top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-14

Veo

https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/

8 months ago

1727 upvotes – 488 comments

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1790517455628198322

8 months ago

1124 upvotes – 782 comments

Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency

https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

8 months ago

756 upvotes – 148 comments

Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sir-theres-a-cat-in-your-mirror-dimension

8 months ago

463 upvotes – 71 comments

Gemini Flash

https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/flash/

8 months ago

442 upvotes – 146 comments

VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2024/05/fusion-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html

8 months ago

332 upvotes – 173 comments

Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch

8 months ago

284 upvotes – 141 comments

Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs

https://ai.google.dev/edge/model-explorer

8 months ago

270 upvotes – 33 comments

The most talented person in the world

https://matt.sh/the-most-talented-person

8 months ago

260 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic

https://github.com/andydunstall/pico

8 months ago

244 upvotes – 55 comments

Firefox search update

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

8 months ago

229 upvotes – 230 comments

Glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

8 months ago

211 upvotes – 35 comments

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/05/press-release-new-gel-breaks-down-alcohol-in-the-body.html

8 months ago

202 upvotes – 249 comments

The new APT 3.0 solver

https://blog.jak-linux.org/2024/05/14/solver3/

8 months ago

193 upvotes – 114 comments

The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres

https://brandur.org/notifier

8 months ago

185 upvotes – 55 comments

Fast linked lists

https://dygalo.dev/blog/blazingly-fast-linked-lists/

8 months ago

182 upvotes – 127 comments

Bossware is a big legal risk

https://www.kolide.com/blog/your-company-s-bossware-could-get-you-in-legal-trouble

8 months ago

176 upvotes – 212 comments

Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite

8 months ago

174 upvotes – 67 comments

My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132747.3132763

8 months ago

168 upvotes – 174 comments

Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/

8 months ago

162 upvotes – 220 comments

Branded types for TypeScript

https://www.carlos-menezes.com/post/branded-types

8 months ago

158 upvotes – 144 comments

PaliGemma

https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/paligemma

8 months ago

145 upvotes – 15 comments

Claude is now available in Europe

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-europe

8 months ago

145 upvotes – 132 comments

Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/locks-of-beethovens-hair-are-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-his-deafness-and-illnesses-180984332/

8 months ago

142 upvotes – 101 comments

A review on protein language models

https://www.apoorva-srinivasan.com/plms/

8 months ago

138 upvotes – 27 comments

Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/archibald-alabama-prisoners-organs-vanish-and-theres-a-whole-lot-of-passing-the-buck-and-the-bodies.html

8 months ago

136 upvotes – 64 comments

Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us

https://www.highlight.io/blog/lw5-clickhouse-performance-optimization

8 months ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-shuttering-workplace-enterprise-version-170030864.html

8 months ago

131 upvotes – 119 comments

Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha

https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2024/05/13/using-arg-in-a-dockerfile-beware-the-gotcha/

8 months ago

129 upvotes – 84 comments

Most common PIN codes (2012)

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

8 months ago

127 upvotes – 88 comments

Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14kywyk0vro

8 months ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

What factors explain the nature of software?

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/what_factors_explain_the_nature_of_software.html

8 months ago

117 upvotes – 91 comments

Compiler Explorer

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/compiler-explorer

8 months ago

116 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40359076

8 months ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

HBase Deprecation at Pinterest

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/hbase-deprecation-at-pinterest-8a99e6c8e6b7

8 months ago

111 upvotes – 58 comments

Project Astra

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156296/google-ai-gemini-astra-assistant-live-io

8 months ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds (2021)

https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/

8 months ago

104 upvotes – 4 comments

New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-work-extends-the-thermodynamic-theory-of-computation

8 months ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse [pdf]

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/6119296c8c79713a/0e214c46-full.pdf

8 months ago

100 upvotes – 89 comments

Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types

https://verdagon.dev/blog/higher-raii-uses-linear-types

8 months ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

Wasp-193B, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy

https://www.exotic.uliege.be/cms/c_12662566/en/wasp-193b-a-giant-planet-with-a-density-similar-to-that-of-cotton-candy

8 months ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong

https://defector.com/the-creator-of-magic-the-gathering-knows-exactly-where-it-all-went-wrong

8 months ago

96 upvotes – 88 comments

The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA

https://nanonuclearenergy.com/

8 months ago

95 upvotes – 175 comments

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/

8 months ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/one-single-malicious-vehicle-can-block-smart-street-intersections-in-the-us/

8 months ago

90 upvotes – 136 comments

Apple says kernel vulnerability is not eligible for bounty

https://twitter.com/R00tkitSMM/status/1790269915028467800

8 months ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 – Congestion Control)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171562561424289

8 months ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Google announces Veo, their Sora competing text/image-to-video model

https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/video-fx

8 months ago

88 upvotes – 3 comments

Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/trypillia-megasites-a-social-levelling-concept/A0048EA63DA8D0B00A513BFD7C24A679

8 months ago

86 upvotes – 68 comments

The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-1871-samuel-morse-statue-central.html

8 months ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/do-we-spend-more-interest-defense

8 months ago

81 upvotes – 105 comments

Truffle ISLISP

https://arvyy.github.io/islisp-truffle/

8 months ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

8 months ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

Convolutional-KANs

https://github.com/AntonioTepsich/Convolutional-KANs

8 months ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built with React and CSS

https://cpojer.net/posts/athena-crisis-open-source

8 months ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/post/memory-models.html

8 months ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SUN_microsystems_logo_ambigram.png

8 months ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design

https://computerhistory.org/blog/ibm-and-the-transformation-of-corporate-design/

8 months ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

Verilator: Open-Source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system

https://github.com/verilator/verilator

8 months ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Muse Retrospective

https://adamwiggins.com/muse-retrospective/

8 months ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

A Tale of Two Sieves (1996) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/199612/pomerance.pdf

8 months ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

(Pi5) M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/m-2-hat-on-sale-now-for-12/

8 months ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

AWS CEO to Step Down

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/leadership-update-aws-adam-selipsky-matt-garman

8 months ago

65 upvotes – 31 comments

'Shake' Design Documents

https://digitalcomposting.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/shake-design-documents/

8 months ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments
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