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A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist (bojanvidanovic.com) |
| 178 points | 2020 | author bojanvidanovic showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you start noticing, there are a lot of devs typing casually.” |
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Cingulata: Run C++ code over encrypted data with fully homomorphic encryption (github.com) |
| 177 points | 2020 | author ssmiler showed up | their comment | thread
“We use the romanian language pronunciation for Cingulata. The first sound from Tchaikovsky is the right way as someone already mentioned in this thread.” |
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Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System (amazon.com) |
| 177 points | 2020 | author phoe-krk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“The Common Lisp Condition System is my first book and it was previously discussed on Hacker News[0] as soon as the Apress page for the book was first posted. The HN…” |
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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone (thatgeoguy.ca) |
| 176 points | 2020 | author ThatGeoGuy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think this reply and the reply by AnthonyMouse in another sub-thread [1] nail it. I'd also add that just because you don't want to buy Chinese products != Buy USA made…” |
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Why is there only one Snap Store? (merlijn.sebrechts.be) |
| 175 points | 2020 | author galgalesh showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I'm not sure what you are referring to exactly, where do you think I say that? These are the reasons I talk about in the blog: * users can easily discover new…” |
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Game of Life in one Ruby statement inspired by APL (zverok.github.io) |
| 174 points | 2020 | author zverok showed up | their comment | thread
“I noticed the thing about flatten an hour ago and fixed it (somehow thought +/, is "reduce 2 times", then understood it is flatten + reduce, and my lib already had…” |
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Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax (dyno-might.github.io) |
| 174 points | 2020 | author dyno-might showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I very much appreciate your polite tone! I'm aware that taxes on items for resale aren't treated like in the toy model. (This is mentioned in the article already.) Can…” |
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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (rykap.com) |
| 172 points | 2020 | author rjkaplan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That's a neat trick! I agree! In the demos I use a library I wrote to generate 2D distance fields: It's also pretty fast :)” |
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Updates to form controls and focus (blog.chromium.org) |
| 171 points | 2020 | author robdodson showed up | their comment | thread
“Totally hear you on the need to make the elements styleable. That's the next phase of work that's being undertaken, specifically starting with <select>. Take a look at…” |
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Flash Game History (flashgamehistory.com) |
| 171 points | 2020 | author jounus showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! I wrote the article. It's great to see it shared here on HackerNews. The people buildings today's tools and technologies are exactly the people that I want…” |
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Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128 (c128.se) |
| 171 points | 2020 | author herio showed up | their comment | thread
“The PLA in both the C64 and the C128 are primarily used to generate chip select signals for the chips that are connected on the system buses. On the C128 it is also…” |
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Basic skeletal animation with geometric algebra (jeremyong.com) |
| 170 points | 2020 | author ninepoints showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm the author of Klein and was surprised to see a sudden burst of traffic so I checked the usual suspects and ended up here :) My goals for authoring Klein was to…” |
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The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016) (yomadic.com) |
| 170 points | 2020 | author EB-Barrington showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Stolipinovo is one of several European Roma communities that I have visited over the years (several times now), and it's the largest that I'm aware of. The photos in the…” |
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Why we need a book about naming (namingthings.co) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author tombenner showed up | their comment | thread
“It's exciting to see this on HN! Feedback about this topic (here and elsewhere) has been immensely helpful, so please don't hesitate to let me know your thoughts in a…” |
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Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“it is indeed easy to detect. I didn't base my work off of Hydan but it uses a similar strategy, and there are several[1][2] public steganalyses of it. Edit: I previously…” |
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Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup (helenmin.com) |
| 169 points | 2020 | author melon625 showed up | their comment | thread
“Through the lens of small businesses, I completely agree with your comment. This post is specifically for venture-backed startups, most likely in Silicon Valley, with…” |
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Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (devopsdirective.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author spalas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll ping here once I have done so! --- EDIT: Done! I have updated the notebook with the digital Ocean offering using their General Purpose (dedicated CPU) droplets. The…” |
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The Troublesome Active Record Pattern (calpaterson.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author calpaterson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“) I know it seems like a synthetic example but this kind of code is quite common, particularly from devs who don't know databases well. I suppose editing a json field or…” |
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Mental Model Fallacy (2018) (commoncog.com) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author shadowsun7 showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: It is, in turn, a summary of a 30k word series on 'putting mental models to practice' — originally published in…” |
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Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years (laskie.co) |
| 168 points | 2020 | author gatsby showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co” |
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How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide (simplanations.substack.com) |
| 166 points | 2020 | author vivekraju93 showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair point - I should've been more thoughtful. Will keep in mind :) Do let me know if you found it useful otherwise.” |
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Machine Learning Engineer Guide: Feature Store vs. Data Warehouse (logicalclocks.com) |
| 166 points | 2020 | author jamesblonde showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article because I keep getting the question from prospects - isn't this just a data warehouse? If I missed out on anything or got anything wrong, please let…” |
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Writing Software to Last 50 Years (bytes.yingw787.com) |
| 165 points | 2020 | author yingw787 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“When I made the correction, I took a look at what `ldd /usr/local/bin/hugo` gave me, because `hugo`, the static website generator I use, was packaged as a binary. `ldd`…” |
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SSH Emergency Access (smallstep.com) |
| 165 points | 2020 | author tashian showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“There's a few scenarios where I imagined this approach being useful: * If you have any kind of remote dependency in your SSH auth flow (LDAP, or an online CA, or…” |
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Object Detection from 9 FPS to 650 FPS (paulbridger.com) |
| 165 points | 2020 | author briggers showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As other commenters are saying, the Pytorch JIT and torchscript might be your friend here. Alternatively, there are some quite fast OSS libraries for object detection.…” |
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Pijul: Towards 1.0 (pijul.org) |
| 165 points | 2020 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“and I'm entirely guilty of that misunderstanding. This is not what I meant, it's just a commented targeted at a number of different people who have stolen my stuff in…” |
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Web of Documents (2019) (blog.danieljanus.pl) |
| 164 points | 2020 | author nathell showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you! I’m not much of a designer so I just reused a color scheme I liked that I found on ColourLovers.” |
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MMU gang wars: the TLB drive-by shootdown (bitcharmer.blogspot.com) |
| 163 points | 2020 | author bitcharmer showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not sure if I follow your argument. This article doesn't touch on allocators at all (ie. SLUB vs SLAB). It focuses solely on the cost of freeing memory which…” |
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Things I hate about Rust (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 163 points | 2020 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I've spent about half a decade writing Win32 applications, including things deep in NTFS. I agree completely that everything about string typing on Windows is worse,…” |
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Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua (roblox.github.io) |
| 163 points | 2020 | author implicit showed up | their comment | thread
“:) It's Lu-au. It's like a party in your development environment!” |
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