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

Veo

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

2 years ago

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension

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

2 years ago

Gemini Flash

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs

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

2 years ago

The most talented person in the world

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

2 years ago

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

https://github.com/andydunstall/pico

2 years ago

Firefox search update

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

2 years ago

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

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

The new APT 3.0 solver

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

2 years ago

The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres

https://brandur.org/notifier

2 years ago

Fast linked lists

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

2 years ago

Bossware is a big legal risk

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East

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

2 years ago

Branded types for TypeScript

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

2 years ago

PaliGemma

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

2 years ago

Claude is now available in Europe

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

A review on protein language models

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us

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

2 years ago

Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook

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

2 years ago

Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha

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

2 years ago

Most common PIN codes (2012)

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

2 years ago

Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden

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

2 years ago

What factors explain the nature of software?

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

2 years ago

Compiler Explorer

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

2 years ago

Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?

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

2 years ago

HBase Deprecation at Pinterest

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Project Astra

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

2 years ago

New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA

https://nanonuclearenergy.com/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Apple says kernel vulnerability is not eligible for bounty

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Truffle ISLISP

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Convolutional-KANs

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

2 years ago

Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design

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

2 years ago

Verilator: Open-Source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system

https://github.com/verilator/verilator

2 years ago

Muse Retrospective

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

A Tale of Two Sieves (1996) [pdf]

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

2 years ago

AWS CEO to Step Down

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

2 years ago

'Shake' Design Documents

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

2 years ago

Dart 3.4: WASM and Macros preview

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-3-4-bd8d23b4462a

2 years ago

EU commission designates Booking.com as a digital gatekeeper under DMA

https://twitter.com/eu_commission/status/1789962135096729886

2 years ago

Firebase App Hosting

https://firebase.blog/posts/2024/05/introducing-app-hosting/

2 years ago

Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-69006713

2 years ago

LineageOS is the perfect minimal smartphone for non-tech savvy folk

https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/lineageos-is-the-perfect-minimal-smartphone-for-non-tech-savvy-folk/155

2 years ago

Google Gems

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-update-may-2024/

2 years ago