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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. OpenAI Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments

    63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  2. What is Symplectic Geometry? (2016) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  3. Guido van Rossum Exits Python Steering Council

    63 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  4. Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser

    63 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  5. Ask HN: Best practices for hiring software contractors?

    63 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  6. Truth and Probability (1926) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  7. Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study

    63 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  8. What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)

    63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  9. C, what the fuck??!

    63 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  10. What's the worst that could happen with my phone data?

    63 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  11. New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches

    63 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  12. Macro-mind thinking

    63 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  13. Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy

    63 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  14. VR optics and why inter-pupillary distance (IPD) means too many things

    63 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  15. Z’s Still Not Dead Baby, Z’s Still Not Dead

    63 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  16. Metagenomic Analysis of a Blood Stain from French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat

    63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  17. Threads can infect each other with their low priority

    62 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  18. The use of the word ‘robust' to describe software in UK law

    62 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  19. The Scottish Book

    62 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  20. Études for Erlang (2014)

    62 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  21. The Crankiest Group in Cyberspace

    62 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  22. Show HN: Url2cite: Transparently convert links to citations in markdown papers

    62 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  23. Teaching “The Smell”

    62 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  24. Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models

    62 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  25. Sentenced to 10 years, Marty Gottesfeld wrote about Bureau of Prisons corruption

    62 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  26. A Complex Hierarchy of Avoidance Behaviors in a Single-Cell Eukaryote

    62 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  27. Show HN: libcodr7 – fundamental collections in the spirit of C

    62 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  28. Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority

    62 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  29. Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC [pdf]

    62 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  30. Rapid Decision-Making: What it is, why we like it, how to get the most out of it

    62 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  31. Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online

    61 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  32. Becoming a CEO

    61 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  33. Ring lacks basic security features, making it easy for hackers

    61 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  34. Robot Odyssey (1984)

    61 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  35. Visual Regression Testing

    61 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  36. This will go down on your permanent record

    61 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  37. An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)

    61 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  38. If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken

    61 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  39. MISC: A homoiconic language based on maps

    61 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  40. Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'

    61 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  41. China wants Canada to shut up. That’s why we shouldn’t

    61 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  42. The best teacher I never had (2016)

    61 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  43. Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

    61 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  44. Kids' smartwatches have security problems as simple as 1-2-3

    61 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  45. The Future of Plagiarism

    61 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  46. How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu

    61 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  47. SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find more paying users

    61 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  48. Rust's Freedom Flaws

    61 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  49. Interview with Facebook's Head of AI

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  50. Sixteen APL Amuse-Bouches (2016)

    61 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  51. Experiment closes gap in weather forecasting

    60 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  52. Visualize bike rental data in Clojure

    60 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  53. A web-based artwork a day

    60 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  54. Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about

    60 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  55. The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes

    60 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  56. Russia blocks Premier League broadcasts by Amazon's Twitch over lawsuit

    60 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  57. Why Privacy Matters Even If “You Have Nothing to Hide”

    60 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  58. Fractional Shares

    60 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  59. Conscious Perception Of Vision Occurs Outside The Visual Cortex

    60 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  60. Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes

    60 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  61. Distributed Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Spanning Trees in Networks (1976) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  62. Othernet: A multi-media broadcast to small, portable receivers

    60 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  63. AWS Re:Invent Presentations

    60 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  64. RethinkDB 2.4.0 Is Out

    59 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  65. Show HN: ReactiveSearch Vue – Build Search UIs in Record Time

    59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  66. Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (1988)

    59 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  67. Uber: 3,045 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year

    59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  68. Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves

    59 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  69. The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out

    59 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  70. My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work (2015)

    59 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  71. Build Your First Real-Time App in Node

    59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  72. Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets

    59 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  73. A More Natural Stackless Coroutine in C That Maintains Local Variables

    59 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  74. How Trolls Overran the Public Square

    59 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  75. Twitter's future could look a lot like its past

    59 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  76. Poetry v1.0.0 Released

    59 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  77. Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees

    58 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  78. Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service

    58 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  79. How do search engines treat trailing slashes and capital letters in URLs?

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  80. Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

    58 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  81. Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029

    58 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  82. German court bans Uber's ride-hailing services in Germany

    58 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  83. Atari Coin-op Archive Footage

    58 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  84. KeyV2: A Parametric Mechanical Keycap Library

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  85. CP/NC – a CP/M-compatible operating system

    58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  86. Millennials are sicker than Gen X, which bodes ill for the future economy

    58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  87. Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case

    58 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  88. Toilet paper is only available if you scan the train station QR code

    58 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  89. Valuing Productivity, Not Profession, Could Reduce U.S. Inequality

    58 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  90. The Four-Inch Flight – A Lesson from History

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  91. The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998)

    58 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  92. Andrew Ng Interview with Geoffrey Hinton (2011) [video]

    58 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  93. Typesafe Error Handling in Kotlin

    58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  94. Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell: A Retrospective

    58 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  95. US 50 states redrawn as equal population (2012)

    58 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  96. Uses for CSS Custom Properties

    58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  97. The Case Against Galileo

    58 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  98. LEGO Group banned user for buying bricks from official store and BrickLink

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  99. Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking

    57 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  100. A Reality Check on Quantum Computers

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019