211. Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git (github.com)
259 points | 2020 | author ByronBates showed up | their comment | thread
“and will be here for a few hours in case there are any questions. (proof:)”
212. So you want to buy a farm? (zenx.medium.com)
259 points | 2020 | author zenxblr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks @happy-go-lucky for sharing that. This is indeed an India based pov. And based on real life experiences and learnings over 4 years now at this farm. Lots more to…”
213. We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech (orbuch.com)
255 points | 2020 | author orbuch showed up | their comment | thread
“This is good feedback that this is buried in the appendix -- I pulled that section up and made it inline with the flow of the post. Does that help?”
214. Dog – A command-line DNS client written in Rust (github.com)
255 points | 2020 | author cytzol showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect this to show up so soon, but I'm glad people like it — I only published v0.1 on Saturday. Over on the Rust forum I gave a brief overview of the crates and…”
215. Must ride mule to and from work location (deepsouthventures.com)
254 points | 2020 | author eightturn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.”
216. Flowcharts of programming language constructs (progsbase.com)
253 points | 2020 | author martinfjohansen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for noting an error in the exception and finally diagrams! I have fixed the error where controlflow always went to the catch block.”
217. The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) (digitalmars.com)
250 points | 2020 | author WalterBright showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here. AMA!”
218. Writing a software book and making over $100k (twitter.com)
250 points | 2020 | author vladmihalcea showed up | their comment | thread
“The book is stored on GitHub and LeanPub fetches the files and renders it. My blog is running on WordPress.com. I'm using a Business plan so I can better customize the…”
219. Open-Source Music Production Tools (midination.com)
250 points | 2020 | author ryan_midi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hello! I'm the author of this page. I realize that a few tools might be missing. Happy to hear all suggestions. In the meantime, if you want this list in Google sheet,…”
220. How Tailscale Works (tailscale.com)
249 points | 2020 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, this is what DERP is for. Nowadays automatically designating nodes as supernodes doesn’t work as well as it used to, since many devices are battery constrained and…”
221. I Tried to Reduce Pylint Memory Usage (rtpg.co)
249 points | 2020 | author rtpg showed up | their comment | thread
“Though theoretically any interpreted language gives you all of this, you actually might not have access to the internals in practice. JS (well, node.js and browsers)…”
222. Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better (medium.com)
248 points | 2020 | author judah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some teams use it, including ours (PWABuilder).”
223. Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019) (dl.acm.org)
247 points | 2020 | author rwmj showed up | their comment | thread
“so ask away if you have questions.”
224. Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide (causal.app)
247 points | 2020 | author refrigerator showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for raising this — I intended for that example just to illustrate the underlying concept of having balanced entries for a transaction, rather than to show how…”
225. Why is Snowflake so Valuable? (freshpaint.io)
247 points | 2020 | author malisper showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've worked with a large Postgres cluster before (~1PB of data) and have been experimenting with Snowflake recently. I would say there's two clear technical advantages…”
226. Text Processing in the Shell (blog.balthazar-rouberol.com)
245 points | 2020 | author BaltoRouberol showed up | their comment | thread
“Quick sidenote: this is chapter 2 of a book aiming at teaching the terminal and related tooling (make, jq, regular expressions, etc) to beginners and people trying to…”
227. Build a toy quantum computer at home (dhruvonmath.com)
245 points | 2020 | author dhruvp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here - If you have any feedback on what can improve please let me know! Thanks for reading and feel free to shoot me a note at dhruv.parthasarathy@gmail.com…”
228. Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app)
245 points | 2020 | author thesephist showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal…”
229. The life and death of email read tracking (missiveapp.com)
245 points | 2020 | author plehoux showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree.”
230. Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft? (nimbleindustries.io)
243 points | 2020 | author colinbartlett showed up | their comment | thread
“just put a CDN in front of the blog so maybe that will help.”
231. Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust (bevyengine.org)
243 points | 2020 | author _cart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Bevy!”
232. What a great technical resume can do for you (meetleet.com)
243 points | 2020 | author mcenedella showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This is fair. For a developer at a small status, connecting their work to an increase in user engagement might be appropriate. At a mid- or large-size firm, your bullet…”
233. Four features that justify a new Unix shell (oilshell.org)
242 points | 2020 | author chubot showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah I've been asked that before, and there are some things you can fix with a transpiler, but somethings you can't. That's why the tagline to Oil is now "our upgrade…”
234. The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway (brianli.com)
242 points | 2020 | author blymd showed up | their comment | thread
“Most Broadway shows have live keyboard players. There are a variety of things that can go wrong during a live show, and a live band is extremely useful in those…”
235. ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs (twitter.com)
240 points | 2020 | author jph00 showed up | their comment | thread
“Wasn't sure anyone would read it - glad it's got noticed, because I do think it's an important issue! I'd love to know where that money at IEEE and ACM is going. The…”
236. Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison (github.com)
239 points | 2020 | author boramalper showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Copying my comment from the previous submission[x]: This was a quite common criticism over r/Python[0] as well, saying that using C modules and then benchmarking…”
237. Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019) (nest.pijul.com)
238 points | 2020 | author pmeunier showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm one of the authors. Yes it is, which sometimes comforts me when I think of how long it's taken to get a version that works reasonable well. That said, it's also…”
238. A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip (alexbakker.me)
238 points | 2020 | author alexbakker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I should have made this clear in the blog post, but I'd be interested in seeing boot logs from Pixel 3 (or newer) devices. If the firmware update failed on more devices…”
239. What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile (v8.dev)
238 points | 2020 | author Aardappel showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has specific questions :)”
240. Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package (horizon-eda.org)
238 points | 2020 | author karotte showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me anything.”