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Python Code to Generate Fully Custom “Random” Static Images

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China to take over Kenya’s main port over unpaid huge Chinese Loan

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China to take over Kenya’s main port over unpaid huge Chinese Loan

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Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Exist

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11 interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine learning algorithms

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)

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Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Exist

Article URL: http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/artificial-intelligence-creates-realistic-photos-of-people-none-of-whom-actually-exist.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761907 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T6AhGb via

The most obvious Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

Article URL: https://holtwick.de/blog/2018-12-20-web-technologies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761840 Points: 36 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AfpNNQ via

11 interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine learning algorithms

Article URL: https://github.com/trekhleb/homemade-machine-learning/blob/master/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761637 Points: 15 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BEa0Yv via

ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong

Article URL: https://ericasadun.com/2018/12/25/iso-8601-yyyy-yyyy-and-why-your-year-may-be-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761453 Points: 26 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Sf8ymy via

The most obvious Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

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ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong

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ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

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The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)

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One Codex is hiring a senior front-end engineer – Genomics, data viz, React

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Erik Demaine's Folding and Unfolding Page (2010)

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Pessimism about parallelism

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One Codex is hiring a senior front-end engineer – Genomics, data viz, React

Article URL: https://jobs.onecodex.com/o/software-engineer-front-end Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761779 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2R9cjwA via

ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

Article URL: http://2ality.com/2018/12/nodejs-esm-phases.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761712 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2rMt16E via

The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)

Article URL: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761704 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1p8FQSK via

Erik Demaine's Folding and Unfolding Page

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Pessimism about parallelism

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White book: Software Architecture, all you need to know [pdf]

Article URL: https://share.composieux.fr/white-book-software-architecture.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761609 Points: 38 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TbPTIq via

[pdf] White book: Software Architecture, all you need to know

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Thailand legalises medicinal marijunana – a “New Years Gift”

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Awesome golang security

Article URL: https://github.com/guardrailsio/awesome-golang-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761459 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EKl3CM via

Thailand legalises medicinal marijunana – a “New Years Gift”

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-legalizes-medicinal-marijuana-in-new-years-gift/a-46858806 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760202 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AajUkT via

Phonautograph

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Awesome golang security

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Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference

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Show HN: A minimal FFT code

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Tessellations by Recognizable Figures

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Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference

Article URL: https://github.com/acro5piano/typed-graphqlify Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761439 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Roktl3 via

Show HN: A minimal FFT code

Article URL: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=zorg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761359 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EJ9TOJ via

Dune II (and the three rules of a good licensed game)

Article URL: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-13-why-i-love-dune-ii-the-battle-for-arrakis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761396 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2rUpsv9 via

Dune II (and the three rules of a good licensed game)

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Using different delimiters in sed (2010)

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The Gasher is a hasher built on a fuzzer implemented as a genetic algorithm

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Using different delimiters in sed (2010)

Article URL: https://backreference.org/2010/02/20/using-different-delimiters-in-sed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761307 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VaUAEj via

Must-Have Tech Tools for Small Businesses

Article URL: https://www.candidatezip.com/single-post/Must-Have-Tech-Tools-for-Small-Businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761097 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Q3OEZK via

'A rose with a thousand petals': what makes an aphorism

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/21/aphorisms-nietzsche-proverbs-dorothy-parker-mae-west-oscar-wilde-haikus-epigrams-maxims-adages-riddles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756570 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CpfW9m via

LOOP (programming language)

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP_(programming_language) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756564 Points: 32 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Sf7Kyc via

Rome in Ruins

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/travel/rome-pollution-trash.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753316 Points: 55 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2RbgVm1 via

ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/ESA_sets_clock_by_distant_spinning_stars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751777 Points: 36 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ELYIox via

Optimization of Hamerly’s K-Means Clustering Algorithm (2017)

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A Courting Peacock Can Shake Its Partner’s Head From Afar

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745586 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Sfl5Xl via

Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970)

Article URL: https://colorforth.github.io/POL.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756990 Points: 24 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ENjYed via

I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759575 Points: 118 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QUHVXG via

Optimization of Hamerly’s K-Means Clustering Algorithm

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New best story on Hacker News: DOOMBA

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New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers

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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

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How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar

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Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video]

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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES

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Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]

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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

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Emacs Fireplace

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Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer

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A Courting Peacock Can Shake Its Partner’s Head From Afar

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Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf]

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Two-phase commit and beyond

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'A rose with a thousand petals': what makes an aphorism

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Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011)

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In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)

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Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging

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Rome in Ruins

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ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

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The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong

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A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)

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The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter

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Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?

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Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

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Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows

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Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring Packaging Engineers to Build the Future of ML Hardware

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Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970)

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Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]

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Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell

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LOOP (programming language)

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Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows

Article URL: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/releases/tag/v0.2.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760971 Points: 20 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2V6Mah4 via

Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring Packaging Engineers to Build the Future of ML Hardware

Title: Advanced Packaging Engineer Where: Remote is fine, Portland OR, preferred Job Description: Vathys is building processors employing novel 3D integration technology, and to do so, will require a significant "advanced packaging" component. Skills and Qualifications: 1. Experience in integrated circuit packaging, especially "advanced" packaging (must have) 2. Experience in low misalignment tolerance die to die, wafer to wafer and die to wafer alignment (extremely good to have) 3.Experience in "2.5D" and 3D packaging (extremely good to have) Compensation: Generous compensation will be given to the right talent. If you're interested, please email tapabrata_ghosh (a t) vathys.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760688 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Q2WC5k via

A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)

Article URL: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760350 Points: 11 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1RicQGr via

Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadKhfLyqTQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760236 Points: 51 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadKhfLyqTQ via

Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760111 Points: 22 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Q3hlGc via

Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES

Article URL: https://gamehistory.org/simcity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759898 Points: 85 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T4KtPs via

New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/well/mind/work-schedule-hours-sleep-productivity-chronotype-night-owls.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759771 Points: 193 # Comments: 100 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2RgXOa1 via

Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell

Article URL: https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2018-12-25-fast-downward.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759757 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TbH7tN via

Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

What programming languages are popular there? Is code written in a mix of the local language and English (for the keywords)? Is Agile used? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759658 Points: 107 # Comments: 87 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Va3Rwk via

Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7psGHgatGM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759241 Points: 174 # Comments: 78 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7psGHgatGM via

Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/postcard_pathtracer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758993 Points: 161 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EPHkiL via

Two-phase commit and beyond

Article URL: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/12/2-phase-commit-and-beyond.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758973 Points: 108 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QOVjfJ via

Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging

Article URL: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/sd-me-salk-genetic-signs-aging-detected-20181224-story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758769 Points: 96 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LBhNuE via

Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

Article URL: https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2018/dkfz-pm-18-71-Human-blood-cells-can-be-directly-reprogrammed-into-neural-stem-cells.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758734 Points: 329 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EKv7wg via

The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong

Article URL: http://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758697 Points: 117 # Comments: 72 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ah0URT via

Emacs Fireplace

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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

Article URL: https://github.com/anvaka/atree Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758290 Points: 176 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1c9Ktn0 via

In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-national-automated-highway-system-that-almost-was-63027245/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758199 Points: 138 # Comments: 66 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EP2nBE via

Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/TeachYourselfLogic2017.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757972 Points: 301 # Comments: 33 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SjhYgY via

Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011)

Article URL: http://alvyray.com/Pixar/PixarHistoryRevisited.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757872 Points: 18 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/11ql07r via