331. 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,…”
332. 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:…”
333. 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…”
334. 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…”
335. 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…”
336. 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…”
337. 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…”
338. 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…”
339. 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…”
340. 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. )”
341. 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…”
342. 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…”
343. 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…”
344. 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…”
345. 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…”
346. 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…”
347. 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…”
348. 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…”
349. 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.…”
350. 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…”
351. 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!”
352. 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…”
353. 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!”
354. 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,…”
355. 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…”
356. 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…”
357. 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…”
358. 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.”
359. 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…”
360. 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…”