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| 211. | Taylor – Swift on bare metal (github.com) | |
| 157 points | 2016 | author klange showed up | their comment | thread
“This wasn't something anyone was supposed to 'find', it's not even really a 'project', just a quick hack to demonstrate a point; I don't even think it's valid to say the…” | ||
| 212. | The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management anti-pattern (lucas-nussbaum.net) | |
| 157 points | 2016 | author lnussbaum showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I did not mean that developers should break things on purpose. Of course, seeking strategies to limit the damage caused by introducing breaking changes, by providing…” | ||
| 213. | Mistakes Beginners Make When Working with Databases (craigkerstiens.com) | |
| 156 points | 2016 | author craigkerstiens showed up | their comment | thread
“what I'm proposing is an ARRAY[VARCHAR]. Postgres has a native array type, different from manually mangling an array.” | ||
| 214. | Afl.rs: Fuzzing Rust code with american-fuzzy-lop (github.com) | |
| 155 points | 2016 | author frewsxcv showed up | their comment | thread
“AFL is coverage-guided fuzz testing (fuzz testing that relies on code coverage). Someone (not me) wrote an "LLVM pass" that loops through the generated LLVM IR for any…” | ||
| 215. | England and Wales House Price Analysis (jasmcole.com) | |
| 153 points | 2016 | author jasmcole showed up | their comment | thread
“please feel free to ask any questions.” | ||
| 216. | Show HN: DIY Position Tracking Using HTC Vive's Lighthouse (github.com) | |
| 153 points | 2016 | author ashtuchkin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I used the system described in the link for indoor stabilization of a drone, plus precise landing, to support an automatic battery swap station project (have a video…” | ||
| 217. | YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley (courses.platzi.com) | |
| 152 points | 2016 | author freddier showed up | their comment | thread
“After being part of YC, I had a lot of things I wish I knew before doing it, from common mistakes to humble reminders. Specially being an "international founder". Happy…” | ||
| 218. | A short critique of Stallmanism (jancorazza.com) | |
| 152 points | 2016 | author jcora showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm very sorry, I honestly just wanted a nice pic of Stallman and found it through Google without thinking much. I've added the credits at the end of the article…” | ||
| 219. | Show HN: Plain text for the web (saola.in) | |
| 151 points | 2016 | author saola-app showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you would like to try out the app and provide feed back there is a test account. email demo@saola.in and password is Areyouserious1. Would love feedback.” | ||
| 220. | Dragon: A distributed graph query engine (code.facebook.com) | |
| 150 points | 2016 | author adsharma showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a link to a video in the blog and we published something at NSDI last week:” | ||
| 221. | Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations (research.google.com) | |
| 150 points | 2016 | author pcovington showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions about the techniques in the paper. We're super excited to finally share this work externally. Feedback about YouTube recommendations in general…” | ||
| 222. | Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (benbernardblog.com) | |
| 150 points | 2016 | author bbernard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so thanks a lot for your kind remarks. Now, the problem appears to be in libxml2, but... it's only partly true. I assure you that the best is yet to come :)” | ||
| 223. | How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript (hackernoon.com) | |
| 150 points | 2016 | author neovive showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. My son's experience has generally been self-driven via Scratch. I introduced him to Scratch at around age 7 through CoderDojo and he really…” | ||
| 224. | Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab (github.com) | |
| 149 points | 2016 | author awalGarg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it involves some payment (IIRC) or some other stupid barrier. If someone is kind enough to take care of that for me, I'd be happy to publish it. I have a couple…” | ||
| 225. | Distributed Named Pipes (dnpip.es) | |
| 148 points | 2016 | author mhausenblas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback and I agree, a lighter ref impl would be ideal (it's just that I happen to use DC/OS on a daily basis so for me this was the most natural thing…” | ||
| 226. | AVX2 faster than native popcnt instruction on Haswell/Skylake (0x80.pl) | |
| 147 points | 2016 | author wmu showed up | their comment | thread
“You're perfectly right, microbenchmarks have flaws. Procedures should be run for different data sizes (as I did years ago) and code should be compiled with different…” | ||
| 227. | Gallium – Build Desktop Applications in Go and HTML (github.com) | |
| 146 points | 2016 | author alexflint showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Yes this is a significant price to pay, but being able to test once and be sure that your users' experience will match your testing is worth a lot. It should be possible…” | ||
| 228. | Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers (jeremykun.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author j2kun showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm confused because I agree with your objections but I don't recall that I wrote any of the things you're objecting to. IIRC I even said math has no docs or…” | ||
| 229. | How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack (cloudplatform.googleblog.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author milesward showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yeahhhh we don't know what to call it. CoreOS folks said this and it sorta made sense, we call out the name ookyness right in the post. AsKSHBDDVBTFRcsM seemed, well,…” | ||
| 230. | Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author EatonZ showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the embed code because some of the images are large and WordPress wasn't resizing them correctly for some reason. I also was unaware of the policy in Imgur's ToS.…” | ||
| 231. | DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language (arxiv.org) | |
| 145 points | 2016 | author nicklo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey HN! One of the authors here. This was a fun project to work on. Happy to answer any questions :) Code + data here:” | ||
| 232. | Immer: immutable and persistent data structures for C++ (github.com) | |
| 144 points | 2016 | author arximboldi showed up | their comment | thread
“open for questions :)” | ||
| 233. | String types in Rust (andrewbrinker.github.io) | |
| 143 points | 2016 | author brinker showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions people have, and happy to hear any feedback.” | ||
| 234. | We’re in the Middle of a Data Engineering Talent Shortage (blog.stitchdata.com) | |
| 143 points | 2016 | author jakestein showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey I'm the author of this blog post and the CEO of the company that did the benchmark report. That was a very poor choice of words on my part, and I appreciate you…” | ||
| 235. | The James Webb Telescope, the largest science project in US government history (arstechnica.com) | |
| 142 points | 2016 | author leephillips showed up | their comment | thread
“"Audio" is there for reference. It never occurred to be that this would cause confusion, but you're not the only one to object to it.” | ||
| 236. | Why I am betting on Julia (2014) (evanmiller.org) | |
| 142 points | 2016 | author philip1209 showed up | their comment | thread
“I still bet on Julia. We just used pre-production software in a production environment and the tooling wasn't ready. I still love the language and believe in its future,…” | ||
| 237. | Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android (superpowered.com) | |
| 142 points | 2016 | author szantog showed up | their comment | thread
“and the CTO of Superpowered. I apologize if the article was confusing. Marshmallow improves audio latency here and there on some devices, but even Android N has the…” | ||
| 238. | Interactive Numerical Optimization Tutorial (benfrederickson.com) | |
| 142 points | 2016 | author benfrederickson showed up | their comment | thread
“This post is really just me messing around with Javascript, and trying to make some pretty graphs with D3. All the code is up on my github account, if you want to check…” | ||
| 239. | Academics, we need to talk (matt-welsh.blogspot.com) | |
| 141 points | 2016 | author mdwelsh showed up | their comment | thread
“Ad hominem attacks aside, I do think it's a big deal if a bunch of academics are spending time working on the wrong things, if for no better reason than maximizing…” | ||
| 240. | Show HN: Procedural Voxel Rendering in WebGL (guillaumechereau.github.io) | |
| 141 points | 2016 | author guillaumec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is simply using a bump texture.” | ||
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