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| 1. | Announcing unlimited free private repos (blog.github.com) | |
| 2867 points | 2019 | author matthewjhughes showed up | their comment | thread
“The article has been updated to clarify that I accidentally published it one day before the embargo lifted. GitHub will formally announce the news tomorrow.” | ||
| 2. | My Business Card Runs Linux (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 2595 points | 2019 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a really good conversation starter. I've given a couple of them out and the reaction is always that I bought it somewhere, and I have to explain that no, I really…” | ||
| 3. | Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera (medium.com) | |
| 1937 points | 2019 | author Jlleitschuh showed up | their comment | thread
“AMA Or come hang out in the party chat! Use the exploit to join:” | ||
| 4. | Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) | |
| 1463 points | 2019 | author jefferickson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm honestly seriously torn about this. There is a serious tension between pedagogical needs of students in formal classrooms and the pedagogical needs of self-learners.…” | ||
| 5. | CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust (github.com) | |
| 1340 points | 2019 | author theanzelm showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for letting me know, I’ll test the font on more devices and fix it!” | ||
| 6. | Startup idea checklist (defmacro.org) | |
| 1251 points | 2019 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment | thread
“After rereading this (I haven't looked at the list for months), I agree. It should be "who are the users? -> what is the essence of their dissatisfaction? -> what are…” | ||
| 7. | Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused (twitter.com) | |
| 1236 points | 2019 | author atomicthumbs showed up | their comment | thread
“for what it's worth. All my own audio equipment was recycled at some point.” | ||
| 8. | What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? (nsaphra.github.io) | |
| 986 points | 2019 | author nsaphra showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm actually very grateful to my neurologist who gave me my idiopathic diagnosis, because he was the only doctor to figure out the mechanism of action. He's been…” | ||
| 9. | When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling (hiringengineersbook.com) | |
| 973 points | 2019 | author cloogshicer showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“thanks for your feedback. I think you might be right, thinking about rewriting that paragraph a bit. For me it's been really obvious in interviews whether someone knows…” | ||
| 10. | Ending our Medium integration (write.as) | |
| 936 points | 2019 | author thebaer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“though it's still confusing: This doesn't really explain why our 2-year-old integration suddenly stopped working (we didn't need to generate a new application). So I'm…” | ||
| 11. | Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s (imgur.com) | |
| 936 points | 2019 | author Admiral_C showed up | their comment | thread
“not happy it got picked up and posted here without credit. Here's the original Reddit thread:” | ||
| 12. | Lessons learned building an ML trading system (tradientblog.com) | |
| 914 points | 2019 | author traK6Dcm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Actually, the system is mostly taking liquidity from the market so it's not even doing that :) Perhaps, "opportunity for others to create more liquidity" Jokes aside,…” | ||
| 13. | Challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 911 points | 2019 | author azhenley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I agree with you! This list was about projects for learning. A few months ago I had a blog post that was more product focused, regarding the lessons I learned from…” | ||
| 14. | How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] (cs.princeton.edu) | |
| 907 points | 2019 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate your criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of Google's claims around diabetic retinopathy. I received feedback very similar to yours, i.e.…” | ||
| 15. | I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (djhworld.github.io) | |
| 892 points | 2019 | author djhworld showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually didn't set out on building anything, it all happened organically! I honestly cannot remember why I chose the book, I think I just saw the blurb and figured it…” | ||
| 16. | Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos (picsum.photos) | |
| 880 points | 2019 | author dmarby showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the old codebase ~4 years ago when I was just learning NodeJS, and didn't touch it too much after that, so it was in dire need of being replaced, in particular…” | ||
| 17. | China (drewdevault.com) | |
| 847 points | 2019 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your earnest concern. I'm a pretty risk-averse person and I take lots of pains to address those contingencies for all of my digital services.” | ||
| 18. | Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it (downtowndougbrown.com) | |
| 817 points | 2019 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“My first time here on Hacker News...very cool that it was picked up! I did my memory testing inside of Linux using memtester. I honestly want to do more thorough testing…” | ||
| 19. | Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster (tokio.rs) | |
| 813 points | 2019 | author carllerche showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be watching the comments and can answer any questions! I do want to make clear that most of the optimizations discussed are implemented in the Go scheduler, which…” | ||
| 20. | Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014) (0a.io) | |
| 770 points | 2019 | author archibaldJ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm now studying Chinese and would like to write a Chinese version for Sinophone audience (with more Chinese humor, etc). Anyone knows a good place to share articles…” | ||
| 21. | Pricing niche products (kevinlynagh.com) | |
| 769 points | 2019 | author lynaghk showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here --- you're welcome to copy whatever you want from the unminifed CSS:” | ||
| 22. | Pure Bash Bible (github.com) | |
| 746 points | 2019 | author dyanaraps showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions you may have. Here's an example of what bash is capable of: (a TUI file manager written in bash)!” | ||
| 23. | Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum (harshsikka.me) | |
| 714 points | 2019 | author hsikka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I really appreciate the feedback. Are there any specific prerequisites to Real Analysis?” | ||
| 24. | Programming Fonts – Test Drive (app.programmingfonts.org) | |
| 712 points | 2019 | author klageveen showed up | their comment | thread
“org. Operator Mono certainly is pretty. I always loved consolas on Windows (honestly, it's the only thing that rendered properly on Win7). That said, I can only include…” | ||
| 25. | Bullshit.js (mourner.github.io) | |
| 688 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up | their comment | thread
“really happy that a joke project I did 7.5 years ago (while working at a typical outsourcing company) finally got a spotlight on HN! Please feel free to contribute! I…” | ||
| 26. | How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night (figma.com) | |
| 685 points | 2019 | author rudi-c showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“There is material on the internet that are relevant to the topic, but it's quite hard to piece together. After all, there are only a handful of players right now who…” | ||
| 27. | Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains (leebutterman.com) | |
| 673 points | 2019 | author lsb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd figured they were big, but I had no idea that big until I did a www-wide TLS scan. Here for questions” | ||
| 28. | Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017) (gabrielgambetta.com) | |
| 651 points | 2019 | author ggambetta showed up | their comment | thread
“What a surprise to open HN and see this on the front page :) Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 29. | Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer (lastweekinaws.com) | |
| 651 points | 2019 | author QuinnyPig showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To be clear, the stated reasons Amazon gave for enforcing the non-compete in their filed lawsuit are already covered under trade secret protections. I'm not the one…” | ||
| 30. | Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (guzey.com) | |
| 634 points | 2019 | author guzey showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of this post. I'm 22. I wrote most of this post when I was 20. I still agree with basically all of it. Also, I spent like 6 months writing it because…” | ||
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