top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-01-04

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go

https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/

6 years ago

692 upvotes – 90 comments

U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-artificial-intelligence/u-s-government-limits-exports-of-artificial-intelligence-software-idUSKBN1Z21PT

6 years ago

595 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: Are books worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955258

6 years ago

553 upvotes – 391 comments

Lessons from six years as a solo consultant

https://www.embeddeduse.com/2019/06/26/lessons-from-six-years-as-a-solo-consultant/

6 years ago

460 upvotes – 149 comments

A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES

https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email

6 years ago

★ 3k MIT
422 upvotes – 260 comments

Notes on Technical Writing

https://mkaz.blog/misc/notes-on-technical-writing/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 63 comments

Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks

https://matklad.github.io/2020/01/04/mutexes-are-faster-than-spinlocks.html

6 years ago

373 upvotes – 145 comments

Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)

https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/f9kuryi8

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 193 comments

Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/provocations/neophobic-conservative-ai-overlords-want-everything-stay/

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c

6 years ago

★ 1.1k C Apache-2.0
251 upvotes – 47 comments
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