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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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!” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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.” |
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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.” |
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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…” |
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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.” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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.” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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.” |
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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…” |
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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:” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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:” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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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…” |
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