#4 on HackerNews front page!

https://news.ycombinator.com/

33 points at the moment!

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 09:04:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> #4 on HackerNews front page!
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/
>
> 33 points at the moment!

Fantastic, I want to get more commercial uses like this highlighted on the blog- started another interview now with a financial/ML firm using D- so nobody can say D isn't being used.

BTW, the top HN comment asks for more detail: tell him to click on the DConf links in the post for Liran's slides and videos. There's a surfeit of tech detail there, this is just an overview to get people started on learning more.

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 09:04:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> #4 on HackerNews front page!
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/
>
> 33 points at the moment!

It's on lobste.rs now too:

https://lobste.rs/t/d

Thanks, Atila!

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 09:04:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> #4 on HackerNews front page!
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/
>
> 33 points at the moment!

Now one of the top-voted links on the front page of HN.

I'd just like to point out that Andrei put Liran and I together to do this interview in summer '17- though I had emailed Liran about doing one in '15 and never got a response- and he finally got some time to respond this summer.

Now I just need Andrei to finally do an interview, which he's been putting off for even longer. :)

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 19:59:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 09:04:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> #4 on HackerNews front page!
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/
>>
>> 33 points at the moment!
>
> Now one of the top-voted links on the front page of HN.
>
> I'd just like to point out that Andrei put Liran and I together to do this interview in summer '17- though I had emailed Liran about doing one in '15 and never got a response- and he finally got some time to respond this summer.
>
> Now I just need Andrei to finally do an interview, which he's been putting off for even longer. :)

Awesome work!

Question about one of the comments, because I don't understand the hardware aspect of things. this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18607297

Pasted here:

"Weka is a name of a Machine learning product from New Zealand.
The IBM system had 24xHGST N200 SSD, 830 000 random read, 200 000 random write. that is 24 * 200 000 IOPS=4.8Million random writes.

The Matrix system had 64x1.2TB Micron 9100 SSDs. 750 000 random read, 300 0000 random writes. 64 * 300 000=19.2 Million IOPS

Ok so you have benchmarked hardware with 4.8 Million write ops vs 19.2 Million write ops."

Anyone know if that last line is correct?

On 06/12/2018 10:18 AM, aliak wrote:
> "Weka is a name of a Machine learning product from New Zealand.

Weka is the company that produced Lord of the Rings here in NZ.
It is also a bird! (which makes WekaIO's name a bit weird).

http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/weka

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 23:18:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 10:18 AM, aliak wrote:
>> "Weka is a name of a Machine learning product from New Zealand.
>
> Weka is the company that produced Lord of the Rings here in NZ.

*Weta.

Bless them :D

Weka is a set of ML tools from waikato uni => https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

On 06/12/2018 12:35 PM, aliak wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 23:18:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 06/12/2018 10:18 AM, aliak wrote:
>>> "Weka is a name of a Machine learning product from New Zealand.
>>
>> Weka is the company that produced Lord of the Rings here in NZ.
> 
> *Weta.
> 
> Bless them :D
> 
> Weka is a set of ML tools from waikato uni => https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

Woops I should know better even after an all nighter.
After all, I've known people that worked there!

Kinda like with that Jade/Diet fiasco a while back.

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 19:59:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 09:04:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> #4 on HackerNews front page!
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/
>>
>> 33 points at the moment!
>
> Now one of the top-voted links on the front page of HN.
>
> I'd just like to point out that Andrei put Liran and I together to do this interview in summer '17- though I had emailed Liran about doing one in '15 and never got a response- and he finally got some time to respond this summer.
>
> Now I just need Andrei to finally do an interview, which he's been putting off for even longer. :)

Got to fifth highest-voted link all-time from dlang.org on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&query=dlang.org

On Sunday, 9 December 2018 at 10:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
> Got to fifth highest-voted link all-time from dlang.org on HN:
>
> https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&query=dlang.org

It's unfortunate it didn't get any recognition on Reddit due to not the best title. There's this thread on reddit right now though https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a47s2x/happy_17th_birthday_d/