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| 1. | Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io) | |
| 1767 points | 2018 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Happy to answer any questions about the post or about my experience at Google.” | ||
| 2. | Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com) | |
| 1562 points | 2018 | author wftglf showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. Good point, we should add something on that. Briefly our mongo db setup was running on 3 r4.xlarge instances which comes to around $5000/year…” | ||
| 3. | Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced (tls.ulfheim.net) | |
| 1185 points | 2018 | author syncsynchalt showed up | their comment | thread
“I was going to publish this today but it leaked out ahead of time. Enjoy! EDIT: I'm putting a CDN in place.” | ||
| 4. | AI winter is well on its way (blog.piekniewski.info) | |
| 993 points | 2018 | author felippee showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“seriously I'm here at the front page for the second day in the a row!? The sheer viral popularity of this post, which really was just a bunch of relatively loose…” | ||
| 5. | Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate (medium.com) | |
| 948 points | 2018 | author nate showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“No, not at all. Well not the first two problems. The extra chrome is just when google is hosting it, and the blank pages only occurred in testing from the CDN.” | ||
| 6. | Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com) | |
| 938 points | 2018 | author grahamburger showed up | their comment (+9 more) | thread
“Hey everyone! Author here. Happy to answer questions. Thanks for posting @tomcam! Just a quick note about me - I currently work with the great folks at common.net…” | ||
| 7. | Slack's bait and switch (opkode.com) | |
| 757 points | 2018 | author jcbrand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes I was confused about "emoji reactions", thanks for explaining. I've updated the article to clarify.” | ||
| 8. | GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers (apility.io) | |
| 755 points | 2018 | author logronoide showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“My most stupid post is in HN! crazy! I just wanted to be sarcastic and make some laughs about people blocking all traffic from Europe, which is crazy! It's a Friday…” | ||
| 9. | Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 (overreacted.io) | |
| 753 points | 2018 | author danabramov showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’ve worked on C# codebases professionally for about four years. They’re not open source because half of that time I worked on enterprise software (ASP .NET MVC, Entity…” | ||
| 10. | Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites (medium.com) | |
| 720 points | 2018 | author bubble_boi showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone in a comment pointed out that you if you could get your code in express middleware (or something depended on by express middleware or similar) you could…” | ||
| 11. | Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack (lightbluetouchpaper.org) | |
| 707 points | 2018 | author theomarkettos showed up | their comment | thread
“That was what I was thinking of - simply overdriving the lines to drag them high or low in opposition to the 'official' driver. That's pretty much all you can do with 6…” | ||
| 12. | Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia (blog.wikimedia.org) | |
| 677 points | 2018 | author jdlrobson showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! (author here) I sincerely regret the use of that statement "people seem to like it" in my post. I've now removed it as I worry this confuses my message so thank you…” | ||
| 13. | YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) (arp242.net) | |
| 673 points | 2018 | author arp242 showed up | their comment | thread
“Apparently people read my website (how they get there, I don't know?) At any rate, it's worth mentioning that in the conclusion I wrote: I still use YAML myself even…” | ||
| 14. | Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning (github.com) | |
| 665 points | 2018 | author citnaj showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Author here- So I'll just be brutally honest on that one- not all renders are doing that. I cherry picked the one that did that because yeah, it's amazing. There's a…” | ||
| 15. | Python startup time: milliseconds matter (mail.python.org) | |
| 662 points | 2018 | author indygreg2 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the linked post and maintain the Firefox build system. The reason is that in 2018 (and for the past 10 years honestly) and it is far easier to find people who…” | ||
| 16. | Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics (github.com) | |
| 660 points | 2018 | author s-macke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It started as a technical demonstration for fluid dynamics in the web browser. Then I saw the js13kgames competition and the decision was made to make a game out of it.…” | ||
| 17. | How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017) (c0ffee.net) | |
| 638 points | 2018 | author perlgod showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to respond to any questions.” | ||
| 18. | Making rain simulation as real as possible (rainbowhunt.me) | |
| 632 points | 2018 | author lbebber showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! I was making a version with a better "impact" effect and better "trails", which are the weakest parts currently in my opinion, as well as making the larger…” | ||
| 19. | A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 622 points | 2018 | author captbaritone showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote a Twitter thread demonstrating many of its features. You can find it here:” | ||
| 20. | Content-aware image resize library (github.com) | |
| 614 points | 2018 | author esimov showed up | their comment | thread
“The algorithm permits to remove an object from the image, only it needs somehow to be localized. After localization it can be applied to that area a higher energy map,…” | ||
| 21. | OpenSimpleLidar (github.com) | |
| 605 points | 2018 | author iliasam showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone. I am the author of the OpenSimpleLidar. If you have any questions about this project, you can ask them here. Here is another my Lidar project: That project…” | ||
| 22. | Why does a spray bottle work? (alexanderellis.github.io) | |
| 601 points | 2018 | author otras showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback! English is indeed my first language, but I am always looking to improve. I chose "Why" for reasons similar to what jstanley wrote. When I was…” | ||
| 23. | Show HN: A CSS Keylogger (github.com) | |
| 576 points | 2018 | author maxchehab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I believe the injection of the css in the chrome extension will only work in newer versions of chrome. However the "attack" would still work for all browsers. :)” | ||
| 24. | Proton Native – React Native for the desktop (proton-native.js.org) | |
| 575 points | 2018 | author kusti8 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey. I'm the author. It's hard to find a simple example that everyone understands but can show capabilities. If you're used to Qt then you're going to like Qt better,…” | ||
| 25. | Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text (zachaysan.com) | |
| 572 points | 2018 | author 3pt14159 showed up | their comment | thread
“I was kinda on the fence, but I was considering my target: Journalists. A journalist may not notice simple differences like an extra space here or there when reading,…” | ||
| 26. | Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 569 points | 2018 | author summitkwan showed up | their comment | thread
“feel free to ask me any questions about this work! Thank you for your comments!” | ||
| 27. | Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video (snr.stanford.edu) | |
| 568 points | 2018 | author keithwinstein showed up | their comment | thread
“Totally reasonable reaction, and we've heard this when the paper was posted elsewhere (e.g. on Reddit), but have not heard it from specialists, and honestly we suspect…” | ||
| 28. | How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources (blog.datascienceheroes.com) | |
| 558 points | 2018 | author pablo_c showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I wrote the post, glad you found useful! Also, I'm with you with the recommendations :P It was just a funny image I found on the internet and shared to produce some…” | ||
| 29. | My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app (twitter.com) | |
| 557 points | 2018 | author buro9 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days. For future HN context, as the author I'm reproducing them here in full: My…” | ||
| 30. | Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH (github.com) | |
| 551 points | 2018 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this here as I've been literally spending the last 2 weeks on a complete rewrite from scratch that actually layers REAL text over the blocks. You can…” | ||
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