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Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront (sankalpjonna.com) |
| 119 points | 2020 | author root993 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“My bad for not giving a more appropriate title for the post. You re right this setup does not take the backend APIs into account. In our case we use Lambda for the…” |
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Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea (allencheng.com) |
| 119 points | 2020 | author allencheng showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I discuss aspects of this in the "Economies of Scale" section - if you're existentially dependent on a supplier, that supplier has leverage to squeeze you hard. The…” |
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Webfs: A Filesystem Built on Top of the Web (github.com) |
| 118 points | 2020 | author brendoncarroll showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions.” |
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO (blog.checklyhq.com) |
| 118 points | 2020 | author ragog showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd be keen to go into further detail in a follow-up article if people are interested. Out of curiosity, what details would be most interesting for you about system and…” |
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Ambitions for a Unix Shell (oilshell.org) |
| 116 points | 2020 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah I appreciate a lot of things about Tcl, which is basically Lisp + shell (I think Ousterhout even said that?) I read most of the thick book about it even though I…” |
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C++20 Reference Card (bfilipek.com) |
| 116 points | 2020 | author joebaf showed up | their comment | thread
“you can always unsubscribe at any time, I think it's a fair trade. So please consider removing that comment with the links.” |
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402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed (piszek.com) |
| 116 points | 2020 | author artpi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey, I am the author of the above tiny rant and what prompted me to write is exactly the case you are describing. I am working on monetization features for WordPress.com…” |
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How to Hire Great Engineers (autoiterative.com) |
| 116 points | 2020 | author ilyaa showed up | their comment | thread
“Apologies if it sounded paternalistic, that was definitely not the intention. I would argue that 40-50 senior people in one place would be rather an exception from the…” |
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Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions (somehowmanage.com) |
| 116 points | 2020 | author Ozzie_osman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is the "pipeline problem" debate. You're right, it does start much earlier than tech companies, but also, it's too easy for hiring managers at tech companies to…” |
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Show HN: Desed – Debugger for Sed (github.com) |
| 115 points | 2020 | author soptikha2 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’ve written a debugger for sed in Rust. This was not only to learn rust, but to actually have a solid debugger for sed. I’ve started learning sed recently and decided…” |
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Show HN: Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework (go-micro.dev) |
| 115 points | 2020 | author asim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comment. You're right the readme doesn't go into detail and that's on purpose. I only wanted to provide a high level summary there. I need to do better…” |
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Introducing Semgrep and r2c (r2c.dev) |
| 115 points | 2020 | author ievans showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions and hear feedback! I’m excited to try to lower the barrier to writing a simple lint (or more complex program analysis) that previously only a…” |
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How to build your own feature store for ML (logicalclocks.com) |
| 114 points | 2020 | author jamesblonde showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions.” |
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Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers (soft-dev.org) |
| 114 points | 2020 | author ltratt showed up | their comment | thread
“If you want to quickly play with this on the command-line with your favourite Yacc grammar, a simple way is to use nimbleparse ('cargo install nimbleparse' should do the…” |
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The Art of Debating for Software Developers (thevaluable.dev) |
| 114 points | 2020 | author thanato0s showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm struggling with that myself. I don't have any solution tailored to everybody, because I think everybody is different on that. I'm the type of developer speaking…” |
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Sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector (github.com) |
| 114 points | 2020 | author cblum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This was a super fun project that consumed over a month of evenings and weekends. In the past couple of days I finished the examples, and I'm glad to finally put it out…” |
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Writing a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clickhouse in Go (arunsori.me) |
| 114 points | 2020 | author arunk-s showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi, Author here. I have to admit, I haven't done any benchmarking against the existing FDWs for Clickhouse. But I actually wrote the Go FDW 2 years ago(around Dec 2018).…” |
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Mini HTTP Guide for Developers (charemza.name) |
| 113 points | 2020 | author michalc showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! I was hoping to get across exactly that meaning of leaky: that HTTP shows information from, and allows control of, parts of the otherwise-abstracted-away…” |
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A Sober Look at Bayesian Neural Networks (jacobbuckman.com) |
| 113 points | 2020 | author cgel showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The blog post contains a clear explanation of Bayesian Inference and provides careful arguments about its potential benefits and limitations. Further, Bayes rule was…” |
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In search of a better job scheduler (beepb00p.xyz) |
| 112 points | 2020 | author karlicoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Hope it doesn't read like I meant hate to systemd, please let me know where if you feel like I did! I guess some of the cons I listed count as subjective, but I doubt…” |
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Today’s developers don’t need what the App Store offers (capiche.com) |
| 112 points | 2020 | author maguay showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“and agreed—I mentioned the payment processing fees, and that SaaS might also pay Stripe an additional 1% (or something like Recurly even more) to manage subscriptions,…” |
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Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres (techcommunity.microsoft.com) |
| 112 points | 2020 | author anarazel showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions & criticism.” |
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Running Linux on My MacBook (djhworld.github.io) |
| 111 points | 2020 | author djhworld showed up | their comment | thread
“Post is a bit rambling but I just wanted to document somewhere the things I encountered along the way with links to resources, to save someone having to trawl the web…” |
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Brain Oriented Programming (tobeva.com) |
| 111 points | 2020 | author pbw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In another comment I mention NumPy's ndarray has 15 attributes but 50 methods. Imagine the reverse, an object with 50 attributes? Even if the attributes were just…” |
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Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS? (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com) |
| 111 points | 2020 | author lproven showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“OK, I will give you that one. :-) But they are at least related concepts, no?” |
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Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018) (arxiv.org) |
| 110 points | 2020 | author tiarkrompf showed up | their comment | thread
“nice to see this discussed and happy to answer questions” |
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Interpreter for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++/Qt) (github.com) |
| 110 points | 2020 | author Rochus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This bytecode interpreter is the continuation of my already published Class Browser and Virtual Image Viewer (see and). The interpreter is able to directly run the…” |
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Making Playstation 1 Modchips (2018) (blog.kchung.co) |
| 110 points | 2020 | author ColdHeat showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this awhile ago so I wasn't expecting to see this here today but glad that it is. Happy to answer any questions.” |
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Three Types of Data (brandonsmith.ninja) |
| 109 points | 2020 | author brundolf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is one of those ideas that's been stewing in my head for quite some time and I'm only about 80% happy with how it came out as words. Let me know if I can provide…” |
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Show HN: Generate guitar tablature using a constraint solver (github.com) |
| 109 points | 2020 | author senshu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“TablaZinc is a proof-of-concept tablature generator for fretted string instruments -- such as the guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, etc. It is a week-end project that I…” |
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