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1.
UK COVID19 model published
imperial.ac.uk •
71 points
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64 citations
2.
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption
statewatch.org •
1527 points
•
1 citation
3.
GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners
arxiv.org •
429 points
•
18 citations
4.
Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple
cdn2.unrealengine.com •
674 points
•
11 citations
5.
Linux Productivity Tools
usenix.org •
1234 points
6.
I fear App Review is getting too powerful
judiciary.house.gov •
980 points
•
1 citation
7.
FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021
docs.fcc.gov •
908 points
8.
Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
media.defense.gov •
705 points
•
3 citations
9.
Articles downloaded from SciHub where cited 1.72 times more
arxiv.org •
755 points
•
1 citation
10.
States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws
texasattorneygeneral.gov •
631 points
•
3 citations
11.
Chelsea Manning ordered to be released
courtlistener.com •
730 points
12.
Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide
neildavidson.com •
481 points
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2 citations
13.
Surveillance on UK council websites
brave.com •
512 points
•
1 citation
14.
The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus
minervanett.no •
493 points
15.
Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com
docs.house.gov •
434 points
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1 citation
16.
Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits
dol.gov •
374 points
•
3 citations
17.
Calculus Made Easy
gutenberg.org •
424 points
•
1 citation
18.
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
arxiv.org •
411 points
•
1 citation
19.
Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
arxiv.org •
357 points
•
3 citations
20.
Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-Based Physical Key Inference
comp.nus.edu.sg •
349 points
•
2 citations
21.
Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition
users.aalto.fi •
393 points
22.
How to Read a Paper
blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca •
340 points
•
2 citations
23.
Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?
arxiv.org •
335 points
•
2 citations
24.
The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service
inthepublicinterest.org •
356 points
•
1 citation
25.
New Results on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
public.econ.duke.edu •
379 points
26.
Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems
static.sched.com •
377 points
27.
Dark Patterns After the GDPR
arxiv.org •
337 points
•
1 citation
28.
Featherweight Go (A generics design for Go)
arxiv.org •
251 points
•
5 citations
29.
California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order
gov.ca.gov •
250 points
•
5 citations
30.
Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality
borsche.de •
316 points
•
1 citation
31.
CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)
cdprojekt.com •
294 points
•
2 citations
32.
Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov
biorxiv.org •
287 points
•
2 citations
33.
Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp
codesync.global •
306 points
•
1 citation
34.
Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
arxiv.org •
322 points
35.
Exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi
arxiv.org •
288 points
•
1 citation
36.
Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable
supremecourt.gov •
304 points
37.
What distinguishes great software engineers?
faculty.washington.edu •
301 points
38.
Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers
encrypto.de •
280 points
•
1 citation
39.
2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork
sigact.org •
297 points
40.
Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
cepr.org •
290 points
41.
Looking Back at Postgres
arxiv.org •
284 points
42.
Neural programmer better than Quicksort
arxiv.org •
281 points
43.
How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers
arxiv.org •
277 points
44.
Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?
damtp.cam.ac.uk •
276 points
45.
Experimental evidence of emotional contagion through social networks
pnas.org •
275 points
46.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
people.math.harvard.edu •
194 points
•
5 citations
47.
SpaceX Starship Users' Guide
spacex.com •
252 points
•
1 citation
48.
YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection
arxiv.org •
235 points
•
2 citations
49.
Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems
reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu •
250 points
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1 citation
50.
Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall
energycommerce.house.gov •
265 points
51.
Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration
files.eric.ed.gov •
262 points
52.
Knowledge Graphs
arxiv.org •
261 points
53.
Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking
arxiv.org •
260 points
54.
Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP
arxiv.org •
210 points
•
3 citations
55.
Mathematics for Programmers
yurichev.com •
258 points
56.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
cia.gov •
187 points
•
4 citations
57.
Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court
cases.justia.com •
243 points
58.
Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes
web.stanford.edu •
242 points
59.
The Elements of Statistical Learning
web.stanford.edu •
225 points
•
1 citation
60.
Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings
transportation.house.gov •
238 points
61.
Show HN: Fast Anomaly Detection in Graphs
comp.nus.edu.sg •
206 points
•
2 citations
62.
A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
arxiv.org •
236 points
63.
Running Postgres in Kubernetes
static.sched.com •
230 points
64.
Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List
scs.stanford.edu •
229 points
65.
Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught
ams.org •
225 points
66.
The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition
sec.gov •
194 points
•
2 citations
67.
Bicycles for the mind have to be see-through
akkartik.name •
206 points
•
1 citation
68.
Technical report into Jeff Bezos phone hack
assets.documentcloud.org •
218 points
69.
Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture
agner.org •
163 points
•
4 citations
70.
Extracting firmware from embedded devices
github.com •
215 points
71.
Learning technical writing using the engineering method
cs.tufts.edu •
215 points
72.
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
arxiv.org •
214 points
73.
Millions of Tiny Databases
assets.amazon.science •
172 points
•
3 citations
74.
Draft of Executive Order on Online Censorship
kateklonick.com •
148 points
•
5 citations
75.
PID Without a PhD
wescottdesign.com •
195 points
•
1 citation
76.
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
people.math.harvard.edu •
208 points
77.
C++ Pattern Matching Proposal
open-std.org •
192 points
•
1 citation
78.
Undocumented CPU behavior: analyzing undocumented opcodes on Intel x86-64
cattius.com •
205 points
79.
U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions from CGT
coincenter.org •
204 points
80.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
cdar.berkeley.edu •
190 points
•
1 citation
81.
Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem
arxiv.org •
201 points
82.
How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods
cslab.pepperdine.edu •
198 points
83.
USB 4.0
usb.org •
197 points
84.
How to build a search engine with common Unix tools
iaria.org •
197 points
85.
The Art of Powerful Questions
umanitoba.ca •
197 points
86.
The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
arxiv.org •
196 points
87.
Adjusted age-specific case fatality ratio during the Covid-19 epidemic in Hubei
medrxiv.org •
138 points
•
5 citations
88.
The Silurian Hypothesis
arxiv.org •
158 points
•
3 citations
89.
Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science
cs.cmu.edu •
179 points
•
1 citation
90.
The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
arxiv.org •
190 points
91.
Reflections on Trusting Trust
cs.cmu.edu •
77 points
•
13 citations
92.
Is a Dataframe Just a Table?
plateau-workshop.org •
189 points
93.
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages
greenlab.di.uminho.pt •
163 points
•
2 citations
94.
Haskell for a New Decade
dev.stephendiehl.com •
186 points
95.
MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law
arxiv.org •
184 points
96.
Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov •
171 points
•
1 citation
97.
Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages
arxiv.org •
182 points
98.
On Liberty John Stuart Mill
socialsciences.mcmaster.ca •
168 points
•
1 citation
99.
Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages
arxiv.org •
179 points
100.
Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow
arxiv.org •
167 points
•
1 citation
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