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| 241. | 70 job interviews in 17 days (blog.brandonwang.ca) | |
| 171 points | 2017 | author dookehster showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few notes: I'm not proposing high touch methods are incorrect. I'm proposing there exists an alternative. HR professionals, the receiving end, spend their day spamming…” | ||
| 242. | Staffjoy’s Suite – A scheduling application for hundreds of workers (github.com) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author philip1209 showed up | their comment | thread
“Just noticed that this was submitted. I'm fixing some CI stuff now, and finishing the open sourcing of some other services like Cron, Chomp, and Mobius. This the V1 of…” | ||
| 243. | Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot (wildml.com) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author dennybritz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree this is an assumption, but based on my experience it is very unlikely that this is trained on pixels. Training would've been orders of magnitude more expensive.…” | ||
| 244. | BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu) | |
| 170 points | 2017 | author _chris_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Just to point out to others (and to be fair to the A15), IPC is just one part of the final performance equation. =)” | ||
| 245. | [ -z $var ] works unreasonably well (vidarholen.net) | |
| 169 points | 2017 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“The RAM requirement comes from my own experience, where I had to add a swap file to my VPS because 1.7GB RAM wasn't enough. I'm very surprised you've been getting by…” | ||
| 246. | Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides (stretchcorp.com) | |
| 168 points | 2017 | author drpancake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My phone is exploding. I hear you on the Facebook login issue. I misconfigured the Facebook SDK and it's falling back to a web view rather than using native login. I…” | ||
| 247. | What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io) | |
| 168 points | 2017 | author valw showed up | their comment | thread
“I could be wrong of course, but this stems from my experience in using a REPL from JavaScript. I hit 2 sorts of hurdle with mutability there: 1- I wasn't sure what I was…” | ||
| 248. | Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development (sethlopez.me) | |
| 166 points | 2017 | author sethlopez showed up | their comment | thread
“I have a Nexus 6. I hadn't tried the Google Play app until today so my observations were based on the sample app that I had built and another Flutter app that's in the…” | ||
| 249. | Stop starting from scratch when you write (ianharris.com) | |
| 165 points | 2017 | author 0898 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks – yes designers in my experience often do this, but clearly not always. The point I'm making is that other creative processes let you start with something to…” | ||
| 250. | Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend (videopixie.com) | |
| 165 points | 2017 | author its4tom showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions, and curious to hear about your own crowdfunding video stories.” | ||
| 251. | Postgres performance analysis resulted in a 10x improvement in CPU use (blog.heapanalytics.com) | |
| 164 points | 2017 | author malisper showed up | their comment | thread
“We were under the assumption that CPU was mostly being used for evaluating the partial index predicates. Under this assumption, we figured batching was unlikely to yield…” | ||
| 252. | My Father the Werewolf (folks.pillpack.com) | |
| 164 points | 2017 | author DrCrypt showed up | their comment | thread
“There is no undercurrent of domestic violence, glossed over or otherwise, in the article. My father had a psychotic episode once, due to a 1-in-a-million reaction he had…” | ||
| 253. | Why does one Nginx worker take all the load? (blog.cloudflare.com) | |
| 164 points | 2017 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“There are three highlights in this blog post: - epoll() seem to have LIFO behavior which can result in uneven load balancing across workers (in case of accept()ing from…” | ||
| 254. | Why we used Pony to write Wallaroo (blog.wallaroolabs.com) | |
| 162 points | 2017 | author spooneybarger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Small bit of background. I'm VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs and a member of the Pony core team (many folks at Wallaroo Labs are now actively involved in the Pony…” | ||
| 255. | Debugging macOS Kernel Using VirtualBox (klue.github.io) | |
| 161 points | 2017 | author klue07 showed up | their comment | thread
“Nothing in the post is illegal. Apple allows 3rd party kernel extensions so naturally you would need to be able to debug the kernel. In my post, I link plenty of…” | ||
| 256. | Voc: a physical model of the vocal tract, written in ANSI C (pbat.ch) | |
| 161 points | 2017 | author zebproj showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author of this thing. Let me know if you have any questions about it. FYI, the generated C code is now part of the dev branch of Soundpipe here:, my music…” | ||
| 257. | Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges to attacker (myce.com) | |
| 161 points | 2017 | author akurms showed up | their comment | thread
“I would like to set the record straight. We do not claim to have an attack on SSDs. The journalist seems to have misunderstood and not read the paper. The attack…” | ||
| 258. | Epoll is fundamentally broken (idea.popcount.org) | |
| 160 points | 2017 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“I showed an example - short lived http 1.0 connections. I haven't done benchmarks but my hunch is that you can run accept at in low tens of thousands times per second…” | ||
| 259. | A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration (netlify.com) | |
| 159 points | 2017 | author erquhart showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's definitely no shortage of options - the CMS exists to fill a very specific trifecta that we believe are critical for modern static development. It is: 1. Git…” | ||
| 260. | Voronoi Tessellations (datagenetics.com) | |
| 158 points | 2017 | author squeakynick showed up | their comment | thread
“Matt, I'm very sorry. It was a genuine mistake. I always try hard to attribute sources (as you can see from the references in the doc, and on the couple of hundred other…” | ||
| 261. | Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts (github.com) | |
| 158 points | 2017 | author pchm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's just a matter of personal preference. If you're proficient with Ansible then I'm sure you can achieve the same task even quicker. But to me, shell scripts are a…” | ||
| 262. | Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them (heap.engineering) | |
| 158 points | 2017 | author kalmar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions etc :-)” | ||
| 263. | Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases (technologyreview.com) | |
| 158 points | 2017 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“It's available here: The surprise here isn't that Bitcoin isn't perfectly anonymous. There are two new findings. The first is the extent to which your Bitcoin payment…” | ||
| 264. | Dhall: a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete (github.com) | |
| 157 points | 2017 | author Gabriel439 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“there is a reason why "programmable configuration language" is a fairly new term. Most of the time, when people want a programmable configuration they use whatever…” | ||
| 265. | Privacy implications of email tracking [pdf] (senglehardt.com) | |
| 157 points | 2017 | author englehardt showed up | their comment | thread
“The code and data for the study is available here: (measurement platform here:). We also just released a blog post that highlights the main results (and is a quicker…” | ||
| 266. | Zi2zi: Master Chinese Calligraphy with Conditional Adversarial Networks (kaonashi-tyc.github.io) | |
| 156 points | 2017 | author kaonashi-tyc-01 showed up | their comment | thread
“This project might not really help people that just get to know Chinese characters. Quite on the contrary, it aims to help typographic designers who can design a small…” | ||
| 267. | If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native (hackernoon.com) | |
| 156 points | 2017 | author samdelgado showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article and just saw that there was a discussion about it here. I actually primarily tested it on an LG G2 and Motorola Moto G 3rd gen. Both of these phones…” | ||
| 268. | Don't publicly expose .git (2015) (en.internetwache.org) | |
| 156 points | 2017 | author gehaxelt showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, one of the authors here. I knew about dvcs-ripper, but thought that implementing another variant might be fun and let me learn about git internals. Does a simple…” | ||
| 269. | I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years (medium.com) | |
| 156 points | 2017 | author kadavy showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading and commenting. To clear it all up, yes, I had health problems even at the time, and still do. I didn't realize how much the condition was affecting…” | ||
| 270. | New kind of recurrent neural network using attention (github.com) | |
| 155 points | 2017 | author jostmey showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd be happy to address any questions. Constructive criticism is always welcome.” | ||
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