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A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata (raganwald.com) |
| 146 points | 2019 | author braythwayt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That solution has been discussed elsewhere in my blog. If you think of the family of problems involving nested things, or tree-like things, or recognizing, or parsing,…” |
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Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017) (ostechnix.com) |
| 146 points | 2019 | author arcmags showed up | their comment | thread
“Awesome to see some interest in my project. I'm currently working on the next version in my spare time (you'll see it in the dev branch). Improvements include:…” |
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How to write better game libraries (handmade.network) |
| 146 points | 2019 | author LucaSas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Regarding RAII, what I mention in the article is that it is ok to provide RAII wrappers as long as you also provide C++ wrappers for the non-RAII plain structs and…” |
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Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users (github.com) |
| 145 points | 2019 | author 4lch3m1st showed up | their comment | thread
“I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or…” |
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X Window System Basics (2014) (magcius.github.io) |
| 145 points | 2019 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't want to copy/paste my entire postmortem in here, so I'll link to the thread from a few days ago which has some extra context into why I started this series, and…” |
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Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system (github.com) |
| 144 points | 2019 | author maqp showed up | their comment | thread
“Since both are located in the capitol area of Finland and names are too close to another not to cause a mix up, I think it's important to clear any confusion: The…” |
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Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations (erikbern.com) |
| 144 points | 2019 | author erikbern showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“1. Diagonal moves have a slightly higher weight. 2. I have an edge weight of 100 to go through another person. This makes it possible to go _towards_ the right direction…” |
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A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015) (dlopuch.github.io) |
| 144 points | 2019 | author floatrock showed up | their comment | thread
“(neat, didn't think I'd see it submitted it here again, glad the person who dug this up found it useful!) I made this four years ago as an experiment in D3 when the…” |
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Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes (arxiv.org) |
| 144 points | 2019 | author gyang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your interest! Let me try answering some of your questions. Yes, width is very important for this result. Given the size of modern deep neural networks, I…” |
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Going beyond the Golden Ratio (extremelearning.com.au) |
| 143 points | 2019 | author extremelearning showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to try to answer any questions any one might have on this post or topic. )” |
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Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts (unlikekinds.com) |
| 143 points | 2019 | author whalabi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You're right about platform features used within apps, many (most? all?) are made available to developers with the support libraries. However, users will get none of the…” |
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Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch (datadome.co) |
| 142 points | 2019 | author tty6 showed up | their comment | thread
“It's an example for the article and the intention was to remove the complexity of primary/replica shards. Let's say "shard" is an unit and no matter about primary or…” |
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Beating C with 70 lines of Go (ajeetdsouza.github.io) |
| 142 points | 2019 | author ajeetdsouza showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Why do you feel it is code golf? My primary focus when writing it was readability - I'm sure I could do it in much less than 70 lines if I had to. If you have any…” |
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Fun with compute shaders and fluid dynamics (blog.kummerlaender.eu) |
| 141 points | 2019 | author akr showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the interesting links! I agree that there is much that could be optimized. The choice to use vertex buffers was driven by the overarching goal of implementing…” |
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V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison (lambdalabs.com) |
| 141 points | 2019 | author sabalaba showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with a lot of your points, especially the fact that TCO is practically impossible to calculate, is highly subjective, and should ideally include opportunity…” |
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Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones (motherboard.vice.com) |
| 140 points | 2019 | author jkoebler showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken. If you are a member of CompTIA or…” |
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Mental models (nesslabs.com) |
| 140 points | 2019 | author anthilemoon showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the hug of death! Currently on the phone with my hosting provider. A friend will help me move to Netlify later. If you did manage to read the article and…” |
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Your live coding demo is boring me (2015) (inconshreveable.com) |
| 138 points | 2019 | author inconshreveable showed up | their comment | thread
“After four years, I still stand by this advice/critique. As everyone likes to point out, there are a few presenters that are an exception to the rule. That's true! I'm…” |
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What I Learned at Activision (c0de517e.blogspot.com) |
| 136 points | 2019 | author c0de517e showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“you are most definitely right, there is little correlation between game tech and end results anyways. It's mostly internal stuff, there are millions of other variables.…” |
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SuperSQLite: SQLite library for Python (2018) (github.com) |
| 135 points | 2019 | author patelajay285 showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“and built this for some internal use cases our startup. This is actually a Work-in-Progress and not meant to be released yet, but it seems like someone has found it…” |
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The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019 (mux.com) |
| 134 points | 2019 | author GeneticGenesis showed up | their comment | thread
“there's lots of interesting innovations happening in this space. If anyone knows of anything interesting I've missed, please let me know!” |
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PC Assembly Book (2006) (pacman128.github.io) |
| 134 points | 2019 | author pacman128 showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this here. I wrote most of the book for the class I was teaching in the 90's. All the textbooks I could find were for 16-bit DOS assembly. I wanted to…” |
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Technical Debt Is Like Tetris (medium.com) |
| 134 points | 2019 | author wizdumb showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions!” |
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Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA (victorzhou.com) |
| 134 points | 2019 | author benhomie showed up | their comment | thread
“There are a lot of miscommunication between me and the author of this post. The selected snippets of messages posted on the article seem to put me in a bad light,…” |
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KernType – A Kerning Game (type.method.ac) |
| 134 points | 2019 | author duopixel showed up | their comment | thread
“I’ve been meaning to release a second version of the game, will probably tackle it in 2020 (this game is around eight years old and needs a complete rewrite to work on…” |
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The Joys of Unix Keyboards (donatstudios.com) |
| 133 points | 2019 | author donatj showed up | their comment | thread
“weird to see this ancient post on HN :) I now primarily use a WhiteFox True Fox [1] I’ve purchased from Massdrop and customized at work and a Unicomp Sun Unix SpaceSaver…” |
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Git-subtrac: all your Git submodules in one place (apenwarr.ca) |
| 132 points | 2019 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey sorry, git-subtrac is new and I didn't know what to put in the docs. To quickly answer your questions: 1. You should run it every time you make a change in a…” |
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Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard (pydist.com) |
| 131 points | 2019 | author alexbecker showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” |
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A Practical Guide to Hyperparameter Optimization (blog.nanonets.com) |
| 130 points | 2019 | author iyaja showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone. I'm the author. There's one more I thing I wanted to add: a good reason you should try using some sort of hyperparameter search, even you think it's a…” |
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Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models (mckinsey.com) |
| 130 points | 2019 | author zt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Agreed! I want to do a much bigger international scan and am working with some colleagues in Europe and Asia. I know a decent amount about open banking and have been…” |
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