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| 91. | 3D Printer Comparison: $200,000 vs. $2500 (additivepartdesign.com) | |
| 254 points | 2016 | author MikeAPD showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am really enjoying the comments everyone has contributed. One major detail I left out was the amount of failed parts that came out of the professional machine prior to…” | ||
| 92. | One Road Out of Depression (thinkfaster.co) | |
| 252 points | 2016 | author swimorsinka showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the comments, I'm surprised to see so much interest here on Hacker News. I figured this would be one of my posts that collected dust. For the record, my…” | ||
| 93. | Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014) (j2kun.svbtle.com) | |
| 250 points | 2016 | author j2kun showed up | their comment | thread
“I can't help but plug my mailing list for a book I'm writing, called "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics." Cheers, and thanks for reading!” | ||
| 94. | How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time (jdlm.info) | |
| 245 points | 2016 | author jdleesmiller showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“It's great to see my write-up on HN, and I'm glad to see it generating good discussion here. Since several people have asked, I have now made my 'metime' tracking app…” | ||
| 95. | FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro (gist.github.com) | |
| 245 points | 2016 | author mpasternacki showed up | their comment | thread
“Debugging dual boot is interesting, debugging virtualbox is not. And I was curious if I can get it running. I just was too lazy to figure it out, I found a more…” | ||
| 96. | Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack (jamesknelson.com) | |
| 243 points | 2016 | author jamesknelson showed up | their comment | thread
“My target audience here was really people who've already decided they're going to use React, and are keen on understanding what is going on under the hood. And while I…” | ||
| 97. | Show HN: Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game (flexboxdefense.com) | |
| 243 points | 2016 | author ChanningAllen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've always been a big fan of tower defense games so I thought it would be cool to make an open-source version of the game for teaching basic Flexbox properties. It's…” | ||
| 98. | The State of Babel (babeljs.io) | |
| 241 points | 2016 | author hzoo showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone had questions or wanted to know more about how to help out! Personally, I'm most excited about babel-preset-env, and fixing how we work with the TC39 process…” | ||
| 99. | Why I'm Making Python 2.8 (naftaliharris.com) | |
| 241 points | 2016 | author naftaliharris showed up | their comment | thread
“Imagine my surprise when I got back from a day of sightseeing (I'm on vacation in Spain) and saw that this had blown up. I had intended to "release" this project after…” | ||
| 100. | Freely available programming books (github.com) | |
| 239 points | 2016 | author vhf showed up | their comment | thread
“which seems to end up here once a year. Since I don't want to answer to every post suggesting something, I'll do it here: I know we could do better in terms of curating…” | ||
| 101. | Show HN: G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics (omrelli.ug) | |
| 237 points | 2016 | author bijection showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! We just fixed a bug that was breaking this on mobile, everything should be working now.” | ||
| 102. | Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed (medium.com) | |
| 235 points | 2016 | author romanpoet showed up | their comment | thread
“In short, Singapore authorities view Privacy as a double-edged sword. They recognize it's power for anti-corruption (which they love), but dislike the human-rights angle…” | ||
| 103. | New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework (github.com) | |
| 234 points | 2016 | author timothycrosley showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I encourage anyone that is curious about the reason for this framework as opposed to X to read the project's architecture document. Some highlights: it allows some of…” | ||
| 104. | Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows (brianketelsen.com) | |
| 234 points | 2016 | author bketelsen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“would love advice or tips on how to get dbus running so settings work well and other WMs work like Gnome.” | ||
| 105. | On the fly SSL registration and renewal inside Nginx with Let's Encrypt (github.com) | |
| 234 points | 2016 | author nickblah showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe that's how things are already working. The very first time a client hits a new domain, the SSL handshake initiates the…” | ||
| 106. | Probabilistic Programming (cs.cornell.edu) | |
| 234 points | 2016 | author samps showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree, and this is an underappreciated view in the PP community. The hype says "you just write your model; you'll get inference for free," but that obscures…” | ||
| 107. | Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager (bitwarden.com) | |
| 231 points | 2016 | author xxkylexx showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi all. I am the author of this project if you would like to ask any questions. Many have been answered on Reddit already but I will participate here as well. You can…” | ||
| 108. | LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2016 | author andreaorru showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The reason for the single letters is that those are the actual names of the 6502 registers. Glad you like it overall. :)” | ||
| 109. | R for Data Science (r4ds.had.co.nz) | |
| 230 points | 2016 | author hadley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to answer any questions. The book should be in print by (hopefully) the end of this year, or definitely by Jan 2017. The content will not change…” | ||
| 110. | Why Suburbia Sucks (likewise.am) | |
| 226 points | 2016 | author abalashov showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Just wanted to respond to a few broad themes I see in the comments: 1. "My neighbourhood isn't like that at all!" My criticism was directed at the specific type of…” | ||
| 111. | How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer (smo.nu) | |
| 226 points | 2016 | author karlmcguire showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree to an extent. As I said in the "Spend Time With Them" section, a lot of developers also program as their hobby. In fact, you pretty much have to program in your…” | ||
| 112. | Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification (arxiv.org) | |
| 225 points | 2016 | author amooeba showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually the ballot counts do have some tendency to align with round numbers. We did not discuss this in the paper because we felt that this "anomaly" can easily be…” | ||
| 113. | The Most Dangerous Writing App (themostdangerouswritingapp.com) | |
| 224 points | 2016 | author maebert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I know Flowstate, which itself was a copy of "Write or Die". I did not know they used the tagline "The Most Dangerous App" though, and now feel shitty - I don't want to…” | ||
| 114. | Rust gets a faster sort implementation (github.com) | |
| 224 points | 2016 | author stjepang showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, this is an interesting problem TimSort used to have. A counterexample to incorrect TimSort is sequence "120, 80, 25, 20, 30". This simple sequence could have been…” | ||
| 115. | Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | |
| 223 points | 2016 | author gratilup showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and optimizer. We had SSA since around 1999-2000, just that some important components like the expression optimizer were written…” | ||
| 116. | Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many common data structures (github.com) | |
| 223 points | 2016 | author thejameskyle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I guess I'll comment on this thread since it got some attention. I think a lot of people that are in this thread went into this project with the complete wrong state of…” | ||
| 117. | My Interviews with Amazon (thesocietea.org) | |
| 222 points | 2016 | author thecodeboss showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey - I wrote this! =D” | ||
| 118. | ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel (thingiequery.com) | |
| 221 points | 2016 | author anakic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(I'm the author)” | ||
| 119. | Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning (github.com) | |
| 221 points | 2016 | author nuclai showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“My biggest insight from this project is that super-resolution with neural networks benefits significantly from being domain specific. If you train on broader datasets,…” | ||
| 120. | Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects (realartists.com) | |
| 219 points | 2016 | author TheTon showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, that's right, at least at the source of truth on the server. Clients automatically rewrite or squash their local history a little bit prior to pushing it to the…” | ||
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