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| 211. | Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation (arstechnica.com) | |
| 168 points | 2018 | author binarybits showed up | their comment | thread
“What do you mean by "short?" The piece is 1,500 words, which is about double the length of a typical newspaper column. I'm not going to get into the exact economics, but…” | ||
| 212. | Hack everything without fear (drewdevault.com) | |
| 166 points | 2018 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comments! I would like to, in the future, write articles going into more detail about how to explore new codebases.” | ||
| 213. | Sl: a mirror version of ls (gir.st) | |
| 165 points | 2018 | author girst showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask questions!” | ||
| 214. | Show HN: Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go (github.com) | |
| 165 points | 2018 | author polymathist showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been working on Fo part time for 4 months. Feel free to ask me anything.” | ||
| 215. | Introducing Electron Fiddle (medium.com) | |
| 165 points | 2018 | author felixrieseberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Author here. I got to admit, that’s an angle I did not fully consider - but adding theming should be fairly easy, given that our editor already has built-in themes.…” | ||
| 216. | Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees (the-paper-trail.org) | |
| 165 points | 2018 | author HenryR showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“if you like this you might also like another paper summary of mine in the same vein:” | ||
| 217. | Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture (blog.plaid.com) | |
| 164 points | 2018 | author jelambs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“that’s a great question! We approach this by ensuring that there are always multiple people that can review a given codebase or service. In practice what this looks like…” | ||
| 218. | Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme (github.com) | |
| 163 points | 2018 | author kristopolous showed up | their comment | thread
“I missed this. Sorry I'm in late. Questions, critiques, and everything else accepted. Thanks” | ||
| 219. | Advanced SQL window function quiz (windowfunctions.com) | |
| 163 points | 2018 | author andy_boot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm scrolling thru the logs and it is interesting to see that on the first question lots of people try to write "select name, total_weight" despite there only being a…” | ||
| 220. | It's Time for a DevTools for Designers (uxdesign.cc) | |
| 163 points | 2018 | author ajkandy showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks very much for linking it here. It's very easy to fall back on entrenched opinions and unhelpful developer-vs-designer stereotypes, and see any call for a visual…” | ||
| 221. | How to deliver on Machine Learning projects (blog.insightdatascience.com) | |
| 162 points | 2018 | author e_ameisen showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is a surprisingly common situation. In fact starting with the simplest algo is usually the best way to prove the validity of your approach, and gather initial data…” | ||
| 222. | C2Rust: translate C into Rust code (c2rust.com) | |
| 160 points | 2018 | author glguy showed up | their comment | thread
“Our original plan was to simply work to improve Corrode. We eventually decided to to implement a new tool that uses Clang as the frontend in order to get more reliable…” | ||
| 223. | How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down (redfin.engineering) | |
| 159 points | 2018 | author dfabulich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I think the AMP brand is toxic roughly everywhere. Many users don't know what AMP is, and don't really care—in fact, there's some evidence that users like AMP in search…” | ||
| 224. | The Math of Card Shuffling (fredhohman.com) | |
| 157 points | 2018 | author fredhohman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I link to this video in the post—it was what originally sparked my interest to do the visualization! The whole channel is really great.” | ||
| 225. | Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History (bookworm.club) | |
| 157 points | 2018 | author kaycebasques showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yes, I'm trying to use affiliate links to make this passion project more sustainable in the long term, but I'm definitely not just cranking out content for the sake of…” | ||
| 226. | Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac (catnapgames.com) | |
| 156 points | 2018 | author tomovo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for all the responses. Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well. Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest…” | ||
| 227. | Programming Paradigms and Beyond [pdf] (cs.brown.edu) | |
| 156 points | 2018 | author skrishnamurthi showed up | their comment | thread
“I have great respect for Harel's statechart work, but it wasn't mentioned because it's not particularly germane to the topic at hand — the chapter is part of a computing…” | ||
| 228. | C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017) (github.com) | |
| 155 points | 2018 | author tcbrindle showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this on a rainy weekend last year and mostly forgot about it, so it was a bit of a surprise to see it pop up on HN this morning! Happy to answer any questions…” | ||
| 229. | Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months (blog.dataguru.hk) | |
| 154 points | 2018 | author slygent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Unfortunately financial and officer/director data for Hong Kong private companies is hidden behind a paywall (see details here under the section Tear Down That Wall:),…” | ||
| 230. | Granular Audio Synthesis (blog.demofox.org) | |
| 153 points | 2018 | author Atrix256 showed up | their comment | thread
“but yes, the implementation is in 680 lines of standalone c++ The point of the article isn't about c++ or why it's a good language for doing this sort of thing, but I'm…” | ||
| 231. | Hacking a cheap fitness tracker bracelet (rbaron.net) | |
| 153 points | 2018 | author r4pha showed up | their comment | thread
“I can honestly say that I’m definitely not an expert. I tried to systematically write down questions on a text file and solve them one after the other. Solving one…” | ||
| 232. | What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App (medium.com) | |
| 153 points | 2018 | author seenickcode showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to clarify that it's not bad at all. Libs exist out there, such as offering a cross platform nav bar, seemless where you wouldn't have to maintain two separate…” | ||
| 233. | France might be losing its first big information war (blog.0day.rocks) | |
| 153 points | 2018 | author x0rz showed up | their comment | thread
“It is true you can't really tell. But now just use your common sense, look at the data. And yes, there are people leveraging these events to cause confusion. Make up…” | ||
| 234. | Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer (typicalprogrammer.com) | |
| 152 points | 2018 | author gregjor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this because I had told a few people I can use an iPad for work and they asked me to write up the details because they would like to do it. A quick Google search…” | ||
| 235. | Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf] (arxiv.org) | |
| 151 points | 2018 | author gaudetcj showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry if it unclear, but we reduce the number of filters per layer to account for this. The quaternion networks actually have fewer parameters.” | ||
| 236. | Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go (sausheong.github.io) | |
| 151 points | 2018 | author sausheong showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks Serge for the great library! I considered the self-contained app without the web server method, but I've already done the images before and I'm way more…” | ||
| 237. | Conservative web development (drewdevault.com) | |
| 150 points | 2018 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Obviously not all "websites" are suited to be done with HTML and CSS alone. The examples I gave, the New York Times, GitHub, and sr.ht, along with many others, are.” | ||
| 238. | An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014) (blog.systemed.net) | |
| 149 points | 2018 | author Doctor_Fegg showed up | their comment | thread
“really pleasant surprise to see it surface on HN.) Fully agree with your comments. It's not just Google that can tell you about busy roads, though - in some countries…” | ||
| 239. | MPEG-G: the ugly (datageekdom.blogspot.com) | |
| 149 points | 2018 | author jkbonfield showed up | their comment | thread
“although not the author of the file format itself. Although yes that it is still a fair point if you look at just the one blog post. However there are a series of them…” | ||
| 240. | KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust (arxiv.org) | |
| 148 points | 2018 | author iuppiter showed up | their comment | thread
“The semantics is far from complete and I am still working it. It is not a easy to formalize Rust completely. KRust is now just very very small step towards that. It may…” | ||
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