181. How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native (blog.discordapp.com)
251 points | 2019 | author mrkcsc showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As a native app developer, I would say that the trade off is similar to developing an app on native Android vs. native iOS. You inevitably must solve problems on Android…”
182. Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman (github.com)
248 points | 2019 | author liyasthomas showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“Ask me anything! Shoot me any doubts, asks and I'll rectify them.”
183. How much free time do you have? (erikrood.com)
247 points | 2019 | author qwerty2020 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :) However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1…”
184. Open-source firmware (mullvad.net)
247 points | 2019 | author kfreds showed up | their comment | thread
“Currently on my phone, but feel free to ask questions and I’ll answer as I’m able.”
185. How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers (startupandrew.com)
247 points | 2019 | author mayop100 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hi all - I hope you find this useful! If you have questions or want to know more I’m hosting a live stream Q&A today on Twitter at 1 PM Pacific. Tune in and bring your…”
186. Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads (thehftguy.com)
244 points | 2019 | author user5994461 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Shockingly, the company is to blame as much as gmail in most cases. There are a few settings to configure to be able to receive and send emails and many companies can't…”
187. My First Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io)
239 points | 2019 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post.”
188. Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python (victorzhou.com)
238 points | 2019 | author vzhou842 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Any/all feedback is welcome, and I'm happy to answer questions. Previous discussion on HN of the "introduction to Neural Networks" referenced in this article: Runnable…”
189. A Revolution in Your Pocket (rbs.io)
237 points | 2019 | author rschulman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm actually really interested in what we can do about the battery situation. The vision I laid out is clearly more battery intensive than your average phone is today. I…”
190. Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative (github.com)
236 points | 2019 | author yuegui showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks everyone for using Poli. I am happy to answer any questions!”
191. How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals (bsid.io)
235 points | 2019 | author thatssosid showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
192. Monorepo: please do (medium.com)
234 points | 2019 | author holoway showed up | their comment | thread
“The Right Way :tm: is situational - there isn't one right answer to things like when and how to make contracts, or how to break them. When I used the term "force",…”
193. Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust (github.com)
234 points | 2019 | author p4lindromica showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Ruby has a great black box testing suite called ruby/spec [0] that is shared among multiple Ruby implementations. Artichoke has a custom runner [1] to track progress on…”
194. Session Types for Rust (github.com)
232 points | 2019 | author Munksgaard showed up | their comment | thread
“Part of the motivation behind our work was to try and apply it to the Servo project (Mozilla's experimental browser engine, of which parts have already been integrated…”
195. Sample cloud-native application with microservices (github.com)
231 points | 2019 | author alpb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We wanted to keep the demo app as simple as possible for readers. Adding Bazel would introduce another layer of complexity whereas most devs can read bash scripts that…”
196. Numpy Clone in Common Lisp (github.com)
231 points | 2019 | author guicho271828 showed up | their comment | thread
“IBM is currently focusing on the combination of machine learning and reasoning, also called neural-symbolic AI [1], to combine the best of both worlds (noise robustness…”
197. Boden – Native mobile cross-platform applications (boden.io)
230 points | 2019 | author gitoby showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We didn't expect so much attention and are happy about the feedback! Ask us anything. With regard to the GPL licensing issues brought up here: We are aware that the GPL…”
198. Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet (interviewcake.com)
229 points | 2019 | author gameguy43 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions about data structures, algorithms, and coding interviews!”
199. Interesting Programming Languages (btbytes.com)
229 points | 2019 | author btbytes showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me. At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.”
200. The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos (matthewbilyeu.com)
225 points | 2019 | author mbil showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for the attention on this post, especially the feedback regarding CV techniques. i wanted to write about some basic computer vision tools in the context of a…”
201. Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine (rainforestqa.com)
225 points | 2019 | author shosti showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“helm is the part of our stack we’re least happy with tbh (it’s turned into a huge pile of templated yaml files for each project that seems like it might not be…”
202. Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables (code.fb.com)
225 points | 2019 | author ngbronson showed up | their comment | thread
“Seeing the Google presentation at CPPCon convinced us that the potential wins were worth the effort to productionize, but the similarity in the designs is a case of…”
203. How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website (marketingexamples.com)
223 points | 2019 | author harrydry showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Ever since I knew of Hacker News, I've always been interested in the massive leverage it provide to both startups and individuals. Choose the correct title and your…”
204. Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten (dassur.ma)
221 points | 2019 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am very excited about WASI, but as I mentioned in a comment below, wanted to keep it to the fundamentals so you can appreciate what WASI does for you. And definitely…”
205. Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (stripe.com)
221 points | 2019 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread
“and) Yeah, whatever you might call them, canonical lines are an "obvious" enough idea that I'd expect a lot of shops to have arrived at them independently. Besides…”
206. NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf] (people.freebsd.org)
220 points | 2019 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The talk will be on Youtube eventually, and a lot of points are explained in more detail in the actual talk. I was just going to bed in advance of traveling back to the…”
207. Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018) (hanselman.com)
220 points | 2019 | author tombh showed up | their comment | thread
“As is often misunderstood about this project, it is designed to be run on a remote server and connected to via SSH/MoSH. So it's not really a direct replacement for…”
208. Running an eInk Display with Elixir, Scenic and Nerves (underjord.io)
218 points | 2019 | author lawik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry to hear that that's your take-away. I can see how it feels framework-loaded. But making a library that works with Scenic (UI framework) and Nerves (embedded…”
209. The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership (circleci.com)
216 points | 2019 | author stahnma showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Code doesn't become legacy if it didn't fulfill some purpose. If it didn't work, it wouldn't be legacy, it'd be source code in somebody's home directory that was never…”
210. Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code (reidatcheson.com)
216 points | 2019 | author silentvoice showed up | their comment | thread
“and I feel a little silly that I didn't check that _both_ loops vectorized. So I fixed the Rust implementation to keep a running vector of partial sums which I finish up…”