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| 121. | No Phd, No Problem: New Schemes Teach the Masses to Build AI (economist.com) | |
| 245 points | 2018 | author halhod showed up | their comment | thread
“No PR was involved. I’ve been following fast.ai for a while and I thought it was part of an interesting trend My basic rule with stories is that they must come from me…” | ||
| 122. | Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep (beyondgrep.com) | |
| 244 points | 2018 | author petdance showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't know about "The Secret" other than it being an Oprah thing, what, ten years ago? Abundance vs. scarcity has nothing to do with “Believe and you shall receive...…” | ||
| 123. | So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com) | |
| 244 points | 2018 | author larsiusprime showed up | their comment | thread
“GOG is a great service; their main limitations is that many AAA publishers absolutely refuse to release without DRM, though this is sloooooowly eroding, somewhat. GOG…” | ||
| 124. | Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum (blog.cloudflare.com) | |
| 241 points | 2018 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“TPROXY module is pretty special, it really would have been hard to handle any inbound port without it. I guess it shows that there are benefits in keeping firewall and…” | ||
| 125. | Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes (nickjanetakis.com) | |
| 239 points | 2018 | author nickjj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Nice find. I just updated to 3.x (my screenshots were based on 2.x) and 3.x's UI is a pretty substantial improvement. Reports generate faster, fonts look better and the…” | ||
| 126. | Reason ML toolchain (khoanguyen.me) | |
| 238 points | 2018 | author thangngoc89 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I'll look into this and update the post accordingly. Thank you” | ||
| 127. | Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5 (ds9a.nl) | |
| 235 points | 2018 | author ahubert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“, it is true, try it. Sample code is on” | ||
| 128. | Freeing the Web from the Browser (reinterpretcast.com) | |
| 231 points | 2018 | author joesavage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It’s definitely true that extending existing browsers is the fastest route to this kind of behaviour (though it’s not clear to me if it’s the best route). In fact, if…” | ||
| 129. | Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years (hackernoon.com) | |
| 231 points | 2018 | author brennanm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry. I was just saying you have a point and I was being a little extreme in the article” | ||
| 130. | AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford (medium.com) | |
| 229 points | 2018 | author mostafab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1. I agree that graph convolutions make a lot of sense. However, it is not shown yet that they are better than SMILES, although it might just be a matter of time. A lot…” | ||
| 131. | Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared (kubedex.com) | |
| 228 points | 2018 | author stevenacreman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can say that this has pretty much gone as I'd expected. Microsoft have 80,000+ developers. Their partner ecosystem is absolutely massive. I've watched them hire…” | ||
| 132. | AT&T stealing/misrouting 1.1.1.0/29 for some of their residential customers (dslreports.com) | |
| 227 points | 2018 | author eli showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone sent me a message a while back that it was happening again but I haven't investigated myself.” | ||
| 133. | Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways (ftfy.now.sh) | |
| 226 points | 2018 | author rspeer showed up | their comment | thread
“Your statement is true, but in many cases, not useful. As quoted from the documentation [1]: [1]” | ||
| 134. | Message Passing and the Actor Model (dist-prog-book.com) | |
| 223 points | 2018 | author natdempk showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't actually think so. This is likely closer to 40 minutes of reading time, and I personally don't think it is the most difficult writing to read.” | ||
| 135. | A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012) (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 223 points | 2018 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“Your comment is a common misconception, but the animal pictured is actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel. You can tell because the stripe doesn't extend to the eye.…” | ||
| 136. | Reinforcement Learning from scratch (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 221 points | 2018 | author e_ameisen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is aimed at an overview of the field, with links to relevant resources, but not a preview of courses we give at Insight since every project is different here!” | ||
| 137. | The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 221 points | 2018 | author IrishJourno showed up | their comment | thread
“this is the exact reason why I get paid for my job :)” | ||
| 138. | Medieval trade networks (imgur.com) | |
| 220 points | 2018 | author MartinMansson showed up | their comment | thread
“Sarai has been suggested to have existed before the mongols arrived, and was a strategic location on the route between europe and asia before the height of the "north"…” | ||
| 139. | Unslacking Tideways Company (beberlei.de) | |
| 220 points | 2018 | author beberlei showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Working as the founder mostly alone (or relying on part time freelancers) for a long time I do have control issues that could fuel FOMO. However how is the "Unread…” | ||
| 140. | Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV (nextrends.swissnexsanfrancisco.org) | |
| 219 points | 2018 | author msd81257 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey all! Original author here. Seems like the server might be down. Bumping @jotaen's comment on the cached link: Thanks @jotaen!!! Really appreciate it.” | ||
| 141. | Show HN: Subform, a UI layout tool (subformapp.com) | |
| 219 points | 2018 | author lynaghk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We launched Subform on Kickstarter in 2016, but are just now opening up our beta to the public. Subform's focus is on layout. Dynamic layout systems are pretty…” | ||
| 142. | The Road to GraphQL (robinwieruch.de) | |
| 219 points | 2018 | author rwieruch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hello everyone. Author here :-) I released the book 48 hours ago and I am overwhelmed by the positive reactions. The last 10 months I put lots of work into it and…” | ||
| 143. | Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates (github.com) | |
| 218 points | 2018 | author FiloSottile showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“:) Something I would love to collect some feedback on is: how would mkcert have to change, if at all, to support a production CA (for stuff like internal machines…” | ||
| 144. | Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web framework (moltenframework.com) | |
| 218 points | 2018 | author Bogdanp showed up | their comment | thread
“while molten is API-first, there is built in support for things like sessions[1] and templates[2] for when you need them. The docs could definitely do a better job of…” | ||
| 145. | State of web browsers in 2018 (ferdychristant.com) | |
| 218 points | 2018 | author fchristant showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Agree with your point when you read it like that, so I'll clarify what I meant. "Compatible with the web" in the context of this article means compatible with the web…” | ||
| 146. | Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language (github.com) | |
| 217 points | 2018 | author Gabriel439 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You might be interested in this post on safety guarantees: The main risks in executing potentially malicious Dhall code that is not protected by a semantic integrity…” | ||
| 147. | Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing (github.com) | |
| 216 points | 2018 | author mohsen1 showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me any questions you might have. We used this internally to convert a few repos. It's not perfect but gives you a head start for converting to TS. I also wrote about…” | ||
| 148. | How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button (twilio.com) | |
| 216 points | 2018 | author dgouldin showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after…” | ||
| 149. | Building your own shell using Rust (joshmcguigan.com) | |
| 216 points | 2018 | author JoshMcguigan showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not sure of the rules around self promotion so I want to point out that I didn't submit this, but I'm happy to see that others are enjoying it. I wrote this blog…” | ||
| 150. | Running Java in a Container (mesosphere.com) | |
| 212 points | 2018 | author joerg84 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“First of all thanks for the great disucssion here, it really motivated to write another follow-up article. There were some comments asking for more practical advice…” | ||
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