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| 241. | Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing (bottosson.github.io) | |
| 236 points | 2020 | author bjornornorn showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Wow, thanks a lot! If anyone has any questions feel free to post here and I can try to answer. I have another post that goes into more detail onhow software often gets…” | ||
| 242. | Executable PNGs (djharper.dev) | |
| 236 points | 2020 | author djhworld showed up | their comment | thread
“hello. The post glosses over some aspects of the implementation, for example to fit some executables into an image you can optionally compress the data with gzip and…” | ||
| 243. | Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history (beepb00p.xyz) | |
| 234 points | 2020 | author karlicoss showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“thanks! Haven't seen your tool in particular, thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I only used before, but haven't set up an automatic archival pipeline (yet)! Also,…” | ||
| 244. | Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking (mtlynch.io) | |
| 233 points | 2020 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi all. Author here. This is a follow-up from my post last week, "Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites": As always, feedback and questions are…” | ||
| 245. | Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base (github.com) | |
| 233 points | 2020 | author The_Colonel showed up | their comment | thread
“if you want to ask anything ...” | ||
| 246. | Breakthrough in inverse Laplace transform procedures (inverselaplace.org) | |
| 233 points | 2020 | author hilles showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! One of the authors here. Thank you for the exposure and feedback! We really appreciate it. About the code. We have added comments and simple running examples to the…” | ||
| 247. | 8086 Microcode Disassembled (reenigne.org) | |
| 233 points | 2020 | author ajenner showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has any questions.” | ||
| 248. | Sockets in Your Shell (who23.github.io) | |
| 233 points | 2020 | author who23 showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Yeah, I stumbled on this while doing a little research into zsh socket capabilities, but I decided to exclude it because the post was more about network sockets than…” | ||
| 249. | Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R (tylermw.com) | |
| 232 points | 2020 | author tylermw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to show how you can use the rayshader package to generate 3D maps in R using free and open data (in this case, Landsat 8 imagery and SRTM elevation data).…” | ||
| 250. | C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) (digitalmars.com) | |
| 232 points | 2020 | author WalterBright showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be blunt and repeat a prediction I made 3 years ago or so: C is finished if it doesn't address the buffer overflow problem, and this proposal is a simple, easy,…” | ||
| 251. | Buy Don't Build (jrott.com) | |
| 232 points | 2020 | author jrott showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Author here I actually think spreadsheets are great because they are so accessible. What isn’t great though is when there is a business processs that is a spreadsheet…” | ||
| 252. | Andreessen vs. Thiel (2017) (allenleein.github.io) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author allenleein showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thank you for the precious feedback! I'm working on it.” | ||
| 253. | Show HN: Using Rust to write shell-script like tasks (github.com) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author rustshellscript showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your feedback. This library is calling std::process::command underneath without any shell dependency, which I believe is the same as plumbum’s run* APIs and I…” | ||
| 254. | Zoomquilt 2 (2007) (zoomquilt2.com) | |
| 231 points | 2020 | author baumgarn showed up | their comment | thread
“The original implementations of Zoomquilt 1+2 were done in flash. I created the HTML5 port in 2013. Zoomquilt 2 consists of 88 single images, each 1024x768px. Basically…” | ||
| 255. | Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous (pythonspeed.com) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author itamarst showed up | their comment | thread
“to reduce confusion I changed the article to use a new term, "hidden mutability".” | ||
| 256. | United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus (bookwithcarry.com) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author tejasmanohar showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Didn't realize this blew up on HN... We don't know the cause of the difference in price, but we're comparing two basic economy tickets here so if there's any fare…” | ||
| 257. | All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL (devguide.python.org) | |
| 230 points | 2020 | author di showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here. If you hover over the individual bars, it will give you more detail like start/end month and total lifespan.” | ||
| 258. | Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register (righto.com) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“What part of the 8086 chip should I write about next?” | ||
| 259. | How to take meeting notes (barehands.substack.com) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author flreln showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Just to clarify: the process is for long personal meetings with people I know and respect, where we discuss ideas and things we’re curious about.” | ||
| 260. | Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 (blog.ipfs.io) | |
| 229 points | 2020 | author Ericson2314 showed up | their comment | thread
“I absolutely agree it's hard to go head-to-head with s3 in the short term --- this is why I am most excited about sharing sources. Once the ecosystem is bootstrapped, it…” | ||
| 261. | How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book (blakeboles.com) | |
| 227 points | 2020 | author blakebo showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for commenting!” | ||
| 262. | Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013) (tylerneylon.com) | |
| 226 points | 2020 | author tylerneylon showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm delighted to see this is still interesting / useful to folks. In case anyone is curious, here's a short origin story for this tutorial. I learned Lua for a game jam…” | ||
| 263. | Principles for great product managers (reeve.blog) | |
| 226 points | 2020 | author AlexDReeve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd love feedback – I'm also happy to answer any questions and/or debate!” | ||
| 264. | Readme Driven Development (2010) (tom.preston-werner.com) | |
| 226 points | 2020 | author mojombo showed up | their comment | thread
“Fun to see this come up on HN again, every so often. Readme Driven Development still serves me well (that’s how we drove RedwoodJS early on) and we even expanded that…” | ||
| 265. | Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015) (github.com) | |
| 226 points | 2020 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this issue and I don't really know what you're talking about. Terseness is something I value in bug reports as a maintainer myself. I don't want to…” | ||
| 266. | Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers (aiprobook.com) | |
| 225 points | 2020 | author dragandj showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Please consider an alternative viewpoint: you can try the book draft for $9, and if you don't like it, just don't continue subscription. Total cost: $9. If you like the…” | ||
| 267. | Programs are a prison: Rethinking the building blocks of computing interfaces (djrobstep.com) | |
| 225 points | 2020 | author djrobstep showed up | their comment | thread
“yes this is a big problem (the biggest?), as the incentives are all wrong. As I noted in the post: "Often ... apps will have features to integrate with other apps and…” | ||
| 268. | Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API (github.com) | |
| 224 points | 2020 | author jeanloolz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sheetfu original goal was to port the Google Apps Script API for spreadsheet (made in javascript) to Python, so you'll see a lot of common ground between those 2 libs.…” | ||
| 269. | Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library (mattermost.com) | |
| 223 points | 2020 | author jupenur showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Blog author here; Russell's implementation is backed by github.com/beevik/etree, but like you said, it's just an interface. The tokenizer is still encoding/xml. Adding…” | ||
| 270. | Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time (lukashermann.dev) | |
| 223 points | 2020 | author _antix showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have thought about your and other peoples comments. It could well be just rounded to the nearest integer, making my +500ms assumption wrong. However, this would result…” | ||
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