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| 241. | Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent (blog.ropnop.com) | |
| 148 points | 2018 | author ropnop showed up | their comment | thread
“heh nice find. All keys used were burner keys anyway. The only reason I blurred and obfuscated where I could was just for "best practice" not for real security. I knew…” | ||
| 242. | Whole House Fan and Evaporative Cooler (jefftk.com) | |
| 148 points | 2018 | author cbr showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't know very much about how swamp coolers are used in practice, so I could easily be missing something. I do know that they're basically never used up here in the…” | ||
| 243. | How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes? (beta.observablehq.com) | |
| 148 points | 2018 | author jake-low showed up | their comment | thread
“Definitely didn't expect to see this on the front page when I woke up. A friend posed the question in the title to me last week after seeing the referenced NYT map, and…” | ||
| 244. | AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way (roberttisdale.com) | |
| 147 points | 2018 | author rtisdale showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the suggestion! I just added a note about T2 Unlimited and will see about writing a follow up post explaining the new T2 Unlimited concepts. EDIT: Added the…” | ||
| 245. | Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices (micromdm.io) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author zalmoxes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“MicroMDM is used in some enterprise environments and was recently mentioned in a number of security presentations regarding Apple's MDM and Device Enrollment Program…” | ||
| 246. | ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017) (mathiasbynens.be) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author mathias showed up | their comment | thread
“Despite its age, it’s still accurate and up-to-date. Depends on what you mean by that. These features are still not universally supported by all modern browsers, for…” | ||
| 247. | The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017) (dwheeler.com) | |
| 146 points | 2018 | author dwheeler showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks so much for the interest! Clearly there are other things that need to be put on that list. One challenge I had was finding clear citations to the very first…” | ||
| 248. | M3: Uber's Open Source Large-Scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus (ubr.to) | |
| 144 points | 2018 | author roskilli showed up | their comment | thread
“please do ask any questions. Ultimately we'd just like to make the project useful to others, so any and all feedback is appreciated, thank you!” | ||
| 249. | Our Use of Haskell and Elm (sanityinc.com) | |
| 143 points | 2018 | author sanityinc showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks very much. That was what I was going for.” | ||
| 250. | Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no JavaScript (github.com) | |
| 143 points | 2018 | author gitoby showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We’re still in the process of figuring out what the right open-source licensing model for Boden should be. In the long run, development must be financed by a viable…” | ||
| 251. | A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI (technologyreview.com) | |
| 143 points | 2018 | author jessebett showed up | their comment | thread
“There's more discussion on this other recent HN thread where David Duvenaud (Senior Author) answers some questions.” | ||
| 252. | LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC (medium.com) | |
| 142 points | 2018 | author cracauer showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to say that I have seen the comments and will address them when I have a chance. My post turned out to be a lot more popular than I anticipated and I was…” | ||
| 253. | Why startups need to approach SEO differently than established companies (atrium.co) | |
| 142 points | 2018 | author aerosmile showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Absolutely fair - it's the chicken or the egg question... It's important to get some quick traction doing quick and dirty tricks, but eventually you'll have to…” | ||
| 254. | JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid (staltz.com) | |
| 142 points | 2018 | author staltz showed up | their comment | thread
“the inspiration for this article came primarily from Erik Meijer and this talk where he talks a lot about Getters and Setters in Scala, although he's not focused on…” | ||
| 255. | Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads [pdf] (usenix.org) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author keithwinstein showed up | their comment | thread
“The basic theme is that (a) purely functional implementations of things like video codecs can allow finer-granularity parallelism than previously realized [e.g. smaller…” | ||
| 256. | Page Lifecycle API (developers.google.com) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of the comments so far are talking about using lots of tabs, but what I think is actually the most interesting part (or parts) of the article hasn't been mentioned…” | ||
| 257. | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (extremelearning.com.au) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author extremelearning showed up | their comment | thread
“OMG! Someone submitted my post here and it's got to the front page!! Happy to try to answer any questions that people have. Enjoy!” | ||
| 258. | The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code (medium.com) | |
| 140 points | 2018 | author pavritch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“All common ciphers are available as open source already. I just packaged it into a product. Encryption done right does not suddenly become vulnerable if published to an…” | ||
| 259. | The cost of games (raphkoster.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author Raph_Koster showed up | their comment | thread
“First, let me state that this is not some sort of apologia for AAA and its business practices. I don't work for an AAA publisher. I don't derive significant annual…” | ||
| 260. | Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony (blog.wallaroolabs.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author hackmanytrades showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and the primary author of Pony Kafka. I'll be around to answer questions.” | ||
| 261. | Making Music: When Simple Probabilities Outperform Deep Learning (towardsdatascience.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author haebichan showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! The author here. Would love to see what that different presentation would've been so that the language of my next project would reflect a more humbling tone. Thanks!” | ||
| 262. | Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change (qz.com) | |
| 137 points | 2018 | author akshatrathi showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm happy to field any questions” | ||
| 263. | Show HN: Get Rails performance metrics into Chrome Dev Tools (github.com) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author itsderek23 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Application instrumentation - whether via Prometheus, StatsD, Scout, New Relic - solves a very different problem than this. The server timing metrics here are actually…” | ||
| 264. | On Loneliness and Solitude (pa-mar.net) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author Pamar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I had submitted this a couple months ago and HN's asked me to resubmit to see if it fared a bit better. "Ask me anything..."” | ||
| 265. | Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance (codeotaku.com) | |
| 136 points | 2018 | author ioquatix showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm also a Ruby core committer, and yes I'm aware of Guilds. The are a model for parallelism and don't really affect concurrency at all. At best, they provide a 3rd…” | ||
| 266. | Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces (arxiv.org) | |
| 135 points | 2018 | author ContextArxiv showed up | their comment | thread
“I can confirm everything you said. A conference version is in the works, though this one is essentially complete” | ||
| 267. | Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust (atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com) | |
| 135 points | 2018 | author atilaneves showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the blog post and I definitely think ranges are worth using, and said as much in the link. I just don't think they're worth it in this particular case. The code…” | ||
| 268. | Year in Pixels (year-in-pixels.glitch.me) | |
| 132 points | 2018 | author kinduff showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is small tool I made during Friday and Saturday. The idea for this tool is not new at all, but I've never seen this format online before. The tool is based on an…” | ||
| 269. | More State Machine Love: From Reflection to Statecharts (raganwald.com) | |
| 131 points | 2018 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Conditional transitions, before- and after- actions, state entry conditions/validations, ... There are all sorts of places to go that have been proven fertile for…” | ||
| 270. | The Prolog Story (2010) (kylecordes.com) | |
| 131 points | 2018 | author kylecordes showed up | their comment | thread
“The implementation I used was SWI-Prolog. I had tinkered with a couple of others prior to that in school (sorry, I don't remember more details), but this was free/open,…” | ||
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