For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2020-01-04register
Stories from January 4, 2020
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.
U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software (reuters.com)
595 points by ckcheng on Jan 4, 2020 | 211 comments
2.
Notes on Technical Writing (mkaz.blog)
414 points by marcuskaz on Jan 4, 2020 | 63 comments
3.
Lessons from six years as a solo consultant (embeddeduse.com)
460 points by Edward9 on Jan 4, 2020 | 149 comments
4.
A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES (github.com/0x4447)
422 points by mzehrer on Jan 4, 2020 | 260 comments
5.
Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment (codemagic.io)
370 points by Rubytron on Jan 3, 2020 | 178 comments
6.
Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019) (mitpress.mit.edu)
351 points by Hooke on Jan 4, 2020 | 193 comments
7.
Ask HN: Are books worth it?
553 points by miguelrochefort on Jan 4, 2020 | 391 comments
8.
Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks (matklad.github.io)
373 points by erickt on Jan 4, 2020 | 145 comments
9.
Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices (github.com/awslabs)
251 points by Sean-Der on Jan 4, 2020 | 47 comments
10.
The Light Phone (thelightphone.com)
240 points by lelf on Jan 3, 2020 | 277 comments
11.
Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy (troyhunt.com)
223 points by tomwas54 on Jan 4, 2020 | 78 comments
12.
Machine learning is fundamentally conservative (lareviewofbooks.org)
308 points by blurbleblurble on Jan 4, 2020 | 200 comments
13.
Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE (leucosite.com)
177 points by wglb on Jan 3, 2020 | 27 comments
14.
Ignore Sunk Costs (2009) (seths.blog)
149 points by vsrev on Jan 4, 2020 | 98 comments
15.
Scripting tmux (arp242.net)
187 points by mplanchard on Jan 4, 2020 | 19 comments
16.
Wanggongchang Explosion (wikipedia.org)
204 points by benbreen on Jan 4, 2020 | 41 comments
17.
Neumorphism in User Interfaces (uxdesign.cc)
145 points by amake on Jan 3, 2020 | 61 comments
18.
The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019) (medium.com/cantors-paradise)
103 points by samclemens on Jan 4, 2020 | 35 comments
19.
An instant classic about learning ancient Greek (newyorker.com)
115 points by diodorus on Jan 4, 2020 | 6 comments
20.
Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better (github.com/brammool)
142 points by earenndil on Jan 4, 2020 | 89 comments
21.
A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900 (newscientist.com)
90 points by EndXA on Jan 3, 2020 | 54 comments
22.
MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump (os2museum.com)
94 points by eaguyhn on Jan 4, 2020 | 19 comments
23.
Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (github.com/vcmi)
170 points by WoodenKatana on Jan 4, 2020 | 59 comments
24.
IBM Selectric Bug (cryptomuseum.com)
109 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Jan 3, 2020 | 4 comments
25.
Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”
172 points by bweber on Jan 4, 2020 | 18 comments
26.
Non-realtime publishing for censorship resistance (bjrn.se)
56 points by bjeds on Jan 4, 2020 | 9 comments
27.
Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade (hackeducation.com)
145 points by danso on Jan 3, 2020 | 121 comments
28.
End-to-end double-ratchet encryption with epoch key exchange (patentswarm.com)
232 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 4, 2020 | 65 comments
29.
Show HN: Pong in 512 bytes (boot sector) (github.com/mat-sz)
71 points by matsz on Jan 3, 2020 | 20 comments
30.
Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018) (educationpost.org)
247 points by rmason on Jan 4, 2020 | 342 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You