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| 151. | HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter (hella.cheap) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author rabidsnail showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it's a spambot network. If you click the link in that post to the interactive version (this:) you can see for yourself.” | ||
| 152. | 1Password sends your password in clear text across the loopback interface (medium.com) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author nullrouted showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for responding. The reason I wrote this up is not to let people oh my god the world is ending but to let them know, hey if you are using the browser extension…” | ||
| 153. | Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software (medium.com) | |
| 197 points | 2016 | author chrismccord showed up | their comment | thread
“Hawking a book? Are you kidding me? I'm also the creator of Phoenix. I spent two years of my life outside of a FT job to get Phoenix to 1.0. We started a book because…” | ||
| 154. | Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf] (nccgroup.trust) | |
| 196 points | 2016 | author dyn showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Are you saying it doesn't allow a malicious/compromised container to reduce the pool size down to something which might cause other daemons to block, possibly…” | ||
| 155. | Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? (biorxiv.org) | |
| 196 points | 2016 | author stochastician showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- so actually we've done a fair bit of anatomical work recovering motifs, even while looking at the processor [1] -- we took that out of this paper based on…” | ||
| 156. | Fluid Simulation (with WebGL demo) (jamie-wong.com) | |
| 196 points | 2016 | author phleet showed up | their comment | thread
“I cheated: to prevent that steady state (since it's ugly), I have 3 dye injectors strategically placed, causing certain areas to get redder, greener, and bluer over…” | ||
| 157. | The Lisp Curse (2011) (winestockwebdesign.com) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author winestock showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“This must be at least the third time that it has appeared on Hacker News. I'm starting to get sick of it, myself, but I keep it up because so many people like it (at the…” | ||
| 158. | Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind (facebook.com) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author blakeross showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. About me: I was formerly a director of product at FB and a founder of Firefox. My YC startup became FB's first acquisition. I'm focusing…” | ||
| 159. | Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc. (devever.net) | |
| 194 points | 2016 | author hlandau showed up | their comment | thread
“After musing on the comments here I wrote a followup about improv HSMs. These aren't tamperproof and as such are suitable for use in secure datacentres only.” | ||
| 160. | Convert curl commands to Go code (mholt.github.io) | |
| 193 points | 2016 | author mholt showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN, I wrote this to scratch a perpetual itch after reading enough API documentations and re-writing basically the same code over and over. Right now it only supports…” | ||
| 161. | Ethereum Contracts Are Going to Be Candy for Hackers (vessenes.com) | |
| 193 points | 2016 | author vessenes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I agree with Vitalik. I thought it was interesting to dig into the wild west of live contracts and see what was happening right now. The early days of Bitcoin had…” | ||
| 162. | Microservices? Please Don't (dzone.com) | |
| 192 points | 2016 | author StabbyCutyou showed up | their comment | thread
“Quickly, on the "elementary" nature of the post, this was adapted from a lightning talk I gave, and so it was sort of designed to be a very quick introduction into the…” | ||
| 163. | WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser (webgazer.cs.brown.edu) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author lazyjeff showed up | their comment | thread
“It was probably not very clear on our part, but it's meant to train the eye tracking model as naturally you use the website. So it takes advantage of your interactions…” | ||
| 164. | How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author jeanettehead17 showed up | their comment | thread
“I like to say 'this way would be better because...' as much as possible. Providing a business case to back up your claim makes it less personal. Receiving feedback is…” | ||
| 165. | Learn to Code by Building Projects (enlight.ml) | |
| 190 points | 2016 | author samayshamdasani showed up | their comment | thread
“The mailchimp list was associated with a website I built for one of my clients - I'm going to switch it back to soon (I'm just at school rn lol)” | ||
| 166. | Ripgrep code review (blog.mbrt.it) | |
| 189 points | 2016 | author mbrt showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate that! I'm gonna edit the post with it. And don't worry about your code... it's the best crate I've seen so far ;) By the way,…” | ||
| 167. | Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China (pentestpartners.com) | |
| 188 points | 2016 | author cybergibbons showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“My device sends an email at boot to the email address, and it has also been triggered at other times - I am not sure why. It looks like there are a number of variants of…” | ||
| 168. | How Eve unifies your entire programming stack (hackernoon.com) | |
| 188 points | 2016 | author Liron showed up | their comment | thread
“I certainly understand that seeing progressively more sophisticated practical applications will help people "get" Eve. I look forward to that myself. In the meantime, I…” | ||
| 169. | IRCv3 (blog.irccloud.com) | |
| 187 points | 2016 | author jwheare2 showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, the changes detailed here are to do with IRC as a low level protocol. While these enhancements do have user benefit, many of the user experience improvements…” | ||
| 170. | Porting Python to GRUB: “Networking without an operating system” (lwn.net) | |
| 186 points | 2016 | author JoshTriplett showed up | their comment | thread
“and the presenter of the PyCon presentation this article discusses. Happy to answer any questions here.” | ||
| 171. | Hanami – web framework for Ruby (hanamirb.org) | |
| 185 points | 2016 | author jodosha showed up | their comment | thread
“We started at the same time, but unfortunately I never had the chance to play with Phoenix.” | ||
| 172. | Chrome is warning users about insecure pages (certsimple.com) | |
| 185 points | 2016 | author nailer showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a more accurate reflection of what EV offers: it's about matching identities to certificates, not 'selling green bars' the big CAs have been doing for years.” | ||
| 173. | Using Rust for 'Scripting' (chriskrycho.com) | |
| 185 points | 2016 | author chriskrycho showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with your assessment. Apparently the scare quotes didn't convey my intent: it's easy to do something (including cross-platform) where I normally would have used…” | ||
| 174. | Web Bloat Score Calculator (webbloatscore.com) | |
| 184 points | 2016 | author ZeljkoS showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to measure visual information content of a page, and yes, PNG is maybe not the best to do that. JPEGs are smaller, but it introduces another problem of visible…” | ||
| 175. | An Algebra of Graphs (blogs.ncl.ac.uk) | |
| 184 points | 2016 | author sn0wleopard showed up | their comment | thread
“I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in a different version of the algebra that modells hypergraphs with k-edges. For example, you can change the…” | ||
| 176. | When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema (blog.heapanalytics.com) | |
| 183 points | 2016 | author drob showed up | their comment | thread
“Curious what experiences y'all have had with JSONB. We're in the process of switching to a more balanced schema (mentioned in this post) and the results have been pretty…” | ||
| 177. | Show HN: “Nim in Action” is now available (nim-lang.org) | |
| 181 points | 2016 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Even if you don't intend to purchase the book I would love to hear feedback from you about the first chapter (which is free!)[1]. Really excited about this book and am…” | ||
| 178. | Time Series, the new shiny? (basho.com) | |
| 180 points | 2016 | author siculars showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for all the interest! AMA!” | ||
| 179. | Who Pays for the Decentralized Web? (tierion.com) | |
| 180 points | 2016 | author waynevaughan showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow was I surprised to see this on Hacker News! It's my view that decentralized systems will almost always be less efficient than centralized systems. This is because…” | ||
| 180. | Refined Twitter (github.com) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author mofle showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I also made a desktop app for this:” | ||
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