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| 31. | Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website (rufposten.de) | |
| 623 points | 2019 | author rufposten showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and even if I know GDPR quite well as professional journalist I know I can't interprete a law on my own, so I additionally asked an legal expert in this…” | ||
| 32. | What's Salesforce? (tryretool.com) | |
| 619 points | 2019 | author dvdhsu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“As an engineer, I've always wondered what Salesforce was. It seemed like a clunky, expensive piece of legacy software that the "business people" always used. Since…” | ||
| 33. | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016) (bottomupcs.com) | |
| 618 points | 2019 | author delsarto showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer…” | ||
| 34. | Sinkholed (susam.in) | |
| 616 points | 2019 | author susam showed up | their comment | thread
“I had posted another link about this story a few days ago when this story was still unfolding.[1][2] This blog post summarizes the timeline and the events that occurred…” | ||
| 35. | Use mmap with care (sublimetext.com) | |
| 607 points | 2019 | author ben-schaaf showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has any questions in relation to me or Sublime HQ please feel free to ask.” | ||
| 36. | Things to use in Python 3 (datawhatnow.com) | |
| 581 points | 2019 | author z_mitchell showed up | their comment | thread
“Be warned, this was just a proof of concept that I did because I thought it would be fun/weird/interesting!” | ||
| 37. | Ten Years of Erlang (ferd.ca) | |
| 567 points | 2019 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not really disappointed Erlang didn't catch on more. As I said in the post, I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect over most of that decade, the ladder of ideas,…” | ||
| 38. | Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers (armin.dev) | |
| 563 points | 2019 | author dessant showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Certain software may bring greater value for society when it is freely accessible for everyone, without compromising on user privacy, while being partially subsidized by…” | ||
| 39. | قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic (nas.sr) | |
| 556 points | 2019 | author ramseynasser showed up | their comment | thread
“i am glad this project is still starting conversations six years after it came out! if youre interested in a longer read on the subject of the cultural assumptions of…” | ||
| 40. | Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir (stressgrid.com) | |
| 544 points | 2019 | author lstodd showed up | their comment | thread
“and that's the truth. Can't see how this can be replicated as a controlled experiment nowadays, unfortunately. But if you define exactly what's a request, what's a…” | ||
| 41. | Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide (janmeppe.com) | |
| 541 points | 2019 | author Rainymood showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I actually did not know this. I used this very old book (Unix Power Tools) and after finishing the chapter on regex I didn't recall seeing a `+` operator (maybe I forgot…” | ||
| 42. | I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years (blog.inkdrop.info) | |
| 533 points | 2019 | author craftzdog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server…” | ||
| 43. | Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) (en.wikipedia.org) | |
| 528 points | 2019 | author elect_engineer showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Hello. I am the author of the "Wikipedia has cancer" essay on Wikipedia. After I finish writing this I I will confirm this with a post to] on Hacker news I read HN…” | ||
| 44. | Color Emulation (byuu.net) | |
| 527 points | 2019 | author byuu showed up | their comment | thread
“My background is I wrote emulators for 24 systems and counting (higan and bsnes), and I want to try my hand at technical writing, in hopes of encouraging more people to…” | ||
| 45. | No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game (nature.com) | |
| 524 points | 2019 | author noambrown showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of the bot, AMA” | ||
| 46. | Comparing Database Types (prisma.io) | |
| 521 points | 2019 | author imchairmanm showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a good question and something I had a hard time sorting out as I worked on this. I think those fall into a different category confusingly sometimes called…” | ||
| 47. | Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it (unlikekinds.com) | |
| 519 points | 2019 | author whalabi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You can run the test yourself on the AMP and non-AMP versions of an identical article to see yourself. (Note: sometimes the numbers are off the first couple of times you…” | ||
| 48. | Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source (metaflow.org) | |
| 517 points | 2019 | author vtuulos showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions! Netflix has been using Metaflow internally for about two years, so we have many war stories :)” | ||
| 49. | Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020 (davebakker.io) | |
| 517 points | 2019 | author dbfa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for noticing the mistake! It's fixed now :) Happy new year!” | ||
| 50. | Minimalism – An undervalued development skill (volument.com) | |
| 506 points | 2019 | author tipiirai showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“over the years this has been my prime strategy on building new stuff. First jQuery Tools, then Head JS, later Riot JS. Happy to talk about minimalism on this weird…” | ||
| 51. | A Decade of Remote Work (blog.viktorpetersson.com) | |
| 503 points | 2019 | author mvip showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I 100% agree with this. That's one of the many reasons why I enfoce the 19:30 stop. After that is for socializing and other offline activities (such as reading).” | ||
| 52. | Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try (ianbicking.org) | |
| 501 points | 2019 | author ianbicking showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Perhaps it was harder because in the other experiment I was focusing on applications like gmail. These applications would tend to rerender large portions of the UI on…” | ||
| 53. | What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? (thecorrespondent.com) | |
| 500 points | 2019 | author jessefrederik showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“and I don't assume all online advertising is Google search. I also cite research on display advertising (meta-study of 432 display experiments on Google): And on…” | ||
| 54. | Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life (observablehq.com) | |
| 494 points | 2019 | author stared showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote a description in the main file, so I don't have to add much here. Though, I am open to feedback (especially for the graphical presentation, as the taxonomy &…” | ||
| 55. | Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building (derrickreimer.com) | |
| 494 points | 2019 | author derrickreimer showed up | their comment | thread
“Slack is undoubtedly sticky, although I challenge the assumption that all integrations need to be replicated in a niche play. Those who did adopt Level were willing to…” | ||
| 56. | A JavaScript-Free Front End (dev.to) | |
| 484 points | 2019 | author winduptoy showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Just for reference, 180k of that is fonts. The rest is super tiny. Of course, once you've loaded it the first time, it's cached.” | ||
| 57. | Think in Math, Write in Code (justinmeiners.github.io) | |
| 478 points | 2019 | author justinmeiners showed up | their comment | thread
“I would say that modeling the computational process in math is not typically helpful (you already have a formal programming language) you should model the real-world (or…” | ||
| 58. | Show HN: Space Invaders in C (blog.loadzero.com) | |
| 478 points | 2019 | author loadzero showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is a bit of a love letter to Space Invaders, and video games in general. I started working on this as a simple emulation project, to rekindle my own passion in low…” | ||
| 59. | Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it) | |
| 471 points | 2019 | author kristoff_it showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Uhh, I've just setup the normal progressive webapp manifest, it's not supposed to be asking you actively about it. I'd recommend checking out the settings in your…” | ||
| 60. | The Amazon Builders' Library (aws.amazon.com) | |
| 469 points | 2019 | author dyanacek showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree with all the folks’ suggestions here! When I was in college, I took extra writing courses beyond what was required for an engineering degree (they counted toward…” | ||
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