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| 361. | My God, It’s Full of Dots (bit-player.org) | |
| 130 points | 2019 | author bit-player showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for waiting. It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidth…” | ||
| 362. | How I Side Project (dotink.co) | |
| 129 points | 2019 | author thesephist showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- was hoping to be on HN for my post on exploring sorting algorithms with 2D visualizations [1], but I guess this works too. Glad a lot of the points here…” | ||
| 363. | Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem (jacquescorbytuech.com) | |
| 129 points | 2019 | author iamacyborg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Tracking pixels aren't blocked per se in most email clients but you're correct that they rely on images being loaded.” | ||
| 364. | Putting Victimhood Behind You (genevievefiles.blogspot.com) | |
| 129 points | 2019 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That's exactly why I blog about the things I do. People who have really had something terrible happen need a way out and it's typically very problematic for others to…” | ||
| 365. | Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users (blog.confiant.com) | |
| 128 points | 2019 | author eliya_confiant showed up | their comment | thread
“We at Confiant help websites to protect their users by detecting and blocking malvertising. We are hiring in our security and engineering teams. If you're interested in…” | ||
| 366. | Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks (distill.pub) | |
| 128 points | 2019 | author tasdfqwer0897 showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 367. | Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy (victorzhou.com) | |
| 126 points | 2019 | author vzhou842 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to hear any comments or answer any questions. Runnable code from the article:” | ||
| 368. | Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind (borjamoya.com) | |
| 126 points | 2019 | author borjamoya showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I believe decentralization in theory could work. But our current situation is so chaotic that there's no clear solution. However, the key here is to understand the full…” | ||
| 369. | ‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs (ucsf.edu) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author momeara showed up | their comment | thread
“--A large-scale docking screen of 116M molecules takes ~1100 cpu days on our cluster, working out to about 1 mol/sec, which is very fast for virtual screening. What this…” | ||
| 370. | A Type of Programming (atypeofprogramming.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author k0001 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your input :) The book is not free, this is not a paywall, and it's not a subscription: You are buying early access to the book so that you can start reading…” | ||
| 371. | NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof (tenfourfox.blogspot.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author classichasclass showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Power consumption on this unit is about 21W. Is the CPU/watt ratio less than later units? You bet. But it's not bad, it's free, it's not in a landfill, and it's more…” | ||
| 372. | Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover (arxiv.org) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author digama0 showed up | their comment | thread
“Regarding TLA+ and CakeML: TLA+ seems like a good idea, Leslie Lamport talks a lot of sense in most of his papers. I especially recommend "Composition: A Way to Make…” | ||
| 373. | Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information (ai.facebook.com) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author noambrown showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors on the paper. We'd be happy to answer any questions. Ask us anything!” | ||
| 374. | A Predictive Database (aito.ai) | |
| 125 points | 2019 | author arauhala showed up | their comment | thread
“we made predictive database to help developers test, prototype and productize predictive functionality - lighting fast. Just to be clear, the predictive database's value…” | ||
| 375. | Thoughts on macOS Package Managers (saagarjha.com) | |
| 124 points | 2019 | author saagarjha showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As you may have noticed, I'm still learning my way around MacPorts (and writing, I guess). I haven't really gotten comfortable posting on macports-dev yet, so I hope you…” | ||
| 376. | AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers (alexdebrie.com) | |
| 123 points | 2019 | author abd12 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The two sentences right before what you quoted are helpful: "I’m not a Docker or Flask performance expert, and that’s not the goal of this exercise. To remedy this, I…” | ||
| 377. | Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) (localizingjapan.com) | |
| 123 points | 2019 | author mopreme showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see one of my old posts on the front page while browsing Hacker News. It's interesting to reflect on what has improved since I wrote it, and what has not.…” | ||
| 378. | Show HN: G-Fu – a pragmatic Lisp embedded in Go (github.com) | |
| 123 points | 2019 | author codr7 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's still a young language and naive implementation focused on correctness, but I'm very happy with how its turning out. I'm especially fond of first class environments…” | ||
| 379. | Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems (github.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author hoaphumanoid showed up | their comment | thread
“We are planning to create some notebooks on recommendation about recommendation algos :-)” | ||
| 380. | Perl is dying (thehftguy.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author user5994461 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I put Rails instead of Ruby deliberately. I'm not sure if Ruby is significant enough to stand on its own, guessed not.” | ||
| 381. | High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017) (devblogs.nvidia.com) | |
| 122 points | 2019 | author maleadt showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! We've been developing and maintaining this toolchain for a while now, so the relevant packages (CUDAnative.jl for kernel programming,…” | ||
| 382. | SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files (github.com) | |
| 121 points | 2019 | author gildas showed up | their comment | thread
“Browsers don't offer a way to register a (browser) extension with a given mime-type or filename extension. That's why SingleFileZ uses the HTML format to wrap the zip…” | ||
| 383. | Show HN: H2 Forth CPU (github.com) | |
| 120 points | 2019 | author howerj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, this has been a fun side project for me, It's pretty much finished but I keep coming back to it to do one more thing. This project is a CPU written in…” | ||
| 384. | Attempting to Use GNU Guix (zge.us.to) | |
| 120 points | 2019 | author daptaq showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yeah, I usually don't like writing these kinds of things. When reading about a distribution, especially a new and interesting one, one (or at least I) tend to forget…” | ||
| 385. | How to write a rootkit without really trying (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 118 points | 2019 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 386. | TXR – A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging (nongnu.org) | |
| 118 points | 2019 | author kazinator showed up | their comment | thread
“Currently working on a debugger. (Threw the old crappy one out.) Backtraces are working. Some of the remaining work is going to require long, uninterrupted concentration…” | ||
| 387. | Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design (blog.adamant-lang.org) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author WalkerCodeRangr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“With regard to operator precedence, my position may be closer to yours than you think. In the post I linked to about intransitive operator precedence () I describe what…” | ||
| 388. | GFWaaS – Make Your Website Work in China (gfwaas.github.io) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author felixding showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Surprised to see this would be in the frontpage of HN. Happy to answer any questions you may have :-)” | ||
| 389. | How Far Out Is AWS Fargate? (read.iopipe.com) | |
| 117 points | 2019 | author kolanos showed up | their comment | thread
“the CLI tool is: Part 2 is still planned and is now being fast tracked since there's interest in Fargate.” | ||
| 390. | Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps (pingcap.com) | |
| 115 points | 2019 | author iamxy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your great advice. We will apply this experimental project to testing TiDB in the future and output the report to. Through the statistics of code block…” | ||
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