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| 181. | Lomuto's Comeback (dlang.org) | |
| 288 points | 2020 | author andralex showed up | their comment | thread
“That is incorrect. The difficult case is and the real benchmark is with unpredictable data. The low-entropy cases will be about as fast with both partitioning schemes.…” | ||
| 182. | iOS 13's Music App Sucks (samuelstevens.me) | |
| 284 points | 2020 | author samstevens showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here; I agree that I'm not considering other users in my rants. I'm not a designer, and don't have solutions that would help everyone that Apple is targeting with…” | ||
| 183. | AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage (lastweekinaws.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author QuinnyPig showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree; the trouble is "sound off on a random HackerNews thread that may or may not even be created in the first place" is a bit more hit-or-miss.” | ||
| 184. | Chat Bubble Blindness (atlistmaps.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author steve-benjamins showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This links to an Indie Hackers post which doesn't have the full context. You can find the original post here: Sorry OP— just thought I'd point that out :)” | ||
| 185. | Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash (github.com) | |
| 283 points | 2020 | author mueslix showed up | their comment | thread
“it should actually automatically detect your background color and adjust its theme to it. Alternatively you can pick a different style with `-s`, or even write your own…” | ||
| 186. | Python malware on the rise (cyborgsecurity.com) | |
| 282 points | 2020 | author vesche showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“The obfuscated code example was to show what a malware author might do to make malware analysis of a Python "compiled" binary more difficult. The code might be…” | ||
| 187. | iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King? (blog.halide.cam) | |
| 281 points | 2020 | author sandofsky showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“In the article, we mentioned it's a neural network, and the results are accessible to developers. We left out further details because this isn't an implementation guide.” | ||
| 188. | Show HN: HiFiC – High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression – demo and paper (hific.github.io) | |
| 281 points | 2020 | author atorodius showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is the demo of a research project demonstrating the potential of using GANs for compression. For this to be used in practice, more research is required to make the…” | ||
| 189. | A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming (jacobzelko.com) | |
| 281 points | 2020 | author thecedarprince showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey everyone! I am the author of the article! If you have any questions, feel free to ping me and I will try to respond in a timely fashion! I intend to always keep this…” | ||
| 190. | DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system (github.com) | |
| 280 points | 2020 | author mhx77 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'll add more benchmarks, this is still WIP and so far I've mainly tried to satisfy my own needs. My intention with DwarFS wasn't to write "a better SquashFS", but to…” | ||
| 191. | Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning (hacks.mozilla.org) | |
| 279 points | 2020 | author halbersa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“first off thanks! Yes a regression slipping through would far outweigh the benefits of reduced tests. The thing the post didn't make very clear is that thanks to our…” | ||
| 192. | Chibicc: A Small C Compiler (github.com) | |
| 278 points | 2020 | author rui314 showed up | their comment | thread
“No publishing date has been set yet. At least a half-written Japanese version of the book is available online for free (), and I'll probably translate this to English…” | ||
| 193. | Writing Rust the Elixir Way (kutt.it) | |
| 278 points | 2020 | author bkolobara showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I will take some time to answer any questions.” | ||
| 194. | Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about (tryolabs.com) | |
| 278 points | 2020 | author dekked showed up | their comment | thread
“We have been doing the series of posts every year since 2016, way before Norfair was even a dream.” | ||
| 195. | Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art (art42.net) | |
| 277 points | 2020 | author valentinvieriu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to share some technical details. The code can be found here The main code and modification were put together by. I've started with the pretrained ffhq model,…” | ||
| 196. | Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation (source-separation.github.io) | |
| 277 points | 2020 | author pseeth showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there! One of the authors here (Prem). Thanks for reading, and for mentioning Spleeter! Spleeter is awesome. The idea behind this book is to give people the tools and…” | ||
| 197. | Image GPT (openai.com) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author markchen90 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I ran some early experiments a while ago, and it looked like adversarial examples for convnet classifiers didn't transfer to transformer classifiers and vice versa.…” | ||
| 198. | Just Write the Parser (tiarkrompf.github.io) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author tiarkrompf showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions, as always. Thanks also for feedback on the format of the article. It's a bit of an experiment on how to present dense information effectively.…” | ||
| 199. | FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (invisibleup.com) | |
| 276 points | 2020 | author InvisibleUp showed up | their comment | thread
“You might enjoy this other article I wrote on this subject: It discusses how most people's preferred social spaces recently have moved online into centralized silos, and…” | ||
| 200. | Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog (petevilter.me) | |
| 275 points | 2020 | author vilterp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you so much for this unfudging! I knew I was fudging things up a bit, and I didn't really understand the relationships between Prolog, Datalog, Horn clauses, and…” | ||
| 201. | Serve Videos Instead of GIFs (dannyguo.com) | |
| 273 points | 2020 | author dguo showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That is good criticism! Thanks for bringing it up. I didn't consider other factors like ease of sharing. They are definitely tradeoffs. At least for my personal website,…” | ||
| 202. | Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live (try.questdb.io) | |
| 271 points | 2020 | author bluestreak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A few weeks ago, we wrote about how we implemented SIMD instructions to aggregate a billion rows in milliseconds [1] thanks in great part to Agner Fog’s VCL library [2].…” | ||
| 203. | Lord of the io_uring: io_uring tutorial, examples and reference (unixism.net) | |
| 267 points | 2020 | author shuss showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“All examples in the guide are aimed at throwing light at the io_uring and liburing interfaces. They are not very useful or very real-worldish examples. The idea with…” | ||
| 204. | It’s easier to manage four people than one person (staysaasy.com) | |
| 267 points | 2020 | author staysaasy showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd recommend two things. First, per the article, I'd aim to become an expert in whatever your report is doing. Being able to just do the thing yourself is a great…” | ||
| 205. | ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C (github.com) | |
| 266 points | 2020 | author a3p showed up | their comment | thread
“fully agree that the description is vague and doesn't really tell you where it stands versus something like F* , SPARK, etc. That's partially because frankly i don't…” | ||
| 206. | Millions of Tiny Databases (blog.acolyer.org) | |
| 263 points | 2020 | author mjb showed up | their comment | thread
“along with Fan and Tao. I'm also a huge fan and religious reader of The Morning Paper, so it's really cool to see Adrian feature our work. If you don't know The Morning…” | ||
| 207. | A better Kubernetes from the ground up (blog.dave.tf) | |
| 261 points | 2020 | author dave_universetf showed up | their comment | thread
“If I had to run Kubernetes for money-making purposes, I would still seriously consider GKE. I still think they're the best at running k8s. It's just that k8s limits what…” | ||
| 208. | Porting Quake to the iPod Classic (fwei.tk) | |
| 260 points | 2020 | author theunamedguy showed up | their comment | thread
“This is actually a fairly old project of mine by now, but I just recently submitted it to Hackaday, which is probably why it's surfaced here. The original video demo has…” | ||
| 209. | JWT is Awesome (thehftguy.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author user5994461 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“As a matter of fact, the world has already settled on JWT. Paseto is dead in the water and will never gain any traction. Every single company has no choice but to…” | ||
| 210. | Anger Management (genevievefiles.blogspot.com) | |
| 259 points | 2020 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It absolutely is about anger management. Sorry it doesn't seem to be your cup of tea, but it wasn't misnamed or something.” | ||
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