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18121.

Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI [pdf] (philpapers.org)

82 points by xamuel on Oct 21, 2020 | 115 comments

18122.

Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs?

82 points by jvilalta on Jun 16, 2020 | 105 comments

18123.

WHO says it no longer uses 'pandemic' category, but virus still emergency (uk.reuters.com)

82 points by jacquesm on Feb 24, 2020 | 103 comments

18124.

Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%

82 points by johntiger1 on May 1, 2020 | 102 comments

18125.

Maillard reaction (seriouseats.com)

82 points by firloop on Jun 8, 2020 | 100 comments

18126.

Billionaires who made their fortunes by trying to stop climate change (bloomberg.com)

82 points by montalbano on Jan 22, 2020 | 99 comments

18127.

Tackling the misinformation epidemic with “In Event of Moon Disaster” (news.mit.edu)

82 points by MindGods on Jul 20, 2020 | 97 comments

18128.

Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture (docs.google.com)

82 points by bra-ket on Dec 31, 2020 | 97 comments

18129.

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change (bbc.com)

82 points by clumsysmurf on Sep 22, 2020 | 96 comments

18130.

Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace (dailymail.co.uk)

82 points by DanielleMolloy on Aug 30, 2020 | 95 comments

18131.

Str: Yet another string library for C language (github.com)

82 points by SiempreViernes on Nov 25, 2020 | 95 comments

18132.

Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year (nationalgeographic.com)

82 points by pseudolus on Apr 10, 2020 | 94 comments

18133.

Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation (gatesnotes.com)

82 points by sturza on Feb 10, 2020 | 91 comments

18134.

The accidental genius of Yo (capiche.com)

82 points by maguay on Nov 8, 2020 | 91 comments

18135.

Sweden bans public events of more than eight people (thelocal.se)

82 points by belltaco on Nov 16, 2020 | 91 comments

18136.

Judge rules Seattle media companies must hand over protest images to police (seattletimes.com)

82 points by danso on Jul 24, 2020 | 89 comments

18137.

The Greatest Keyboard of All Time Reborn (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

82 points by CaliforniaKarl on Jan 3, 2020 | 87 comments

18138.

Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch (web.archive.org)

82 points by holler on Sep 18, 2020 | 87 comments

18139.

Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available (remotehour.co)

82 points by shyamady on Mar 19, 2020 | 78 comments

18140.

Tesla says its battery innovations will deliver its goal of a $25,000 car (techcrunch.com)

82 points by the1plummie on Sep 22, 2020 | 76 comments

18141.

Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus (bostonglobe.com)

82 points by rpiguy on Apr 19, 2020 | 74 comments

18142.

International Standard Paper Sizes (cl.cam.ac.uk)

82 points by polm23 on Jun 19, 2020 | 73 comments

18143.

US universities under pressure to cut fees because of remote learning (ft.com)

82 points by hhs on Jul 25, 2020 | 72 comments

18144.

Vienna, City of Paradox (aeon.co)

82 points by tintinnabula on Jul 9, 2020 | 68 comments

18145.

Curry Before Columbus (contingentmagazine.org)

82 points by Thevet on Jul 8, 2020 | 67 comments

18146.

Getting Started with Lisp (2019) (smalldata.tech)

82 points by wheresvic4 on Dec 21, 2020 | 66 comments

18147.

Is Stencil a Better React? (wix.engineering)

82 points by yoava on Dec 7, 2020 | 63 comments

18148.

Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy (bbc.com)

82 points by smacktoward on Mar 7, 2020 | 62 comments

18149.

The Simple Truth about Physics (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

82 points by aluket on Jan 1, 2020 | 61 comments

18150.

Show HN: A library to add a command promp (and telnet) to your programs (github.com)

82 points by buserror on Jun 7, 2020 | 60 comments