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| 61. | Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements (github.com) | |
| 471 points | 2020 | author awb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a designer and it wasn't meant to be denigrating, but more of a statement that launching is hard and that it's OK to be embarrassed by the design of your MVP so you…” | ||
| 62. | Anxiety in product development (andreschweighofer.com) | |
| 471 points | 2020 | author fidrelity showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think you have a point here. Anxiety can certainly stem from the point you mentioned. But I also think anxiety from other sources can affect your development…” | ||
| 63. | Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 470 points | 2020 | author edent showed up | their comment | thread
“It's a good question but, yes, you are missing something. Mostly me being an idiot. I usually spell it upper-u upper-r lower-L specifically to annoy both sides of the…” | ||
| 64. | Why not use GraphQL? (wundergraph.com) | |
| 460 points | 2020 | author jensneuse showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you want efficient database JOINs using GraphQL I'd always opt for Hasura. They've done a fantastic job solving this problem. This will almost always use the most…” | ||
| 65. | Design Docs at Google (industrialempathy.com) | |
| 459 points | 2020 | author cramforce showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have questions or feedback.” | ||
| 66. | Translating Quake 3 into Rust (immunant.com) | |
| 456 points | 2020 | author ahomescu1 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to let everyone know we made some small edits to the text, and added two new branches to our repository: transpiled containing the raw transpiler output [1],…” | ||
| 67. | First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier (kamerontanseli.ghost.io) | |
| 453 points | 2020 | author kamerontanseli showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That's the read-only scope that's required to query a single spreadsheet on the user's account. The API doesn't allow listing queries unless you also ask for drive…” | ||
| 68. | Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job (manuel.darcemont.fr) | |
| 453 points | 2020 | author megalomanu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello HN! Author here. I wasn't expecting so much comments! I would have chosen a less provocative title if I had known :) Just to clarify: I founded a company a few…” | ||
| 69. | Growl in Retirement (336699.org) | |
| 450 points | 2020 | author ChrisGrowl showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask me anything.” | ||
| 70. | Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz (computer.rip) | |
| 439 points | 2020 | author jcrawfordor showed up | their comment | thread
“I 1) have no idea how this made it to the top position, 2) now feel much guiltier about posting so infrequently, 3) apologize for the design of my blog being almost…” | ||
| 71. | How Stripe Designs Websites (2017) (leerob.io) | |
| 434 points | 2020 | author leerob showed up | their comment | thread
“No RSS feed yet. It's on my shortlist of features to add.” | ||
| 72. | GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners (arxiv.org) | |
| 431 points | 2020 | author nottombrown showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the confusing formatting on the task descriptions at the end of the paper. That "4" is the human-generated target completion, not a model generated completion.…” | ||
| 73. | Why I Procrastinate (2019) (invisibleup.com) | |
| 425 points | 2020 | author InvisibleUp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Since I wrote this article, I got professionally diagnosed and treated. Turns out, yeah, I'm doing a lot better now. On most days I don't have these symptoms, I can in…” | ||
| 74. | I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months (miguelrochefort.com) | |
| 425 points | 2020 | author miguelrochefort showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd be happy to answer your questions.” | ||
| 75. | Show HN: 33 line React (leontrolski.github.io) | |
| 418 points | 2020 | author leontrolski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“this was written as a way for me to explore the core idea of react in a minimal setting. Things it's missing - jsx - routing - performance (maybe?) - component state…” | ||
| 76. | I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year (nicklafferty.com) | |
| 418 points | 2020 | author nicklafferty showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi everyone! Author here. I'm humbled that someone felt this was HackerNews worthy, really unexpected! I'll do my best to respond to comments, but if I don't get to…” | ||
| 77. | The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming (bollu.github.io) | |
| 417 points | 2020 | author bollu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to show off how to write a compact and powerful animation library. It turned out to be a nice case study in declarative programming as I wrote it! I'd love…” | ||
| 78. | A humble guide to database schema design (mikealche.com) | |
| 414 points | 2020 | author helloiloveyou showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Ha, I'm a big follower of Patrick, specially his microconfs! I didn't know he had an article an article on the subject, thanks for linking it! However I agree with him!…” | ||
| 79. | If-then-else had to be invented (github.com) | |
| 414 points | 2020 | author enf showed up | their comment | thread
“and I mean that I can say "or else" in a normal sentence, but I cannot say "else" without an "or" in normal speech in my normal dialect.” | ||
| 80. | What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019) (junglecoder.com) | |
| 412 points | 2020 | author yumaikas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely recognize that not everyone has the energy to code at home after a day of coding at work. Often, I don't either. Side projects are a varying thing for me. I…” | ||
| 81. | All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page (mosermichael.github.io) | |
| 411 points | 2020 | author MichaelMoser123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“i find myself using more specialized search engines like github search (the best code search engine right now ); so specialized search engines might be the place to go…” | ||
| 82. | Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language (github.com) | |
| 410 points | 2020 | author liljencrantz showed up | their comment | thread
“I designed Crush for myself: a very happy Unix user for 23 years and someone who can honestly say I love Unix and the Unix philosophy. As such, I feel that I can say…” | ||
| 83. | Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp (janet-lang.org) | |
| 408 points | 2020 | author bakpakin showed up | their comment | thread
“Firstly, this is a rather silly argument in general. One could say that Embeddable Common Lisp and Guile address the same niche and all developers from one project…” | ||
| 84. | The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days (guzey.com) | |
| 407 points | 2020 | author guzey showed up | their comment | thread
“I like this comment because its author can't decide whether my study is the "equivalent of fake news" or whether its results are obviously true.” | ||
| 85. | Lambda School’s Misleading Promises (nymag.com) | |
| 406 points | 2020 | author akanet showed up | their comment | thread
“perhaps better known here as founder of CoderPad. Feel free to ask me anything but things are a bit crazy right now!” | ||
| 86. | The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper (news.russellsaw.io) | |
| 405 points | 2020 | author arussellsaw showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! author here, i just wanted to address a few things i've seen in the comments: * i absolutely built this for fun, it's an idea i had late at night and needed to…” | ||
| 87. | Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature (trailrouter.com) | |
| 402 points | 2020 | author samcrawford showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Trail Router is a running route planner that prefers greenery and nature in the routes it generates, and biases against busy roads. It can generate round-trip routes…” | ||
| 88. | Disrespectful Design – Users aren’t stupid or lazy (somehowmanage.com) | |
| 402 points | 2020 | author Ozzie_osman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I actually agree. Cheesy (but true) anecdote: As I was writing my article this morning, there were two distractions. First, I tabbed to Facebook where I saw one of my…” | ||
| 89. | Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 401 points | 2020 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Learning has many components. Even on its own, brute memorisation is a powerful tool. But see e.g. SuperMemo's creator on Incremental Reading () for a more generalised…” | ||
| 90. | Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications (geoffreylitt.com) | |
| 400 points | 2020 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! To bring it full circle, here are a couple recent demo videos I made of using Wildcard to customize the HN front page:” | ||
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