Hacker News on 4 January 2020

• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
• U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
• Ask HN: Are books worth it?
• Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
• A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
• Notes on Technical Writing
• Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
• Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
• Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
• Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices