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“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s (righto.com) |
| 151 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” |
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Ruby Is Still a Diamond (medium.com) |
| 150 points | 2021 | author shuckforjustice showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey guys, I'm the author of this article and I have been rueing the day I ever said this. I have since received complaints and/or restraining orders from a number of…” |
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Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks (singlelunch.com) |
| 149 points | 2021 | author VHRanger showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Seems like another post of mine (my take on BTC) was randomly posted and became popular at the same time I posted this one. I'm trying to get the wordpress host's cache…” |
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Our Dumb Security Questionnaire (hangar.tech) |
| 149 points | 2021 | author jacobian showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Well, you could always use this questionnaire as a starting point itself: ask yourself these questions, and if you're not happy with the answers, do something about it.…” |
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Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android (getaegis.app) |
| 149 points | 2021 | author alexbakker showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Yes! Aegis can scan the QR codes that Google Authenticator presents in the "Transfer accounts" screen. It's also possible to import directly from Google Authenticator's…” |
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The Railsification of SaaS (keithwhor.medium.com) |
| 149 points | 2021 | author keithwhor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey all, I wrote this to talk a little about how I think about the future of software development in the next decade; I'm happy to chat about it if anybody has any…” |
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Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (justinjaffray.com) |
| 148 points | 2021 | author foldU showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a great document I hadn't seen, thanks for sharing!” |
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The architecture of Uber’s API gateway (eng.uber.com) |
| 148 points | 2021 | author madan showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions.” |
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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010) (queue.acm.org) |
| 148 points | 2021 | author phkamp showed up | their comment | thread
“and I'm here if you have questions.” |
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Fibonacci Sphere (extremelearning.com.au) |
| 148 points | 2021 | author extremelearning showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to try to answer any questions! ;)” |
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Playable Quotes for Game Boy (tenmile.quote.games) |
| 148 points | 2021 | author jf showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone, I’m one of the authors of this project and I’m happy to answer questions! You can read more about how this works here: We also have a presentation on…” |
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Physical Warp Drives (iopscience.iop.org) |
| 147 points | 2021 | author gmartire showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all, I'm one of the authors of the paper Introducing Physical Warp Drives and a Y Combinator alum (YC W'14). This video does a great job explaining our paper and…” |
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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2) (thatgeoguy.ca) |
| 147 points | 2021 | author ThatGeoGuy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“a lot of the FOSS stack can run on Android-based phones today! I think the hardware is a limiting factor, but part of what makes these devices unique (as other…” |
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Modern XMPP (docs.modernxmpp.org) |
| 147 points | 2021 | author MattJ100 showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, Movim is a great project! The Movim author has indeed contributed to the Modern XMPP documentation. As one of the other commenters pointed out, most of the current…” |
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Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next (notonlycode.org) |
| 147 points | 2021 | author arnvald showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“that's a very fair point that I didn't consider. It totally makes sense that the number of available jobs looks smaller than it is, because some of them are never really…” |
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Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller (righto.com) |
| 146 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone wants to discuss IBM's chips.” |
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The Database Inside Your Codebase (feifan.blog) |
| 145 points | 2021 | author feifan showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page background properly in dark mode. I'll get that fixed!” |
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Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo (righto.com) |
| 145 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions on Apollo communication...” |
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“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.” (miles.land) |
| 145 points | 2021 | author epoch_100 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's to encourage people to apply, and to bring attention to what I think is a really awesome place. I don't want it to come across as pompous, though I get that to some…” |
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A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B (righto.com) |
| 144 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“if anyone has questions or comments.” |
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A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View (nchammas.com) |
| 144 points | 2021 | author nchammas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Are you thinking of a specific implementation of materialized views? Most implementations from traditional RDBMSs would indeed be too limiting to use as a general data…” |
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Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars (francoisbest.com) |
| 143 points | 2021 | author franky47 showed up | their comment | thread
“I love this song, and I had never seen the music video before. Thanks for pointing out a happy coincidence!” |
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Is Google’s AI research about to implode? (soccermatics.medium.com) |
| 142 points | 2021 | author DavidSumpter showed up | their comment | thread
“I think it is interesting with this "axe to grind" response (there was another above). I am an independent researcher, a professor at a University. And I have absolutely…” |
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An Overview of Docker Desktop Alternatives (matt-rickard.com) |
| 142 points | 2021 | author rckrd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree. Even as a past maintainer of minikube, I still am a frequent user of Docker Desktop and would gladly pay for it” |
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Using Zig's translate-C to understand weird C code (zig.news) |
| 142 points | 2021 | author sobeston showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm just showing how I did it. It took a few minutes to do it for myself - figured it would be worth the 15 minutes or so it'd take to write it down. Just sharing my…” |
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Things I learned writing my first technical book (blog.klipse.tech) |
| 142 points | 2021 | author viebel showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“In my book, I used mind maps to let the readers visualize a high level summary of a chapter. Here is an example of such a mind map:” |
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Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python (death.andgravity.com) |
| 141 points | 2021 | author genericlemon24 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yup, good thing to note, thank you! I've kinda assumed everyone knows about the named parameters some bindings offer, but that's probably not true. Will add a…” |
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Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep (jemma.dev) |
| 140 points | 2021 | author jemmaissroff showed up | their comment | thread
“let me know if you have any questions / suggestions for future blog posts. Planning a series around Ruby's GC, definitely with future posts on incremental marking,…” |
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How to Evaluate Startup Offers (faingezicht.com) |
| 140 points | 2021 | author avyfain showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“happy to answer any questions! I'm planning to write a more advanced version of this article in a few months, discussing tax implications, the "should I exercise my…” |
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A few HiDPI tricks for Linux (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 139 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“as they say, Linux is free if your time is worthless. In my case, my time isn’t worthless but I do enjoy configuring my system. The tweaks shown in those blog post took…” |
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