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| 91. | How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations (jalammar.github.io) | |
| 398 points | 2020 | author jalammar showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you. I feel an important element of this type of writing is what complexity to show and what to hide at different points. "Magic" is just to say "don't worry about…” | ||
| 92. | How Do Routers Work, Really? (kamila.is) | |
| 398 points | 2020 | author anotherkamila_ showed up | their comment | thread
“Uh hi w00t how why what's it doing here?! :D I promise to make it better and actually finish it now! Check back in a day or two I guess? Also I should post the code I…” | ||
| 93. | Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers (forrestheller.com) | |
| 397 points | 2020 | author hellerfv2 showed up | their comment | thread
“Thankfully device-side microchips that interface with USB chargers come with overvoltage protection. For example: Devices which charge from wall chargers have to undergo…” | ||
| 94. | Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers (manualdousuario.net) | |
| 396 points | 2020 | author rpgbr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Previously, it only happened when I was using a VPN, even if its server was in Brazil, where I live. I also checked with friends and relatives living in another cities…” | ||
| 95. | Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening (pluvoir.netlify.app) | |
| 393 points | 2020 | author lbebber showed up | their comment | thread
“The page actually uses the exact same effect, so the article provides a decent breakdown of how it works, for those interested.” | ||
| 96. | NoiseTorch: Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux written in Go (github.com) | |
| 390 points | 2020 | author lawl showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Awesome to see this on HN. I'm happy to answer any questions, but this is a slightly inopportune moment to hit HN for me as I need to leave soon :) Some responses might…” | ||
| 97. | Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD (serhack.me) | |
| 385 points | 2020 | author crecker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'll probably write another tutorial focusing on Prometheus, instead of CollectD. Thanks for suggestion SerHack” | ||
| 98. | Lossless Image Compression Through Super-Resolution (github.com) | |
| 384 points | 2020 | author srec-author showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all thanks so much for the interest in SReC! It was a pleasant surprise seeing my research on top of Hacker News. Answering a few questions from reading the…” | ||
| 99. | My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania (portal.drewdevault.com) | |
| 382 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“The military is a political entity, and different voters have different opinions on. It's better to err on the side of caution when acting in an official capacity for…” | ||
| 100. | My least favorite Rust type (ridiculousfish.com) | |
| 380 points | 2020 | author ridiculous_fish showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In my idea, x..y would be like x+y: not fallible, but may panic. There would be a separate fallible function for creating ranges, analogous to checked_add. (Of course…” | ||
| 101. | My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (mtlynch.io) | |
| 380 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I spent much longer on this project than I expected to, and I learned a lot from the experience. I wrote this in hopes that it might be useful for others who want to…” | ||
| 102. | Why are we so bad at software engineering? (bitlog.com) | |
| 379 points | 2020 | author jakevoytko showed up | their comment | thread
“This is a good point. Earlier drafts of my post did include "the unbelievable depth and complexity of the modern technical stack" as a factor. I deferred it until a…” | ||
| 103. | Music Grid (music-grid.surge.sh) | |
| 379 points | 2020 | author irshadshalu showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“thanks for that :) oops, sorry on that one as I have no idea about music theory and stuff. I just learned a lot by building it and now going through this thread learning…” | ||
| 104. | Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers (whoisnnamdi.com) | |
| 377 points | 2020 | author whoisnnamdi showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Agreed, which is why I didn't say,"working remote causes developers to earn 22% more", only that developers who work remote earn 22% more, which is an interesting fact…” | ||
| 105. | Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 373 points | 2020 | author sawyerfuller showed up | their comment | thread
“One of our primary constraints was power usage. I’m not sure exactly why, but the camera we used, by Himax, uses much less power than any omnivision camera we were aware…” | ||
| 106. | Make Linux Fast Again (2019) (make-linux-fast-again.com) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author jcelerier showed up | their comment | thread
“the idea was, that you would be able to do curl -s https://make-linux-fast-again.com | awk '{ print "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"" $0 "\"" }' >> grub.cfg to use the…” | ||
| 107. | ReMarkable MicroSD (2019) (davisr.me) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author davisr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi, I'm the author of this hack---the card works at 50 MHz with no errors.” | ||
| 108. | Free Linear Algebra textbook (hefferon.net) | |
| 368 points | 2020 | author jimhefferon showed up | their comment | thread
“I like to look over HN during breakfast, so a surprise this morning. I appreciate folks's kind words. Can I slide in the back story? The course I had as an undergrad was…” | ||
| 109. | A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic (abstreet.org) | |
| 366 points | 2020 | author dabreegster showed up | their comment | thread
“Previously posted to HN (). I just released alpha -- check out this cheesy trailer (). Happy to answer questions! And if you're serious about running this in your city,…” | ||
| 110. | A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019) (endler.dev) | |
| 365 points | 2020 | author omn1 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Tried a full reverse index first but it's much bigger in size - think around two orders of magnitude, if I remember correctly.” | ||
| 111. | I Hate Coordinate Systems (ihatecoordinatesystems.com) | |
| 365 points | 2020 | author dmahr showed up | their comment | thread
“I also hate projected coordinate systems! But in all seriousness the domain name is channeling an attitude felt by generations of GIS practitioners. I don’t really know…” | ||
| 112. | Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing (stripe.com) | |
| 363 points | 2020 | author corentin88 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Original title was "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges". Which I agree is a bit clickbait. But the current title is definitely a well-made boring PR…” | ||
| 113. | Travelling with 24” Monitors (blog.luap.info) | |
| 361 points | 2020 | author polote showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“definitely interested as it would make traveling much easier for me. With a setup like that is there any fatigue after a few hours of usage ?” | ||
| 114. | Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource? | |
| 360 points | 2020 | author ozanonay showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes this list precisely constitutes the topics in computer science on which I believe a software engineer with an informal education should focus. It's based on my…” | ||
| 115. | Marketers are addicted to bad data (jacquescorbytuech.com) | |
| 360 points | 2020 | author iamacyborg showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so apologies if it's not clear. I don't mean to suggest that the entire online advertising ecosystem is fraudulent. However, there are billions of dollars worth of…” | ||
| 116. | HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience (twilio.com) | |
| 357 points | 2020 | author philnash showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! I’m the author of this article. Thanks for posting! Here’s to the power of HTML attributes and better sign in experiences for everyone.” | ||
| 117. | Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig (github.com) | |
| 355 points | 2020 | author jackhalford showed up | their comment | thread
“I've just finished writing the pre-emptive multitasking [0](only round robbin though, nothing fancy). I'm currently writing an ATA driver [1], the idea is to implement…” | ||
| 118. | ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go (github.com) | |
| 355 points | 2020 | author constexpr showed up | their comment | thread
“I think the Rust vs. Go question is interesting. I actually originally wrote esbuild in Rust and Go, and Go was the clear winner. The parser written in Go was both…” | ||
| 119. | A new funding model for open source software (vriad.com) | |
| 354 points | 2020 | author colinmcd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“100% agree on all fronts! I was dancing around this conclusion but it really does need to be GitHub. And I agree people would be fine paying their own fees if it came to…” | ||
| 120. | What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) (likewise.am) | |
| 353 points | 2020 | author abalashov showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Author here; I was very surprised to find this ancient (from my POV — I wrote it in Dec 2014) article at the top of HN, but am pleased at the discussion it has…” | ||
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