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Show HN: Resume maker with no sign-up or subscription (luckyresumemaker.com) |
| 118 points | 2021 | author tofukid showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I made this using Haskell for the web server, and Preact for the JavaScript. The resume is converted to PDF by translating HTML into canvas and using JSPDF to turn the…” |
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Reverse-engineering an unusual IBM modem board from 1965 (righto.com) |
| 118 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about vintage IBM hardware :-)” |
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Timescale Announces New Database Cloud (blog.timescale.com) |
| 118 points | 2021 | author mfreed showed up | their comment | thread
“and I can also say that I'm not thrilled from the serverless phrase either. It's turtles all the way down =) But for better or worse, it seems like the industry has…” |
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Rust’s async isn’t colored (hobofan.com) |
| 116 points | 2021 | author hobofan showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you've made a good point, though I disagree on the expensiveness. I think the point I should have tried to make is "Rust's async fns are colored, but I don't…” |
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Resurrecting Fortran (ondrejcertik.com) |
| 116 points | 2021 | author certik showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, some people did not like the title, I didn't realize that it necessary means Fortran was dead. I meant it in the way of "rejuvenate". Fortran was not dead.” |
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Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser (github.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author vykthur showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“this is a known issue and being worked on for handtrack.js 2.0. The face/head errors is likely an artifact of transfer learning (handtrackjs is finetuned on the an…” |
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Proofs Should Repair Themselves (galois.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author mikedodds showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“If anyone isn't familiar with Galois, we're a consultancy that does a lot of formal methods and proof, which is why it would be great if proofs were easier to manage :)…” |
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020) (workos.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author grinich showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“(Founder of WorkOS) Lots of people have written about how to scale event-based systems or how to design distributed infrastructure for queue management. But what's often…” |
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Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size (janstechtalk.blogspot.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author janandonly showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“:-) Sorry for my lame English. I really should not write blogs after midnight... Anyways, a lot of you are asking for what command-line options I used for FFMPEG. So…” |
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C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013) (monkeywritescode.blogspot.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author nicolasbrailo showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; worth noting this article was written a decade ago, and while the concepts it describes are probably still useful (or so I'm told) the text is starting to…” |
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“Static Linking Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful (gavinhoward.com) |
| 115 points | 2021 | author ghoward showed up | their comment (+14 more) | thread
“I don't know why my own submission of this [1] didn't catch and this one did. Oh well. XD I'm open to answering questions, and I'll be hanging in the thread. [1]:” |
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Show HN: git-peek – git repo to local editor instantly (github.com) |
| 114 points | 2021 | author Jarred showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this is actually not a bug, but a deliberate design decision (so long as you meant, when the editor closes). I’m sorry for the confusion. git peek is not a faster…” |
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From coding bootcamp graduate to building distributed databases (richardartoul.medium.com) |
| 114 points | 2021 | author richieartoul showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Nand2tetris is pretty awesome if you don’t already have strong CS fundamentals and feel like you “know how computers work”. If you had a good C.S education though you…” |
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How much can a Clojure developer do alone? (yyhh.org) |
| 113 points | 2021 | author huahaiy showed up | their comment | thread
“I started programming in 80s (yes I am old), so I probably know more languages than people who are younger than me. I also taught programming in universities in my…” |
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There are infinite worlds to explore (moultano.wordpress.com) |
| 113 points | 2021 | author moultano showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad you all are enjoying this. It was a lot of fun to make. You might also like my previous piece that had an accompanying narrative.” |
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Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust (blog.yossarian.net) |
| 113 points | 2021 | author woodruffw showed up | their comment | thread
“so I can try to answer that. The first (and lazy) answer is that it was an educational exercise: I wanted to try my hand at writing in Python package in Rust, and this…” |
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You can't have too many angels (waseem.substack.com) |
| 111 points | 2021 | author wdaher showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm not affiliated with AngelList at all, though I did invest via one of their RUVs once and was a fan of the experience. (I'd largely written the post before even being…” |
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Multicore OCaml: October 2021 (discuss.ocaml.org) |
| 111 points | 2021 | author Drup showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author if anyone has questions. :)” |
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Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy (rvalles.net) |
| 110 points | 2021 | author rvalles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am amazed it made frontpage. openbsd's httpd seems to be handling the load well. I will read your comments if any :)” |
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Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp (github.com) |
| 110 points | 2021 | author codr7 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Whirlog is a minimal versioned log structured relational DB implemented in Common Lisp. It's a design I've been playing around with in several languages to solve my…” |
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Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism (mleverything.substack.com) |
| 109 points | 2021 | author bko showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree Tesla is miles ahead, but they're not offering the same product. Comma is comfortably level 2 self driving, essentially lane keep. They don't detect red lights…” |
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Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018) (darekkay.com) |
| 109 points | 2021 | author darekkay showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I get your point about general comment negativity. But I've also received great feedback over the years (it wasn't 1% of all comments). People pointing out errors or…” |
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What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020) (biojulia.net) |
| 109 points | 2021 | author jakobnissen showed up | their comment | thread
“That link is to an older version of the post - an updated version can be found here:” |
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A Macintosh History 85.10 (systemtalk.org) |
| 108 points | 2021 | author WillFlux showed up | their comment | thread
“The post discusses ExperLisp for Macintosh, but I’ve never managed to find a copy. If anyone knows the whereabouts of an ExperLisp binary, I’d love to try running it.…” |
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From zero to hero: contributing to open source (2017) (miparnisariblog.wordpress.com) |
| 108 points | 2021 | author mparnisari showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The original author of the repo gave me permissions to push because he didn't have time to maintain it.” |
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I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts (blog.usejournal.com) |
| 107 points | 2021 | author ethanblake4 showed up | their comment | thread
“the exact same thing that I did is possible for any 3rd party SSO on mobile apps. It's not a Google exploit, it's an exploit in the idea of SSO.” |
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Show HN: "100 Page Python Intro" eBook (learnbyexample.github.io) |
| 107 points | 2021 | author asicsp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited: * As a reference material for Python beginner…” |
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To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014) (lighttable.com) |
| 107 points | 2021 | author jamii showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. Such nostalgia. With tools like airtable and notion around today, we're actually making substantial progress towards making simple tasks easy. These…” |
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Reflections on E-Bikes (ebikes.neighbor-ryan.org) |
| 107 points | 2021 | author rdubz showed up | their comment | thread
“"Better bike infrastructure" and "a bit of pedal assist" are both good things that we need more of. Even in the best possible future, I believe cycling in US cities will…” |
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PCB Business Card (github.com) |
| 107 points | 2021 | author Hanqaqa showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I corrected and pointed at it in the github. This project was just a quick test where I wanted to try the results. I tried making it as cheap as possible, so I cheaped…” |
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