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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Blog: Gradient descent in spiking neural networks for low-power inference

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  2. Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  3. What if the Universe has no end?

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  4. Kobe Bryant dead: NBA star tragically dies in California helicopter crash at 41

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  5. “Paralinguistic Cues” Can Help You to Persuade

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  6. Build vs. Buy: How to blow $100k saving money

    15 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  7. I quit my job at the age of 36 to be happy

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  8. RNA emergence from a prebiotic mixture of ribo/arabino/2′-deoxynucleotides

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  9. Built with Workers

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  10. Kenyan locust swarm estimated to be 930 square miles

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  11. Goldman Sachs is saying the economy is nearly recession-proof

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  12. Chief Justice John Roberts says Americans may 'take democracy for granted'

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  13. Homelessness as a Symptom

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  14. Show HN: Beamsplitter – Hash function that uses only S-boxes

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  15. Learning Rust

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  16. Ask HN: What was your best passive income of 2019?

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  17. Harvard Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate Cases

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  18. Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  19. HN Formatting Options

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  20. Someone Tried to Hack My Phone. Technology Researchers Accused Saudi Arabia

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  21. Man kills himself after Police falsely said he critically injured woman in crash

    15 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  22. The Space Problem of Time Travel

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  23. Amazon says browser extension Honey is a security risk, now that PayPal owns it

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  24. Tricks for Postgres and Docker that will make your life easier

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  25. Cache Is King: The Inevitability of L4

    15 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  26. Interactive Latency Numbers

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  27. Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters

    15 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  28. Bits of Security and 128 Bits of Security: Know the Difference

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  29. Australian Wildfire Smoke Obscures Skies Half a World Away

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  30. Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  31. Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  32. Ask HN: Owed Salary, Founder Rebranded

    15 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  33. Clinical use of lithium salts: guide for users and prescribers

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  34. ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  35. Sonos sues Google for allegedly stealing smart speaker tech

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  36. Ask HN: Early in career – is it a bad idea to change jobs after six months?

    14 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  37. Open Sourcing Uber Manifold, a Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  38. India’s ruling party accused of running deceptive Twitter campaign

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  39. Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  40. Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30k potheads' privacy go up in smoke

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  41. High performance at low cost – choose the best JVM [and GC] for your needs

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  42. California could launch generic prescription drug label

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  43. A $300 projector can fool Tesla’s Autopilot

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  44. Show HN: Hacker News iOS client: HACK built using feedback from HN

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  45. The Edge of Emulation

    14 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  46. Corruption Perceptions Index 2019

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  47. London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle as Much Pollution as 275 Regular Trees

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  48. The Price of Protecting Rhinos

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  49. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  50. Majority of women who have an abortion don’t regret it five years on

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  51. A list of coding bootcamp scams

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  52. The Spacing Effect (1988) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  53. How I made $40K in 16 days with a technical eBook

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  54. Cocktails in a Collector’s Museum: Lisbon’s Most Curious Bar (2014)

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  55. AMD’s Command Performace at CES 2020 Was Years in the Making

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  56. John Carmack:“freedom to have your own style” in languages is counterproductive

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  57. Waxeye: Language-Agnostic Parser Generator

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  58. Browser benchmark battle January 2020

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  59. You Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  60. Show HN: UI-Editor, a Component Builder

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  61. Surveyors' Maps and Journals an Untapped Source for Climate Scientists? (2019)

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  62. Chinese Spyware Pre-Installed on All Samsung Phones (& Tablets)

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  63. Show HN: bcal – Storage & general-purpose CLI calculator for programmers

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  64. Online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  65. U.S. threatens to freeze Iraq's account at NY Fed if troops told to leave

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  66. Linus Torvalds pulled WireGuard VPN into the 5.6 kernel source tree

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  67. Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  68. Golden tea is full of anti-oxidants

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  69. Linux First OS to Merge Multipath TCP with RFC8684 Support

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  70. Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  71. Show HN: Werbot – a product for easy audit and control of access to servers

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  72. Comparing Urban Footprints (2014)

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  73. Digital sleuths unravelled the mystery of Iran's plane crash

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  74. Student debt is over $1.6T and hardly anyone is paying down their loans

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  75. Code bootcamp preys on minorities and tricks them into indentured servitude

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  76. Stop Hiring Data Scientists

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  77. Has physicist's gravity theory solved 'impossible' dark energy riddle?

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  78. Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  79. MIP*=Re

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  80. Secretive Surveillance Firm Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  81. China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Cities All over the African Continent

    14 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  82. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Resume

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  83. TBTK v2.0 – Second Quantization for C++

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  84. 5G: The Outsourced Elephant in the Room

    14 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  85. The Perfect Social Network

    14 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  86. Signs you will suck at programming

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  87. Why Russian and Chinese Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Understood

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  88. QMK Firmware – An open source firmware for AVR and ARM based keyboards

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  89. Oracle copied Amazon’s API–was that copyright infringement?

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  90. I'll pay you $100 for an Electron PR

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  91. Show HN: A game I wrote in a day

    14 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  92. Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  93. Göttingen: The Mathematical Center of the Universe

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  94. Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  95. Go 101

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  96. Bao: A verified streaming tool based on BLAKE3

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  97. Show HN: Conversion Checklist

    14 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  98. The psychology behind the placebo effect just got stranger

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  99. Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'? (2019)

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  100. US-government issued phones run 'Chinese malware'

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2020