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| 511. | Computation Graphs and Graph Computation (breandan.github.io) | |
| 109 points | 2020 | author bmc7505 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This post discusses some research I and my colleagues at McGill have been working on recently, borrowing ideas from graph theory and linear algebra to model computation.…” | ||
| 512. | Parallel Tracks (defmacro.substack.com) | |
| 109 points | 2020 | author coffeemug showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm not entirely sure, I'll try to work it out. One thing I am sure of is that we need to get rid of the professional engineering management class. It's a parasitic…” | ||
| 513. | How I write Elm applications (jezenthomas.com) | |
| 109 points | 2020 | author yakshaving_jgt showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right, there was a line missing. That's now fixed. Thanks for spotting that. To address your other points: in just about every Elm application I've ever worked…” | ||
| 514. | It's too late to collect sand (secondbreakfast.co) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author secondbreakfast showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“^I host my blog on blot.im - it is an amazing service, and fully recommend it. Thanks David!” | ||
| 515. | Writing a DSL in Lua (2015) (leafo.net) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author leafo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting it whoever did. I wrote this a long time ago, it's mostly targeted at Lua 5.1 but more recent versions of Lua approach function environments…” | ||
| 516. | An audio app that has consumed my life (divinations.substack.com) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author nbashaw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! I wrote this article. There is literally a description of the basic mechanics of the app starting at word 48 of the piece. I have no clue how you missed this! I'm…” | ||
| 517. | A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection (cfallin.org) | |
| 108 points | 2020 | author cfallin showed up | their comment | thread
“that's good feedback; thanks! I tried to make this accessible by at least linking to Wikipedia or elsewhere when introducing new terms (SSA, etc.); that way a curious…” | ||
| 518. | A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author headlessclayton showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Marl was originally written for SwiftShader¹ a pure-software implementation of the Vulkan graphics API, which needs to run on desktop and embedded devices, with CPUs…” | ||
| 519. | Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID (vnhacker.blogspot.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author cryptbe showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“One interesting aspect that I've learned is the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of public opinion brigades, aka Force 47. They tried hard to discrete me. My…” | ||
| 520. | Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012) (righto.com) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I've written a couple of articles about counterfeit chargers. You are correct; people cut every corner possible to make a counterfeit charger that looks exactly like an…” | ||
| 521. | Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage (zainrizvi.io) | |
| 107 points | 2020 | author ZainRiz showed up | their comment | thread
“For what it’s worth, that first promo I talk about was when I was just two years out of college. It was many years later that I started realizing that maybe it wasn’t a…” | ||
| 522. | The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web (obsessivefacts.com) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author henriquez showed up | their comment | thread
“there's no scrolling hijack on my pages. I also dislike this sort of thing. Which iOS are you using?” | ||
| 523. | Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling (speps.fr) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author speps showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the comments! Note the articles are completed already and all 4 parts are available! It was a very fun project overall :)” | ||
| 524. | Defensive Programming (interrupt.memfault.com) | |
| 106 points | 2020 | author tyhoff showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Firmware, for better and worse, is stuck in C/C++ land, so many of the topics here are essential to keep a complex, multi-MCU, multi-board setup in working order. I'm…” | ||
| 525. | The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers (swyx.io) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author swyx showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the more interesting statement i was considering making, but didn't, was betting on whether they might IPO at all now (say within the next 5 years) given the troubles…” | ||
| 526. | Clock Signal: A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author TomHa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Author here; I'm still not sure I've done the right thing here, but for the ColecoVision you need to type something that is literally a hash, since it's mapped…” | ||
| 527. | TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM (github.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author fniephaus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 528. | A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015) (csvoss.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author csvoss showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the appreciation! Since this piece was written, I have discovered another notation by John Tromp which I consider to be the most breathtakingly beautiful: -…” | ||
| 529. | How many pieces can a puzzle have? (gottwurfelt.com) | |
| 105 points | 2020 | author madcaptenor showed up | their comment | thread
“n^2 seems reasonable to me as well. If you have n pieces, you have to make O(n) connections to solve the puzzle. But to find the piece that makes each connection, you…” | ||
| 530. | Signal processing is key to embedded machine learning (edgeimpulse.com) | |
| 104 points | 2020 | author janjongboom showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Our main focus right now is on vibration and non-voice audio. For vibration we use spectral analysis through butterworth filters, FFT over the result, looking at the…” | ||
| 531. | Dexplot: Python library for data visualization (dexplo.org) | |
| 104 points | 2020 | author TedPetrou showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have written large sections of books on seaborn, have taught it in classes for years, and had many issues with it, some of which are outlined below: • Not allowed to…” | ||
| 532. | Map of Computing Architectures for AWS (moca.computingarchitectures.com) | |
| 104 points | 2020 | author FigmentEngine showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions..” | ||
| 533. | Cheap Router Table and Lift (splitbrain.org) | |
| 104 points | 2020 | author splitbrain showed up | their comment | thread
“It's funny how I am writing blog posts on all kinds of stuff for years. Including typical hacker news content like programming or electronics, but it's a wood working…” | ||
| 534. | American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | |
| 103 points | 2020 | author f- showed up | their comment | thread
“The funniest part is that this ugly hack kept working across platforms for many years; whereas when somebody else implemented a "proper" integration with the clang /…” | ||
| 535. | Containers from first principles (fzakaria.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author setheron showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's a long running joke that I've come to terms with.” | ||
| 536. | Run PHP in the browser through Babel (gitlab.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author pornel showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, it's an approximate conversion favoring readable output over exact semantics, so it won't run WordPress. It might still be useful for smaller pieces of code. If you…” | ||
| 537. | Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos (righto.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone wants to discuss the internals of the 8086.” | ||
| 538. | Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core (hanselman.com) | |
| 102 points | 2020 | author happypatrik showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, abstracting away ANSI escape sequences is one purpose of the lib, but first and foremost the purpose is to make it easier to render complex things as tables,…” | ||
| 539. | ChromeGalvanizer – Harden your browser against extension backdoors and exploits (github.com) | |
| 101 points | 2020 | author mandatory showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“can you provide the generated policy for me to take a look at?” | ||
| 540. | What Is the PCI of Bank Payments? (moderntreasury.com) | |
| 101 points | 2020 | author qin showed up | their comment | thread
“You're absolutely right. This was an editorial mistake on my part. Edited to acknowledge the existence of schemes like SEPA Direct Debit. Thanks for pointing it out.” | ||
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