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| 151. | DeepSpeech 0.6 (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 278 points | 2019 | author reubenmorais showed up | their comment | thread
“I would add to what the sibling comments have mentioned by saying that SotA results should be taken with a grain of salt. Our engine is capable of streaming (processing…” | ||
| 152. | Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake (lucidchart.com) | |
| 277 points | 2019 | author thayne showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Let me clarify a couple things I've seen in a lot of the comments. First of all, we do load balance by request, not connections and we do not use sticky sessions.…” | ||
| 153. | You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes (spin.atomicobject.com) | |
| 277 points | 2019 | author excitedNerd showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's actually a real conversation that happened over a year ago, and I ended up becoming technical lead on the project later! No signs of firing yet. Not all companies…” | ||
| 154. | Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network (blog.sia.tech) | |
| 276 points | 2019 | author zherbert showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to say I am thrilled to see the HN community discuss decentralized cloud storage in more detail. There are many drawbacks today and narrow use-cases, but our…” | ||
| 155. | Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS (v68k.org) | |
| 271 points | 2019 | author jjuran showed up | their comment | thread
“Proof: <, < It's nice to see such interest in my humble project. :-)” | ||
| 156. | Why is no one signing their emails? (arp242.net) | |
| 270 points | 2019 | author Carpetsmoker showed up | their comment | thread
“looks like someone posted it here before I got the chance) If they were, phishing would be a thing of the past; but it's not. In addition it's a lot harder to filter out…” | ||
| 157. | How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms (medium.com) | |
| 269 points | 2019 | author pbiggar showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 158. | Crafting Interpreters: Closures (craftinginterpreters.com) | |
| 269 points | 2019 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions, accept criticism, etc. :)” | ||
| 159. | Facebook's fake account problem (aarongreenspan.com) | |
| 265 points | 2019 | author thinkcomp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Funnily enough, Joseph Perla used to be my roommate in Palo Alto. But I had nothing to do with him writing that piece, and I think he later ended up working for…” | ||
| 160. | I’m only making business card sized games now (frankforce.com) | |
| 264 points | 2019 | author KilledByAPixel showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I actually am an indie dev myself and have many smallish games as well as worked in AAA for years. I think indie developers tend to get it right more often, but anyone…” | ||
| 161. | The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple (corbinstreehouse.com) | |
| 263 points | 2019 | author redwoodmonkey showed up | their comment | thread
“I always do dot upgrades, as they are (usually) security updates. I wouldn't say I am "stuck" on any particular OS; I choose to remain on it for stability.” | ||
| 162. | Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017) (vincit.fi) | |
| 262 points | 2019 | author tuukkao showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“As it's been 2 and a half years since I wrote this post, I thought I'd give a little update as to the tools I use since my preferences have changed slightly. (I know…” | ||
| 163. | Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (blog.floydhub.com) | |
| 261 points | 2019 | author philipkiely showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m really excited by the conversation this has generated and I’m happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 164. | Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases (nytimes.com) | |
| 261 points | 2019 | author Cynddl showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We designed a statistical model, which is never 100% sure a re-identification is correct. There is, e.g., a non-null probability that two individuals in the US share 5,…” | ||
| 165. | When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts (engineering.instawork.com) | |
| 261 points | 2019 | author adamstep showed up | their comment | thread
“The meta-point of my post is that different formats have their advantages and disadvantages, and it's good to understand those when deciding on what's appropriate for a…” | ||
| 166. | Getting 2FA Right in 2019 (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 260 points | 2019 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“that's fair; I admit that it's sort of an extreme position to hold (and the framing is intentionally polemic). Perhaps more fairly: services should only provide recovery…” | ||
| 167. | AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis (ucsf.edu) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author m15i showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a co-author of this paper and happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 168. | Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month (medium.com) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author gajus showed up | their comment | thread
“There are quite a few things that I had to leave out as the post was getting really long. I am writing a follow up article now titled "How Kubernetes and twelve-factor…” | ||
| 169. | I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015) (sigbus.info) | |
| 259 points | 2019 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“These days I'm writing a new C compiler () from scratch again to write a book about compilers. Since I'll be using the new one as a reference implementation for a book,…” | ||
| 170. | Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies (yugeten.github.io) | |
| 257 points | 2019 | author yugeten showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks a lot for that, this is very helpful! I was a bit confused about that myself, will make corrections.” | ||
| 171. | RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages (rosettagit.org) | |
| 257 points | 2019 | author adius showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad this hit the top of HN, as any help would be highly appreciated! With your help this could become a really valuable asset. Looking forward to your merge requests…” | ||
| 172. | Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership (medium.com) | |
| 256 points | 2019 | author duncanriach showed up | their comment | thread
“To those commenters who write that deadlines are necessary because many, or most, employees are not motivated self-starters, I posit that this is a symptom of poor…” | ||
| 173. | Performance Speed Limits (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 256 points | 2019 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback and to answer any questions! Some things are definitely missing - I realize I don't cover load or store buffers in the OoO part, for example. I am…” | ||
| 174. | Is true hacking dead? What we lost (c0de517e.blogspot.com) | |
| 255 points | 2019 | author c0de517e showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“no, that link was to show something bizzarre, how (some) people lose their minds in weird elucubrations on the politics of software - instead of actual hacking. I am…” | ||
| 175. | Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018) (blog.heckel.xyz) | |
| 253 points | 2019 | author binwiederhier showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to comment on the Certificate Transparency issues that some of you have raised: My company (Datto [1]; we're hiring, see [2]) sells backup appliances which…” | ||
| 176. | Functor, Applicative, and Monad (typeslogicscats.gitlab.io) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author TheAsprngHacker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have strong opinions about functor and monad tutorials, and here are my thoughts: Back when I didn't understand what a monad was, I would read a bunch of tutorials and…” | ||
| 177. | A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs (mitogen.networkgenomics.com) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author dmw_ng showed up | their comment | thread
“The system the library was intended for has never been described. The intention was that Ansible had strong parity with what the library offered, so that made a useful…” | ||
| 178. | Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers (sourcesort.com) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author mrskitch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“lots of comments about why would someone pay for this. I think the answer is simple if you step out of your developer shoes. There's a lot of complexity in managing and…” | ||
| 179. | Indexing Billions of Text Vectors (0x65.dev) | |
| 252 points | 2019 | author gravadlax showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The number 4 billion is made-up. It was chosen in order to illustrate the scale of the problem we are trying to solve. And it also happens to be just below the maximum…” | ||
| 180. | Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks (github.com) | |
| 251 points | 2019 | author cloudkj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The path to Scheme was a bit haphazard - I got into Clojure a few years ago after exposure to some nice Clojure-based tools at work, and then worked on implementing…” | ||
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