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| 121. | Scientists create matter from pure light, proving the Breit-Wheeler effect (bnl.gov) | |
| 399 points | 2021 | author jdbburg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You are correct, the famous SLAC result already demonstrated that light can be converted into matter, but they needed several photons >4, average of about 6 - that is…” | ||
| 122. | How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation (lucasfcosta.com) | |
| 396 points | 2021 | author lucasfcosta showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I thought no one was going to make comments about Rust, but I just loved using it for this post. Thanks, Peter :)” | ||
| 123. | In praise of --dry-run (gresearch.co.uk) | |
| 395 points | 2021 | author Smaug123 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“A whistlestop tour of the technique "insert a lightweight API boundary down the middle of a tool, for fun and profit". It leads you towards a structure that has lots of…” | ||
| 124. | HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections (portswigger.net) | |
| 393 points | 2021 | author albinowax_ showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“please let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
| 125. | I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries (ritchievink.com) | |
| 389 points | 2021 | author ritchie46 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Polars is not an alternative to PyArrow. Polars merely uses arrow as its in-memory representation of data. Similar to how pandas uses numpy. Arrow provides the efficient…” | ||
| 126. | How to win at CORS (jakearchibald.com) | |
| 389 points | 2021 | author jaffathecake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I used to have strong feelings about formatting stuff like this, but I since realised there are better things to spend effort on. For formatting, I just let do it's…” | ||
| 127. | My Third Year as a Solo Developer (mtlynch.io) | |
| 385 points | 2021 | author mtlynch showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback about this post. HN has been a huge part of my experience bootstrapping my business. I've learned a great deal from…” | ||
| 128. | Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020) (spieswl.github.io) | |
| 385 points | 2021 | author spieswl showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, uh, I definitely did not expect to be featured on HN this morning, but seeing this linked put a massive smile on my face. There are just so many examples of…” | ||
| 129. | Have I Been Facebooked? (haveibeenfacebooked.com) | |
| 384 points | 2021 | author MarcoBuster showed up | their comment | thread
“We are already aware of your concerns about giving out your phone number. The source code is free and reviewable on Github. We know it's not possible to verify what's…” | ||
| 130. | Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit (tech.channable.com) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author rkrzr showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree that Nix not being statically typed is one of the biggest drawbacks of the language. Having it statically typed with a strong type system like Haskell's would…” | ||
| 131. | Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server (devopsdirective.com) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author spalas showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for the kind words. I didn't know about UPX. I should add an update to the end with this trick!” | ||
| 132. | Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes (davidar.io) | |
| 383 points | 2021 | author david_ar showed up | their comment | thread
“This was definitely something I struggled with when creating this simulation. Reasonably fast simulations of tectonics and erosion have already been done before: some…” | ||
| 133. | Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (bart.degoe.de) | |
| 381 points | 2021 | author bartdegoede showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you may want to check out something like Whoosh (it's like a clone of Lucene but in pure Python). I've used this to build some basic search for a small Python website…” | ||
| 134. | Spaces launch in Element (element.io) | |
| 379 points | 2021 | author nadc showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, you hit the nail on the head. On the Matrix/spec side, we ensured Spaces are generically useful and flexible enough to organise rooms. However, in testing and…” | ||
| 135. | Quaternions (liorsinai.github.io) | |
| 377 points | 2021 | author the_origami_fox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“thanks for the tip. Definitely think this looks better” | ||
| 136. | We Hire Old People (relevantdb.com) | |
| 375 points | 2021 | author ccleve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Holy cow, I didn't expect to be #1 on Hacker News. Will answer any questions. Here's one you might ask: Why? I'm pushing 60 and I've attempted to interview for developer…” | ||
| 137. | Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (softwaredoug.com) | |
| 373 points | 2021 | author softwaredoug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“wow that's great! I am still learning Ruby (hence the article to try to grok things).” | ||
| 138. | How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls (signal.org) | |
| 371 points | 2021 | author pthatcherg showed up | their comment (+8 more) | thread
“The server doesn't know who is in the call. It can't build any graph.” | ||
| 139. | OO in Python is mostly pointless (leontrolski.github.io) | |
| 370 points | 2021 | author leontrolski showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I used to think that, but I've since found myself working on a similar sized codebase where we use very little OO and none of these problems have manifested themselves.…” | ||
| 140. | How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 368 points | 2021 | author BotJunkie showed up | their comment | thread
“Since your sister has posted this publicly on her Twitter account, I'll happily add her name to our article if I can get in touch with her/BD to confirm. [Edited to add…” | ||
| 141. | Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources (github.com) | |
| 368 points | 2021 | author kmcquade showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Endgame exploits/abuses features. If it was a bug, I'd work with AWS to solve the problem, but with abusing features - that would result in years of unsatisfied feature…” | ||
| 142. | Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020) (github.com) | |
| 366 points | 2021 | author s-macke showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That is exactly what is going on here. I just move the horizon line up and down. This works very well as long as the rotation remains small. That is also the reason, why…” | ||
| 143. | Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills (cloudbite.attejuvonen.fi) | |
| 365 points | 2021 | author baobabKoodaa showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many…” | ||
| 144. | Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip (blog.yiningkarlli.com) | |
| 365 points | 2021 | author ykl showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm aware that that the Xeon E5-2680 is ancient, which is why I also included comparisons with the Xeon W-3245 that is in the current 2019 Mac Pro, and with the…” | ||
| 145. | The complexity that lives in the GUI (blog.royalsloth.eu) | |
| 361 points | 2021 | author RoyalSloth showed up | their comment | thread
“This is not related to this discussion, but does anybody know what causes these lines to appear in my server logs? <REDACTED> - - [14/Feb/2021:22:26:45 +0100] "GET…” | ||
| 146. | The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists (thirtythreeforty.net) | |
| 358 points | 2021 | author thrtythreeforty showed up | their comment | thread
“Great point - I totally forgot to write up CalcNet! It was a protocol designed by KermMartian (DoorsCS guy) for connecting up to 8 calculators to a "local network" of…” | ||
| 147. | I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer (stackoverflow.blog) | |
| 354 points | 2021 | author kristinamay showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi! Blog post author here. I didn't keep my old salary, nope. I took a substantial pay cut in order to do this.” | ||
| 148. | Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader (tnhh.net) | |
| 352 points | 2021 | author jimmies showed up | their comment | thread
“I was actually somewhat worried that someone gonna get to my Pi that has some other stuff running on it, because I am absolutely not doing any security and sandboxing on…” | ||
| 149. | Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome (devlog.hexops.com) | |
| 351 points | 2021 | author slimsag showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Mecha looks really nice! One difference that makes Mecha's look really nice/simple is they are being built at compile time, whereas the ones I outline in this blog post…” | ||
| 150. | Driving with D (dlang.org) | |
| 351 points | 2021 | author 0dyl showed up | their comment | thread
“Feel free to ask any questions you may have. I have to go to bed, I have work in about 4 hours, so I'll reply when I can.” | ||
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