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| 331. | Snek: An experimental system for writing generative art systems (inconvergent.net) | |
| 124 points | 2017 | author inconvergent showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to read about the "framework", rather than look at the code: .” | ||
| 332. | The bloat of AMP (lolware.net) | |
| 124 points | 2017 | author technion showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a page I built for phishing susceptibility testing. There's another entire blog posting in the fact that I get about a 70% success rate emailing people from .ru…” | ||
| 333. | Mathematical Notation in Emacs (ekaschalk.github.io) | |
| 123 points | 2017 | author goldfather8 showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of your points are addressable by two observations: 1. Context and readibility are user dependent. 2. Choices were made for semantic parsing first and correctness…” | ||
| 334. | I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads (theguardian.com) | |
| 123 points | 2017 | author antongm showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the op-ed we're all discussing. :)” | ||
| 335. | Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift (uraimo.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author drtse4 showed up | their comment | thread
“no, it doesn't support TCO and you'd have to resort to trampolining here too. In another post[1] I've talked about this and I agree it's definitely not an elegant…” | ||
| 336. | Rooby: a Ruby-like object oriented language written in Go (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author st0012 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Let me explain a few things: 1. The goal of this project is to let people "Use Ruby-like syntax build Go-like performant api servers". 2. The "Ruby-like" means Ruby-like…” | ||
| 337. | Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | |
| 122 points | 2017 | author phillipcarter showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Never hurts to give it a try again! Three months ago, .NET Core 2.0 hadn't actually shipped yet. Although it was certainly possible to write these sorts of things on…” | ||
| 338. | How to build a JavaScript package manager (yarnpkg.com) | |
| 121 points | 2017 | author arcatek showed up | their comment | thread
“Our goal in this article wasn't to build another package manager (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :), but rather to give JavaScript developers some insight as…” | ||
| 339. | Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown (seyedi.org) | |
| 121 points | 2017 | author ne01 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are right about the name confusion! It has been several years since the last commit to the /vmg/sundown and even if it was active it's not a very common Markdown…” | ||
| 340. | Show HN: Skeletal Animation System – a WebGL animation blender (chinedufn.github.io) | |
| 120 points | 2017 | author chinedufn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to hear / answer any questions, criticism and feedback!” | ||
| 341. | Show HN: WebSocket-first development (github.com) | |
| 120 points | 2017 | author jasonl99 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Well, I started down the websockets path because of how awesome I found crystal to be. I wasn't intending to do this a few months ago, it just sort of took on a life of…” | ||
| 342. | Experiments with Matrix for the Purism Librem5, Starring Ubports and Nheko (matrix.org) | |
| 119 points | 2017 | author Arathorn showed up | their comment | thread
“i’m waiting for someone to tell me how installing qt5.9 on ubports is actually a oneliner if you know what you’re doing... :D)” | ||
| 343. | Understanding caching in Postgres – An in-depth guide (2016) (madusudanan.com) | |
| 119 points | 2017 | author madhusudhan000 showed up | their comment | thread
“It is more related to the database being platform neutral. The community is very sensitive to putting in performance improvement/hacks which applies only to certain…” | ||
| 344. | Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (arxiv.org) | |
| 119 points | 2017 | author pcmoritz showed up | their comment | thread
“We are glad you like it! The project is indeed driven by the authors listed on the paper and also the knowledge and experience that was accumulated in the AMPLab (the…” | ||
| 345. | Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search (code.facebook.com) | |
| 117 points | 2017 | author jhj showed up | their comment | thread
“The GPU implementation depends upon a lot of particularities in CUDA (warp shuffles and warp ballots, tricks with using register memory), and gets much of its speed in…” | ||
| 346. | Two Commits and the User Experience of Git (redfin.engineering) | |
| 117 points | 2017 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Let me begin by saying that this post is intended to be historical. If you've ever wondered why "git checkout" both switches branches and restores working-tree files, or…” | ||
| 347. | Types of Engineers (omar.io) | |
| 116 points | 2017 | author okhudeira showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I won't get into whether or not it's fair to call call "developers" "engineers", but I do make the distinction in the first paragraph that the article refers to software…” | ||
| 348. | Stacks-cli: Analyze a website’s stack from the terminal (github.com) | |
| 116 points | 2017 | author goldxfive showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and yes just like you said, stacks-cli just another tool based on wappalyzer this npm module and was a side project of mine built in my spare time, but I think the most…” | ||
| 349. | Show HN: Wireworld written in Nim (github.com) | |
| 115 points | 2017 | author JHonaker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I spent this weekend making an implementation of a lesser known (to me at least) cellular automaton, Wireworld. It was my first non-trivial project in Nim. I had a lot…” | ||
| 350. | Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox (github.com) | |
| 115 points | 2017 | author robinhowlett showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“PDFBox is good for simple text stripping. If I wanted to print all the text on the PDF, that would be very straightforward and not much code. However, the PDF chart here…” | ||
| 351. | Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres (brandur.org) | |
| 115 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread
“I've taken fire before for suggesting that any job should go into a database, but when you're using this sort of pattern with an ACID-compliant store like Postgres it is…” | ||
| 352. | Using Deep Learning to Reconstruct High-Resolution Audio (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 114 points | 2017 | author jhetherly showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for the feedback. "applying a similar technique in the frequency domain", "Maybe training an image reconstructor on the short term spectrogram" - This is what I…” | ||
| 353. | Deploying a global, private CDN (blog.edgemesh.com) | |
| 114 points | 2017 | author jloveless showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Amen to that! I think where this comes in to play is when you've already got colo space and excess capacity (e.g. eBay etc) and/or you'd like to leverage other edge…” | ||
| 354. | Rust Memory Management (zee-nix.blogspot.com) | |
| 113 points | 2017 | author zeenix147 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sorry to hear that my post wasn't useful and contained errors. I'd be very much interested in hearing what the errors are, so I can correct them. I actually tried…” | ||
| 355. | Risk of false positives in fMRI of post-mortem Atlantic salmon (2010) [pdf] (dropbox.com) | |
| 113 points | 2017 | author prefrontal showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all. I’m the author of the poster and subsequent paper. Happy to answer any questions that you might have. Glad to see this on Hacker News so many years after the…” | ||
| 356. | Show HN: Master Numbers in a Foreign Language (foreignnumbers.com) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author jasonlfunk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm working on launching a new webapp dedicated to helping language learners master numbers both in production and listening comprehension. I'd love any feedback, tips,…” | ||
| 357. | Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine (cr.openjdk.java.net) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“and I did not mention this paper because that would be going into too much detail. However: 1. The paper discusses an implementation of lightweight threads in…” | ||
| 358. | Untangling the WebRTC Flow (pkcsecurity.com) | |
| 112 points | 2017 | author squidlogic showed up | their comment | thread
“I've used SimpleWebRTC[0] in the past with success. It was helpful once I needed to start dealing with the annoyances of cross browser compatibility, multiparty calls,…” | ||
| 359. | Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred (zazuapp.org) | |
| 111 points | 2017 | author blainesch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!” | ||
| 360. | Developing Bug-Free Machine Learning Systems with Formal Mathematics (arxiv.org) | |
| 111 points | 2017 | author dselsam showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That is correct. Our Lean development assumes that we have primitive kernels that we trust, and it is otherwise agnostic about how they are implemented. It would be…” | ||
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