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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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OpenAI Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments
63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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What is Symplectic Geometry? (2016) [pdf]
63 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Guido van Rossum Exits Python Steering Council
63 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser
63 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Best practices for hiring software contractors?
63 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Truth and Probability (1926) [pdf]
63 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study
63 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)
63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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C, what the fuck??!
63 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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What's the worst that could happen with my phone data?
63 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches
63 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Macro-mind thinking
63 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy
63 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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VR optics and why inter-pupillary distance (IPD) means too many things
63 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Z’s Still Not Dead Baby, Z’s Still Not Dead
63 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Metagenomic Analysis of a Blood Stain from French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat
63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Threads can infect each other with their low priority
62 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The use of the word ‘robust' to describe software in UK law
62 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The Scottish Book
62 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Études for Erlang (2014)
62 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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The Crankiest Group in Cyberspace
62 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Show HN: Url2cite: Transparently convert links to citations in markdown papers
62 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Teaching “The Smell”
62 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
62 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Sentenced to 10 years, Marty Gottesfeld wrote about Bureau of Prisons corruption
62 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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A Complex Hierarchy of Avoidance Behaviors in a Single-Cell Eukaryote
62 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Show HN: libcodr7 – fundamental collections in the spirit of C
62 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority
62 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC [pdf]
62 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Rapid Decision-Making: What it is, why we like it, how to get the most out of it
62 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online
61 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Becoming a CEO
61 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Ring lacks basic security features, making it easy for hackers
61 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Robot Odyssey (1984)
61 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Visual Regression Testing
61 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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This will go down on your permanent record
61 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)
61 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken
61 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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MISC: A homoiconic language based on maps
61 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'
61 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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China wants Canada to shut up. That’s why we shouldn’t
61 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The best teacher I never had (2016)
61 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning
61 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Kids' smartwatches have security problems as simple as 1-2-3
61 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Future of Plagiarism
61 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu
61 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find more paying users
61 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Rust's Freedom Flaws
61 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Interview with Facebook's Head of AI
61 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Sixteen APL Amuse-Bouches (2016)
61 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Experiment closes gap in weather forecasting
60 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Visualize bike rental data in Clojure
60 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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A web-based artwork a day
60 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about
60 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes
60 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Russia blocks Premier League broadcasts by Amazon's Twitch over lawsuit
60 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Why Privacy Matters Even If “You Have Nothing to Hide”
60 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Fractional Shares
60 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Conscious Perception Of Vision Occurs Outside The Visual Cortex
60 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes
60 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Distributed Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Spanning Trees in Networks (1976) [pdf]
60 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Othernet: A multi-media broadcast to small, portable receivers
60 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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AWS Re:Invent Presentations
60 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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RethinkDB 2.4.0 Is Out
59 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Show HN: ReactiveSearch Vue – Build Search UIs in Record Time
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (1988)
59 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Uber: 3,045 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
59 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
59 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work (2015)
59 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Build Your First Real-Time App in Node
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
59 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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A More Natural Stackless Coroutine in C That Maintains Local Variables
59 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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How Trolls Overran the Public Square
59 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Twitter's future could look a lot like its past
59 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Poetry v1.0.0 Released
59 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees
58 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
58 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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How do search engines treat trailing slashes and capital letters in URLs?
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.
58 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029
58 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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German court bans Uber's ride-hailing services in Germany
58 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Atari Coin-op Archive Footage
58 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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KeyV2: A Parametric Mechanical Keycap Library
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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CP/NC – a CP/M-compatible operating system
58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Millennials are sicker than Gen X, which bodes ill for the future economy
58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Elon Musk wins 'pedo guy' defamation case
58 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Toilet paper is only available if you scan the train station QR code
58 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Valuing Productivity, Not Profession, Could Reduce U.S. Inequality
58 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Four-Inch Flight – A Lesson from History
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998)
58 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Andrew Ng Interview with Geoffrey Hinton (2011) [video]
58 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Typesafe Error Handling in Kotlin
58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell: A Retrospective
58 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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US 50 states redrawn as equal population (2012)
58 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Uses for CSS Custom Properties
58 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The Case Against Galileo
58 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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LEGO Group banned user for buying bricks from official store and BrickLink
57 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking
57 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019