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| 31. | TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code (github.com) | |
| 577 points | 2017 | author raxod502 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I can confirm that the actual reason is that at the time I thought typing "print" instead of "System.out.println" was a great idea.” | ||
| 32. | Doomsday planning for less crazy folk (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 575 points | 2017 | author f- showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“The mindset is actually a large component of this guide, and it intentionally delays any discussion of "prepper gear" until it gets through a long laundry list of…” | ||
| 33. | Interactive Vim tutorial (openvim.com) | |
| 566 points | 2017 | author mushishi showed up | their comment | thread
“The tutorial succeeds if it gets people to have a superficial comprehension what Vim is about -- especially for those that have been putting off trying it out in a…” | ||
| 34. | How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017 (zhubert.com) | |
| 551 points | 2017 | author zhubert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Completely agree on the early reader feedback. I went through two rounds of readers (alpha and beta) and it was immensely helpful in grinding down some of the rough…” | ||
| 35. | Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch (github.com) | |
| 545 points | 2017 | author bpesquet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Backstory: I'm a CS engineer/teacher and this book is a side project started in December 2016. You can read a bit more about it here:. The writing process is now…” | ||
| 36. | How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails (nateberkopec.com) | |
| 539 points | 2017 | author nateberkopec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I don't do that. I think I even mention in the post that I don't bother with vote-ringing on HN because I think HN's algos are pretty sophisticated on this front. Plus,…” | ||
| 37. | Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping (ocalog.com) | |
| 534 points | 2017 | author mjfl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and also the creator of the website. I'm writing this series of posts to demonstrate the site. Do you guys get what the site's trying to do? Hope you enjoy the post. If…” | ||
| 38. | Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com) | |
| 521 points | 2017 | author sp37344 showed up | their comment | thread
“For the graphs I used the ggplot library in R, but really any SQL visualization tool (e.g., SQLPad) would have worked as well. Apache Zeppelin Notebook seems like a…” | ||
| 39. | A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum (medium.freecodecamp.org) | |
| 520 points | 2017 | author HaseebQ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I tried to write this article to be accessible to people with little background in security and cryptography (hence its publication on FreeCodeCamp), and to be friendly…” | ||
| 40. | How to start a startup without ruining your life (superhi.com) | |
| 511 points | 2017 | author riklomas showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any questions about it, I'm happy to answer and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the article!” | ||
| 41. | Git git git git git (caiustheory.com) | |
| 510 points | 2017 | author caiusdurling showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm glad someone else appreciated it besides me. :-) (It's especially pleasing to watch the system calls it generates via strace or dtrace!)” | ||
| 42. | Why Momentum Works (distill.pub) | |
| 503 points | 2017 | author gabrielgoh showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I've created all the diagrams, though I've received really helpful editorial input from Shan Carter and Chris Olah. If you feel like doing some archeology, you can see…” | ||
| 43. | Comparing Elixir and Go (blog.codeship.com) | |
| 489 points | 2017 | author brightball showed up | their comment | thread
“This was published a week earlier than expected so just a heads up that there are a couple of edits coming.” | ||
| 44. | The internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp) | |
| 477 points | 2017 | author shx8 showed up | their comment | thread
“Now, my hosting server denies accessing from foreign countries because of too many accesses. Please wait for a several hours.” | ||
| 45. | Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race (motherboard.vice.com) | |
| 477 points | 2017 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone forks this and makes it real please let me know. @jason_koebler on twitter or jason.koebler@vice.com” | ||
| 46. | Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal (github.com) | |
| 474 points | 2017 | author laurent123456 showed up | their comment | thread
“The notes on each client are stored in an SQLite database for performance reason. If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be…” | ||
| 47. | How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security (blog.lessonslearned.org) | |
| 468 points | 2017 | author signifiers showed up | their comment | thread
“I think this was misunderstood. I don't mean the _entire_ Chromebook or OS was unstable -- just the opposite actually. I was referring to having to restart Termux twice…” | ||
| 48. | Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data (github.com) | |
| 463 points | 2017 | author arikfr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Redash :) Nice to see Redash at the top of HN. I'll be happy to answer any questions about Redash, open source and about my journey to make Redash…” | ||
| 49. | Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images (distill.pub) | |
| 461 points | 2017 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm one of the authors, along with Alex and Ludwig. We're happy to answer any questions! :)” | ||
| 50. | SQL Notebook (sqlnotebook.com) | |
| 459 points | 2017 | author electroly showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! Author here. I didn't expect anyone to find this repo, much less post it on Hacker News! This project is inactive for two main reasons: - SQLite is not a…” | ||
| 51. | Skyrim rendered in text (medium.com) | |
| 459 points | 2017 | author filiph showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I'm surprised (and very happy!) you were able to play through. I know accessibility is one thing I haven't given enough attention to. If you have specific suggestions…” | ||
| 52. | Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch (medium.com) | |
| 449 points | 2017 | author noopkat showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't post this to Hacker News (I didn't even have an account on here until 30 seconds ago), but thanks for the thoughtful comments everyone! Is it weird if I address…” | ||
| 53. | Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later (charukiewi.cz) | |
| 449 points | 2017 | author Albert_Camus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“As I posted in a different reply: JSON decoding is hard relative to what it is like in JavaScript. In your JS code you can just call JSON.parse() and get the…” | ||
| 54. | The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y” (erikbern.com) | |
| 442 points | 2017 | author erikbern showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are absolutely right. As I mentioned in the notes, I think this matters a bit less than it might seem like (the stationary distribution does not change if you add a…” | ||
| 55. | Invisible unicorns: Big companies that started with little or no money (techcrunch.com) | |
| 442 points | 2017 | author replicatorblog showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm one of the authors of this post and plan on releasing an updated version with some companies that we missed on the first pass. If you know of other substantial…” | ||
| 56. | TypeScript at Slack (slack.engineering) | |
| 440 points | 2017 | author felixrieseberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here - let me know if you have any questions about anything in that post (or, you know, anything else... like, erm, Electron).” | ||
| 57. | Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker (watchesbysjx.com) | |
| 437 points | 2017 | author watchesbysjx showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article above and also visited Jiro when Jiro himself was making the sushi. There are similarities between both Kikuno and Jiro in their commitment to a…” | ||
| 58. | LA Times and ads (nelsonslog.wordpress.com) | |
| 434 points | 2017 | author NelsonMinar showed up | their comment | thread
“I did the naive extrapolation. 5 2 1440 = 14,400. Perhaps this number is not entirely accurate. The fact it is any larger than, say, 10 is the problem.” | ||
| 59. | How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding (twilio.com) | |
| 425 points | 2017 | author Slamchunk showed up | their comment | thread
“Weddings are time sinks even small ones like mine, we viewed around 20 venues for example, multiple caterers etc. Anything you can do to save time is a good thing.…” | ||
| 60. | PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com) | |
| 420 points | 2017 | author AlisdairO showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks a lot for the feedback, it's appreciated. You're right on the naming convention, it's very haphazard. I'll raise an issue on Github to revisit that - although it…” | ||
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