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| 1. | “It's The Future” (circleci.com) | |
| 1323 points | 2016 | author pbiggar showed up | their comment | thread
“To answer some questions: yes this is obviously poking fun at Docker, but I also do really believe in Docker. See the follow-up for more on that: In a self-indulgent…” | ||
| 2. | Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake (defaultnamehere.tumblr.com) | |
| 1302 points | 2016 | author defaultnamehere showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have no idea what the Facebook apps (Messenger and the Facebook app) do in the background. It's easy to test that, but I didn't because #yoloswag” | ||
| 3. | Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io) | |
| 919 points | 2016 | author lvh showed up | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Crypto 101. Firstly, I'm a real, honest-to-God cryptographer. I don't know if there are any particular people you had in mind whose recommendations…” | ||
| 4. | Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (open_nsfw.gitlab.io) | |
| 846 points | 2016 | author gabrielgoh showed up | their comment | thread
“i just realized this site doesn't work on mobile. I used javascript to generate the tables of images. While I blunder through trying to fix this, you can view the…” | ||
| 5. | This JPEG is also a webpage (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 833 points | 2016 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“Rookie mistake! It's actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel. A chipmunk would have a stripe going across the eye. (Today, you learned your first squirrel fact!)” | ||
| 6. | Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io) | |
| 692 points | 2016 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. We hope that with time and data, the interview process can get better at predicting on-the-job performance -- one of the things we're really…” | ||
| 7. | Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 655 points | 2016 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“I gave Apple 18 hours to respond. The article has now been out for four hours or so, and it's been close to 24 hours since I originally asked them. Apple RARELY responds…” | ||
| 8. | Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects (jeremyaboyd.com) | |
| 651 points | 2016 | author jermaustin1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions or comments. A little about this post: I was recently commenting on an excellent Show HN for a product called Duet and it was the most…” | ||
| 9. | Buttery Smooth Emacs (facebook.com) | |
| 651 points | 2016 | author quotemstr showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Check the emacs-devel thread: some people were able to repro the flickering and some couldn't. It appears to depend heavily on details of your machine. I have two X1…” | ||
| 10. | Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware (aws.amazon.com) | |
| 643 points | 2016 | author jeffbarr showed up | their comment | thread
“You can do all of the design and simulation on any EC2 instance with enough memory and cores. You don't have to run the dev toolchain on the target instance type.” | ||
| 11. | React Native for OS X (github.com) | |
| 637 points | 2016 | author potomushto showed up | their comment | thread
“In most cases, Electron is much better in many ways. I'm working on the code editor right now, so I'd like to build something small (few megabytes), performant, but…” | ||
| 12. | Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley (medium.com) | |
| 634 points | 2016 | author rickyyean showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm inspired by your story. The responses I've been getting so far has been overwhelming. People from around the WORLD are telling me that the story resembles theirs and…” | ||
| 13. | iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta (iterm2.com) | |
| 622 points | 2016 | author gnachman showed up | their comment | thread
“I pushed out a promotion today to let users know about the new version before auto-updating everyone. It breaks backward compatibility with applescript, so it'll be a…” | ||
| 14. | Optimism (github.com) | |
| 617 points | 2016 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Ask Me Anything.” | ||
| 15. | Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com) | |
| 612 points | 2016 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“There's not much to say here that wasn't said last time, but here are some retrospective thoughts on this post: - Probably would have come across better if I didn't…” | ||
| 16. | Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu) | |
| 592 points | 2016 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I lead the research team at Princeton working to uncover online tracking. Happy to answer questions. The tool we built to do this research is open-source We'd love to…” | ||
| 17. | Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language (patshaughnessy.net) | |
| 591 points | 2016 | author pat_shaughnessy showed up | their comment | thread
“...FYI I actually learned assembly language for the first time back in the 1970s and 80s using a 6809 inside a Radio Shack "Color Computer." I was super-fun at the time.…” | ||
| 18. | PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com) | |
| 576 points | 2016 | author AlisdairO showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“yeah, that seems to be a common theme. I will probably update the site at some point to fix this. Sadly I'm mid-emigration at the moment, so it probably won't be in the…” | ||
| 19. | Docker in Production: A History of Failure (thehftguy.wordpress.com) | |
| 575 points | 2016 | author user5994461 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A bit of context missing from the article. We are a small shop with a few hundreds servers. At core, we're running a financial system moving around multi-million dollars…” | ||
| 20. | Inside Palantir (buzzfeed.com) | |
| 569 points | 2016 | author willalden showed up | their comment | thread
“It's really awesome to see all this discussion about it. As I say in the post, please don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to chat confidentially. I am always…” | ||
| 21. | The State of JavaScript – Survey results (stateofjs.com) | |
| 546 points | 2016 | author sgdesign showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here, thanks!” | ||
| 22. | How the Web Became Unreadable (backchannel.com) | |
| 532 points | 2016 | author epeus showed up | their comment | thread
“and I like pure blacks too, but it's only pure black as long there isn't any other light on it. Thats what i meant about ambient light.” | ||
| 23. | Grokking Deep Learning (iamtrask.github.io) | |
| 530 points | 2016 | author williamtrask showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the first 3 chapters are in pre-publication. It is my hope that people are willing to check out said chapters and help me refine it in any ways it doesn't live up to the…” | ||
| 24. | Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack (wired.com) | |
| 498 points | 2016 | author klint showed up | their comment | thread
“I hadn't heard about IRCv3, but it does sound like it would plug some of the holes in IRC that Slack users complain about. It wouldn't really have been a good fit for…” | ||
| 25. | Professional Software Development (mixmastamyk.bitbucket.org) | |
| 474 points | 2016 | author mixmastamyk showed up | their comment | thread
“writing this book was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and there is seemingly no end to the small issues I've faced (both writing and technical). Would…” | ||
| 26. | Static types in Python (blog.zulip.org) | |
| 470 points | 2016 | author tabbott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Original author here; I'm happy to answer any questions about the mypy experience!” | ||
| 27. | Scala Native (github.com) | |
| 466 points | 2016 | author densh showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all, I'm the author of the project and would gladly answer any questions.” | ||
| 28. | Super Tiny Compiler (github.com) | |
| 462 points | 2016 | author thejameskyle showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I actually walked through all of this code line by line in a conference talk using another thing I built: I ripped these code comments from my presenter notes where I…” | ||
| 29. | Starting a real business (stripe.com) | |
| 458 points | 2016 | author patio11 showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me if you have any questions or comments, in particular about things you'd like to see us cover in the future. If you'd rather do it over email, my…” | ||
| 30. | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io) | |
| 456 points | 2016 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“let me know if you have any questions or comments! Given how much attention this is getting, I should probably finally finish one of the three articles I have sitting…” | ||
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