| 1. | | Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (coding-guidelines.com) |
| 780 points by walterclifford on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 308 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | GPT-Neo β Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free (eleuther.ai) |
| 725 points by sieste on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 252 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (tjcx.me) |
| 851 points by swyx on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 385 comments [ext] |
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How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com) |
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443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 4. | | Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 380 points by DamnInteresting on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 138 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Context switching costs more than we give it credit for (thinkingthrough.substack.com) |
| 590 points by maddynator on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 352 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | That XOR Trick (2020) (florian.github.io) |
| 428 points by wagslane on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 231 comments [ext] |
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The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com) |
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376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
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| 7. | | We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college (kansascity.com) |
| 539 points by amin on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 396 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 730 points by atg_abhishek on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 458 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (ieee.org) |
| 201 points by tosh on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com) |
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67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
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| 10. | | Three reasons fungi are not plants (asm.org) |
| 220 points by chewbacha on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 101 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching (xdavidhu.me) |
| 260 points by hackerpain on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 104 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | Review broken products instead of new ones (buyforlife.com) |
| 244 points by hubraumhugo on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 121 comments [ext] |
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When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev) |
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380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
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| 13. | | I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users (zdnet.com) |
| 250 points by GordonS on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 158 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies (turquoise.health) |
| 447 points by ageitgey on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 374 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (2014) (mapsbynik.com) |
| 162 points by sndean on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 103 comments [ext] |
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Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com) |
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292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
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| 16. | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (archive.org) |
| 201 points by mmastrac on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 98 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect (lambdabytes.io) |
| 237 points by io_nathan on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 74 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | MuseScore 3.6 (musescore.org) |
| 236 points by app4soft on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 78 comments [ext] |
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Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence () |
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215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
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| 19. | | Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost (bloomberg.com) |
| 154 points by paulpauper on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 90 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes (github.com/micah5) |
| 344 points by rvieira on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 75 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation (prnewswire.com) |
| 406 points by muskminion on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 75 comments [ext] |
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Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com) |
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215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
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| 22. | | Stromatolites: A Billion-Year-Old Living Organism (bbc.com) |
| 112 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Decluttering low-Earth orbit: It's time to tidy up space (economist.com) |
| 174 points by edward on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 131 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | The Amiga 1000 Parceiro (amigalove.com) |
| 134 points by jdkee on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 22 comments [ext] |
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The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com) |
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174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
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| 25. | | Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend? (nautil.us) |
| 188 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 216 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the extensions? (sixcolors.com) |
| 200 points by 1cvmask on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 216 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Technosolutionism Isnβt the Fix (hedgehogreview.com) |
| 117 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 77 comments [ext] |
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Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph) |
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187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
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| 28. | | Why Combustion Is Exothermic (acs.org) |
| 136 points by jasonhansel on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 65 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets (economist.com) |
| 213 points by Vindl on Jan 18, 2021 [ext] | 260 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | Apple II Basic Bot (atari8bitbot.com) |
| 62 points by elvis70 on Jan 17, 2021 [ext] | 18 comments [ext] |
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Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now () |
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322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
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