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| 121. | Interactive Mind Map for learning (github.com) | |
| 293 points | 2017 | author neurocroc showed up | their comment | thread
“I was greatly inspired by this website. It was my goal to actually combine metacademy's idea of solving the dependency problems of knowledge and do it in a similar way…” | ||
| 122. | Pixels Don’t Care (2013) (warpspire.com) | |
| 287 points | 2017 | author kneath showed up | their comment | thread
“Hacker News has long ago blacklisted/blackholed my domain (I am often critical of YCombinator's investment strategies), but the original post can be found on my blog —…” | ||
| 123. | ProseMirror 1.0 (marijnhaverbeke.nl) | |
| 287 points | 2017 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be monitoring this thread and responding to questions here for the next few hours.” | ||
| 124. | Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition (thorstenball.com) | |
| 284 points | 2017 | author misternugget showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sadly, I can't offer digital+print bundles. I sell the digital version through Gumroad and the paperback through createspace, so I don't have to worry about…” | ||
| 125. | TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability (github.com) | |
| 281 points | 2017 | author ticki_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Fragmentation isn't an issue in TFS, at all. Because it is a cluster-based file system. Essentially that means that files aren't stored contagiously, but instead in…” | ||
| 126. | APIs, robustness, and idempotency (stripe.com) | |
| 280 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread
“It's always a bit of a fine line as to what makes the final cut in this sort of article (I tried to stay on message without getting too off track), but HTTP conditional…” | ||
| 127. | Emoji.length == 2 (blog.jonnew.com) | |
| 279 points | 2017 | author newtang showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for you sharing! I will check it out shortly.” | ||
| 128. | APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% (fractalwrench.co.uk) | |
| 279 points | 2017 | author fractalwrench showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions anybody might have. Also sorry for the shameless plug, but the startup I work for is currently hiring:” | ||
| 129. | .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them (getstream.io) | |
| 279 points | 2017 | author tbarbugli showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“the post is based on my direct experience with .io. It is not very clear to me how Afilias is involved in the operational side of things, AFAIK they might have just…” | ||
| 130. | Modules vs Microservices (oreilly.com) | |
| 278 points | 2017 | author SanderMak showed up | their comment | thread
“Java 9 adds a new module system where module descriptors are introduced to explicitly demarcate the public API of a module, and to express its dependencies on other…” | ||
| 131. | Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples (2013) (statweb.stanford.edu) | |
| 277 points | 2017 | author abowenmc showed up | their comment | thread
“I was pleased to see this while attending MCM 2017 (Monte Carlo methods). I'm open to reports about mistakes in the notes, or even thoughts on which further topics (from…” | ||
| 132. | No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month (runeksvendsen.github.io) | |
| 276 points | 2017 | author runeks showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“They can, but how large a part of the world's work force do you think is able to get their employer to pay out their wage within a Bitcoin layer 2 system? If layer 2…” | ||
| 133. | What you should know as a founder of a software company (qotoqot.com) | |
| 276 points | 2017 | author ivm showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree that "good enough UI" will do but I can't remember Wikipedia or Gmail having a terrible user experience on launch. In case of Reddit and HN, I started to use…” | ||
| 134. | By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation (blog.achernya.com) | |
| 272 points | 2017 | author achernya showed up | their comment | thread
“Although MIT did receive a /24 IPv6 allocation,, it's not routable everywhere on campus yet. Unfortunately, IPv6 deployment is still below 20% (as measured by Google,)…” | ||
| 135. | Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] (github.com) | |
| 272 points | 2017 | author synctext showed up | their comment | thread
“short answer taken from our .PDF file: "Considering that Dropbox [53] currently holds around 500 petabytes of user data [54], one could argue that Filecoin is…” | ||
| 136. | Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 269 points | 2017 | author sangfroid showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author of the article. Thanks for your interest. I'm glad the piece is sparking a deeper discussion of the technical trade offs of the technology. I just…” | ||
| 137. | Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer (forbes.com) | |
| 268 points | 2017 | author GCA10 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading. Not sure if you had a chance to read the actual article that ran between the headline and the comments section, but just in case ... In paragraph 10…” | ||
| 138. | Perceptually uniform color spaces (programmingdesignsystems.com) | |
| 268 points | 2017 | author runemadsen showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the comment. Just for some background info: This book is written for people who want to begin using code as a creative tool, and many readers just learned the…” | ||
| 139. | GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 (github.com) | |
| 267 points | 2017 | author triplefault showed up | their comment | thread
“The size of the ELF for the laser projector program is 2.1M so it probably will not fit on a cortex-m :(. Additionally, I don't think GERT will be as useful on a…” | ||
| 140. | Ferret – A free software Clojure implementation (ferret-lang.org) | |
| 266 points | 2017 | author nakkaya showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I am actually curious about this myself. I originally released it under GPL but then on another HN thread someone said anything compiled with it also ends up being GPL,…” | ||
| 141. | Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion (izbicki.me) | |
| 266 points | 2017 | author jackpirate showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I loaded the dice only once. The weighed 0.65 ounces before hand, and 0.75 ounces afterward. They kept that weight the whole week.” | ||
| 142. | Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013) (blog.dustinkirkland.com) | |
| 264 points | 2017 | author dustinkirkland showed up | their comment | thread
“This article is more pertinent today than ever before! Your face is your username, not your password. Use it like you use your username. But never as something secret,…” | ||
| 143. | Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production (heap.engineering) | |
| 263 points | 2017 | author malisper showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me any questions. By the way, the 10 million number in the title is outdated. It's now about 30 million indexes. Also, I've been publishing one blog…” | ||
| 144. | Let employees work from home (midnightdba.com) | |
| 261 points | 2017 | author JenMcCown showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Ha. I wrote the article. I'm actually a self employed consultant and company owner who works from home full time, but I spent 15 years in offices. So you have a point,…” | ||
| 145. | Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system (pijul.org) | |
| 259 points | 2017 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. The situation is slightly more complex than what you describe. Pijul was announced on the darcs blog, not by its authors, way before it was ready (about…” | ||
| 146. | Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2017 | author kloud showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting. The project is still very early in the development and there is a lot of work to be done to make it ready for daily use. I would appreciate any…” | ||
| 147. | Authentication Techniques for APIs (docs.google.com) | |
| 257 points | 2017 | author ksri showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“The doc does acknowledge basic auth as a valid approach for server side usage, but the language was a bit too pessimistic about basic auth. I just modified it to say the…” | ||
| 148. | What CSS minifiers also leave behind (luisant.ca) | |
| 252 points | 2017 | author remy_luisant showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wow. #1 on HN. Wow. I'd usually hang around a bit more, but I'm really tired. I posted this past my midnight. 00:51 now, and I'm fading fast. Thanks for all the love,…” | ||
| 149. | A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor (digitalfreepen.com) | |
| 250 points | 2017 | author rudi-c showed up | their comment | thread
“There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet. often gets mentioned on HN and has a large volume of posts that follow…” | ||
| 150. | Basic Category Theory (arxiv.org) | |
| 248 points | 2017 | author Tom_Leinster showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your interest in my book! I agree, the words "relatively little background" are too vague. What I had in mind was that the book requires little background…” | ||
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