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  1. Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network

    111 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  2. The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)

    111 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  3. I made Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer Emulator in C++

    111 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  4. Korea revokes approvals for 1,700 communication equipment, devices

    111 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  5. Corpus Clock

    111 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  6. Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

    111 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  7. The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets

    111 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  8. Researchers have finally seen how some smell receptors bind to odor molecules

    111 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  9. Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials

    110 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  10. It’s hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy

    110 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  11. Well-behaved bubbles often make history

    109 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  12. How to Be a Stoic (2016)

    109 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  13. BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes

    109 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  14. Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)

    109 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  15. SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity

    109 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  16. Correctly implementing a spinlock in Modern C++

    109 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  17. Opinion-Driven Design

    109 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  18. Valid Signal privacy issues shrugged off while patches quietly rolled out

    109 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  19. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

    108 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  20. Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

    108 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  21. Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice

    108 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  22. Apple brings Safari web browser extensions to iPhone and iPad with iOS 15

    108 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  23. From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer

    108 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  24. Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote

    108 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  25. Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral

    108 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  26. A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA

    108 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  27. The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good

    107 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  28. Data notation in Clojure

    107 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  29. Final Fantasy remasters reignite controversies over pixel art

    107 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  30. John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ Was Supposed to Be a Warning. We Didn’t Heed It

    107 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  31. Surreal Numbers – An Introduction (2019) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  32. Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online

    107 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  33. PipeWire Under the Hood

    107 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  34. My experiments with sprouting legumes

    107 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  35. Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off

    107 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  36. A Tour of Safe Tracing GC Designs in Rust

    107 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  37. Goa’s last typewriter repair shop defied the digital age

    107 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  38. Maps Of Matter

    106 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  39. Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization

    106 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  40. A Pure HTTP/3 Alternative to MQTT-over-QUIC in Resource-Constrained IoT

    106 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  41. Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust

    105 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  42. Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]

    105 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  43. Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)

    105 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  44. AuthZ: Scalable permissions system

    105 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  45. Code in ARM Assembly: Registers Explained

    105 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  46. Show HN: Minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp

    105 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  47. Shortage of air conditioner parts expected this summer

    105 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  48. Our plans to improve navigation on Gov.uk

    105 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  49. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

    105 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  50. U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA

    105 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  51. Text Classification by Data Compression

    104 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  52. Interactive Periodic Table

    104 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  53. Fitting a Forth in 512 Bytes

    104 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  54. “Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”

    104 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  55. JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation

    104 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  56. The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server

    104 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  57. Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List

    104 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  58. Chrome is faster in M91

    103 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  59. SimCities and SimCrises (2017)

    103 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  60. The slow rise of robots in the data center

    103 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  61. Anthropologists and the business of sense-making at work

    103 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  62. Today we’re eating the winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow contest

    103 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  63. My “Investment Mindset”

    103 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  64. How to outsource marketing for your side project

    103 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  65. Amtrak relaunches US Rail Pass – Travel the country for 30 days for $299

    103 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  66. XUAN-Bike: Self-riding, riderless bike

    103 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  67. Humans are more dependent on water than many other mammals

    103 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  68. Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)

    103 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  69. Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake

    102 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  70. In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (2015)

    102 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  71. Ask HN: I don't feel like working at all, what to do?

    102 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  72. Next.js Live: Code in the Browser with ESM, ServiceWorkers, Replicache, and WASM

    102 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  73. ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus (2018)

    102 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  74. The global chip shortage is creating a new problem: More fake components

    102 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  75. PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

    102 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  76. Jose Valim introduces LiveBook v0.2: inputs, graphs, and more

    102 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  77. Ppl: The command line address book

    102 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  78. Postgres to TypeScript Interfaces and Enums

    102 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  79. A Secure and Formally Verified Linux KVM Hypervisor [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  80. Enthusiastic amateurs advance science as they hunt for exotic mushrooms

    101 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  81. The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)

    101 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  82. Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study

    101 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  83. The Enterprise Eats Software

    101 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  84. Do wide and deep networks learn the same things?

    101 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  85. Woodsat: A Space Agency Will Launch a Tiny, Wooden Satellite

    101 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  86. Google extends third party cookie deadline until late 2023

    101 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  87. Vizh: Visual language that takes image files as input

    101 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  88. Starting with Kafka

    101 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  89. Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office

    101 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  90. Italian Car Design History

    101 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  91. Ditching OpenPGP, a new approach to signing APT repositories

    101 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  92. Google Lighthouse V8 – Improved CLS metrics

    101 points • comment • jun 03, 2021

  93. Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

    101 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  94. Understanding thread stack sizes and how Alpine is different

    101 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  95. NATO is looking to connect with startups

    101 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  96. Show HN: Prestige, a text based HTTP client, for working with HTTP APIs

    100 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  97. On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'

    100 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  98. Amazon backs marijuana legalization, drops weed testing for some jobs

    100 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  99. Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room

    100 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  100. Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700

    100 points • comment • jun 20, 2021