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Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs (hnews.xyz) |
| 248 points | 2017 | author valentinvieriu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at - right now that's the old version using Angularjs The project uses as a starting point…” |
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Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python (github.com) |
| 247 points | 2017 | author kwk236 showed up | their comment | thread
“This repo got popular before I had a chance to write README and organize code. I am going to make the code more consistent, add tests, and write brief tutorials by the…” |
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Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech (research.baidu.com) |
| 244 points | 2017 | author PieSquared showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey there! I'm one of the authors of the paper and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have! Make sure to check out the paper on arxiv as well.” |
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Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust (chromium.googlesource.com) |
| 239 points | 2017 | author zaxcellent showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Rust is not officially sanctioned at Google, but there are pockets of folks using it here. The trick with using Rust in this component was convincing my coworkers that…” |
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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio (twilio.com) |
| 238 points | 2017 | author saamm showed up | their comment | thread
“When we did this for our actual registration site, we spent hours inspecting requests in a proxy[0] to get to ~194 lines of PHP. 0: We used” |
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Neugram – Scripting in Go (neugram.io) |
| 236 points | 2017 | author crawshaw showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't think Neugram is really ready for the full HN treatment, but I'm happy to answer questions. I kept trying to write a "Why Neugram" post and kept getting stuck,…” |
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Improving Ruby Performance with Rust (blog.codeship.com) |
| 235 points | 2017 | author prh8 showed up | their comment | thread
“Development is indeed on hold for now. However, Crystal core team has plans to build a DSL into Crystal to allow for creating Ruby native extensions. There are some…” |
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Let’s kill no-reply (medium.com) |
| 233 points | 2017 | author iffycan showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm writing from the perspective of a customer. As a customer, I don't care how your email queues work. I do care that you sent me an email and forbid me from replying…” |
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Want to Build a Side Business? Just Buy Great Domain Name (deepsouthventures.com) |
| 232 points | 2017 | author eightturn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“all I can say regarding building businesses on keyword descriptive domains.. it just makes everything easier.. Easier to communicate your biz. Easier to get your foot in…” |
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Winamp2-Js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript (jordaneldredge.com) |
| 232 points | 2017 | author captbaritone showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It supports all media formats that your browser can play.” |
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Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016) (libdill.org) |
| 232 points | 2017 | author rumcajz showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the nice summary. You've expressed it better then I would. I am not 100% sure about the structured concurrency concept myself, but comparing it to structured…” |
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How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network (medium.com) |
| 230 points | 2017 | author askldjd showed up | their comment | thread
“Completely agreed. My jaws dropped when I saw the INITIAL_JIFFIES. The kernel developers really saved our butt. I could not imagine debugging this problem if…” |
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Show HN: Nim in Action (book.picheta.me) |
| 229 points | 2017 | author dom96 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print! Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to…” |
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Slate.js: Customizeable rich text library inspired by Draft.js (docs.slatejs.org) |
| 228 points | 2017 | author ianstormtaylor showed up | their comment | thread
“good question! I'd guess that there are definitely some x-browser issues with Android right now because I haven't tested there at all. So far I've been working on the…” |
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Taichi – Physically based Computer Graphics Library (taichi.graphics) |
| 226 points | 2017 | author yuanminghu showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for your attention on this project. As you may have noticed, Taichi is still a work in progress and far from perfect. Actually, I plan to bring this…” |
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Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids (arxiv.org) |
| 224 points | 2017 | author dave1629 showed up | their comment | thread
“Good question - it means the whole system (that is, both the client and server) were designed with the goal of limiting the exposure of the user's passwords in all ways…” |
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Why I’m Remaking OpenAI Universe (blog.aqnichol.com) |
| 224 points | 2017 | author unixpickle showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I hadn't realized that the engineers were laid off. Where did you find this out?” |
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Teaching Kubernetes (blog.slashdeploy.com) |
| 223 points | 2017 | author ahawkins showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yup! I dedicate a few minutes to this in the grab lesson because how important it is. Interesting point. You may like helm () as a tool for deploying Kubernetes…” |
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When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job (medium.com) |
| 223 points | 2017 | author taitems showed up | their comment | thread
“hi HN/Reddit. I had hoped I'd made it clear enough, but by no means am I recommending something I cobbled together in an hour on the couch be rolled out as a competitor…” |
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Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font (verticalsysadmin.com) |
| 222 points | 2017 | author atsaloli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've opened a ton of PowerPoint presentations (God help me) but this was the first time I've run into this issue. :) I usually crawl around inside of Web services /…” |
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Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (raywang.tech) |
| 222 points | 2017 | author ghostly_gray showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I guess what I was trying to say is that CompCert as a system has been trusted for over 10 years, yet only now do we find such a silly correctness bug. People won't read…” |
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Magit Kickstarter fully funded (kickstarter.com) |
| 221 points | 2017 | author tarsius showed up | their comment | thread
“The support I received during the last three weeks has been phenomenal! Thanks again! The only disappointment was that the campaign did not get a lot of press outside…” |
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Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas and Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads (brandur.org) |
| 221 points | 2017 | author brandur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm storing `min_lsn` directly to the database, so anything connecting to it and loading a user record should be able to take advantage of the information. I have a note…” |
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.com) |
| 221 points | 2017 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“Any feedback welcome.” |
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A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter (francisstokes.wordpress.com) |
| 217 points | 2017 | author FrancisStokes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're completely right, but I hope the basic understanding will whet peoples appetites to try some more exotic stuff! Really I was just trying to lift the veil of what…” |
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Why is the Quintic Unsolvable? (akalin.com) |
| 216 points | 2017 | author akalin showed up | their comment | thread
“in case anyone has any questions. :)” |
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Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim (github.com) |
| 216 points | 2017 | author extr0py showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the kind words! Yes, your comment hits the nail on the head and echoes my thoughts exactly. Electron happens to be a great way to test out some of the…” |
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I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos (redfin.engineering) |
| 215 points | 2017 | author dfabulich showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I must begin by saying that lit-HTML is really interesting, and I hope it does well. It will be particularly exciting if Polymer 3 or Polymer 4 or whatever primarily…” |
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3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image (cs.nott.ac.uk) |
| 214 points | 2017 | author aaronsjackson showed up | their comment | thread
“You are very right in saying that the there aren't many details. This limitation, we believe, is due to a lack of large, high quality training sets. The data we trained…” |
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Interactive Go REPL (github.com) |
| 211 points | 2017 | author d4l3k showed up | their comment | thread
“It's something inbetween. Pretty much the way it works is it dynamically inserts references to all objects/packages/functions in scope at compile time. It then has an in…” |
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