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Re:Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#25724437)
Re:Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#25724429)
I personally find the Hacker News Extension Suite [1] to be incredibly useful.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:24PM (#25722250)
Stripe doesn't owe anyone the right to use their services. Just as an airline can bar anyone for most any reason (unless that reason is membership in a protected class[0]), Stripe can do the same.
Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:23PM (#25246481)
What tech stack did you end up using for the backend?
Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:49PM (#25108138)
In the absence of US leadership in the region it was only a matter of time before some other treaty came into being.
Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:43PM (#25108103)
The link to [1] is an interesting take that questions the future of Asia as bipolar (China vs US)
[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/09/09/asia-s-future-beyon...
Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:34PM (#25108050)
Found this interesting:
> A paper from the Peterson Institute for International Economics by Peter Petri and Michael Plummer cites modelling showing that it will raise global GDP in 2030 by an annual $186bn (compared with a gain of $147bn from the CPTPP).
Re:RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:27PM (#25108011)
Indeed the fact that China's econ is shifting away from manufacturing is not well known [1]
[1] https://www.worldfinance.com/markets/chinas-transitioning-ec...
Re:AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters
on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:59PM (#24705168)
> although [the new technique] produced better results for NLP benchmarks, GPT-3 appeared more flexible.
Re:Mozilla shares fix for Twitter not working on Firefox
on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:57PM (#24705153)
It only works in incognito for me.
Re:Stali is a static Linux distribution
on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:15PM (#24524281)
Is this stable to use as a daily driver?
Re:GPT-3 generated Nassim Taleb aphorisms
on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:46PM (#24402700)
The Chinese Room (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room) would agree it's the same
Re:Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, ...
on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:29PM (#24324314)
I remember working on a simple peer-peer chat using WebRTC [1] and it took me a long time to actually grok what the whole protocol was and how it worked, even with off-the-shelf libraries available. This would have saved me so much time!
Ent – An Entity Framework for Golang
Re:C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs
on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:44PM (#24241342)
Take with a grain of salt, JVM tuning is an entire art and science, probably same with CLR.
Re:The Hard Problem of Breakfast
on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:26AM (#24183978)
yep, the citations don't lead anywhere
Re:The Hard Problem of Breakfast
on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:25AM (#24183972)
Yep can confirm none of the citations check out
Re:There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)
on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:22PM (#24181872)
A large chunk of the arguments tend to assume Proof of Work as the consensus mechanism which isn't a flaw inherent in blockchain (eg. could have Proof of Stake, etc.)
Re:Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:01AM (#24121002)
Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list
Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:31PM (#24033957)
The waste of electricity/mining gear is mostly due to Proof of Work consensus, but moving to Proof of Stake/other consensus algorithms will eliminate basically all waste (eg. Ethereum is moving to PoS).
Re:XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable status
on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:03AM (#23983421)
Yep, Blake3 can do around 6-7GB/s https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
Drash: A new approach to building web servers
Re:Tired of note-taking apps
on Sunday July 19, 2020 @11:12AM (#23889872)
I do some frontend web dev and all my tech notes from >2 years ago is heavily outdated.
Re:Tired of note-taking apps
on Sunday July 19, 2020 @11:07AM (#23889845)
The primary disadvantage of handwriting notes for me is a total lack of search functionality.
Re:Show HN: Spaceboard – Pinterest for Markdown Notes
on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:34PM (#23813579)
This looks awesome! I love the tech stack as well, huge fan of TypeScript/React/Next.js
Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?
I'd like to easily send formatted code, and bullet points, etc. through a messaging app without having to resort to a heavy app like Slack.
Re:Json-Base – Database built as JSON files
on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:14PM (#23720724)
Yes, this feels very much like a weekend hackathon project rather than a finished product, even for its intended use case.
Re:Show HN: Auto generate REST API from Mongoose schemas
on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:13PM (#23587822)
This seems pretty useful! Will try out for my next side project.