391. Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus (papers.ssrn.com)
114 points | 2019 | author btcama showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of "Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus" and "Metcalfe's Law as a Model for Bitcoin's Value." I will be releasing an explanatory video next week (tentatively…”
392. High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections (fast.ai)
113 points | 2019 | author jph00 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello folks! I wrote this article - so if you have any questions, feel free to shoot them my way. :)”
393. Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines (github.com)
113 points | 2019 | author twp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions.”
394. Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze (cloud.google.com)
113 points | 2019 | author mrtrustor showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“1. Yes. This is what the article explains in the "Monitor your new pipeline before you trust it" section. This is more of a "how to get started", and when you just…”
395. SweRV – An Annotated Deep Dive of the SweRV RISC-V Core (tomverbeure.github.io)
113 points | 2019 | author tverbeure showed up | their comment | thread
“My reason to choose the A15 was because it was shown on the WD performance slide with a performance that's close to the SweRV. The target use cases of the SweRV are…”
396. Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client (github.com)
113 points | 2019 | author viktorelofsson showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. The name has been with us since the beginning, and the first few versions were actually quite small. Since then, features and other things have made…”
397. RaptorCS Power9 Blackbird PC: An expensive mistake (drewdevault.com)
113 points | 2019 | author Sir_Cmpwn showed up | their comment | thread
“Counterpoint: my HiFive Unleashed (RISC-V) experience has been extremely positive.”
398. Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective (branchfree.org)
112 points | 2019 | author glangdale showed up | their comment | thread
“to throw rocks, mock my limited understanding of Galois Field arithmetic, etc.”
399. Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace (blog.paperspace.com)
112 points | 2019 | author hsikka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This post was the result of a small set of experiments that came out of the Paperspace Advanced Technologies Group. We've been working on some pretty ambitious research…”
400. I built a wind map with WebGL (2017) (blog.mapbox.com)
112 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up | their comment | thread
“very happy to see this resurfacing on HN! So, ask me anything!”
401. Clojure-flavored WASM text format (github.com)
112 points | 2019 | author roman01la showed up | their comment | thread
“The library is a toy project, it's far from being complete. Many things including macros are missing. Implementation style is derived from ClojureScript's compiler”
402. Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved (haiku-os.org)
109 points | 2019 | author waddlesplash showed up | their comment | thread
“Not entirely. If you look at the commits I linked in the post, you'll see that most of them fixed rather egregious spec violations. Arguably the spec could have been…”
403. FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework (github.com)
109 points | 2019 | author qrv3w showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions :)”
404. Smalltalk with the GraalVM (javaadvent.com)
109 points | 2019 | author fniephaus showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!”
405. DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees (arxiv.org)
107 points | 2019 | author homin showed up | their comment | thread
“We wanted to be able to graph p99, p99.9 metrics with arbitrary ranges, and found the existing solutions were not accurate enough for our needs. Happy to answer any…”
406. Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings (github.com)
107 points | 2019 | author antirez showed up | their comment | thread
“May make sense to make SDS in perspective given a few comments I'm reading here. 1. Yep, more than "strings" SDS may be consider a library for dynamic buffers,…”
407. How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting (docs.simpleanalytics.com)
107 points | 2019 | author AdriaanvRossum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Just to shine some light on the problem we are having and how this solves that problem. We get more and more customers that are required by law to have an active opt-in…”
408. Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers (hackaday.com)
106 points | 2019 | author MayaPosch showed up | their comment | thread
“I get why people trip over that comparison. Unfortunately it wasn't added by myself, nor part of the original draft. The comparison is (somewhat) obviously intended to…”
409. A Visual Introduction to Morse Theory (bastian.rieck.me)
106 points | 2019 | author Topolomancer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“but it seems related to `MathJax`. I initially said that formulas should scale to 100% of the surrounding text... Can someone with more CSS knowledge chime in here?”
410. What I Want from a Type System (2016) (gist.github.com)
106 points | 2019 | author _halgari showed up | their comment | thread
“a few things to keep in mind: Firstly, I wrote this about 3.5 years ago. I was wondering why people were suddenly commenting on it and now it all makes sense. Part of…”
411. The Vision for Decentralized Web (tautvilas.lt)
106 points | 2019 | author brisky showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would like to address some of your questions: 1) The web is decentralized by design - we only need to 'upgrade it' 2) We need to create tools that empower people to…”
412. Pijul for Git users (nest.pijul.com)
105 points | 2019 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and we've done a lot of bibliography before engaging in such a big project. I'll talk only about the core principles behind version control, not about how things are…”
413. Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors (ouster.io)
105 points | 2019 | author dllu showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right that the SLAM dead reckoning trajectory will drift. We are developing a mapping back-end where we register trajectories to consumer-grade GPS data,…”
414. A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting (shkspr.mobi)
105 points | 2019 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“let me clarify. Imagine you're a newspaper. You spend lots of money and time optimising your site. More people visit and your search ranking increases because Google…”
415. Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack (akkartik.name)
105 points | 2019 | author akkartik showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything.”
416. Moving to Germany as an Australian (2016) (blog.alexanderdickson.com)
105 points | 2019 | author awy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks a lot for reading my post! A few things to clarify: - indeed I am now in London, but have very fond memories of life in Germany and still enjoy practicing my…”
417. Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube display (github.com)
105 points | 2019 | author nategri showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Sorry about that! I’ll push a plaintext CSV version of the part list later today.”
418. CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem (github.com)
104 points | 2019 | author bradfitz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I just moved this to if people want to track that repo instead of Go's build system (which is relatively boring for most people).”
419. Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application (twitter.com)
104 points | 2019 | author DVassallo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The "monolith" I'm describing is an application-level characteristic. The deployment container, whether it's a bare metal server, a VM, or a Docker container doesn't…”
420. Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder (widgetmaker.dev)
104 points | 2019 | author norbert515 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the widget maker is actually written in Flutter and it can definitely compile to Linux/ Mac/ Windows/ Android and anything that has a screen. Flutter Desktop,…”