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Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work (tomcritchlow.com) |
| 358 points | 2019 | author topcat31 showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage. Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The…” |
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How I use the good parts of AWS (twitter.com) |
| 357 points | 2019 | author DVassallo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Docker is the only one in that list I’m on the fence on. However, I feel that the EC2 AMI can be the equivalent of the container image, and Docker would only be adding…” |
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How to Secure a Linux Server (github.com) |
| 350 points | 2019 | author imthenachoman showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey folks! I am the author of this guide. I did not know this was here or I would have commented sooner. This is my first time putting a guide like this together. I see…” |
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Bytecode compilers and interpreters (bernsteinbear.com) |
| 349 points | 2019 | author tekknolagi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to understand bytecode compilers and interpreters. Please let me know what you think!” |
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Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi (cloudhead.io) |
| 349 points | 2019 | author cloudhead showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Rx is actually built on WGPU[0] which will eventually have OpenGL support too. However, I don't really see much of a future for OpenGL - so building a graphics…” |
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Software Below the Poverty Line (staltz.com) |
| 345 points | 2019 | author staltz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“"People writing open source software are not being exploited." Well, I got the curiosity to check the data after having just met with people writing open source…” |
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Generating a Java program with 90% less code (unitily.com) |
| 344 points | 2019 | author rowland_street showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd just like to clear up my intent. Firstly the Java patterns. Obviously it's not really necessary to use them for my toy example, but I don't want to write a blog…” |
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Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager (github.com) |
| 343 points | 2019 | author knadh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“To give some context on why listmonk was built, at work (regulated financial business), we have to deliver e-mails, mostly important updates, to 1.5mn+ customers…” |
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Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees (nocsok.com) |
| 343 points | 2019 | author Pete-Codes showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You might remember me from posts such as "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers". I've made a job board for people without CS degrees. Since I am going…” |
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Why am I interested in Elixir? (underjord.io) |
| 341 points | 2019 | author lawik showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right in that I haven't had a chance to see what a few-years-old Elixir project feels like to run and maintain. I've been following and experimenting with Elixir…” |
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Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator (observablehq.com) |
| 339 points | 2019 | author mourner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for checking this out, everyone! Happy to answer any questions in comments.” |
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Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers (engineering.shopify.com) |
| 339 points | 2019 | author jacktli showed up | their comment | thread
“Pull requests are our unit of work, and the queue was created to support all pull requests. We do have feature flags as a tool, but we let our developers make the…” |
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Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything (medium.com) |
| 338 points | 2019 | author buss showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to email me at steven.buss@gmail.com with any questions or comments. Also if you have a few bucks to spare for my campaign, please donate at” |
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com) |
| 337 points | 2019 | author binarymax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Howdy. Author here. Really cool to see so much good discussion on this. I want to turn several of them into blog posts on their own with…” |
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If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? (stevenrosenberg.net) |
| 336 points | 2019 | author passthejoe showed up | their comment | thread
“and I wanted to say that SICP, as well as HtDP, and even a book like Robert Sedgewick's Computer Science () are in a completely different category than more mainstream…” |
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Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles (github.com) |
| 335 points | 2019 | author akling showed up | their comment | thread
“Surprising to see it on HN but life is surprising sometimes! I actually made a little demo video about this system just yesterday if you'd like to see it running:” |
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The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back (medium.com) |
| 332 points | 2019 | author lukethomas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey, I'm the author of the post and have been working remotely for 6 years. There is no replacement for meeting up in person periodically. Anyone who tells you it's not…” |
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Unbundling AWS (tclauson.com) |
| 331 points | 2019 | author taylorwc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are completely right. There are a million ways the analogy breaks down: consumer vs enterprise, marketplace vs IaaS... It was more just that looking at the console…” |
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Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) (tylertringas.com) |
| 328 points | 2019 | author tylertringas showed up | their comment | thread
“The team did not have equity but I paid out substantial bonuses voluntarily to all employees. There's a lot of work to be done on how to incentivize employees in…” |
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My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting (github.com) |
| 327 points | 2019 | author bobblywobbles showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, that is one of the things I'd like to reduce. I will be focusing on reducing the size of the app. The app you linked, looks nice too.” |
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We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring (blog.interviewing.io) |
| 327 points | 2019 | author leeny showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I went back and forth on the intro a bunch and couldn't find a clearer way to not dismiss systemic issues while calling out the fact that we're not being fair to…” |
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The creeping IT apocalypse (forrestbrazeal.com) |
| 324 points | 2019 | author forrestbrazeal showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm serious when I say that I'm happy to be a sounding board if you're at a career crossroads. Twitter DMs are open @forrestbrazeal.” |
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction (basilica.ai) |
| 324 points | 2019 | author mlucy showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. Let me know if you have any questions, this is one of my favorite subjects in the world to talk about.” |
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How to Become the Best in the World at Something (forge.medium.com) |
| 322 points | 2019 | author pbulises showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Actually Federer does not do tennis. In fact, he's famous for trying lots of different sports before settling on tennis.” |
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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video (singhkays.com) |
| 321 points | 2019 | author singhkays showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've uploaded the GIFs here” |
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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 320 points | 2019 | author digitarald showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We are monitoring both, but are recently managing all our work in bugzilla.” |
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Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch (cowlark.com) |
| 320 points | 2019 | author david-given showed up | their comment | thread
“Eeeaggh. Yes, this took a while. I started after lunch and finished sometime after midnight (look at the clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen). I'm still…” |
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Understanding Kafka with Factorio (hackernoon.com) |
| 318 points | 2019 | author pul showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article a couple of months ago and didn't expect it to appear on my news feed all of the sudden. Thanks for the love everyone. Any questions are welcome of…” |
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How to annotate everything (beepb00p.xyz) |
| 315 points | 2019 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“That's exciting, you basically mirror my thoughts here :) I agree with what you're saying about siloes, that's especially sad considering that having all this stuff…” |
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Guix: An advanced operating system (ambrevar.xyz) |
| 313 points | 2019 | author Ambrevar showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right that the tone is unnecessarily harsh towards Nix. I actually admire Nix a lot, it's simply the the article suffers from too little editing and would…” |
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