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Seems to be the smallest Go release yet (at least since 1.4). I wonder how the binary size was reduced in the recent two versions?

   1.21    63MB
   1.20    95MB
   1.19   142MB
   1.18   135MB
   1.17   129MB
   1.16   123MB
   1.15   116MB
   1.14   118MB
   1.13   114MB
   1.12   121MB
   1.11   121MB
   1.10   114MB
   1.9     98MB
   1.8     86MB
   1.7     78MB
   1.6     81MB
   1.5     74MB

(linux-amd64 archives from https://go.dev/dl/)

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Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks 3 years ago

None of these improvements seem Mac-specific. Does Chrome on other OSs have these?

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Homebrew 4.0.0 3 years ago

no longer need to perform the slow git fetch

Nice. Rust Cargo is also trialling out something similar.

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Efficient and Compact Spreadsheet Formula Graphs 3 years ago

where every column just has a single formula

Sounds like tables in Excel?

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Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update 4 years ago

Highlights for me:

  - tabs in File Explorer
  - faster and more accurate search

Still not sure why tabs in File Explorer took so long... but happy that its finally here.

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022) 4 years ago

  Location: South Africa
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), some JS, Go
  Skills: finance, statistics, applied maths
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: tncszsnmg@mozmail.com

I have more than four years of development experience in the quant-finance and insurance space. Have developed valuation and risk models, tools to speed up and automate analysis and reporting etc. Interested in opportunities inside and outside of finance. Current hobby project: a small 2D game using C++ (SFML).

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022) 4 years ago

  Location: South Africa
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), JS
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-LFxgiO4Q62bsp0VDf0fHuD5tsW1N3x
  Email: tncszsnmg@mozmail.com

I have four years of development experience in the quant-finance and insurance space. Interested in opportunities inside and outside of finance.

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Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C 4 years ago

Most likely referring to "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0]; i.e. when the compiler is itself the attack vector.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team) 5 years ago

Zed seems to be the successor of Github/Atom's abandoned Xray project [0]. "Responsive", Rust, CRDTs.

[0] https://github.com/atom-archive/xray

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Why are German numbers backwards? 5 years ago

Most likely because Arabs did not invent the numbering system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370553

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Judging Janet 5 years ago

"self-modifying test"

I've also heard them referred to as "approval tests". https://approvaltests.com/

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NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy 6 years ago

Is the random matrix generation section in here up to date? The official numpy docs [0] seem to indicate that `randn` is legacy, and that `randint` is deprecated.

[0] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html

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A Family of Better Random Number Generators 6 years ago

I believe numpy.random uses PCG by default. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html

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Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5 6 years ago

Download size and speed matters. Disk space matters especially if you're working with relatively expensive SSDs. Of course, how much of a problem this is depends on which country you're working in, company's laptop policy etc

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Windows Package Manager Preview 6 years ago

Azure (DevOps) Pipelines use YAML. Not sure if that counts?

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