421. “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...”
422. 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…”
423. 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…”
424. 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.…”
425. 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…”
426. 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…”
427. 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!”
428. The architecture of Uber’s API gateway (eng.uber.com)
148 points | 2021 | author madan showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions.”
429. 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.”
430. Fibonacci Sphere (extremelearning.com.au)
148 points | 2021 | author extremelearning showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to try to answer any questions! ;)”
431. 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…”
432. 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…”
433. 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…”
434. 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…”
435. 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…”
436. 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.”
437. 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!”
438. 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...”
439. “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…”
440. 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.”
441. 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…”
442. 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!”
443. 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…”
444. 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”
445. 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…”
446. 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:”
447. 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…”
448. 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,…”
449. 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…”
450. 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…”