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