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| 271. | Pointless (ptls.dev) | |
| 222 points | 2020 | author caditinpiscinam showed up | their comment | thread
“Pointless originally had a static type-system, which I later ditched (the type-system was pretty experimental, and I never got it working to my liking). So the object /…” | ||
| 272. | Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds (attejuvonen.fi) | |
| 221 points | 2020 | author baobabKoodaa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Your criticism is correct. Deposit insurance is a fundamental difference between bank IOUs and non-bank IOUs. So it's incorrect for me to say that banks have _no_…” | ||
| 273. | VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library (github.com) | |
| 220 points | 2020 | author DTolm showed up | their comment | thread
“When I made VkFFT I wanted license to be like this: your project doesn't have to be open-source, but please share your modifications to VkFFT. I think about switching it…” | ||
| 274. | TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs (infoq.com) | |
| 219 points | 2020 | author cpswan showed up | their comment | thread
“Some further thoughts on my blog -” | ||
| 275. | NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography (nerf-w.github.io) | |
| 218 points | 2020 | author duckworthd showed up | their comment | thread
“Original author here. AMA!” | ||
| 276. | Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go (github.com) | |
| 217 points | 2020 | author cube2222 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Christmas Eve, 22 pm, after having eaten with my family, I was browsing HN (because what else could you be doing then), and stumbled upon this comment: It inspired me to…” | ||
| 277. | Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter (dustycloud.org) | |
| 217 points | 2020 | author paroneayea showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here... actually it does use unicode (which we'll use to mean non-ascii at the moment, even though ascii is part of unicode (pedantry, pedantry)) for the…” | ||
| 278. | Asian and African super apps are following the playbook WeChat originated (afridigest.substack.com) | |
| 217 points | 2020 | author thought showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a fan of KakaoTalk and I specifically include them in the visual: I think you're referring to where I quoted Ben Thompson, but he was speaking in a specific sense:…” | ||
| 279. | How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020 (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 217 points | 2020 | author nnethercote showed up | their comment | thread
“There is definitely a marketing angle to these posts. Rust has a reputation for slow compilation, and one of my goals is to show that (a) people working on Rust care…” | ||
| 280. | Kind - run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker (kind.sigs.k8s.io) | |
| 216 points | 2020 | author BenTheElder showed up | their comment | thread
“some background: kind was originally built for developing kubernetes itself, as a cheaper option for testing changes to the core components. it wasn't really meant to…” | ||
| 281. | Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface (wjwh.eu) | |
| 216 points | 2020 | author WJW showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I kinda agree but yielding only on I/O is not enough IMO. Sooner or later we'll want to do CPU intensive work in fibers as well, which in the current implementation will…” | ||
| 282. | We are complicit in our employer’s deeds (drewdevault.com) | |
| 215 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I decline to extend my comments to H1B workers, I agree that they don't enjoy the same level of mobility as programmers who are US citizens. This is a problem in and of…” | ||
| 283. | Implementing the Exponential Function (pseudorandom.com) | |
| 215 points | 2020 | author fractionalhare showed up | their comment | thread
“You make a good point about subnormals, thank you. I will jot that down for a future update to the doc :) It is funny you mention the Padé approximation; I was debating…” | ||
| 284. | Hell Yes CSS (wizardzines.com) | |
| 215 points | 2020 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“I always find it weird to see HN posts where you have to pay to read what it says (what's the point?) so here are 6 sample pages from the zine if you're interested in…” | ||
| 285. | From Rust to TypeScript (valand.dev) | |
| 213 points | 2020 | author valand showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Did this too. I found some quirks (rather irrelevant) while compiling using TypeScript 3.6-ish. ``` const { value, error } = result; if (error) return doSomething(); if…” | ||
| 286. | What we learned after a year on Kubernetes (about.gitlab.com) | |
| 213 points | 2020 | author jarv showed up | their comment | thread
“we are using Helm for our application because of how much we have already invested in our public Helm chart. We are not sold on using Helm however for K8s in general and…” | ||
| 287. | Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS (trek10.com) | |
| 212 points | 2020 | author shortj showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“HN in a lot of cases has readership that I’d put in the segment of developers that should absolutely not be using Cloud9 daily. I personally take using Cloud9 to the…” | ||
| 288. | How I learned to charge my customers (idiallo.com) | |
| 212 points | 2020 | author ibudiallo showed up | their comment | thread
“My experience is that customers will always want more features than they initially ask for. That's why I make sure to tell them my hourly rate, then give them an…” | ||
| 289. | Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis (distill.pub) | |
| 210 points | 2020 | author eyvindn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions! We encourage you to play with the attached Colab with which you can train models from scratch in <30min.” | ||
| 290. | Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster (ikarus.sg) | |
| 210 points | 2020 | author ikaruswill showed up | their comment | thread
“I saw a bunch of traffic from Hacker News and decided to drop by. Thanks for sharing it here! I'd be happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 291. | Investigating TLS Blocking in India (ooni.org) | |
| 210 points | 2020 | author justDankin showed up | their comment | thread
“we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India. We've compiled these tests into an android app, please…” | ||
| 292. | Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack (rankscience.com) | |
| 209 points | 2020 | author ryanb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“AMA about this growth hack or SEO in general!” | ||
| 293. | Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform (github.com) | |
| 209 points | 2020 | author tiensonqin showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the posting! I've been working it since February, it started as an org-mode web outliner so that I can use it on my phone to check some todos and capture some…” | ||
| 294. | A founder’s guide to understanding users (mgadams.com) | |
| 209 points | 2020 | author mgadams3 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Great feedback and completely agree with your comments. Taking a structure/organized approach to collecting, indexing, and sharing the qualitative data isn't something I…” | ||
| 295. | QEMU should move from C to Rust (blog.vmsplice.net) | |
| 208 points | 2020 | author stefanha showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thanks for sharing ATS. I will take a look at it.” | ||
| 296. | HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3 (logicalclocks.com) | |
| 208 points | 2020 | author elhawtaky showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions.” | ||
| 297. | Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB (trek10.com) | |
| 207 points | 2020 | author abd12 showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS,…” | ||
| 298. | Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0 (gravitational.com) | |
| 207 points | 2020 | author Vmody2 showed up | their comment | thread
“First off, thank you for taking the time to read this. The original draft started out much more technical than this version, but it was simplified to read less like a…” | ||
| 299. | Noticing You're Confused (arr.am) | |
| 206 points | 2020 | author arram showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Your guess is as good as mine, but probably for the reasons other people have mentioned here. It would be making the lie in public, attached to his own name. The fake…” | ||
| 300. | Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013) (elastic.co) | |
| 205 points | 2020 | author brasetvik showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey. I wrote that a long time ago. Funny to see it re-surface and glad it's helpful. :) There is a presentation version of it here: (I made the presentation first and…” | ||
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