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| 61. | Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning (deepmind.com) | |
| 443 points | 2022 | author 317070 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“We validated the neural network controller on the real plant in a couple of experiments. All experiments in the paper are based on data from running the controller on an…” | ||
| 62. | On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage (walkingtheworld.substack.com) | |
| 433 points | 2022 | author Chris_arnade showed up | their comment | thread
“So you can yell at me here. Thanks again for all the interesting comments. Hacker news is the best. One of the few places I read the comments and learn.” | ||
| 63. | Node.js packages don't deserve trust (josephg.com) | |
| 432 points | 2022 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Hi! Author here. I write a lot more Rust than Javascript these days, and I agree - this is absolutely a problem I'd love to eventually see addressed in the rust…” | ||
| 64. | I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020) (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 428 points | 2022 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this in 2020, have changed jobs twice since. Both jobs involved Go in some capacity, where it's supposed to shine (web services). It has not been a pleasant…” | ||
| 65. | Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL (blog.rustprooflabs.com) | |
| 428 points | 2022 | author petereisentraut showed up | their comment | thread
“The background here is that the SQL standard was ambiguous about which of the two ways an implementation should behave. So in the upcoming SQL:202x, this was addressed…” | ||
| 66. | I still love PHP and JavaScript (the.scapegoat.dev) | |
| 427 points | 2022 | author larve showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thank you for reading the article and taking the time to comment. Every legacy codebase I have worked with was actually a successful business. That probably plays a big…” | ||
| 67. | How to create a Python package in 2022 (mathspp.com) | |
| 424 points | 2022 | author RojerGS showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks a lot for sharing this! Also, can't believe everyone let me get away with not writing about documentation! I'll see to it that it gets done and added to the…” | ||
| 68. | Learning Is Remembering (saveall.ai) | |
| 422 points | 2022 | author p-christ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this and would love to know what you think about it. Am particularly interested in hearing any reasons why it's wrong” | ||
| 69. | Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” (buttondown.email) | |
| 421 points | 2022 | author hwayne showed up | their comment | thread
“looking into those earlier sources now EDIT: The "Advisory Opinions" source is mislabeled and was published after 1989. [1] The "Typographic Journal" refers to boiler…” | ||
| 70. | The other kind of staff software engineer (earthly.dev) | |
| 419 points | 2022 | author adamgordonbell showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Working at a tech company as a developer vs working at a non-tech company are very different. These two types of roles were called line vs staff when I took a business…” | ||
| 71. | Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org) | |
| 418 points | 2022 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+16 more) | thread
“Hi. I wrote the article. You're wrong. I work for the Register now. That's why I pick links to them: I have saved searches that make it quick and easy. I wasn't working…” | ||
| 72. | Cache your CORS (httptoolkit.tech) | |
| 417 points | 2022 | author pimterry showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for sharing it @aloukissas! I've also built a tiny "just tell me what to do" SPA for debugging your CORS configurations that everybody reading this might find…” | ||
| 73. | What they don't teach you about sockets (macoy.me) | |
| 412 points | 2022 | author makuto showed up | their comment | thread
“Isconnected is a hypothetical.” | ||
| 74. | Raft Consensus Animated (2014) (thesecretlivesofdata.com) | |
| 411 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I made this visualization over a decade ago and I'm glad it's still useful for folks! Let me know if you have any questions. I've also been trying on-and-off again some…” | ||
| 75. | JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools (kellyjonbrazil.github.io) | |
| 411 points | 2022 | author kbrazil showed up | their comment | thread
“I also created `jello`[0], which works just like `jq` but uses python syntax. I find `jq` is great for many things but sometimes more complex operations are easier for…” | ||
| 76. | Write a note to your spouse every day (jdnoc.com) | |
| 408 points | 2022 | author jordanmoconnor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+7 more) | thread
“I recorded an interview with my wife to get her perspective on it all:” | ||
| 77. | No Refrigerant Left Behind (recoolit.com) | |
| 406 points | 2022 | author exp1orer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“very excited to share this with HN. Been seeing a lot of engineers thinking about getting into climate so I thought people might find it interesting. Happy to answer any…” | ||
| 78. | Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin? (taras.glek.net) | |
| 406 points | 2022 | author tarasglek showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“I just got access to OpenAI codex. I used edit function and asked it to modify the JS hello world, to add typescript annotations. This is the git commit following that…” | ||
| 79. | This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black (twitter.com) | |
| 403 points | 2022 | author funwithstuff showed up | their comment | thread
“and I made a video which answers a few of these questions. Essentially, the biggest issue is with spot color channels in Photoshop files. If you don't have a license for…” | ||
| 80. | Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub (thomask.sdf.org) | |
| 399 points | 2022 | author thombles showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“IMO KDE is the most authentic expression of Windows XP-era UI productivity that exists today. Their dedication to user-configurable settings is an absolute blessing.” | ||
| 81. | 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx (blog.tjll.net) | |
| 399 points | 2022 | author tylerjl showed up | their comment | thread
“Traffic/feedback/questions are coming in hot, as HN publicity tends to engender, but I'm happy to answer questions or discuss the findings generally here if you'd like…” | ||
| 82. | Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (erisa.dev) | |
| 398 points | 2022 | author ErisaDev showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“I love that list! I also use Tailscale for a lot of my personal private services as well as Cloudflare Tunnel, I think they're both really great :) The concern about…” | ||
| 83. | How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? (htmx.org) | |
| 398 points | 2022 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“REST and HATEOAS are for humans: I disagree that it isn't an API, but that's a definition quibble. It is probably more profitable to talk about RESTful systems rather…” | ||
| 84. | Useless Use of "dd" (2015) (vidarholen.net) | |
| 395 points | 2022 | author koala_man showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“An example would be ` { dd bs=1 count=0 skip=1234; myprogram; } < file`. This is similar to C `lseek(0, 1234, SEEK_CUR); execve("myprogram", ...);` It's not something…” | ||
| 85. | I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it (climateer.substack.com) | |
| 394 points | 2022 | author snewman showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“A more careful wording of "will it work if everyone does it" would be "if many people do it, does that reduce its feasibility for everyone else"? This addresses the…” | ||
| 86. | Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (linoscope.github.io) | |
| 393 points | 2022 | author linoscope showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I thought the same and tried that too, but it failed due to the same reason mentioned in the "Problem with the definition using variants" section. Namely, the…” | ||
| 87. | Publishing your work increases your luck (github.com) | |
| 393 points | 2022 | author aarondf showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I agree with you that visibility is not luck, but I do think being visibility increases luck! When someone _comes to me_ with an opportunity, of course I want to seize…” | ||
| 88. | How the SQLite virtual machine works (fly.io) | |
| 390 points | 2022 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to hear it's been helpful.” | ||
| 89. | FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf] (people.freebsd.org) | |
| 390 points | 2022 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions” | ||
| 90. | My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience (lowlyswe.substack.com) | |
| 386 points | 2022 | author leesec showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“feel free to reach out if you have any specific questions for switching into coding. Always love to help people out.” | ||
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