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Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions

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Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions

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DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz

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DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz

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Analyzing Core I9-9900K Performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations

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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

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Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals

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A strange museum at the ‘centre of the world’

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Analyzing Core I9-9900K Performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations

Article URL: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13659/analyzing-core-i9-9900k-performance-with-spectre-and-meltdown-hardware-mitigations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805869 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Lyp9iy via

What Is Going to Happen in 2019

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Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals

Article URL: https://codeparade.itch.io/marblemarcher Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805717 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SqBZSB via

A strange museum at the ‘centre of the world’

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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

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What Is Going to Happen in 2019

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The the State of Deepfakes: Reality Under Attack. A 2018 Report [pdf]

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Learn How to Use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for Much Authentication Win

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Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

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

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Bing Crosby and the Tape Revolution

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

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Bing Crosby and the Tape Revolution

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Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

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Powder metallurgy

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Powder metallurgy

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Txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes

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Travels with Smalltalk (1995)

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Txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes

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Optimization: An Introduction (2006) [pdf]

Article URL: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/7288263.PDF Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800902 Points: 74 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BTy9ui via

RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages

Article URL: http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/rpn/rpn.impl.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800668 Points: 64 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CJFYo0 via

Flutter Desktop Embedding

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The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29175093 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18799550 Points: 28 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CoMdut via

Travels with Smalltalk (1995)

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How to DIY a Product Launch Video with No Experience, and for Free

Article URL: https://clearfounder.com/how-to-diy-a-product-launch-video-with-no-experience-and-for-free/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805222 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BTcoee via

The FCC is shutting down temporarily

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How to DIY a Product Launch Video with No Experience, and for Free

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The FCC is shutting down temporarily

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1940 WPA San Francisco Model 42x38 Ft Now Online from Rumsey Collection

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Learn How to Use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for Much Authentication Win

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1940 WPA San Francisco Model 42x38 Ft Now Online from Rumsey Collection

Article URL: https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2019/1/1/huge-san-francisco-1940-wooden-model-digitized Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18803412 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F25C9Z via

Newfront (W18) Is Hiring a Head of People

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The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia

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Newfront (W18) Is Hiring a Head of People

Article URL: https://jobs.lever.co/newfrontinsurance/f15b8c00-caa1-433b-838f-099cda3cf3ee Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18804981 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ApWecr via

First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]

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Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281628009_Flat_Design_vs_Traditional_Design_Comparative_Experimental_Study Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18801865 Points: 178 # Comments: 85 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2s0GmZb via

Show HN: Stowbots – Sort image downloads automatically using deep learning

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Drawing is the best videogame

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Show HN: Stowbots – Sort image downloads automatically using deep learning

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The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation

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Flair: A very simple framework for Natural Language Processing

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Taking Stock of the World’s Debt

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“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)

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

Title: Senior Driver Engineer Job Description: The best accelerator in the world is useless without the ability to use it. Those of you who have tried to use nVidia GPUs in the past know of the difficulties of installing the drivers, CUDA, etc. And should those drivers break for some reason after you have installed them.... good luck! We aim to make our drivers "simple, bulletproof and iPhone-like" - easy to install, easy to use and robust across all types of workload. Unlike pretty much everyone else, we do NOT view the device drivers as a cost center and aim to make it as solid as possible. Technically speaking, the driver will be locked to a single OS to start with (Ubuntu 16.04) and will interface with the Vathys chip through an FPGA. You must also work with us to create the FPGA glue logic. There will be no graphics driver portion involved. You will be taking charge of the driver project from start to finish. Skills and Qualifications: 1. Experience in developing dri...

What I learned at work this year

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Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor

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Kuleshov effect

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The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)

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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects

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Star Control: Origins removed from Steam after DMCA takedown notice

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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now

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Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

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How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)

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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks

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Proving Cantor's Theorem in Clojure Using LaTTe

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The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI

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Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)

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The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation

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Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

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Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

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Flair: A very simple framework for Natural Language Processing

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The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI

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PANE: Programming with visible data

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Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

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What I learned at work this year

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OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects

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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now

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Kuleshov effect

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Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)

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Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor

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Proving Cantor's Theorem in Clojure Using LaTTe

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The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (2004)

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Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)

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Flutter Desktop Embedding

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Optimization: An Introduction (2006) [pdf]

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How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)

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Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside

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First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]

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Taking Stock of the World’s Debt

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Star Control: Origins removed from Steam after DMCA takedown notice

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A list of useful books for game AI programming (2014)

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The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks

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RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages

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

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“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)

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Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines

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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

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New best story on Hacker News: Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

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New best story on Hacker News: Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

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