331. Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster (devopsdirective.com)
189 points | 2020 | author spalas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the word of warning. I'll take a look at removing the battery to avoid any issues.”
332. Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos (trekview.org)
189 points | 2020 | author panoramas4good showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That was a typo. Should read Differential GPS. Now corrected. Thank you!”
333. Building My Own Chess Engine (healeycodes.com)
189 points | 2020 | author healeycodes showed up | their comment | thread
“I also hope more hobby chess engine builders join the fun on lichess! I recommend playing against which is based on Alan Turing's I debugged my bot by playing it on…”
334. CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT (github.com)
188 points | 2020 | author NieDzejkob showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.”
335. A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly (mattkeeter.com)
188 points | 2020 | author mkeeter showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions. I also appreciate the load testing! For the curious, we're at 30 open rooms, and I'm seeing: - 0.0 server load - 2.6 MB of RAM used by…”
336. A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (arxiv.org)
188 points | 2020 | author denismerigoux showed up | their comment | thread
“You seem to be well-informed of the DGFiP jargon, do you know if news of my work has been spreading among the IT department there?”
337. Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making (brick.do)
187 points | 2020 | author neongreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“me and a friend have been working on Brick for the past several months. It works like Notion as in "all your edits are instantly visible" — from experience, this feels…”
338. Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features (fastpages.fast.ai)
187 points | 2020 | author jph00 showed up | their comment | thread
“dataclasses is not very extensible or flexible. It's fine for starting with, but it's not at all a replacement for store_attr etc. At fast.ai we used dataclasses…”
339. Minimal single-board computer based on Motorola 68000 (github.com)
186 points | 2020 | author msarnoff showed up | their comment | thread
“I really like the rosco-m68k! I never intended my project to be a "competitor"--one day I saw that Jameco was selling 68000s, ordered a couple, and designed this board…”
340. So you want to roll your own crypto? (vnhacker.blogspot.com)
186 points | 2020 | author cryptbe showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“ask me anything.”
341. Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week (coryzue.com)
186 points | 2020 | author czue showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey HN. Author here. I wrote this up because I very hesitant to run a black friday sale for my product and was blown away by how much it impacted the business. Hopefully…”
342. Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10 (github.com)
186 points | 2020 | author nobiot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Thank you for the mention :)”
343. A hands-on introduction to static code analysis (deepsource.io)
185 points | 2020 | author rj722 showed up | their comment | thread
“Agree that the post merely touches the surface for static analysis -- because it was aimed towards an audience looking for an introduction to static analysis. The scope…”
344. Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines (erlang-solutions.com)
185 points | 2020 | author olikas showed up | their comment | thread
“The problem with number crunching or maths is that it is very difficult to cut the whole computation into smaller units and pre-emptively schedule it. If it is possible…”
345. Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer (symbolflux.com)
184 points | 2020 | author westoncb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.”
346. 3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic (github.com)
184 points | 2020 | author rbanffy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't use FreeBSD myself. Is there something I should change in the README? For the vt console, I'd suggest starting with the bitmap that comes with x3270, which is…”
347. Practical privacy tips for your business (blog.simpleanalytics.com)
183 points | 2020 | author AdriaanvRossum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this blog post as a reference guide for both technical people and not technical people. As the founder of Simple Analytics, I’m running into privacy issues while…”
348. Lies, damn lies, and front-end tracking (alexeymk.com)
183 points | 2020 | author AlexeyMK showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“author here -”
349. The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book (apress.com)
183 points | 2020 | author phoe-krk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The book has just gone to production and will be available at the end of the year in dead-tree and electronic formats. The book happened because I got annoyed at the…”
350. Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip (righto.com)
181 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sure there are people on HN who have experience with modern chip layout, and I'd be thrilled if you can explain more about the transistor structures and so forth. I…”
351. Computational Music Synthesis (cs.gmu.edu)
181 points | 2020 | author SeanLuke showed up | their comment | thread
“In all my free books I have collected email addresses only for very rare events. How rare? In 15 years of publishing free books I've only used the books' email list…”
352. How India Censors the Web (iamkush.me)
181 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…”
353. Music Production on Guix System (guix.gnu.org)
181 points | 2020 | author rekado showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I use JACK 1 because it serves me well enough. I don't need the DBus features JACK 2 has, for example. Up until recently the recommendation was to use whichever version…”
354. I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017) (mtlynch.io)
181 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions about this post. I still work with Samantha about once per year for a tune-up. Coincidentally, she edited the article I'm planning to…”
355. Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk (github.com)
180 points | 2020 | author rethab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As I wrote in the README, this uses GAWK instead of plain AWK. Conveniences of GAWK over AWK in a nutshell: - functions - several additional functions (eg. bit shifting)…”
356. “Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer (dave.autonoma.ca)
179 points | 2020 | author thangalin showed up | their comment | thread
“Typesetting Markdown is a multi-part series that describes an ecosystem for typesetting Markdown documents using pandoc and ConTeXt. Here's a brief walk-through: Parts…”
357. Prettifying Org Mode with CSS (sandyuraz.com)
179 points | 2020 | author thecsw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I’m not the biggest fan of having thousands and thousands of external dependencies. I’m not too big on frontend but I have been using org mode for couple of years now.…”
358. Viewpoint: 'I feel like I was accidentally hired' (bbc.co.uk)
179 points | 2020 | author ibudiallo showed up | their comment | thread
“It seems like this post have been flagged, but I'd like to add a little comment here so it may clarify things. First, a little over a week ago we were having a similar…”
359. Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system (orgroam.com)
179 points | 2020 | author jethroksy showed up | their comment | thread
“You can move the sqlite database to a separate location by setting a variable, and that should resolve the syncing issues. I do this and have the files synced via…”
360. Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js (map33.openbloc.com)
178 points | 2020 | author blaze33 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I also made a small post on the three.js discourse with a little more background: By the way you can add missing tiles by double clicking on the grid. Auto-loading…”