top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-17

Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/adobes-new-image-rotation-tool-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-ai-concepts-weve-seen

2 years ago

Crokinole

https://pudding.cool/2024/10/crokinole/

2 years ago

Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-words-to-think/

2 years ago

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

https://ading.dev/blog/posts/chrome_sandbox_escape.html

2 years ago

Grandmaster-level chess without search

https://github.com/google-deepmind/searchless_chess

2 years ago

Cats are (almost) liquid

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02024-8

2 years ago

NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-update-october-2024/

2 years ago

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

https://gitlab.com/lockie/cl-fast-ecs/-/wikis/tutorial-2

2 years ago

Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

2 years ago

JSON Patch

https://zuplo.com/blog/2024/10/10/unlocking-the-power-of-json-patch

2 years ago

Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01502

2 years ago

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3477r0.html

2 years ago

555 Timer Circuits

https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/

2 years ago

Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients

https://scitechdaily.com/diabetes-breakthrough-new-treatment-eliminates-insulin-for-86-of-patients/

2 years ago

Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/exclude-ai-images.html

2 years ago

NASA freezes Starliner missions

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-freezes-starliner-missions-after-boeing-leaves-astronauts-stranded-2000512963

2 years ago

Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?

https://neon.tech/blog/why-does-everyone-run-ancient-postgres-versions

2 years ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870887

2 years ago

WordPress retaliation impacts community

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/c0438e0ee9382c5f/

2 years ago

setBigTimeout

https://evanhahn.com/set-big-timeout/

2 years ago