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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Blog: Gradient descent in spiking neural networks for low-power inference
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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What if the Universe has no end?
15 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Kobe Bryant dead: NBA star tragically dies in California helicopter crash at 41
15 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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“Paralinguistic Cues” Can Help You to Persuade
15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100k saving money
15 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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I quit my job at the age of 36 to be happy
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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RNA emergence from a prebiotic mixture of ribo/arabino/2′-deoxynucleotides
15 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Built with Workers
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Kenyan locust swarm estimated to be 930 square miles
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Goldman Sachs is saying the economy is nearly recession-proof
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Chief Justice John Roberts says Americans may 'take democracy for granted'
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Homelessness as a Symptom
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Show HN: Beamsplitter – Hash function that uses only S-boxes
15 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Learning Rust
15 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ask HN: What was your best passive income of 2019?
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Harvard Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate Cases
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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HN Formatting Options
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Someone Tried to Hack My Phone. Technology Researchers Accused Saudi Arabia
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Man kills himself after Police falsely said he critically injured woman in crash
15 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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The Space Problem of Time Travel
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Amazon says browser extension Honey is a security risk, now that PayPal owns it
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Tricks for Postgres and Docker that will make your life easier
15 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Cache Is King: The Inevitability of L4
15 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Interactive Latency Numbers
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters
15 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Bits of Security and 128 Bits of Security: Know the Difference
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Australian Wildfire Smoke Obscures Skies Half a World Away
15 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Owed Salary, Founder Rebranded
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Clinical use of lithium salts: guide for users and prescribers
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery
15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Sonos sues Google for allegedly stealing smart speaker tech
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Ask HN: Early in career – is it a bad idea to change jobs after six months?
14 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Open Sourcing Uber Manifold, a Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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India’s ruling party accused of running deceptive Twitter campaign
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30k potheads' privacy go up in smoke
14 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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High performance at low cost – choose the best JVM [and GC] for your needs
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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California could launch generic prescription drug label
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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A $300 projector can fool Tesla’s Autopilot
14 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Show HN: Hacker News iOS client: HACK built using feedback from HN
14 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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The Edge of Emulation
14 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2019
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle as Much Pollution as 275 Regular Trees
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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The Price of Protecting Rhinos
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Majority of women who have an abortion don’t regret it five years on
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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A list of coding bootcamp scams
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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The Spacing Effect (1988) [pdf]
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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How I made $40K in 16 days with a technical eBook
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Cocktails in a Collector’s Museum: Lisbon’s Most Curious Bar (2014)
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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AMD’s Command Performace at CES 2020 Was Years in the Making
14 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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John Carmack:“freedom to have your own style” in languages is counterproductive
14 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Waxeye: Language-Agnostic Parser Generator
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Browser benchmark battle January 2020
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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You Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
14 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Show HN: UI-Editor, a Component Builder
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Surveyors' Maps and Journals an Untapped Source for Climate Scientists? (2019)
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Chinese Spyware Pre-Installed on All Samsung Phones (& Tablets)
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: bcal – Storage & general-purpose CLI calculator for programmers
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’
14 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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U.S. threatens to freeze Iraq's account at NY Fed if troops told to leave
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Linus Torvalds pulled WireGuard VPN into the 5.6 kernel source tree
14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Golden tea is full of anti-oxidants
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Linux First OS to Merge Multipath TCP with RFC8684 Support
14 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience
14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Show HN: Werbot – a product for easy audit and control of access to servers
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Comparing Urban Footprints (2014)
14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Digital sleuths unravelled the mystery of Iran's plane crash
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Student debt is over $1.6T and hardly anyone is paying down their loans
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Code bootcamp preys on minorities and tricks them into indentured servitude
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Stop Hiring Data Scientists
14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Has physicist's gravity theory solved 'impossible' dark energy riddle?
14 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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MIP*=Re
14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Secretive Surveillance Firm Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Cities All over the African Continent
14 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Resume
14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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TBTK v2.0 – Second Quantization for C++
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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5G: The Outsourced Elephant in the Room
14 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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The Perfect Social Network
14 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Signs you will suck at programming
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Why Russian and Chinese Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Understood
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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QMK Firmware – An open source firmware for AVR and ARM based keyboards
14 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Oracle copied Amazon’s API–was that copyright infringement?
14 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: A game I wrote in a day
14 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer
14 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Göttingen: The Mathematical Center of the Universe
14 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World
14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Go 101
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Bao: A verified streaming tool based on BLAKE3
14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Show HN: Conversion Checklist
14 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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The psychology behind the placebo effect just got stranger
14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'? (2019)
14 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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US-government issued phones run 'Chinese malware'
14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020