271. Fuzzing Like It’s 1989 (blog.trailofbits.com)
131 points | 2018 | author tyoma showed up | their comment | thread
“The predictions and insights from the two papers were fascinating to read with 30 years of hindsight. I also ran the random input generating “fuzz” tool against…”
272. An attempt to upgrade to Webpack 4 (gist.github.com)
130 points | 2018 | author GabeRicard showed up | their comment | thread
“You're exactly right. This was me guessing when I didn't understand the configuration options, because this was my attempt at learning the BETA of webpack 4 without the…”
273. Architect – A Serverless Framework (blog.reifyworks.com)
130 points | 2018 | author brianleroux showed up | their comment | thread
“we did? Pretty well documented issues w JSON and YAML (coming from CloudFormation perspective). Both have problems (that are unique to each) so we created a format for…”
274. Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016 (washingtonpost.com)
130 points | 2018 | author idlewords showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In what way do you think the email server is germane?”
275. Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D (thegradient.pub)
129 points | 2018 | author gtmtg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been playing around with a few and I'd recommend the Orbbec Astra and the Intel RealSense (the new D435 is what I've been using) as decent but cheap cameras if you…”
276. The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project (temporary.directory)
128 points | 2018 | author Adamantcheese showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I mainly wanted to have physical discs so I could have them stored in the collector's edition boxes that can with the original Japanese discs. If I just wanted the video…”
277. Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks (blog.cloudflare.com)
127 points | 2018 | author zackbloom showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing your thoughts! You're absolutely right we don't know how Lambda works. We have read what we could find that's publicly available, and done a bunch of…”
278. Show HN: Vialer-js – Open-source WebRTC communication platform (github.com)
127 points | 2018 | author jvanveen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The first priority of the project is to offer a solid generic audio-only calling experience to our users. This includes all functionality that people would expect from a…”
279. YouTube comments are heavily manipulated, and I fear for our democracy (rawrmaan.com)
127 points | 2018 | author rawrmaan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here--it sounds like you're talking about YouTube banning comments on certain videos? If you're talking about YouTube changing the content or social proof on…”
280. Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python (github.com)
126 points | 2018 | author csantini showed up | their comment | thread
“Pampy and Pampy.js () are more similar to Lisp-style Pattern Matching. Of course they cannot provide static analysis, but they can improve understandability, and they…”
281. The Building Blocks of Interpretability (distill.pub)
125 points | 2018 | author colah3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I'm one of the authors; we'd be happy to answer any questions. Make sure to check out our library and the colab notebooks, which allow you to reproduce our…”
282. Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2 (archagon.net)
125 points | 2018 | author archagon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Unfortunately, according to numerous accounts[1], the TB3 to TB2 adapter does not work when you're trying to use an Nvidia eGPU with a Macbook that has an Nvidia dGPU.…”
283. An introduction to libuv (2016) (nikhilm.github.io)
125 points | 2018 | author nsm showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this book was written a long time ago when I was into the node ecosystem. A lot of the book was copied into the official docs later. The book definitely does not…”
284. Dav1d: performance and completion of the first release (jbkempf.com)
125 points | 2018 | author jbk showed up | their comment | thread
“so if you need anything, just ask.”
285. Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing (blog.timescale.com)
124 points | 2018 | author akulkarni showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing our post. It’s one of the many reasons why we’re so excited about the future of Postgres.”
286. Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code [pdf] (web.eecs.utk.edu)
124 points | 2018 | author azhenley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is my dissertation that I completed back in July. I'm happy to answer questions!”
287. Show HN: All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop (github.com)
123 points | 2018 | author ekzhu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The algorithm used here is based on Google's 2007 paper "Scaling Up All Pairs Similarity Search." Since then I am sure they have started to look at billions of sets.…”
288. Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf] (tromp.github.io)
122 points | 2018 | author tromp showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper is currently in a state of flux, as I started adding material about the graphical notation, but didn't get very far before my attention drifted to other…”
289. Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known (cnbc.com)
121 points | 2018 | author JeremyBloom showed up | their comment | thread
“and, being a professional, of COURSE I linked to the CNBC article. Twice. When I introduce the CNBC material, in the first paragraph, and again when I introduced the…”
290. 25 Days of ReasonML (medium.com)
121 points | 2018 | author lilactown showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“BuckleScript itself doesn't actually do any sort of bundling or minification of the code - in fact, it prides itself in generating "human readable" code that, worst…”
291. The forgotten 80s home robot trend (tedium.co)
121 points | 2018 | author enkiv2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“making a quick correction about the RB5X. When I wrote the article, I believed it was still produced by the original company. I later learned that while the same company…”
292. Cracking Litter Box DRM (davidhampgonsalves.com)
121 points | 2018 | author dh-g showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've actually had good luck with my unit. I have two cats and run the unit two times a day. I haven't had to do any maintenance except cleaning the water sensor once. I…”
293. IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur (shitcoin.com)
120 points | 2018 | author abrkn showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting! I can answer any questions you have about the IOTA review or other shitcoin reviews.”
294. Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol (blog.rainway.io)
120 points | 2018 | author andrewmd5 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I apologize for any confusion from my writing. We do use WebRTC in a server-like fashion. The browser attempts to establish a P2P connection with the host computer, and…”
295. Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA (github.com)
120 points | 2018 | author pwmarcz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! What I'm doing in the code is outputting 1 to the VCC pin and 0 to GND, and that seems to be enough:”
296. Web Framework Benchmarks (techempower.com)
119 points | 2018 | author bhauer showed up | their comment | thread
“, and I would agree with ksec (elsewhere in these comments) in recommending that readers start there since it includes the highlights of this round. I apologize ahead of…”
297. Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research (tomasp.net)
119 points | 2018 | author tpetricek showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm aware of work in this area (though certainly not all of it) and I had the pleasure of attending last two PPIGs! The idea I outlined in the blog post is absolutely…”
298. Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy (haproxy.com)
119 points | 2018 | author idealhavoc showed up | their comment | thread
“and have done quite a bit with DDoS and HAProxy; feel free to ask me any questions.”
299. Why collision avoidance is harder for an AI-based system (medium.com)
118 points | 2018 | author martinrebane showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“LIDAR itself is just a sensor, it does not process the data nor does it output a directly usable image like a camera more or less does. LIDAR in this case is a rotating…”
300. Implementing Neural Turing Machines (arxiv.org)
117 points | 2018 | author markpkcollier showed up | their comment | thread
“I was not aware of the difference in the licenses and just used the GitHub default. I have updated it accordingly, thanks for pointing this out. A note on the difference…”