271. Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones (creativedeletion.com)
128 points | 2016 | author laut showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of the article. And also of Elixir Tzdata and I recommend using Calendar instead of Timex. I'm curious: Why where you using e.g. GMT+5 or GMT-5?”
272. Airbnb: Building a Visual Language, Behind the scenes of our new design system (airbnb.design)
128 points | 2016 | author enra showed up | their comment | thread
“I also answered few questions on designer news:”
273. Enough with Basic Income (salon.thefamily.co)
128 points | 2016 | author Nicolas_Colin showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Thank you for your response. I don't think post-scarcity will eat the entire economy anytime soon. In particular, I think that it will still be unaffordable to access…”
274. The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads (mightybyte.github.io)
127 points | 2016 | author mightybyte showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. I definitely get your point. I thought about it and there are a few reasons I went the way I did. 1. I decided that functors are straightforward…”
275. Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for Go ecosystem (oden-lang.org)
127 points | 2016 | author owickstrom showed up | their comment | thread
“It's inspired by Haskell, yes, but not a dialect. Syntax is very much open for change still and that's really not the most important bit. Semantics are not like Haskell,…”
276. Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising (adage.com)
124 points | 2016 | author adam_kleinberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Ad Age is obviously an ad industry publication—-probably the biggest one--but within that there are a diverse audiences it caters to. You can google the term "lumascape"…”
277. Language contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora (freedom-to-tinker.com)
124 points | 2016 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“The blog post is written in relatively non-technical language for a general audience, but our paper has tons of technical details that HN readers might enjoy. Give it a…”
278. My love-hate relationship with LuaJIT (2015) (blog.separateconcerns.com)
124 points | 2016 | author catwell showed up | their comment | thread
“just found out it was on the front page of HN today. The machine linked in the article can not even run the unmodified interpreter (or at least it could not at the time)…”
279. Show HN: IPalyzer – Analyze any IP for location, RDNS, blacklisting (ipalyzer.com)
123 points | 2016 | author lorenzbrun showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I only include a static map, no JS from Google. But I'll look into it, I'm also not a huge fan of Google being able to log all visits. Abuse mails get parsed from the…”
280. Emacs vs. WebStorm for Node.js Development (spin.atomicobject.com)
123 points | 2016 | author scottaj2 showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't tried Visual Studio Code but i'll be sure to check it out. As a side note, WebStorm also supports TypeScript definitions. It has an menu to download and add…”
281. Lua: A Guide for Redis Users (redisgreen.net)
123 points | 2016 | author _bpo showed up | their comment | thread
“I completely agree. Embedded gists didn't have this annoyance when I wrote the article. I figured GitHub could be relied on to not change things up too much, but that's…”
282. Mu: making programs easier to understand in the large (github.com)
122 points | 2016 | author akkartik showed up | their comment | thread
“For my part, I have never understood why people consider it to be a good thing to squirrel code into a bunch of different sub-directories. a) It makes the build scripts…”
283. Inside Pascal: Nvidia 's Newest Computing Platform (devblogs.nvidia.com)
122 points | 2016 | author bsprings showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Curious to hear more details about your workload, because a 5+-year-old Fermi would truly be hard pressed to outperform Maxwell or even a Kepler K40, let alone Pascal.”
284. Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage (docs.google.com)
118 points | 2016 | author jntrnr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all - thanks for the interest in the survey! The Rust community team is still working the blog post (this link was to an early draft), and we're looking forward to…”
285. Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport (github.com)
118 points | 2016 | author Heqx showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm very open to ideas to reduce bloat. It's 140 SLOC and ~1.1kb gzipped without lodash/throttle. I considered writing my own throttle, but wanted something more…”
286. The warp drive will have to wait (translate.google.com)
117 points | 2016 | author tp1024 showed up | their comment | thread
“The quote wasn't meant to be snarky. It was meant as an explanation why it is worthwhile to occasionally do experiments, even if you believe the device can't work the…”
287. The Orphaned Internet – Taking Over 120K Domains via a DNS Vulnerability (thehackerblog.com)
117 points | 2016 | author mandatory showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you do have a point, that distinction should have been made. This is merely taking control over the DNS for a domain and doesn't speak to actual ownership of the domain…”
288. The Elixir of concurrency (cfenollosa.com)
116 points | 2016 | author carlesfe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’d appreciate any feedback, I always try to update blog posts with new info and fixes :)”
289. Failsafe – failure handling with retries, circuit breakers and fallbacks (github.com)
116 points | 2016 | author jodah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Failsafe does support exponential backoffs [1]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(1, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); and if you want to specify the exponent [2]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(1,…”
290. Collections-C, generic data structures for C (github.com)
115 points | 2016 | author srdja showed up | their comment | thread
“I was quite surprised to find it on the front page of HN! I must thank you for all the great feedback, it's been very helpful. I agree that it has rough edges and that…”
291. Lessons Learned from a Year of Elasticsearch in Production (tech.scrunch.com)
115 points | 2016 | author lexandstuff showed up | their comment | thread
“That's really good advice, thanks a tonne.”
292. Why the NRA hates smart guns (techcrunch.com)
115 points | 2016 | author jonstokes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I covered all three points you raised on my previous piece for TC this topic, so I didn't see the need to repeat myself here. That piece is linked in the opener of this…”
293. Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C (github.com)
113 points | 2016 | author tjholowaychuk showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure why it was posted, but this (really old) project is basically defunct. I gave github.com/luna/* to the people creating the visual Luna language that was on HN…”
294. Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better (nickjanetakis.com)
113 points | 2016 | author nickjj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“, I have a separate post on the "how to" aspect of it scheduled to be released later this week.”
295. London vs San Francisco – back and forth (jh47.com)
112 points | 2016 | author henson showed up | their comment | thread
“This is fascinating to read! I (naively) assumed that things were better across the board prior to any of the tech booms. I lived in SF and commuted to San Mateo which…”
296. Scientific Regress (firstthings.com)
111 points | 2016 | author wwilson showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to pop in and say: (1) I originally had the thing stuffed full of citations and links, but since they wanted to print it in the paper magazine, we stripped…”
297. Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin (medium.com)
111 points | 2016 | author alicelthwaite showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I don't actually speak German. I'm trying to improve - however, I wouldn't say it's required in Germany to start something on your own. Many of the meetups are in…”
298. Show HN: Better code review for GitHub (omniref.com)
110 points | 2016 | author timr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Editor integration: Agreed. An API is soming soon, which will make it possible for anyone to write an editor integration. Because there are A Lot of Editors. Inline…”
299. Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job (medium.com)
109 points | 2016 | author katpas showed up | their comment | thread
“as some people have picked up in the comments, the one year is a reference to the minimum time I wanted to spend working for someone at a start-up. I used the word build…”
300. Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014) (originalgreen.org)
109 points | 2016 | author SteveMouzon showed up | their comment | thread
“org. While the images are sensational and actually went viral a couple years ago, the real message is to point out that the need for speed necessitates massive waste of…”