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| 31. | Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io) | |
| 546 points | 2018 | author justinmeiners showed up | their comment | thread
“Definitely agree. The intent was to write the simplest possible to VM that could run real programs. VMs are obviously a deep field of research and there are plenty more…” | ||
| 32. | The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext (latacora.singles) | |
| 545 points | 2018 | author lvh showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this; happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 33. | I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores (debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com) | |
| 528 points | 2018 | author judah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page. The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between…” | ||
| 34. | I don't trust Signal (drewdevault.com) | |
| 523 points | 2018 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“this is a fair criticism. Other alternatives (which I have not reviewed in depth) include Tox, Telegram, Wire, and Ring (not an endorsement of any of these). I'm an old…” | ||
| 35. | Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io) | |
| 514 points | 2018 | author lvh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 36. | NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com) | |
| 510 points | 2018 | author abadid showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to respond to comments on the post on this thread for the next several hours. You can also leave comments on the post itself, and I will respond there at any…” | ||
| 37. | Stripe Home (stripe.com) | |
| 496 points | 2018 | author michaelschade showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“We regularly discuss this :) I'm not sure yet how valuable open sourcing it will be in the long run. Part of what makes Home work well for us is how tied it is to how we…” | ||
| 38. | The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes (gravitational.com) | |
| 484 points | 2018 | author aberoham showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do have a bias toward GKE but that is after trying to use everything else -- DIY, kubespray, OpenShift, Juju, Tectonic, Azure, Fargate, kops, Rancher v2 preview,…” | ||
| 39. | Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview (github.com) | |
| 484 points | 2018 | author akavel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hope something like that (syscall/capabilities limits) could work. If it is possible, it would just mostly solve the problem, I believe. I'm kinda starting to realize,…” | ||
| 40. | The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it (blog.r3bl.me) | |
| 483 points | 2018 | author r3bl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As I have said in an other comment on this thread, the idea is that the city's name is easily discoverable. You can discover it by highlighting the text, clicking at the…” | ||
| 41. | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) | |
| 483 points | 2018 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't updated this in a while, but am always grateful for the appreciative comments and emails I get when it gets rediscovered. There's also usually two other…” | ||
| 42. | 61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience (talent.works) | |
| 482 points | 2018 | author kushalc showed up | their comment | thread
“(And also happen to be TalentWorks CEO.) A friend sent me this link, I'm happy to answer any Qs. Also, we're hiring. :) If you're sick of spending all your hard-earned…” | ||
| 43. | How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 461 points | 2018 | author e_ameisen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“One of the reasons to start with something even simpler than embeddings such as fastText/Word2Vec, is their ease of explainability. As this blog post alludes to, the…” | ||
| 44. | Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router (github.com) | |
| 461 points | 2018 | author secure showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions you might have :)” | ||
| 45. | Startups I Want to Fund (startupandrew.com) | |
| 457 points | 2018 | author mayop100 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“If your take here is that I'm interested in "rich-white-guy" problems, I'd encourage you to re-read the list from the perspective of emerging and frontier markets. Most…” | ||
| 46. | Don’t sign a CLA (drewdevault.com) | |
| 455 points | 2018 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for writing up your thoughts. This isn't true - you mean "not all open source is copyleft". This is also not true. You should review the open source definition: I…” | ||
| 47. | Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux (blog.hiri.com) | |
| 450 points | 2018 | author dpower showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Some context you may find interesting, and maybe I should do a follow up post about this. We were very enterprise focused, but it just didn't work. We were trying to…” | ||
| 48. | Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs (github.com) | |
| 444 points | 2018 | author netingle showed up | their comment | thread
“Really excited to release this at KubeCon; happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 49. | Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com) | |
| 438 points | 2018 | author adamdrake showed up | their comment | thread
“Many thanks for the feedback and comments. If you have any questions, I'm also happy to try to answer them. I'm also working on a project, which may be of interest to…” | ||
| 50. | Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal (news.yale.edu) | |
| 426 points | 2018 | author jdrov showed up | their comment | thread
“First author here -- happy to take any questions!” | ||
| 51. | Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? (naughtycomputer.uk) | |
| 425 points | 2018 | author xylon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can't send you a sample because of copyright but get "scare force one" by Lordi on CD and rip it into any format.” | ||
| 52. | State of React Native 2018 (facebook.github.io) | |
| 418 points | 2018 | author spicyj showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author. Let me know if you have questions that aren't covered in the post.” | ||
| 53. | Keybase Exploding Messages (keybase.io) | |
| 413 points | 2018 | author malgorithms showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm seeing the same comment in 4 different places on here, worded with various amounts of hostility. I now wish I had addressed this in the FAQ on the post. There's the…” | ||
| 54. | Why Create a New Unix Shell? (oilshell.org) | |
| 408 points | 2018 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hm I've tried fish, and it seems very nice for interactive use. However I don't see it being used AT ALL for the cloud/linux use case? Those are the cases where you tend…” | ||
| 55. | The Internet of Unprofitable Things (strugglers.net) | |
| 408 points | 2018 | author grifferz showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sure you're right. I pretty certain I could have charged them much much more and they'd still have accepted it. In conversation with the software eng it was implied…” | ||
| 56. | Software Complexity Is Killing Us (simplethread.com) | |
| 398 points | 2018 | author jetheredge showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“yeah, we are loading a lot of crap, aren't we? We will do an audit and make sure we aren't loading a bunch of unnecessary stuff, but the whole site should be served up…” | ||
| 57. | Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow (influxdata.com) | |
| 396 points | 2018 | author pauldix showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm surprised at the number of comments in this thread that say it's about the messaging or the Commons Clause license. They've cleared up the confusion about what is…” | ||
| 58. | Miners Aren’t Friends (blog.keep.network) | |
| 394 points | 2018 | author prestwich showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah, several of the example contracts are insecure in other ways. Or just plain bad ideas. I decided against providing implementations because I was worried people…” | ||
| 59. | Postgres 11 – A First Look (craigkerstiens.com) | |
| 390 points | 2018 | author craigkerstiens showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, it's great to learn Ctrl + D. But losing out on beginners that aren't familiar in favor of things that are naturally intuitive is a great way to make those who are…” | ||
| 60. | Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple (asaph.org) | |
| 389 points | 2018 | author asaph showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks everyone for your thoughtful feedback. I intentionally wanted to strike a cooperative tone in putting this story out there. When the largest company in the world…” | ||
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