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| 451. | Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window (sayless.email) | |
| 135 points | 2020 | author yoavz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you're talking about, this was a primary inspiration for this project -- I even stole the name ;)” | ||
| 452. | The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus (dropbox.tech) | |
| 135 points | 2020 | author mattgerstman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions about how we build products at Dropbox.” | ||
| 453. | Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017) (righto.com) | |
| 134 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“that's the mobile link, so the images are small. Click on an image for a larger one.” | ||
| 454. | The Hunt for the Fastest Zero (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback or questions.” | ||
| 455. | Show HN: Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author chipneverdies showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The frontend would stream the video/audio to Pxy via WebSockets. In turn, Pxy utilises FFmpeg to convert the incoming stream to FLV and send the FLV stream to your…” | ||
| 456. | Inside the HP Nanoprocessor (righto.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“It's an unusual processor, lacking the ability to add or subtract. Even so, it was used in HP equipment, not just as a controller, but parsing strings and doing…” | ||
| 457. | The Story Behind Markdown (capiche.com) | |
| 133 points | 2020 | author maguay showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I think, for one, Markdown's focus is on writing for the web, and there rich text wasn't good in 2004 (where copying/pasting from say Word into WordPress was always hit…” | ||
| 458. | Dashmap: Fast concurrent HashMap for Rust (github.com) | |
| 132 points | 2020 | author xacrimon showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I am the author of dashmap. CHashMap is essentially a table behind an rwlock where each slot is also behind its own rwlock. This is great in theory since it allows…” | ||
| 459. | How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014) (blog.0x972.info) | |
| 131 points | 2020 | author wazari972 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I will rewrite this sentence, "invalid instruction" is too limited. It should be something like "an instruction that traps, and which isn't already used for another…” | ||
| 460. | Reverse-engineering the first FPGA chip, the XC2064 (righto.com) | |
| 128 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here to answer all your questions :-)” | ||
| 461. | Peak map: Visualize the elevation of any area using a ridgeline chart (github.com) | |
| 127 points | 2020 | author anvaka showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for the sharing and love! Have a wonderful start of the year!” | ||
| 462. | LazySSH – A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-demand (github.com) | |
| 127 points | 2020 | author kosinus showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for submitting! I submitted this elsewhere myself, and added a little extra blurb, so I'll just quote it here:” | ||
| 463. | Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions (travisdowns.github.io) | |
| 126 points | 2020 | author BeeOnRope showed up | their comment | thread
“happy for any feedback or to answer any questions.” | ||
| 464. | Designing a standard sewage network for refugee camps (monacivilengineering.blogspot.com) | |
| 126 points | 2020 | author monaelkass showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“yes of course, this project should be improved and many other additional services wil be added. I will also study a camp with UDDT to have a less amount of sewage. The…” | ||
| 465. | Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python (hackeregg.github.io) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author Immortal333 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry, If it feels misleading. I have no intention to mislead anybody. If you can suggest alternative title, I am happy to change title.” | ||
| 466. | Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app (github.com) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author fabiospampinato showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“it's nice to see Notable linked to on HN by somebody else! I was planning on posting about it myself after v1.9 gets released though, as pretty much everything changed…” | ||
| 467. | A Pipeline Made of Airbags (ferd.ca) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“For the first system, it was deprecated without replacement, and just let to run by managers and people who had moved on to other teams (but used to work on it) who did…” | ||
| 468. | Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources (kofi.sexy) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author hkgumbs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here—my understanding of the GPL matches that in the sibling comment. "GPL never says you cannot sell your software. It just says you have to provide source with…” | ||
| 469. | NYC taxi meter and options pricing (questdb.io) | |
| 125 points | 2020 | author TheTank showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right this is convoluted and confusing. I wanted to write an informal introduction to options using a more tangible example for those who are put off by the…” | ||
| 470. | Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design (hugotunius.se) | |
| 124 points | 2020 | author K0nserv showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll try and write a response to your points. Yes the post is cynical, I'm the first to admit that. The topic makes me angry because I think we should expect better of…” | ||
| 471. | Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money – a.k.a. “FU, Money” (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com) | |
| 123 points | 2020 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm disabled and the primary provider for my family of three, which includes two disabled sons. I absolutely didn't want to be poor. I'm still poor and I hate every…” | ||
| 472. | Why aren’t you more serious? (rubenerd.com) | |
| 123 points | 2020 | author rubenerd showed up | their comment | thread
“Sincerely appreciate all the words here, this legit made my morning. I wonder if part of this has to do with fewer people writing in their own space anymore. Most people…” | ||
| 473. | WireGuard Bounce Server Setup (gitlab.com) | |
| 123 points | 2020 | author ncmncm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“AMA.) If that does what you need, then it is a reasonable alternative. I would prefer the shorter routing you get. But if one of your NATs is corporate, a phone carrier,…” | ||
| 474. | Mathematical marketing: a piece of calculus to change the way you advertise (mackgrenfell.com) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author mektrik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote it because I think a lot of brands tend to pluck numbers out of thin air when they're talking about marketing targets, without knowing how they're affecting…” | ||
| 475. | Tauthon: Fork of Python 2.7 with new syntax, builtins, libraries from Python 3 (github.com) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author naftaliharris showed up | their comment | thread
“I built this a few years ago, and the main motivation at the time was that I'd heard people say that adding the new features in Python3 required breaking backwards…” | ||
| 476. | Presentation Rules (jilles.net) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author ojilles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“late night writing, wanted to push it out. Was expecting it to be ignored completely on the internet. Editing today — real good feedback here. Thanks!” | ||
| 477. | A REST View of GraphQL (hasura.io) | |
| 121 points | 2020 | author gautambt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are right about REST not necessarily replicating the N + 1 Query problem. ORMs have already provided solutions for this problem. See for example. Looking at GraphQL…” | ||
| 478. | How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (blog.yossarian.net) | |
| 120 points | 2020 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't think this is a good necessary condition for what makes something a register. For consideration: Both x86 and other ISAs have registers that can't be stored to…” | ||
| 479. | Feature Casualties of Large Databases (brandur.org) | |
| 120 points | 2020 | author brandur showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you're confusing a couple different major classes of languages — declarative versus procedural. I said specifically "most expressive ever for querying and…” | ||
| 480. | Computational Category Theory in Python III: Monoids, Groups, and Preorders (philipzucker.com) | |
| 119 points | 2020 | author philzook showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Neato! I'm on HN!” | ||
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