151. C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) (blog.greaterthanzero.com)
211 points | 2018 | author thebear showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“A few years back, I wrote an article about the issues that you're asking about. Since the article still comes up as the #1 result of Google search for "C++ rvalue…”
152. Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class Security (hackernoon.com)
211 points | 2018 | author logicx24 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Not sure why you're being downvoted, I completely I agree with this. The fact that even upper middle class doesn't guarantee any real security was a huge wake-up call…”
153. The Decline of the MacBook Pro (dannyguo.com)
211 points | 2018 | author dguo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I've been looking to switch off Evernote but haven't found a suitable replacement yet.”
154. Update on Meltdown and Spectre (engineering.coinbase.com)
209 points | 2018 | author philip_coinbase showed up | their comment | thread
“It's unclear but I doubt it is practical given the preconditions required in the Spectre paper. see, section 5 for the details of Spectre2 (aka branch target injection).…”
155. How to sleep a million years (2013) (idea.popcount.org)
208 points | 2018 | author majke showed up | their comment | thread
“That's the intention! Protocol development, protocol testing. Think - leap seconds. While we don't support having different timer for each process yet, this is easy to…”
156. Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO (github.com)
208 points | 2018 | author mandreyel showed up | their comment | thread
“Long time lurker, but made an an account now. Wow, I did not expect this. I'm really touched. I wrote this as a small utility for my own consumption because I was…”
157. Advanced web security topics (blog.georgovassilis.com)
208 points | 2018 | author ggeorgovassilis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here; I collected uncommon topics affecting web application security, such has extracting a page's content with CSS injection.”
158. Show HN: Visualizing disk IO activity using log-scale banded graphs (bvckup2.com)
207 points | 2018 | author apankrat showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We had a need for a tool to graph IO activity at arbitrary sampling rates, so there was finally a solid excuse to do some datavis work :) The thing I wanted to show is…”
159. Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter (cockroachlabs.com)
207 points | 2018 | author mjibson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Based on feedback I am going to make a sqlfmt binary for easy editor integration. You can currently already do this by using the CockroachDB binary () but understandably…”
160. Rust Qt Binding Generator (github.com)
206 points | 2018 | author oever showed up | their comment | thread
“There's a presentation on the project here: Happy to answer questions.”
161. In defense of functional CSS (mikecr.it)
206 points | 2018 | author mcrittenden showed up | their comment | thread
“In retrospect a couple months after writing this post, I don't love it. I still am in love with Tailwind and Functional CSS, but I did a poor job defending it. I'd…”
162. Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity? (influxdata.com)
205 points | 2018 | author pauldix showed up | their comment | thread
“We have more work to do to make the happy path with the set of Influx tools (the TICK stack) more turn key and easier to run. The entire feature set is available in the…”
163. Leave Gmail in 10 steps (blog.dipasquale.fr)
205 points | 2018 | author adipasquale showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I had completely missed that news. It is a bit concerning, you are totally right. I have edited the article to mention it and alternatives, thank you.”
164. Turning a side project into an open-source project (reaktor.com)
204 points | 2018 | author jehna1 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hit me with questions if you got some!”
165. The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow (drewdevault.com)
204 points | 2018 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't load all of the advantages into a single conveniently-quotable part of the article, but I think I covered them all the same. In addition to what you quoted: The…”
166. Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena (aws.amazon.com)
204 points | 2018 | author iamsomewalrus showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I’m the author of this post. I’m pretty chuffed to see this here. Happy to answer any questions.”
167. MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage (inc.com)
203 points | 2018 | author exolymph showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I highlighted this as an issue because MailChimp said it would allow cryptocurrency newsletters that weren't pumping ICOs to keep doing their thing, but didn't follow…”
168. Chess over ActivityPub (castling.club)
203 points | 2018 | author kosinus showed up | their comment | thread
“Let's hope my little hobby server holds up against HN. :) This was very much an experiment in building something that talks ActivityPub Server-to-Server. Chess happened…”
169. Progressing from Tech to Leadership (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
202 points | 2018 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't there's a single answer. The "right" path is usually some combination of soft and hard skills, persistence, and dumb luck. Skill and persistence come into play…”
170. The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization (gravitational.com)
200 points | 2018 | author kevin_nisbet showed up | their comment | thread
“Using crypto hashes to anonymize data is one of those mistakes I've seen several times, and wanted to draw some attention to the issue so that hopefully we can all learn…”
171. Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript (raganwald.com)
200 points | 2018 | author braythwayt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I take that as a compliment. Not everything is meant to be deployed to production.”
172. Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case (techcrunch.com)
199 points | 2018 | author devindotcom showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah he's 100% guilty of counterfeiting, pleaded guilty and acknowledged everything up front, faking the discs and everything. The issue I and others have been trying to…”
173. What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job (mtlynch.io)
199 points | 2018 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post.”
174. A dull, resilient stream processor in Go (github.com)
199 points | 2018 | author jeffail showed up | their comment | thread
“We use Benthos as a general stream swiss army knife for all the dull tasks, but you can also use it as a framework for writing your own stream processors in Go. It…”
175. Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions (blog.anp.lol)
199 points | 2018 | author anp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“hi! author here if you want to ask questions or (nicely pls) let me know where I've made mistakes!”
176. Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap (stellar.org)
198 points | 2018 | author jlrubin showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about our protocol design.”
177. Bowler: Safe code refactoring for modern Python (pybowler.io)
198 points | 2018 | author nuclear_eclipse showed up | their comment | thread
“I created Bowler as a "hackamonth" project when I joined Facebook's internal Python Foundation team. We've already used it for a bunch of random codemods that touch a…”
178. A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas (jalammar.github.io)
195 points | 2018 | author jalammar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you've ever wanted to get into data analysis, this is my best attempt at getting you past that first hump. A lot of these concepts are easier than you might think.”
179. Benchmarking Google’s new TPUv2 (blog.riseml.com)
192 points | 2018 | author elmarhaussmann showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Note that the TPU supports larger batch sizes because it has more RAM. We tested multiple batch sizes for GPUs and reported the fastest one. We'll try increasing the…”
180. Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode (github.com)
190 points | 2018 | author Kungsgeten showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of org-brain. I'm happy to see there's an interest for it. There's a screencast of me explaining it, which might give a better overview than the…”