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Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains

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A national housing crisis is brewing

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A national housing crisis is brewing

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Astronaut Accidentally Calls 911 from Space

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Astronaut Accidentally Calls 911 from Space

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Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall

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Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall

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Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

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Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2019/01/02/android-runtime-app-support-fuchsia/?xyz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18815105 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BUnWxM via

How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin

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A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers

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Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming

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How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin

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A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers

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Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

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No, we do not have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change

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Necunos is selling FOSS phone today

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No, we do not have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change

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Necunos is selling FOSS phone today

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How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?

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How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?

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Chromebooks aren't accessible – a five-year-old bug

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/01/chromebooks-arent-accessible-and-google-doesnt-care/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18814663 Points: 63 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2F5O4JX via

Learn and practice modern JavaScript

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Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQs

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Chromebooks aren't accessible – a five-year-old bug

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Learn and practice modern JavaScript

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Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQs

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New best story on Hacker News: Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent

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A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals

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A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals

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AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

Article URL: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18811554 Points: 28 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2R3MQW1 via

AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

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New best story on Hacker News: China successfully lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

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The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017)

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The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017)

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California inmate takes unlikely path to freedom: podcasting

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Nikolaas Tinbergen Seagull (1974)

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

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PyTorch passes Keras on Google Trends Metric in the USA - gains on Tensorflow

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Inside the booming business of background music

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PyTorch passes Keras on Google Trends Metric in the USA - gains on Tensorflow

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Inside the booming business of background music

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Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]

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How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics

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Iris Automation Is Hiring a Computer Vision Expert – AI for Drones

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Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died

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China successfully lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

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By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may have skewed results

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/cancer-culture-media-plasmax/579283/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812823 Points: 38 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2R7AbBu via

The ABCs of Jacobin

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Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?

Talented in terms of general knowledge and practical skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812643 Points: 60 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CMxSLe via

Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812489 Points: 118 # Comments: 40 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2F6sIv9 via

Deriving Traits in Rust with Procedural Macros

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Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent

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Behavioral Programming (2012) [pdf]

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Real-time readouts of thinking in rats

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Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard

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Computers Determine States of Consciousness

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Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?

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Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, Not mobile phones

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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

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A sane introduction to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori

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Scratch 3.0

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Migrating from Google Analytics

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New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

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China successfully lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

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Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent

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Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon

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New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

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Scratch 3.0

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Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died

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By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may have skewed results

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Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard

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Migrating from Google Analytics

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Monorepos: Please don’t

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A sane introduction to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori

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Real-time readouts of thinking in rats

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Computers Determine States of Consciousness

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Iris Automation Is Hiring a Computer Vision Expert – AI for Drones

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A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

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Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8

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Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?

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USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard

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Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, Not mobile phones

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Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]

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What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future

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The ABCs of Jacobin

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Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries

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Deriving Traits in Rust with Procedural Macros

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Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?

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Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing on team culture

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Behavioral Programming (2012) [pdf]

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Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]

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New best story on Hacker News: New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

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New best story on Hacker News: Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

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New best story on Hacker News: Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

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New best story on Hacker News: Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

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New best story on Hacker News: New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule

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