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| 61. | Introducing Keybase Teams (keybase.io) | |
| 419 points | 2017 | author malgorithms showed up | their comment | thread
“In the interest of keeping the post more of a summary, we left the cryptographic details to our docs. Here's a link to that: . We're happy to answer questions here. This…” | ||
| 62. | Python plays Grand Theft Auto V (pythonprogramming.net) | |
| 416 points | 2017 | author sentdex showed up | their comment | thread
“It's just me who does the entire site of pythonprogramming.net and the youtube channel. The way I have gone about things has changed over time, but I have found the…” | ||
| 63. | Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2 (blog.packagecloud.io) | |
| 415 points | 2017 | author jdamato showed up | their comment | thread
“greetings. Anyone who finds this interesting may also enjoy our writeup describing every Linux system call method in detail [1]. [1]:” | ||
| 64. | My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.wordpress.com) | |
| 413 points | 2017 | author zwischenzug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“interested in any strong views on this - @ianmiell on twitter.” | ||
| 65. | A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (internetingishard.com) | |
| 412 points | 2017 | author interneting showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Correct! Thanks for letting me know. I believe this has been fixed (if not, please let me know again).” | ||
| 66. | Enough with the microservices (aadrake.com) | |
| 408 points | 2017 | author adamdrake showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your feedback, and I'll be sure to take it into account in future writing. I don't have any preference for or against microservices, as long as the…” | ||
| 67. | Benefits of a Lifestyle Business (bugfender.com) | |
| 406 points | 2017 | author znq showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“For us it means optimizing for happiness instead of profit. More practically speaking what we do is ensuring everyone has a sufficient base salary, but then also…” | ||
| 68. | Why recursive data structures? (raganwald.com) | |
| 404 points | 2017 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread
“Nevertheless, there's learning gold in those comments. Take the gold, leave the mud.” | ||
| 69. | Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 404 points | 2017 | author ar813 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, radiators like the ones on the ISS are pretty much the dominant/only ways to get heat out in space. In response to your questions: yes, it can in fact cool below…” | ||
| 70. | Is PostgreSQL good enough? (renesd.blogspot.com) | |
| 403 points | 2017 | author renesd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, pretty much everything in the article is an anti-pattern. However, people are doing these things, and the implementations are correct, and perform well enough for…” | ||
| 71. | Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language (triplebyte.com) | |
| 403 points | 2017 | author compumike showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Our technical interview is really designed to look for your strengths, such as being productive while writing clean, correct code in any language/environment of your…” | ||
| 72. | Data Structures for Coding Interviews (interviewcake.com) | |
| 396 points | 2017 | author gameguy43 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions about this piece or coding interviews in general! And eager to receive any feedback. Thanks for the post!” | ||
| 73. | Writing a Bootloader (3zanders.co.uk) | |
| 391 points | 2017 | author zanders3 showed up | their comment | thread
“A silly mistake I've fixed it now!” | ||
| 74. | Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform (socialcooling.com) | |
| 389 points | 2017 | author socialcooling showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Being trained as a media theorist I understand your criticism (and am going to check out Horkheimer's essay, thanks for the tip!). But this website purposefully tries to…” | ||
| 75. | Plain emails not only save time but work better (2016) (gkogan.co) | |
| 388 points | 2017 | author gk1 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It varies. Well done on your 9% overall CTR--that's fantastic for a list of 20k. Not all companies are as fortunate to have an audience like that, so for them an…” | ||
| 76. | Deniability and Duress (mit.edu) | |
| 382 points | 2017 | author mspecter showed up | their comment | thread
“Really happy (but somewhat surprised) to see this up on HN, and am generally interested in pursing this as a PhD thesis topic. If anyone has ideas or thoughts on novel…” | ||
| 77. | Why we switched from Python to Go (getstream.io) | |
| 380 points | 2017 | author tschellenbach showed up | their comment | thread
“Super cool to see this post on HNews. For those of you working with Go. One of the guys on our team wrote a little tool called VirtualGo. It's pretty handy when you're…” | ||
| 78. | How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (brandur.org) | |
| 374 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Author here with just a quick note that writing this was a pretty great learning experience. Postgres has always been the ultimate black box — it does some amazing…” | ||
| 79. | Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web (medium.com) | |
| 370 points | 2017 | author gregblass showed up | their comment | thread
“Pretty overwhelmed and astonished with all this. Can't wait to read through all these comments!” | ||
| 80. | A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015) (blog.fugue.co) | |
| 364 points | 2017 | author joshstella showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In reading this thread, I'm struck that most of the objections to emacs are both legitimate (as are the arguments for it) and focused on programmer-specific issues. Back…” | ||
| 81. | Learn Redis the hard way: in production (tech.trivago.com) | |
| 360 points | 2017 | author andygrunwald showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Feel free to ask anything.” | ||
| 82. | Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) (vidarholen.net) | |
| 359 points | 2017 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I'm the author of this article. Sorry for the confusion: dd is still a very useful tool for copying disks. The point is that you should not feel like you have to…” | ||
| 83. | Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably (stripe.com) | |
| 357 points | 2017 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Post author here! I agree that it's really important to be careful of "shiny new tool" syndrome -- one of my primary goals in writing this post was to show that…” | ||
| 84. | Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements (blog.interviewing.io) | |
| 354 points | 2017 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I appreciate the notes and am happy to revisit and make corrections when needed. To respond to your points: 1. As a sanity check, I did do a t-test of technical ability…” | ||
| 85. | Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS (blog.cloudflare.com) | |
| 352 points | 2017 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“Allow me to extend the post a bit. It turns out that about 2.4% of the IPs that respond to SSDP queries, do so from a weird port number! For example: IP…” | ||
| 86. | Scaling your API with rate limiters (stripe.com) | |
| 351 points | 2017 | author ptarjan showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hi! I'm the author of the post and am happy to answer any questions you have. There is also a corresponding set of code examples at the bottom that might be of interest…” | ||
| 87. | Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown (markdown-here.com) | |
| 349 points | 2017 | author adam-p showed up | their comment | thread
“And surprised to open HN and see it on the first page! I can answer any questions (although it's really a straightforward tool -- it does what it says on the box).” | ||
| 88. | Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional (davidgerard.co.uk) | |
| 349 points | 2017 | author davidgerard showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I originally submitted this with just the second part of the title, 'cos Part 1 doesn't deliver on "why you can't cash out". I expect two or three more parts, that…” | ||
| 89. | Interesting data structures: the BK-tree (signal-to-noise.xyz) | |
| 345 points | 2017 | author rocho showed up | their comment | thread
“Could you help me figure out what is triggering the warning?” | ||
| 90. | Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp (thousandetherhomepage.com) | |
| 344 points | 2017 | author ontoillogical showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My friend and I have been doing some smart contract audits, and we wanted to build a fun contract ourselves. We remembered the Million Dollar Homepage from 12 years ago,…” | ||
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