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| 151. | The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf] (raw.githubusercontent.com) | |
| 350 points | 2021 | author hiranabe showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the nice comments. This article should have been titled as "Graphic Notes on Linear Algebra for Everyone", and Prof. Strang kindly suggested this big name. I…” | ||
| 152. | The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging (buttondown.email) | |
| 349 points | 2021 | author gklitt showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to say I emphatically agree with this and have found your work on rr and Pernosco very inspiring! Anyone who hasn’t seen this work should check it out.” | ||
| 153. | Publish and Perish (erikhoel.substack.com) | |
| 348 points | 2021 | author erikhoel showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to be listening in on some of the thoughts of HN. If you have a specific question or thought feel free to AMA.” | ||
| 154. | Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (surma.dev) | |
| 347 points | 2021 | author dassurma showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“You even included in the quote: It’s important to warm-up the code is so you don’t measure a mixture of performance characteristics between interpreted JS and compiled…” | ||
| 155. | Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies" (agateau.com) | |
| 346 points | 2021 | author agateau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I thought I would answer to some of the comments here. Definitely true. And I am not going to try to go against those rules. But I believe I am allowed to voice my…” | ||
| 156. | Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends? (jamespotter.dev) | |
| 344 points | 2021 | author drpancake showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I agree with you but the only recent HN data dump that I could find contained posts and not comments. I suspect the trend lines would look similar though.” | ||
| 157. | Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t (web.eecs.utk.edu) | |
| 341 points | 2021 | author azhenley showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm a professor that teaches software engineering and occasionally web development, sooo I think your comparison is inapt...” | ||
| 158. | Why Erlang? (fredrikholmqvist.com) | |
| 341 points | 2021 | author fredrikholm showed up | their comment | thread
“Yesterday was amazing, today continues in the same fashion. To everyone who read and commented, thank you. This means a lot to me.” | ||
| 159. | The data model behind Notion's flexibility (notion.so) | |
| 338 points | 2021 | author jitl showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.” | ||
| 160. | Taildrop was kind of easy (tailscale.com) | |
| 338 points | 2021 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions / respond to any rants if you like.” | ||
| 161. | Deep JavaScript (exploringjs.com) | |
| 337 points | 2021 | author rauschma showed up | their comment | thread
“Don’t forget that this book is for people who already know JavaScript well. It doesn’t try to explain the basics. This book does, though:” | ||
| 162. | Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling (github.com) | |
| 335 points | 2021 | author MStrehovsky showed up | their comment | thread
“I hang out on HN.) Yup. There's really not much extra code in bflat compared to what's in the dotnet/runtimelab repo (in the NativeAOT branch). This just packages things…” | ||
| 163. | Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac (monodraw.helftone.com) | |
| 335 points | 2021 | author milen showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 164. | Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees (github.com) | |
| 333 points | 2021 | author birchb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Often I have to digest log files and lists of Azure resource names. I prefer to work with hierarchies of things, so I wrote this simple filter. Turns out to quite handy,…” | ||
| 165. | Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust (github.com) | |
| 333 points | 2021 | author dzhou121 showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't expect this will go on Hacker News. Although the editor has been my daily drive for almost one year now, it's really rough on the edges. The plugin system as…” | ||
| 166. | My simple GitHub project went viral (gourav.io) | |
| 332 points | 2021 | author jerrygoyal showed up | their comment | thread
“lol, Grammarly didn't pick this. (En is not my native language). Thanks for informing, fixed it.” | ||
| 167. | Planning and estimating large-scale software projects (tomrussell.co.uk) | |
| 328 points | 2021 | author kalleth showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've been lucky enough in my career to hold some senior positions, and I thought I'd give a step-by-step on an approach I took with an "enterprise-scale" software…” | ||
| 168. | Show HN: A 64-step drum sequencer I built using React and Redux (sequencer64.com) | |
| 327 points | 2021 | author drumnickydrum showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’m a professional musician of 15 years transitioning into software development. With this app I aimed to create an intuitive and usable drum sequencer that would run in…” | ||
| 169. | Will Nix Overtake Docker? (blog.replit.com) | |
| 327 points | 2021 | author cbrewster showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“As with most things, its all about the trade-offs. Docker has certainly proved itself and that approach has worked on a massive scale. However, its not a silver bullet.…” | ||
| 170. | Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era (mapbox.com) | |
| 327 points | 2021 | author mourner showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“happy to see this upvoted, feel free to ask any questions about web maps!” | ||
| 171. | An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux (smcameron.github.io) | |
| 326 points | 2021 | author smcameron showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a little hesitant to wade into these comments, but I'll try to answer a few questions I see popping up, and some that I just made up. 1. Why do I have to compile the…” | ||
| 172. | The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine (crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com) | |
| 325 points | 2021 | author cryptoanonymous showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Using a throwaway for all the obvious reasons. I'll try to dive into this thread over the next few hours to answer any questions folks may have about this. Please feel…” | ||
| 173. | An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities (psl.com) | |
| 324 points | 2021 | author davepeck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I strongly disagree. While it’s certainly true that firmware on many devices can’t be or simply isn’t updated, it’s also the case that bugs ship. Because of this,…” | ||
| 174. | A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado (bikeindex.org) | |
| 324 points | 2021 | author bhance showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello. Article author here. Hit me up if anybody has questions.” | ||
| 175. | Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available (spencerdailey.com) | |
| 323 points | 2021 | author spenvo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can't reproduce it any longer either, seems they have pushed a server-side fix out for this issue” | ||
| 176. | Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector (justine.lol) | |
| 323 points | 2021 | author jart showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I assume you're referring to? It's hard for me to tell, since there's 819k lines of code in Mu according to find . -type f | grep -v '\.git' | xargs wc -l. Does it have…” | ||
| 177. | New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency (spectrum.ieee.org) | |
| 322 points | 2021 | author aqfp showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of the published paper that IEEE Spectrum referred to in the post. First off, thanks for posting! We're so delighted to see our work garner…” | ||
| 178. | Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP (mnmnotmail.org) | |
| 322 points | 2021 | author networkimprov showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry to be late to the party. AMA. Follow mnm! To address some comments... The protocol[1] has two layers, altho that's not emphasized in the draft. The outer layer…” | ||
| 179. | Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again (capiche.com) | |
| 321 points | 2021 | author maguay showed up | their comment | thread
“author here, thank you!” | ||
| 180. | That's not how 2FA works (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 320 points | 2021 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I did provide a few other reasons - mostly around usability of YubiKeys. Try observing a non-techie set one up and tell me if you think it is as easy as it could be.…” | ||
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