481. 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…”
482. 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…”
483. 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.”
484. 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…”
485. 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…”
486. 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.”
487. 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…”
488. 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…”
489. 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…”
490. 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…”
491. 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…”
492. 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…”
493. 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.”
494. 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…”
495. 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…”
496. 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…”
497. 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).…”
498. 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…”
499. 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…”
500. 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…”
501. 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,…”
502. 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.”
503. 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…”
504. 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…”
505. 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?”
506. 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”
507. 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…”
508. 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.”
509. 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…”
510. 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…”