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| 271. | Hidden dungeons of the London Underground (michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk) | |
| 155 points | 2017 | author michjedi showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm afraid I don't have any statistics on this matter - in this case I was relaying what the staff told me. I will see if any of my friends in engineering can confirm…” | ||
| 272. | How We’re Building a Business to Last (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author hnkimb3558 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm not incredibly familiar with the ins and outs of MongoDB Inc's business model, but I agree with your assessment. They certainly seem to have embraced both of the OSS…” | ||
| 273. | A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (2011) (digitalerr0r.wordpress.com) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author digitalerr0r showed up | their comment | thread
“Awesome to see this on Hacker News, and that so many still care for this great computer! Happy to answer any questions/take feedback if you got something on your mind.” | ||
| 274. | July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends (hntrends.com) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author mountaineer showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the Rails drop was a strange one, since it just had a strong June, from 85 postings in June to 59 in July with similar total posting counts in both months. From what…” | ||
| 275. | Object Detection with Open Images using Tensorflow (blog.algorithmia.com) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author zeryx showed up | their comment | thread
“if you have any questions/comments I'll check back in periodically and answer them here!” | ||
| 276. | Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView (slack.engineering) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author CharlieHess showed up | their comment | thread
“:wave: If you don't mind doing Help > Report Issue it'll submit your logs and we can see what went down.” | ||
| 277. | Quantum Game with Photons (play.quantumgame.io) | |
| 154 points | 2017 | author stared showed up | their comment | thread
“Really excited to see Quantum Game on HN! :) Just in case, project repo is here: For more on learning (and teaching) quantum mechanics, see: And BTW: a question to you…” | ||
| 278. | Porting a historic Python2 module to Python3 (lucasg.github.io) | |
| 153 points | 2017 | author luch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“by type comments your mean this : ? I haven't seen them used anywhere, but that's an okay solution I guess. NB : by the way, love your blog :p” | ||
| 279. | The language of choice (codewords.recurse.com) | |
| 150 points | 2017 | author abecedarius showed up | their comment | thread
“The theme is "You could have invented BDDs" -- the article works up to them in hopefully-natural steps, with some applications along the way. The Python code is shorter…” | ||
| 280. | Implementing Algebraic Effects in C (microsoft.com) | |
| 150 points | 2017 | author daanx showed up | their comment | thread
“-) Just wanted to add that you can find the library at: The `dev` branch contains a sample of `libuv` integration. There is still a lot to be done in terms of creating a…” | ||
| 281. | Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth (en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 150 points | 2017 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“For the record, I would prefer that this thread have that title (it was recently changed to "Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth". I would also note that…” | ||
| 282. | The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration (jdlm.info) | |
| 150 points | 2017 | author jdleesmiller showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That would indeed be interesting, thanks --- I don't think it's trivial to generate all of the possible predecessor states, but it seems like it should be possible. One…” | ||
| 283. | Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss (engineeringblog.yelp.com) | |
| 149 points | 2017 | author thebostik showed up | their comment | thread
“, It wasn't available when I started this project. butteraugli was (which guetzli uses internally), but in my opinion they're relatively new and need a bit more rigorous…” | ||
| 284. | Show HN: AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits (github.com) | |
| 148 points | 2017 | author aaronduino showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm open to any suggestions or feedback.” | ||
| 285. | Time for Makefiles to Make a Comeback (medium.com) | |
| 148 points | 2017 | author jolson88 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the great comments everybody. I'm honored this post even got attention here (_long_ time reader and lurker here). I'm glad to see a bunch of constructive…” | ||
| 286. | Flare: Clojure Dynamic Neural Net Library (aria42.com) | |
| 148 points | 2017 | author aria showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 287. | Add a const here, delete a const there (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 147 points | 2017 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a big believer in adding const everywhere - local variables, globals, member functions, etc. Marking globals as const can move them to the read-only segment which…” | ||
| 288. | Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance (medium.com) | |
| 146 points | 2017 | author drewg123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“willing to answer questions..” | ||
| 289. | Show HN: Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming (anchovieshat.github.io) | |
| 145 points | 2017 | author anchovieshat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Q8 is a little tool I started as an experiment to visualize low level code as it manipulates raw data in memory, but has evolved into a full-fledged experimental…” | ||
| 290. | Box: Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access (github.com) | |
| 145 points | 2017 | author chris_griffith showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree with the fact it has shortcomings and definitely isn't aimed to replace everyone's dict everywhere. I actually created the first iteration of this around…” | ||
| 291. | TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+ (pron.github.io) | |
| 143 points | 2017 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“and just last year I wrote a long post about the difficulty -- both theoretical and practical -- of software correctness[1]. People who understand formal methods know…” | ||
| 292. | Things about programming I learned with Go (mjk.space) | |
| 143 points | 2017 | author mjkpl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your opinion.” | ||
| 293. | How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL (m1el.github.io) | |
| 143 points | 2017 | author m1el showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not sure if this a typical case, but the reason I use serious-ish math is my major in physics. When I see a simulation problem calculus comes to mind first. In my…” | ||
| 294. | The case against Kotlin (medium.com) | |
| 142 points | 2017 | author ryanator showed up | their comment | thread
“Some context I think might not have made it to the Hacker News readers. We use Kotlin at Pinterest, we were one of the two teams talking about the value of Kotlin when…” | ||
| 295. | Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum (medium.com) | |
| 141 points | 2017 | author mhluongo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry it didn't gel with you, but I'm happy to defend this example. A zero-knowledge proof is about a prover convincing a verifier they have some knowledge, without…” | ||
| 296. | Uber CLI (github.com) | |
| 139 points | 2017 | author jaebradley showed up | their comment | thread
“Obviously, this is a security issue that is pretty much bottom-of-the-barrel-shitty. My explanation is that I didn't feel like standing up a middleware service to direct…” | ||
| 297. | Emacs is sexy (emacs.sexy) | |
| 139 points | 2017 | author picandocodigo showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the site and I didn't know about the theme gallery you mentioned, but this other one is linked: I'll add pawelbx's gallery on the next update. Thanks!” | ||
| 298. | On Chinese Writing: Evolution (al3x.svbtle.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author ar7hur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I just discovered this was posted on HN. Please note that it's episode 2 of a "series", the first episode is Thanks for your interesting comments!” | ||
| 299. | JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns (formidable.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author mhink showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Saying "why not simply observables" kinda glosses over a lot of details, but I'll try and answer as best as I can. I've always found it a bit difficult to use…” | ||
| 300. | Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F# (github.com) | |
| 138 points | 2017 | author rspeele showed up | their comment | thread
“The choice to typecheck a SQL dialect directly instead of using an embedded DSL like LINQ is uncommon enough that it gets the majority of the focus in my own…” | ||
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