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| 451. | Printvideo.com (justine.lol) | |
| 139 points | 2021 | author jart showed up | their comment | thread
“This a toy program demo. MPEG-1 is the only one that's legally unencumbered by patents if I understand correctly. I'm sorry you didn't like it! You might like the other…” | ||
| 452. | The myth of the myth of the lone genius (rogersbacon.substack.com) | |
| 139 points | 2021 | author rogersbacon17 showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Well said, and this is definitely something like I was going for, but you probably said it more clearly.” | ||
| 453. | Lua, a Misunderstood Language (andregarzia.com) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author soapdog showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for linking. That being said, I'm always impressed with the fervour and effort that people put into complaining about Lua 1-based indexing. Folks, using a Meta…” | ||
| 454. | Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it (knowledgeartist.org) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author laybak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Wow this got a lot more attention than I had expected. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, including critical ones. The point about not being superficial/artificial…” | ||
| 455. | Why interruptions are frustrating to developers (tellspin.app) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author amozoss showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I totally agree! That's why I wrote tip number 4 "Record context as you go". I have a bash script that has the current command I'm working on (usually it's running a…” | ||
| 456. | Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig) (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 138 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“I do think that's a reasonable choice of tech in general, but I won't be using most of those for Mach for various reasons: * glm -> zig has native vector types with SIMD…” | ||
| 457. | Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush (dynomight.net) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author dynm showed up | their comment | thread
“I did not know that, and I'm not sure how it fits in! All else being equal, more ADH would imply faster acetaldehyde buildup, meaning men would have more of a "flush"…” | ||
| 458. | Reverse-engineering a vintage power supply chip from die photos (righto.com) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions or comments...” | ||
| 459. | I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem (streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com) | |
| 137 points | 2021 | author DoreenMichele showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's really not mostly mental health problems. I've studied this issue for years. I write about homelessness on Street Life Solutions. I try to write about housing and…” | ||
| 460. | Exploring FPGA Graphics (2020) (projectf.io) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“I’ll do my best to answer any questions. Be gentle; this is my first time on the receiving end of Hacker News. :)” | ||
| 461. | Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside (righto.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for any question :-)” | ||
| 462. | In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) (dynomight.net) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author dyno-might showed up | their comment | thread
“Any way we can change the link to here: ? This is a slightly updated version of the post (new links, slightly less unhinged language, and a link to this MBTI quiz that I…” | ||
| 463. | Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL (iamsafts.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author s3rg4fts showed up | their comment | thread
“The next thing I'm aiming to do is VACUUM more aggressively, like you propose. However, given that we update ~1m rows daily, I don't think that VACUUM alone would do the…” | ||
| 464. | Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods (jeremyong.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author ninepoints showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually deliberately kept the tiled lighting section hopefully devoid of any consideration for deferred vs forward since as you say we can (and do) do tiled light…” | ||
| 465. | Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 136 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry for the missing context. GLFW is very popular among game developers for opening graphics windows in a cross-platform way. This helps just Zig game developers for…” | ||
| 466. | A Ceph war story (michael-prokop.at) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author mikagrml showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, it was an XFS/controller issue, but Ceph reported the failure. :) (IMO it wasn't really a good decision from Ceph to use 100MB XFS partitions as a kind of database,…” | ||
| 467. | Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (micahlerner.com) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author robertnishihara showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for all the comments and discussion! To add to the discussion, I'll mention a few conceptual things that have changed since we wrote the paper. Emphasis on the…” | ||
| 468. | Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly (incident.io) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author peterejhamilton showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Normally I'd agree with you, but in this case we're explicitly dealing with external IDs that we want to be incrementing. Our internal IDs and API IDs actually follow a…” | ||
| 469. | Do Low-Level Optimizations Matter? (2020) (cantrip.org) | |
| 134 points | 2021 | author ncmncm showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't know this was on HN until just now.” | ||
| 470. | SkiftOS: Simple, handmade operating system for the x86 platform (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author monax showed up | their comment | thread
“skift was ported from C to C++, wich explain why most of the code is still "C-ish". The port was relatively easy thanks to the -Wc++-compat flags” | ||
| 471. | Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You? (tanelpoder.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author tanelpoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It would be interesting to test the performance difference. I downloaded the source of one of my distro-provided kernels & recompiled it with different config setting…” | ||
| 472. | Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems (github.com) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author jonnadal showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm also working on a related book covering distributed algorithms: It includes a comparison w/ TLA+/TLC for those familiar with those technologies.” | ||
| 473. | Training computer vision models on random noise instead of real images (unite.ai) | |
| 133 points | 2021 | author jswulff showed up | their comment | thread
“To hopefully clarify, our work is in the context of representation learning, which is a bit different from a "standard" classification. For example, to classify a hotdog…” | ||
| 474. | Why do interviewers ask linked list questions? (hillelwayne.com) | |
| 130 points | 2021 | author hwayne showed up | their comment | thread
“Why wouldn't interviewing DMs on Twitter be research? I'm getting "oral histories" from a bunch of different people and comparing them for common patterns. It wasn't the…” | ||
| 475. | Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin (foreignpolicy.com) | |
| 130 points | 2021 | author davidgerard showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“What you describe would be nice, but it's literally not what's happening here. It turns out you can't just arbitrarily declare "we're setting up geothermal here", as…” | ||
| 476. | Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU (incoherency.co.uk) | |
| 129 points | 2021 | author jstanley showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting this! If anyone wants to read more about this project, you might enjoy the "cpu" tag on my blog: or the "doc/" directory in the git repo: The latest…” | ||
| 477. | LLVM Internals: The Bitcode Format (blog.yossarian.net) | |
| 129 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions about the bitcode format, at least as far as I've explored it :-) This post also has a second part, which I published last week[1]. That…” | ||
| 478. | A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations (about.sourcegraph.com) | |
| 129 points | 2021 | author Scaevolus showed up | their comment | thread
“ask me anything! :-)” | ||
| 479. | RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term (blog.chromium.org) | |
| 129 points | 2021 | author chrishtr showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“The launch in Chrome 94 does not affect WebGL. It's just for HTML/CSS content. If you can reproduce the issue and can share a URL that does so, please file a bug at…” | ||
| 480. | The failed globalization of psychedelic drugs in the early modern world (cambridge.org) | |
| 128 points | 2021 | author benbreen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is an open-access journal article, mostly about the colonial histories of peyote, psilocybin and ayahuasca. If you aren't able to access it and want to, just get in…” | ||
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