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| 211. | Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning (kwokchain.com) | |
| 288 points | 2021 | author kak9 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yes, totally right. There was a bunch i wanted to write about Adobe. Both XD and the current moves they've made with CC etc. But had to cut because too much--so…” | ||
| 212. | Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis (ajxs.me) | |
| 287 points | 2021 | author ajxs showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I wish! I own a TG77, and it's an absolutely amazing synth. While I don't have any direct experience with the SY99, the 77 was so far ahead of its time. The sheer amount…” | ||
| 213. | Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash (roadtoramen.com) | |
| 286 points | 2021 | author dkthehuman showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you HN for helping me get my extension back up! <3 Wish it didn't require getting on the front page to find a timely resolution on these sorts of issues, but it's…” | ||
| 214. | Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019) (chriskiehl.com) | |
| 286 points | 2021 | author goostavos showed up | their comment | thread
“Howdy! Author here ^_^ I'll respond to a few items because, even though I haven't touched the system in a few years, I could still rant endless about the mistakes I made…” | ||
| 215. | The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications (markusstrasser.org) | |
| 285 points | 2021 | author markusstrasser showed up | their comment | thread
“Great discussion so far. Will update the post with some of the comments and critiques.” | ||
| 216. | How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client (missiveapp.com) | |
| 284 points | 2021 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“someone on Twitter asked to expand a bit on where our users came from, given some of you might have the same question. Early on we were featured by Apple couple of times…” | ||
| 217. | The Case of the 50ms request (mysteries.wizardzines.com) | |
| 284 points | 2021 | author jvns showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote a post about the design of this game on my blog:” | ||
| 218. | My Life in E-Ink (rgoswami.me) | |
| 282 points | 2021 | author HaoZeke showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd still recommend going over to the MobilRead forums; and picking up an older Kobo device (like the Aura HD ^_^). They don't even need any user registration (). There…” | ||
| 219. | What's Accenture? (2020) (retool.com) | |
| 282 points | 2021 | author gagejustins showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here - I had a few friends who worked at Accenture in the past, and always wondered what they do...and why they're worth so much. I dug in (we did the same…” | ||
| 220. | Category Theory Illustrated – Logic (boris-marinov.github.io) | |
| 282 points | 2021 | author boris_m showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“let me know what you think.” | ||
| 221. | FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020) (topikettunen.com) | |
| 280 points | 2021 | author kettunen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is an old post of mine which I happened to find useful. Orchestration of jails moved quite bit forward lately! For example, you can manage your jails quite nicely…” | ||
| 222. | The Pinecone Overlay Network (matrix.org) | |
| 279 points | 2021 | author neilalexander showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven’t really had the opportunity yet to actually sit down and document how the routing algorithm works in plain English (or indeed to write a specification for what…” | ||
| 223. | Running Nomad for a Home Server (mrkaran.dev) | |
| 278 points | 2021 | author mr-karan showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Hm, now that you point this out, I do get your point. However you can't run multiple different Pods in a deployment (you can run multiple containers in a Pod), that's…” | ||
| 224. | Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020) (fmentzer.github.io) | |
| 278 points | 2021 | author atorodius showed up | their comment | thread
“funny to see this popping up on HN :) Was definitly a fun ride making this.” | ||
| 225. | The Surreal Horror of Pam (christine.website) | |
| 278 points | 2021 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a fun talk to write, easily one of my favorites.” | ||
| 226. | FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain (github.com) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author vrangan showed up | their comment | thread
“Not trying to promote myself but since you posted, the v3 of the board is available on the tinyvision.ai and tindie stores. I discontinued v2 as it was a terrible design…” | ||
| 227. | Cryptocurrency Is an Abject Disaster (drewdevault.com) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author ddevault showed up | their comment | thread
“It's hardly ruining my business, it's just a nuisance. I have long denounced cryptocurrencies since well before this incident, including on HN:” | ||
| 228. | Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser (therecord.media) | |
| 275 points | 2021 | author campuscodi showed up | their comment | thread
“With all due respect, but I will have to push back on your categorization as 'slightly misleading' here. Your explanation effectively explains the headline and is also…” | ||
| 229. | Tracing Paper (2020) (logicmag.io) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author xkeysc0re showed up | their comment | thread
“The dots themselves aren't printed with UV ink it's just that the UV light makes it easier to see them due to the yellow ink used. There were images I sent the magazine…” | ||
| 230. | Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network (devever.net) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author hlandau showed up | their comment | thread
“These lawsuits involving Lee are also of interest:” | ||
| 231. | Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows (mattferraro.dev) | |
| 272 points | 2021 | author mferraro89 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“That's a fantastic question! I think you're right that a better solution would include adding curvature to the individual "pixels" in the lens mesh. Unfortunately I…” | ||
| 232. | How to train large deep learning models as a startup (assemblyai.com) | |
| 271 points | 2021 | author dylanbfox showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comments! In general - this is expensive stuff. Training big, accurate models just requires a lot of compute, and there is a "barrier to entry" wrt…” | ||
| 233. | The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (righto.com) | |
| 271 points | 2021 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions about this classic synthesizer's internals.” | ||
| 234. | Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems (foxhound.systems) | |
| 269 points | 2021 | author Albert_Camus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Having written a lot of Haskell, I don't find lazy evaluation to be an issue nearly as often as it is a benefit. Yes, it can be difficult to reason about at times, but…” | ||
| 235. | How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages (browser.engineering) | |
| 269 points | 2021 | author pavpanchekha showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“A basic styling engine is the very next chapter, so it should be out in about two months, depending on how the writing process goes.” | ||
| 236. | Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go (threedots.tech) | |
| 269 points | 2021 | author m110 showed up | their comment | thread
“The example is exactly what we base the book on. The chapters go through refactoring of this app.” | ||
| 237. | The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition (jamesward.com) | |
| 266 points | 2021 | author jlward4th showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the Go language feels very archaic when using more modern languages. Some things I miss when I use Go: immutability as a default, monadic error handling, type…” | ||
| 238. | Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017) (girliemac.com) | |
| 266 points | 2021 | author girlie_mac showed up | their comment | thread
“This probably isn't for everybody but if you like tech && cats, I made "HTTP Status Cats" a long time ago too. I believe that one satisfies more of you. (I don't own the…” | ||
| 239. | Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects (rubick.com) | |
| 264 points | 2021 | author jaderubick showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Most teams don’t work in this way in my experience. The key is how “milestone” is defined in the article.” | ||
| 240. | Replit now supports every programming language in Nix (blog.replit.com) | |
| 263 points | 2021 | author cbrewster showed up | their comment | thread
“The Nix environment on Replit is under development right now, we hid the configuration files to clean up the filetree as most users shouldn't need to know about the…” | ||
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