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| 301. | Tyre – Typed regular expressions (drup.github.io) | |
| 109 points | 2016 | author Drup showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't invented the combinators for regex, that was already in ocaml-re (which is used as backend for tyre). The combinator approach has many advantages: - You don't…” | ||
| 302. | Browser History (2013) (madhatted.com) | |
| 109 points | 2016 | author mixonic showed up | their comment | thread
“happy this popped up and to see the HN community thinking through it. A few people have brushed off what I sketched as uninteresting and don't see any issues. I'll try…” | ||
| 303. | Implementing a Tor relay from scratch in golang (2015) (tvdw.eu) | |
| 109 points | 2016 | author tvdw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I wrote the post, happy to answer questions. * yes, more modern versions of Go would likely mitigate some of the memory pain * yes, crypto/tls is fast now * no,…” | ||
| 304. | The Ruby+OMR JIT (developer.ibm.com) | |
| 109 points | 2016 | author magaudet showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to AMA!” | ||
| 305. | C or C++ for my game engine? (crafn.kapsi.fi) | |
| 108 points | 2016 | author crafn showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm positively surprised, constructive discussion on internet! There's been some discussion about using Rust. Rust is an interesting language, and has definitely…” | ||
| 306. | Neural Networks for the Prediction of Organic Chemistry Reactions (pubs.acs.org) | |
| 108 points | 2016 | author duvenaud showed up | their comment | thread
“Ask us anything! This paper is just a first step - what we'd really like to use this for is designing recipes for synthesizing new molecules. I would also be remiss if I…” | ||
| 307. | Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox (flexboxpatterns.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author cjcenizal showed up | their comment | thread
“You make a great point. I'll update the examples to be in CSS. Thanks!” | ||
| 308. | Why you should bet big on privacy (techcrunch.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author rhindi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am the founder of. At Snips, we are building an assistant that is private by design: what I describe in the article are things we actually work on today :-) Happy to…” | ||
| 309. | Application data caching using SSDs (techblog.netflix.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author sgmansfield showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We really are looking for raw performance, but not at any cost. I spent a bunch of time, and continue to do so, to eliminate extra work, indirection, and garbage.…” | ||
| 310. | How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005) (hsivonen.fi) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author hsivonen showed up | their comment | thread
“Today, it's clear that text/html has won over application/xhtml+xml and JSON has won over XML for most (non-enterprise) non-document uses. But back around 2003..2009,…” | ||
| 311. | Cursory hack – Fake address bar interaction (jameshfisher.github.io) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author jamesfisher showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here (along with my inspiration benjaminbenben). This explanation is perfect. And yes, I think the TODO is to not render the custom cursor outside the…” | ||
| 312. | On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science (pressron.wordpress.com) | |
| 107 points | 2016 | author pron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1. I state that the untyped lambda calculus is, indeed, a borderline case, and is a simple rewriting system which, in turn, is a special case of a nondeterministic…” | ||
| 313. | The sad graph of software death (tinyletter.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author sandal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I linked the Reddit thread because there are some good thoughts there, but I'd also love to hear what HN has to say!” | ||
| 314. | Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code (medium.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author philipplgh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“great to see all the feedback! And I agree that the title can be read in different ways. But anyways: it was hard for me to find simple examples of how to build a more…” | ||
| 315. | A Future for R: A Comprehensive Overview (cran.r-project.org) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author HenrikB showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for this illustration of futures in R. About one port per future: This is the case for futures that uses the 'multisession' backend, which is a localhost + PSOCK…” | ||
| 316. | Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline (otherside.site) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author killwhitey showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about…” | ||
| 317. | From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js (lihaoyi.com) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author lihaoyi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this; ask me anything” | ||
| 318. | Designing as a Developer (blog.benroux.me) | |
| 106 points | 2016 | author liquidise showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the years, Zurb's grid has consistently stayed ahead of Bootstrap's in functionality (ex: Zurb was allowing embeddable grids while Bootstrap was still using fixed…” | ||
| 319. | Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment (ohmlang.github.io) | |
| 105 points | 2016 | author pdubroy showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure what you mean here...are you asking if Ohm has any support for type checking a language that you create using Ohm? If so, the answer is no -- not yet. But I…” | ||
| 320. | Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Unobserved Variables (journals.plos.org) | |
| 105 points | 2016 | author laurencea showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions!” | ||
| 321. | EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” (arxiv.org) | |
| 104 points | 2016 | author bwgoodman showed up | their comment | thread
“This feedback is awesome. I have a longer version in the works. if you're interested please feel free to email me, bryce dot goodman at stx dot ox dot ac dot uk. Thanks!…” | ||
| 322. | Making robust software: the “Mars Code” talk (2012) (verticalsysadmin.com) | |
| 102 points | 2016 | author atsaloli showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a sysadmin so my programming mind may have translated "switch" (C) to "case" (bash). Fixed. Thanks for the catch!” | ||
| 323. | Minuteman: A Distributed HA Load Balancer (github.com) | |
| 102 points | 2016 | author sargun showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!” | ||
| 324. | I Accidentally Some Machine Learning – My Story of a Month of Learning Elixir (fredwu.me) | |
| 102 points | 2016 | author fredwu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“When I was benchmarking my library against a ruby one, I did actually try the ruby one on 2.4. Interesting findings are: - Switching from =~ to Regex.match? did not…” | ||
| 325. | Show HN: Micro – a microservice toolkit (blog.micro.mu) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author chuhnk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I built Micro based on my experience at Google and Hailo. At Hailo we built a global microservices platform with over 200 bespoke services in production by the time I…” | ||
| 326. | Abusing Privileged and Unprivileged Linux Containers (nccgroup.trust) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author mytummyhertz showed up | their comment | thread
“author here. hi world!” | ||
| 327. | Thoughts on Algolia vs. Solr and Elasticsearch (opensourceconnections.com) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author softwaredoug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Case in point where Elasticsearch shines is one of yesterday's hacker news articles Here Elasticsearch is used as a framework where "search" really means some kind of…” | ||
| 328. | How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node (incoherency.co.uk) | |
| 101 points | 2016 | author jstanley showed up | their comment | thread
“surprised to see this on HN! I considered submitting it myself but didn't think this crowd was that into Bitcoin. Nice to be proven wrong :) A couple of people mentioned…” | ||