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| 31. | Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month (blog.sia.tech) | |
| 659 points | 2020 | author Taek showed up | their comment | thread
“A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut. Sia…” | ||
| 32. | How to sell a B2B product (calv.info) | |
| 643 points | 2020 | author calvinfo showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sad to hear this and want to understand how we can do better. Do you mind following up over email? I'm calvin at segment.” | ||
| 33. | NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch (nandgame.com) | |
| 627 points | 2020 | author sergex showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thank you for the feedback! The nand-count is based on how you built the components involved. So optimizing a component will have have cascading effects. "This is the…” | ||
| 34. | A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack (wired.com) | |
| 624 points | 2020 | author nxthompson2 showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the best clues are that the mystery hiker told people he was from Louisiana, and that he worked in the tech industry in NY. I suspect someone here might…” | ||
| 35. | Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library (justine.lol) | |
| 599 points | 2020 | author jart showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“WebAssembly has played an important role protecting CI on the Internet and it's cool that it enables us to run LLVM in the browser. I was very surprised when I learned…” | ||
| 36. | The Case of the Extra 40ms (netflixtechblog.com) | |
| 597 points | 2020 | author jdblair showed up | their comment | thread
“Fair criticism. There are some details that are missing in the interest of keeping the story simple. 1) The audio and video playback is driven by the hardware, using the…” | ||
| 37. | Software Engineering Within SpaceX (yasoob.me) | |
| 591 points | 2020 | author yasoob showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi guys! I am the author of this article. Excited to see it on the first page :)” | ||
| 38. | Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit (rhasspy.readthedocs.io) | |
| 590 points | 2020 | author synesthesiam showed up | their comment | thread
“happy new year HN! Glad to answer any questions (also see) Bit of background: Rhasspy was originally designed for Home Assistant (), but now works with lots of home…” | ||
| 39. | An introduction to RabbitMQ (erlang-solutions.com) | |
| 586 points | 2020 | author olikas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've seen quite a lot messages going through RabbitMQ. I wouldn't worry too much about scaling, because the possibilities depend very much on the architecture. With some…” | ||
| 40. | How to SSH Properly (gravitational.com) | |
| 584 points | 2020 | author webvictim showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“My take on this is that fail-closed is a vastly better security model than fail-open. I am genuinely surprised that OpenSSH actually issues certificates with no expiry…” | ||
| 41. | Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020 (sizecoding.org) | |
| 574 points | 2020 | author HellMood showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“Well there is You can try samples, write your own code, or create clickable links =)” | ||
| 42. | Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs (github.com) | |
| 574 points | 2020 | author davehcker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I'm looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the…” | ||
| 43. | I built a lay-down desk (blog.luap.info) | |
| 560 points | 2020 | author polote showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I understand your reaction, and I think I didn't put enough context on the safety part. I recommend to anyone to do basic carpentry stuff, but here we have a more…” | ||
| 44. | 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App (github.com) | |
| 556 points | 2020 | author felixrieseberg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is silly, but I'm allocating the entire size of the _virtual_ disk on your actual hard drive. There's probably a smarter way to do this, but that's how it is right…” | ||
| 45. | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (stopa.io) | |
| 551 points | 2020 | author stopachka showed up | their comment | thread
“Am a fan of Slava, and loved his essay on Lisp. Highly recommend!” | ||
| 46. | Things You're Allowed to Do (milan.cvitkovic.net) | |
| 537 points | 2020 | author mwcvitkovic showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“This is a great point. I'll add the non-obvious DIY options to the list. They're just as important.” | ||
| 47. | Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language (github.com) | |
| 533 points | 2020 | author beefdev showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the engineering co-founder of PopCap Games. I left PopCap after the EA acquisition, and I've been working on this project mostly full-time for the last five years.…” | ||
| 48. | Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots (medium.com) | |
| 531 points | 2020 | author seankernan showed up | their comment | thread
“I was about to make this exact point. Perfectly said. As a writer, creating a headline is always a balancing act. You want to drive interest and create curiosity but you…” | ||
| 49. | Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS (callumprentice.github.io) | |
| 528 points | 2020 | author callumprentice showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks so much for the comments and even code fixes already. So very much appreciated - we had a mountain of fun working on it and I'm glad people are finding it useful…” | ||
| 50. | We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80% (tuananh.net) | |
| 514 points | 2020 | author tuananh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“please note that this is what we did in 2016-2017 where kops(what we use to provision) did not support spot fleet yet. also, this works out so well for our use case…” | ||
| 51. | Become Shell Literate (drewdevault.com) | |
| 512 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“Some extra tips for HN: If you dislike POSIX sh, consider looking at Plan 9's rc before you look anywhere else (including bash): Also, I would advise you to learn about…” | ||
| 52. | Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps (hackerone.com) | |
| 510 points | 2020 | author oskarsv showed up | their comment | thread
“Just some thoughts on comments here. Sure the bounty is low, but ultimately it's their money and their decision. They will deal with the 'consequences' of others…” | ||
| 53. | GNU Recutils (labs.tomasino.org) | |
| 505 points | 2020 | author jamestomasino showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see someone submitted this and you all liked it. Recutils has MUCH more to offer beyond the basic intro I gave here. It has wonderful org-mode integration for…” | ||
| 54. | The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015) (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) | |
| 500 points | 2020 | author munificent showed up | their comment | thread
“I spent a bunch of time last year trying to figure out a good way to make semicolons optional in Dart without breaking a lot of stuff. Because of a handful of syntax…” | ||
| 55. | What happened to Mint? (fastcompany.com) | |
| 494 points | 2020 | author robpegoraro showed up | their comment | thread
“It's been on my to-do list for a while--I had another client turn down the idea--and I finally remembered to pitch it to my editor at FC after being irked yet again at…” | ||
| 56. | Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 479 points | 2020 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. You saved me a good day of figuring out what all the header fields meant. I definitely appreciated finding your code!” | ||
| 57. | Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds (vidarholen.net) | |
| 474 points | 2020 | author koala_man showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the fascinating insights! I've updated the post to link to your comment. PS: I worked with @ridiculousfish up until recently, say hi from me ^^” | ||
| 58. | How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant (mtlynch.io) | |
| 473 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. I wrote it a few months ago and submitted it at the time[0], but it didn't seem like it was a match…” | ||
| 59. | Rediscovering the Small Web (neustadt.fr) | |
| 472 points | 2020 | author livatlantis showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“That's an interesting analogy — especially given that small book stores and libraries (to a lesser extent) still do exist, albeit in much smaller numbers, attracting…” | ||
| 60. | How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You (mtlynch.io) | |
| 472 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post.” | ||
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