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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 196 posts.
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Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality
If you have just/as of late gotten an email about your keys being revoked, this is because of me, and if you have, you should really go through and make sure that no one has done anything terrible to you, since you have opened yourself to people doing very mean things to you for what is most likely a very long time.
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Unison: a next-generation programming platform
A friendly programming language from the future.
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How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
When I go to Google Photos and search my photos for ‘skyline’, it finds me this picture of the New York skyline I took in August, without me having labelled it!
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Use Haskell for shell scripting
turtle 1.0 announcement post
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Dark corners of Unicode
I’m assuming, if you are on the Internet and reading kind of a nerdy blog, that you know what Unicode is. At the very least, you have a very general understanding of it — maybe “it’s what gives us emoji”. That’s about as far as most people’s understanding extends, in my experience, even among programmers. And that’s a…
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Must Be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code
David Baron put this up in Mozilla’s San Francisco office a while back:
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Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go
Here at Malwarebytes we are experiencing phenomenal growth, and since I have joined the company over 1 year ago in the Silicon Valley, one my main responsibilities has been to architect and develop several systems to power a fast-growing security company and all the needed infrastructure to support a product that is…
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Why Python 3 Exists
This month I invited to Q&A at PuPPy [https://youtu.be/2XviXtxWKO8?list=PL4S0lvhXvdhIV2C28Ia_DeIeloBrsQBOW] (the Puget Sound Python users group) that eventually led to me explaining why Python 3 came into existence and the whole string/bytes deal. I ended up receiving a compliment on the explanation which
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Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code
Introducing our first white paper and new open-source codebase for a decentralized worldwide payment protocol.
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The Path to Parallel JavaScript
Between the coming release of ES6 and unrelenting competition for JIT performance, these are exciting times for JavaScript. But an area where JS still lags ...
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SIMD in Rust
An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.
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Show HN: Clojure by Example
Clojure by Example
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A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming
A couple weeks ago I made it to the FSF's 30th anniversary party. It was a blast in many ways, and a good generator of many fond memories, but I won't go into depth of them here. One particularly exciting thing that happened for me though was I got to meet Gerald Sussman (of SICP !) The conversation has greatly…
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React/JavaScript fatigue
A few days ago, I met up with a friend & peer over coffee.
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DataLake
A Data Lake is a store that hold raw data as a source for data scientists to explore ways to gain information. It should not be accessed by end-users or used for system integration.
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Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
Update (Dec. 14): The long wait is over! Here’s Laci’s paper on the arXiv. So far, I’ve read it only deeply enough to note that it contains the following sentence: A group G ≤ S…
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Designing a garbage collector in Rust
For a while I’ve been working on a garbage collector for Rust with Nika Layzell. I thought this would be a good time to talk of our design and …
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