top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-15

Sora: Creating video from text

https://openai.com/sora

2 years ago

Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/

2 years ago

Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/

2 years ago

Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps

https://observablehq.com/blog/observable-2-0

2 years ago

Uv: Python packaging in Rust

https://astral.sh/blog/uv

2 years ago

OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97733259&docId=FREF20240206125856&linkId=1#docIndex=0&page=1

2 years ago

Every default macOS wallpaper

https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/

2 years ago

Happy Birthday Lemmings

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

2 years ago

Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects-opengl-support-on-apple-silicon-officially-surpasses-apples/

2 years ago

Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

2 years ago

Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation (2023)

https://bclarkson-code.github.io/posts/llm-from-scratch-scalar-autograd/post.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024

https://benjamin-brady.github.io/gitlab-simulator/

2 years ago

Show HN: Aldi Price Map

https://www.aldipricemap.com/navel_oranges.html

2 years ago

Three virtues of a great programmer

https://thethreevirtues.com/

2 years ago

The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2417255-the-existence-of-a-new-kind-of-magnetism-has-been-confirmed/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590

2 years ago

Goodbye Auth0

https://www.joshcanhelp.com/goodbye-auth0/

2 years ago

What you've got is in fact a people problem

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-a-secret.html

2 years ago

Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a388g/flipper-zero-ban-canada-hacking-car-thefts

2 years ago

Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/15/sam-altman-openai-startup-fund

2 years ago

Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/indian-government-moves-to-ban-protonmail-after-bomb-threat

2 years ago

Solar and battery to make up 81% of new US electric-generating capacity in 2024

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61424

2 years ago

Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-map-methane-leaks-world-can-see-2024-2

2 years ago

So you think you understand IP fragmentation?

https://lwn.net/Articles/960913/

2 years ago

PWAs wont replace native iOS apps

https://app.campsite.co/campsite/p/notes/rengvq2txami

2 years ago

How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back

https://consciousdigital.org/deceptive-design-patterns/

2 years ago

Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/15/galactic-compass

2 years ago

Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

2 years ago

British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-judge-clears-british-teen-menorca-flight-bomb-hoax-charges-2024-01-25/

2 years ago

Unreal Engine 5 ported to WebGPU

https://twitter.com/spatialweeb/status/1757581115609817236

2 years ago

Fitness trackers find new symptom of depression: body temperature

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article285256032.html

2 years ago

Gemini 1.5 Pro

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1758146022726041615

2 years ago

The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

https://publishingperspectives.com/2009/10/the-strange-world-of-yakuza-fan-magazines/

2 years ago

GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform

https://twitter.com/birk/status/1758087210211909649

2 years ago

Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385635

2 years ago

Show HN: NeuralFlow – Visualize the intermediate output of Mistral 7B

https://github.com/valine/NeuralFlow

2 years ago

Managing mutable data in Elixir with Rust

https://www.lambdafunctions.com/articles/elixir-and-rust

2 years ago

Build your own 3D printed Hexapod

https://github.com/MakeYourPet/hexapod

2 years ago

Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction (2023)

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/02/nobel-prize-winner-gregg-semenza-tallies-tenth-retraction/

2 years ago

How I got scammed out of $50k

https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

2 years ago

Commercial property deals in the US are starting to pick up at deep discounts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-14/real-estate-lenders-confront-falling-us-commercial-property-prices

2 years ago

Making my bookshelves clickable

https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/14/clickable-bookshelves/

2 years ago

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271 (2020)

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html

2 years ago

Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-european-union/

2 years ago

Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1757761702550994961

2 years ago

Air Force OKs autonomous cargo flights across California after successful test

https://timesofsandiego.com/military/2024/02/14/air-force-oks-autonomous-cargo-flights-across-california-after-successful-test/

2 years ago

Show HN: Dstack – an open-source engine for running GPU workloads

https://dstack.ai/

2 years ago

Freenginx.org – open-source Nginx fork

https://freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2024-February/000000.html

2 years ago

Problem solving across 100,633 lines of code – Gemini 1.5 Pro Demo [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnsmqIj1MI

2 years ago

Mathematical and puzzle fonts/typefaces

https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/

2 years ago

Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00643-4

2 years ago

Gpulist – Craigslist for GPUs

https://gpulist.ai/

2 years ago

New bill would let defendants inspect algorithms used against them in court

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074214/justice-in-forensic-algorithms-act-democrats-mark-takano-dwight-evans

2 years ago

Passing stars changed the orbits of planets in the solar system

https://www.universetoday.com/165727/passing-stars-changed-the-orbits-of-planets-in-the-solar-system/

2 years ago

Stuffit – 30 Years of File Compression

https://www.stuffit.com/

2 years ago

Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/

2 years ago

Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise

https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/

2 years ago

License University of Michigan's Databases of Academic Speech and Student Papers

https://llm-academic-speech-data.catalystresearch.io/

2 years ago

Two Ethereum DeFi traders just made $120M using a strategy called 'looping'

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/two-ethereum-defi-traders-made-120-million-million-looping/

2 years ago

The future of Mozilla Hubs

https://hubs.mozilla.com/labs/sunset/

2 years ago

Old Online Chevy Manuals

https://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/

2 years ago