301. Q3VM – Lightweight, embeddable Quake III Interpreter/Virtual Machine (github.com)
117 points | 2018 | author janosch9001 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It is indeed a niche thing. But there are some use cases: * Sandbox for code you don't fully trust (e.g. download the bytecode from a web server) * Mods for small hobby…”
302. Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams (blog.frankel.ch)
117 points | 2018 | author nfrankel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Many thanks for your encouragements! Actually, I didn't feel any comments were particularly harsh. I'm learning from most of them. This is exactly the feedback I'm…”
303. ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story (blog.d46.us)
116 points | 2018 | author sa46 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“this is a rather pleasant Sunday surprise. I'm not sure I'd recommend the route in the post. The setup is fragile with a sizable set of moving parts. Simpler options are…”
304. Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude (ai.googleblog.com)
114 points | 2018 | author jmrko showed up | their comment | thread
“One of the authors here; Imaging synapses is really no problem with electron microscopy resolution. In fact, you can see automatically extracted synapses (little…”
305. Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, modern Posix implementation (sortix.org)
113 points | 2018 | author sortie showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“POSIX requires errno to be thread local, but with few requirements. Commonly libc's #define errno (*__get_errno_location()). Why? It's because the thread local storage…”
306. The ICO paradox and how to fix it (blog.sia.tech)
112 points | 2018 | author zherbert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if anyone wants to discuss!”
307. Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept (zwischenzugs.com)
112 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up | their comment | thread
“I worked at a place that had full root for everyone everywhere and introduced docker back in 2014. It was fun. Then I moved to finance where regulatory requirements mean…”
308. Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web (mint-lang.com)
112 points | 2018 | author gdotdesign showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“please keep in mind that Mint is still very young and I'm still working to get things in order for a first stable-ish release (there are a lot of documentation to write…”
309. Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation (blog.confiant.com)
110 points | 2018 | author jdangu showed up | their comment | thread
“we don't know their profit, but we estimate that they've spent about $220,000 through 2017, which is fairly cheap if you want to blast 1 billion malverts across the…”
310. Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network (github.com)
110 points | 2018 | author minimaxir showed up | their comment | thread
“All of these are warnings, they shouldn't block the script. Check the current directory for person_blocked.jpg and person_blocked.gif.”
311. Polyaxon – An open source platform for reproducible machine learning at scale (polyaxon.com)
109 points | 2018 | author mmq showed up | their comment | thread
“a bit late to notice, but thanks for sharing Polyaxon here. I will be around to answer questions, and any feedback is welcome.”
312. Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia (arxiv.org)
109 points | 2018 | author ikuyamada showed up | their comment | thread
“More broadly, embedding is a mapping from objects (e.g., words and entities) to vectors of real numbers. And as described in the mcxlog's comment, an entity refers to an…”
313. Notes on Shutting Down an S-Corp (petekeen.net)
108 points | 2018 | author zrail showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“S corps have to pay the owners a reasonable salary on W-2. The benefit is being able to determine how much SE tax you pay.”
314. Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API (cryptomarketplot.com)
108 points | 2018 | author 1996 showed up | their comment | thread
“I make the API and the backend. The numbers come from a large sample of exchanges, with several million new datapoint added every day to cover every crypto we find…”
315. Show HN: detecting cache latency inside a Web browser (maratyszcza.github.io)
107 points | 2018 | author Marat_Dukhan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I made this demo and a related matrix-matrix multiplication demo [1] back in 2015 for Robert van de Geijn's Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers MOOC class [2]. In…”
316. Crafting Interpreters: Strings (craftinginterpreters.com)
107 points | 2018 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions, take feedback, receive criticism. Waves awkwardly, shuffles feet.”
317. Anatomy of a DNS Lookup – Part II (zwischenzugs.com)
106 points | 2018 | author zwischenzug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It may be unfair, I didn't mean to imply any kind of judgement. 'This kind of thing' was vague, but was intended to get over the fact that systemd is taking over more…”
318. Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping (ai.googleblog.com)
106 points | 2018 | author ericjang showed up | their comment | thread
“Many folks from our lab (including myself) are super bullish on "using robots to supervise representation learning and using representation learning to supervise…”
319. No “Material Difference Between 5G and LTE” (wirelessone.news)
105 points | 2018 | author daveburstein showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“The article is comparing today's LTE and 5G, deploying in 2018-2019. Is there really a big difference to the consumer between 100-400 meg real speeds (LTE) and 5G at 200…”
320. Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB (cockroachlabs.com)
105 points | 2018 | author awoods187 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“1. Between 90 and 135 16 vCPU nodes depending on cloud hardware 2. The cluster replicates this data three ways across all three nodes (so the cluster actually contains…”
321. GitHub client built with React, Apollo, GraphQL (github.com)
104 points | 2018 | author rwieruch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I used Apollo for the first time in this application, it was great throughout the implementation, but this was truly the worst part to implement. It came with multiple…”
322. Choosing Elixir's Phoenix to Power a Real-Time Web UI (blog.wallaroolabs.com)
104 points | 2018 | author JONBRWN showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Would be happy to answer any questions if folks have some.”
323. TensorFlow: Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (2015) [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)
103 points | 2018 | author yablak showed up | their comment | thread
“Working on TensorFlow has been quite a trip! Here's a followup paper submitted to Usenix: And here's a very recent publication detailing just the flow control aspects…”
324. Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees (ai.googleblog.com)
103 points | 2018 | author cweill showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here with several of the core team; we can answer some questions here. We also have a post on r/machinelearning for further discussion:”
325. Show HN: 100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing (github.com)
103 points | 2018 | author tinkersleep showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you for providing the file, I will debug it. I must admit that I spent almost no time to think about memory management, and my test files are way smaller. I guess…”
326. The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO (blog.chartmogul.com)
102 points | 2018 | author Mr_Ed showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the correction on this -- I'll update the article with correct info. I'm not a Prime subscriber and the information on Prime benefits are completely…”
327. Neanderthal vs. ND4J – Native Performance, Java and CPU (dragan.rocks)
102 points | 2018 | author dragandj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm open for discussion. The source is in the text, but conveniently accessible here:”
328. DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse (boristhebrave.github.io)
102 points | 2018 | author BorisTheBrave showed up | their comment | thread
“No. I saw some neat stuff from the author of WFC[1], and realized it combined perfectly with another proc gen algorithm I'd designed earlier[2]. Hence why this is the…”
329. Systems, not Programs (shalabh.com)
101 points | 2018 | author shalabhc showed up | their comment | thread
“This is true, but what exactly is 'the problem' in the first place? Framing makes a difference. Do we assume we are designing 'units' that communicate with each other or…”
330. Thunderbolt 3 Unblocker (github.com)
100 points | 2018 | author rgovostes showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, the issues you pointed out are mostly already captured via // TODO and // FIXME comments. The library was written in about a day. I could probably add the basic…”