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| 1. | Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com) | |
| 1519 points | 2017 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thats a fair criticism. I wanted to pick on Spotify and Atom more in my blog post, but both Spotify and Atom have cleaned up their act. I couldn't get either one to…” | ||
| 2. | Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration (thehackerblog.com) | |
| 1404 points | 2017 | author mandatory showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks - glad you liked the post! :)” | ||
| 3. | They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com) | |
| 1359 points | 2017 | author roseburg showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“you are absolutely right. Want to see me angry? You should have seen me when I found out my 90 year old neighbor lady is on her second Whirlpool made vertical modular…” | ||
| 4. | Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web (neustadt.fr) | |
| 1307 points | 2017 | author livatlantis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Is it? It works on my end. Could you tell me which OS/Safari version you're using? Thanks.” | ||
| 5. | Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust (blog.jwilm.io) | |
| 1170 points | 2017 | author jwilm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and I'm here to answer any questions!” | ||
| 6. | How We Built r/Place (redditblog.com) | |
| 1152 points | 2017 | author madlee showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I wrote the majority of that part of the project (canvas stuff) & that section of the article – the simple answer is that I have a lot of experience working with the…” | ||
| 7. | The Uber Bombshell About to Drop (danielcompton.net) | |
| 1089 points | 2017 | author dantiberian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I tried pretty hard throughout the entire article to make it clear both that I was speculating, and that Uber will contest these claims in court. In the 'dead to rights'…” | ||
| 8. | Wikimedia Foundation spending (en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 1054 points | 2017 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“which I will prove by posting a comment on my Wikipedia talk page [ ] before saving this. I am open to any questions, criticism, or discussion. BTW, as I noted in the…” | ||
| 9. | I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (vc.gg) | |
| 951 points | 2017 | author gexcolo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Can you provide me more information about this? I've always wondered if that was the case, but I was once given a lengthy interview in the Amsterdam airport on my way to…” | ||
| 10. | RethinkDB Postmortem (github.com) | |
| 948 points | 2017 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment | thread
“FYI, the post is still in its unpublished state. It's basically right, but I've been meaning to edit it for tone and rewrite the market failure section for clarity.…” | ||
| 11. | How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block (la3.org) | |
| 906 points | 2017 | author kilburn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've tried to keep the article as apolitical as possible, while giving some context to provide the setting. Anyway, I'm very interested in knowing if the used crypto is…” | ||
| 12. | How I got to 200 productive hours a month (qotoqot.com) | |
| 853 points | 2017 | author ivm showed up | their comment | thread
“I read HN and other distracting sites in the bed or from the "gym" room where we don't have a chair or a couch – only a yoga mat. It's not comfortable to sit there for…” | ||
| 13. | Google Spreadsheets and Python (twilio.com) | |
| 811 points | 2017 | author gregorymichael showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Main advantage in our usecase is getting the CUD interface for free.” | ||
| 14. | Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code (github.com) | |
| 793 points | 2017 | author s-macke showed up | their comment | thread
“The main algorithm fits easily in 20 lines. However, the JavaScript code is optimized and contains also the initializing routines and input device logic. It is also a…” | ||
| 15. | Semantic UI (semantic-ui.com) | |
| 768 points | 2017 | author jlukic showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the scroll issue in the docs. Should be glorious normal iOS scroll.” | ||
| 16. | Exa, a modern replacement for ls (the.exa.website) | |
| 740 points | 2017 | author cytzol showed up | their comment | thread
“You know what's funny? Every time I have to use ls, I'm so used to seeing the colours that I have so much trouble finding anything. Which column in the permissions is…” | ||
| 17. | Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? (truthhawk.com) | |
| 733 points | 2017 | author TruthHawk showed up | their comment | thread
“you're right. I've made an edit accordingly. Thanks!” | ||
| 18. | Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects (opensource.googleblog.com) | |
| 727 points | 2017 | author jart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's some truth to what he's saying. One thing I've been meaning to do is get my hands on all the Maven pom.xml files that exist, so I can load them into a Guava…” | ||
| 19. | 150 days of living and coding in a van (ruby-on-wheels.github.io) | |
| 720 points | 2017 | author classisch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hey everyone! I'm the author of that article. I just started the blog and still have a ton of things to write about. I like all the (critical) feedback. That inspires me…” | ||
| 20. | “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason” (jasmcole.com) | |
| 710 points | 2017 | author jasmcole showed up | their comment | thread
“As several of you have noted, there are a lot of tweaks to speed this simulation up - making it 2D increases (unphysically) the collision rate, the particles have overly…” | ||
| 21. | Operating Systems: From 0 to 1 (tuhdo.github.io) | |
| 709 points | 2017 | author tuhdo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, it's a x86 operating system. However, rather than getting around A20, it focused on protected mode instead. The book not only teaches x86, but how to use the…” | ||
| 22. | Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job (80000hours.org) | |
| 693 points | 2017 | author BenjaminTodd showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take questions, and keen to hear ideas about what else we might add.” | ||
| 23. | Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers (inc.com) | |
| 669 points | 2017 | author exolymph showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you are willing to talk about your experience — it can be off-the-record if you want — please email me: smann@inc.com” | ||
| 24. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 655 points | 2017 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“This is old and I haven't added some of the new services that AWS has released since I first wrote it. Whenever this list comes up there's generally a group of people…” | ||
| 25. | Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock (morepypy.blogspot.com) | |
| 644 points | 2017 | author fijal showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me put an offer here: If you want to ask a question that warrants a response (as opposed to promoting your own effort, which is valid but does not warrant a…” | ||
| 26. | How Bank of America Gave Away My Money (soraven.com) | |
| 640 points | 2017 | author darkmirage showed up | their comment | thread
“It turns out writing a blog post works better than talking to the bank beyond simple catharsis. Just got a call from someone from Bank of America's social media team who…” | ||
| 27. | Google’s not-so-secret new OS (techspecs.blog) | |
| 634 points | 2017 | author techenthusiast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Posted this in the notes, but possibly too buried: For anyone interested, I intend to write quite often about consumer technology on this blog. Topics will include…” | ||
| 28. | How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability (blog.canny.io) | |
| 603 points | 2017 | author a13n showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. It's monthly revenue. You get to write off expenses from your revenue before paying taxes. Also for our bracket, tax is only 15%.” | ||
| 29. | List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots (eff.org) | |
| 586 points | 2017 | author schoen showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and I would like to emphasize that there is a second generation of this technology that probably uses dithering parameters or something of that sort, and that does not…” | ||
| 30. | TDD did not live up to expectations (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | |
| 586 points | 2017 | author ericgunnerson showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I agree that time to market is really important, but when a company is searching for the product that will work, the most important thing that you can have is code that…” | ||
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