Svelte Hacker News

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) (karpathy.medium.com)

335 points by swatson741 a day ago | 132 comments

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How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries (phys.org)

94 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 61 comments

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Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (freedos.org)

119 points by AlexeyBrin a day ago | 60 comments

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The x86 Interrupt List, aka “Ralf Brown's Interrupt List” (2018) (cs.cmu.edu)

85 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 23 comments

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Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) (cringely.com)

133 points by suioir 5 days ago | 65 comments

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Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK (bbc.co.uk)

46 points by thinkingemote 5 days ago | 33 comments

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Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism (cjr.org)

302 points by giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago | 90 comments

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At the end you use `git bisect` (kevin3010.github.io)

200 points by _spaceatom 20 hours ago | 155 comments

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Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit (nytimes.com)

5 points by mooreds an hour ago | 2 comments

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Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary approaches to ancient olfactory worlds (scientificamerican.com)

27 points by quapster 7 days ago | 1 comment

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How to build a solar powered electric oven (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

80 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 48 comments

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Notes by djb on using Fil-C (cr.yp.to)

341 points by transpute a day ago | 220 comments

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Printed circuit board substrates derived from lignocellulose nanofibrils (nature.com)

34 points by PaulHoule 7 days ago | 17 comments

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Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark (gamingonlinux.com)

752 points by haunter 18 hours ago | 463 comments

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Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples (dhuan.github.io)

126 points by dhuan_ a day ago | 19 comments

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Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today

75 points by csmoak 17 hours ago | 48 comments

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React-Native-Godot (github.com)

62 points by Noghartt 19 hours ago | 6 comments

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Welcome to hell; please drive carefully (2earth.github.io)

95 points by 2earth 7 days ago | 28 comments

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Rats filmed snatching bats from air (science.org)

143 points by XzetaU8 6 days ago | 82 comments

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LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years (tycospages.com)

125 points by userbinator a day ago | 41 comments

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Walkie Talkie, an open source peer-to-peer iOS communicator (github.com)

17 points by tomcam 15 hours ago | 3 comments

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Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off (ft.com)

100 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 a day ago | 141 comments

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When O3 is 2x slower than O2 (cat-solstice.github.io)

99 points by keyle 6 days ago | 92 comments

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Bye, Google Search (tbray.org)

14 points by HieronymusBosch 5 hours ago | 0 comments

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Automatically Translating C to Rust (cacm.acm.org)

110 points by FromTheArchives 10 days ago | 85 comments

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Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited (gwern.net)

39 points by Ariarule a day ago | 12 comments

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Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy (the-sun.com)

81 points by swat535 14 hours ago | 29 comments

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UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis (news.ok.ubc.ca)

18 points by mxkopy 18 hours ago | 28 comments

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