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| 121. | Everything I Know About SSDs (kcall.co.uk) | |
| 352 points | 2020 | author Thessdauthor showed up | their comment | thread
“co.uk/ssd/index.html and I trust that the site is now back up and running without further 'sleeping' episodes. The reason for the interrupts was, as some have surmised,…” | ||
| 122. | Things I Was Wrong About: Types (v5.chriskrycho.com) | |
| 351 points | 2020 | author chriskrycho showed up | their comment | thread
“with a few comments on things that I see coming up through the discussion— 1. This is not a post bashing dynamic types. When I write that I now value type systems, that…” | ||
| 123. | Ways to make a web component (webcomponents.dev) | |
| 350 points | 2020 | author georges_gomes showed up | their comment | thread
“1. The bundle size barcharts shows the component size (in light blue) and the framwwork size (darrk blue) 2. The Bundle Analysis chapter contains a description of the…” | ||
| 124. | OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android (f-droid.org) | |
| 347 points | 2020 | author BubuIIC showed up | their comment | thread
“The solution to the background limitations for now is running as a foreground service. This shows a persistent notification (which can be hidden by the user) but can…” | ||
| 125. | Why Does DARPA Work? (benjaminreinhardt.com) | |
| 347 points | 2020 | author siege_engineer showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Good point about DARPA serving a political-economic role. It's a different lens on the coordination role. Is the corporate-political landscape becoming more trust-based…” | ||
| 126. | Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019) (ljvmiranda921.github.io) | |
| 345 points | 2020 | author ljvmiranda showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Pleasantly surprised I saw this on HN, thanks for posting feross! Sorry for the Mcdonalds analogy, it's just that it's really near our office and I got that insight…” | ||
| 127. | Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot (bbc.com) | |
| 345 points | 2020 | author ekdinan showed up | their comment | thread
“The model was fine-tuned on (non-Reddit) data that was specifically designed to give it positive conversational skills, like empathy, knowledge, and personality (see:).…” | ||
| 128. | Please make your products work with URLs (anderspitman.net) | |
| 343 points | 2020 | author anderspitman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry for those having trouble viewing the site. That's obviously never the intention. The current incarnation is actually a bit of an experiment. Unfortunately, my blog…” | ||
| 129. | Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs (github.com) | |
| 343 points | 2020 | author alfiopuglisi showed up | their comment | thread
“I have tested Guietta on two different macs (mine and a coworker's) and it worked in both cases. There is no variable called 'loader' in Guietta's source code. Are you…” | ||
| 130. | A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects (github.com) | |
| 342 points | 2020 | author vortex_ape showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that you can write your slides using Markdown (most of its features are supported). Also reposting my comment from the asciimatics post that was here…” | ||
| 131. | Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 339 points | 2020 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to elaborate on any of this, except where I've signed NDAs about specific projects. Also an obligatory "we are hiring" on behalf of G-Research; feel free to…” | ||
| 132. | QEMU for iOS (github.com) | |
| 335 points | 2020 | author osy showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m here to answer any questions but also I want to advertise the fact that it would be really really awesome if interested devs can join the project. Currently it’s…” | ||
| 133. | Digital Tools I Wish Existed (jon.bo) | |
| 333 points | 2020 | author jborichevskiy showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In some sense, I agree. The internet has too much incredible stuff on it, more stuff than a hundred human lifetimes would allow for enjoying, much less…” | ||
| 134. | Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 (c0de517e.blogspot.com) | |
| 333 points | 2020 | author c0de517e showed up | their comment | thread
“DLSS is not the end-solution to rendering, well, nothing is, but it's an AMAZING piece of technology. All these temporal and dynamic resolution techniques are here to…” | ||
| 135. | PostgreSQL's Imperfections (medium.com) | |
| 331 points | 2020 | author rbranson showed up | their comment | thread
“This should not have included INSERT. I updated the post to reflect that. Thanks for picking this up.” | ||
| 136. | Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM (gleam.run) | |
| 331 points | 2020 | author lpil showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of Gleam! Originally Gleam had a more Haskell-like (or rather a more OCaml-like) syntax. Over time people generally expressed a preference for a more…” | ||
| 137. | Little known features of iTerm2 (banga.github.io) | |
| 329 points | 2020 | author gnachman showed up | their comment | thread
“What a great way to wake up, an HN love fest :) Check our the Tip of the Day feature, which is meant to help you find stuff like this.” | ||
| 138. | Tour of Rust (tourofrust.com) | |
| 329 points | 2020 | author richardanaya showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can tell you about my methodology for ordering. I immediately talk about text as soon as ownership and structs are explained. In Tour of Rust, I tried to hold to a…” | ||
| 139. | DOS Subsystem for Linux (github.com) | |
| 328 points | 2020 | author haileys showed up | their comment | thread
“I am planning to do an in depth write up of how this works, but it seems Hacker News found it sooner :) When DSL is first invoked at the command line it boots up the…” | ||
| 140. | Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds (zoomerbackgrounds.com) | |
| 327 points | 2020 | author logane showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As students facing online instruction, we built ZoomerBackgrounds to solve firsthand the everyday problems of having subpar backgrounds and spoke with several friends…” | ||
| 141. | Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project (github.com) | |
| 326 points | 2020 | author overtowed showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“just wanted to make a note. This isn't written to hype a battle in the holy war. Frontend frameworks are a positive sum game! Svelte has no monopoly on the compiler…” | ||
| 142. | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) (magcius.github.io) | |
| 326 points | 2020 | author Jasper_ showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I haven't updated this project in a few years. I burned out on it almost immediately. I wrote a little retrospective for it on here before, the last time it was posted:…” | ||
| 143. | The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter (twitter.com) | |
| 320 points | 2020 | author sylefeb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks - and I agree. That being said this is running 100 MHz on (what I believe is) a relatively low end FPGA? Also my implementation remains simplistic, many things to…” | ||
| 144. | Rust Ownership Rules (geekabyte.io) | |
| 317 points | 2020 | author dade showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The "// mutable borrow occurred" was a typo. Fixed now” | ||
| 145. | TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex (blog.asana.com) | |
| 312 points | 2020 | author alexcole showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah I think you are right that discriminated unions are useful more broadly than just legacy JS code. That being said, I still think TypeScript's solution to handling…” | ||
| 146. | Letter to Myself in Late 2008 (dalton.substack.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author dalton showed up | their comment | thread
“As I said at the top my intent was not initially to publish it widely, but here we are. If anyone has questions about what I wrote I'm happy to answer them here.” | ||
| 147. | PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf] (wescottdesign.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author TimWescott showed up | their comment | thread
“and the really scary thing for me is that I'm now seeing code that obviously either came right out of it, or is only a few copy-pasta steps away from it that's just…” | ||
| 148. | Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development (github.com) | |
| 311 points | 2020 | author morrvs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks! Yes, ES5 is a huge pain. However, I believe 5% of users (see other comment) are not a joke for many apps. There's always the question of minimum critical APIs…” | ||
| 149. | RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (phabricator.wikimedia.org) | |
| 309 points | 2020 | author katabasis showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd like to clarify a few points here: * Wikipedia is not becoming an SPA * Wikipedia is not dropping support for non-js users * This proposal is not about changing our…” | ||
| 150. | Lisping at JPL (2002) (flownet.com) | |
| 307 points | 2020 | author lisper showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the OP so I can speak to this with some authority: I discovered Lisp very early in my career and I stuck with it mainly because I'm lazy. I can get…” | ||
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