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| 61. | Why are my Go executable files so large? (cockroachlabs.com) | |
| 468 points | 2019 | author knz42 showed up | their comment | thread
“and this is IMHO the best comment in this thread.” | ||
| 62. | Why I'm still using jQuery (arp242.net) | |
| 457 points | 2019 | author Carpetsmoker showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for your kind words and effort to engage in respectful discourse, even though we disagree. It is appreciated.” | ||
| 63. | Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters (lemire.me) | |
| 457 points | 2019 | author thomasmg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“For GCS, I also found the Golomb-Rice parameter Q-1 to be better, this is what we used. According to my calculation, the overhead of GCS is around 1.5 bit/key. See also…” | ||
| 64. | Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight (blog.bolt.io) | |
| 450 points | 2019 | author tmincey showed up | their comment | thread
“Not an ad at all (and Bolt isn't an investor). We just like to take apart new products and see what we can learn about them and the companies that build them.” | ||
| 65. | Random Forests for Complete Beginners (victorzhou.com) | |
| 447 points | 2019 | author vzhou842 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If you're new to ML you might also like my introduction to Neural Networks: Discussion of my neural networks post on HN:” | ||
| 66. | Rust Language Cheat Sheet (cheats.rs) | |
| 444 points | 2019 | author xrio showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you all for your comments, issues and pull requests. You are amazing!” | ||
| 67. | Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) (magcius.github.io) | |
| 443 points | 2019 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I stopped working on this a few years ago, so now's as good a time as any for an overly-long, rambly, unedited retrospective. When I started this, I was working on…” | ||
| 68. | Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive (github.com) | |
| 438 points | 2019 | author DanielDe showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It was pretty cool to wake up this morning and see this on the front page (thanks moioci!). If you’re interested in taking org-web for a spin you can try it here:…” | ||
| 69. | Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library (github.com) | |
| 435 points | 2019 | author timqian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for mentioning about this issue here. The lib size is over 400kb because I imported the whole d3 lib into it, but actually only using small fraction of it. I will…” | ||
| 70. | Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript (davidgom.es) | |
| 434 points | 2019 | author munchor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually addressed this in a footnote linked directly to that sentence you quoted. EDIT: This is incorrect ^, I misread your comment at first. Thank you for bringing…” | ||
| 71. | GitHub stars won’t pay your rent (medium.com) | |
| 426 points | 2019 | author thekitze showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm using WebStorm with Material theme.” | ||
| 72. | Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service (txt.black) | |
| 424 points | 2019 | author zulgan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am going to my daughter's birthday, so I wont reply to comments for a while, but if anyone runs into trouble please send an email to jack@baxx.dev thanks a lot for the…” | ||
| 73. | iOS Menu (codea.io) | |
| 416 points | 2019 | author interpol_p showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone. I wrote this menu system for my app Codea (and upcoming shader editor, Shade). The traffic from here has killed my site, so I've posted some tweets showing…” | ||
| 74. | An opinionated approach to GNU Make (tech.davis-hansson.com) | |
| 414 points | 2019 | author jakewins showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Exactly this. We keep a `bin/` in the root dir with scripts/programs for more involved steps. Make gives us the dependency graph, incremental rebuilds and…” | ||
| 75. | Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust (blog.anp.lol) | |
| 400 points | 2019 | author anp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm trying out an optional email Q&A format on the post, but will also be keeping an eye out here.” | ||
| 76. | Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 396 points | 2019 | author dabreegster showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't intend for this to wind up on HN quite yet, but I'm excited to answer the good questions coming up here.” | ||
| 77. | Game Loop (gameprogrammingpatterns.com) | |
| 393 points | 2019 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“This, I think, one of the fundamental challenges of teaching software architecture or other higher-level engineering topics. A lot of architecture boils down to: 1.…” | ||
| 78. | How to run your own mail server (2017) (c0ffee.net) | |
| 389 points | 2019 | author perlgod showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have never had this issue. Generally the issue is either IP reputation of your server (common with VPS providers if you get a recycled IP of a previous spammer) or…” | ||
| 79. | Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose (docs.google.com) | |
| 388 points | 2019 | author stuck_in_matrix showed up | their comment | thread
“If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them!” | ||
| 80. | Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud (buzzfeednews.com) | |
| 388 points | 2019 | author cjsilver showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of the story and want to note that I only asked Google why it wasn't removing the apps after their investigation confirmed a major policy infraction.…” | ||
| 81. | Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files (github.com) | |
| 388 points | 2019 | author soheilpro showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I use it all the time when working with jq [1] to find the path of the nodes that I want to select or filter. It also makes it much easier to understand the structure of…” | ||
| 82. | Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime (fastly.com) | |
| 387 points | 2019 | author phickey showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here- happy to take questions.” | ||
| 83. | Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper (eschersket.ch) | |
| 386 points | 2019 | author alevskaya showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“that price does seem high - I don't remember it being that much... the only reason I linked to Zazzle at all was that they were the only printer at the time offering a…” | ||
| 84. | Build your own Mint (github.com) | |
| 380 points | 2019 | author EvanYou showed up | their comment | thread
“this was just a weekend hack and didn't really expect it to show up here, but thanks for the security related feedback. The setup now uses environment variables.” | ||
| 85. | Simpson’s Paradox (2016) (forrestthewoods.com) | |
| 370 points | 2019 | author forrestthewoods showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Can confirm I’ve not read The Book of Why! I’ll add it to my reading list.” | ||
| 86. | The Amazon Premium (calpaterson.com) | |
| 370 points | 2019 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The reason I chose the n2-standard-2 over the n1-standard-2 was because the N1 instance in question has only 7.5GB of memory rather than 8GB. I let OVH slip on this one…” | ||
| 87. | Adopting Erlang (adoptingerlang.org) | |
| 366 points | 2019 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“This website is still a work in progress. It's an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business. The booksite is divided in…” | ||
| 88. | MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator (mybrandnewlogo.com) | |
| 365 points | 2019 | author monokai_nl showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 89. | Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design (onezero.medium.com) | |
| 362 points | 2019 | author charlesarthur showed up | their comment | thread
“You wrote: "There's lot of focus in this article on failure. I enjoy Apple bashing as much as the next guy, but one has to assume in the same 20 years Apple's head of…” | ||
| 90. | Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless (patchbay.pub) | |
| 362 points | 2019 | author anderspitman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I implemented[0] a stripped-down server that includes the MPMC functionality. Should be a good starting point for alternative implementations. It really shows how simple…” | ||
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