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Engineering for Slow Internet 681 by jader201 | 275 comments on Hacker News.

Japan's push to make all research open access 584 by sohkamyung | 89 comments on Hacker News.

How actors remember their lines 581 by pepys | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop 494 by tjake | 140 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes 548 by maxkrieger | 134 comments on Hacker News. I was inspired by the way ChatGPT writes bullet lists, then invites you to "delve" deeper. This is an interface that reifies that rabbit-holing process into a tiling layout. The model is instructed to output hyperlink-prompts when it mentions something you might want to delve into. Lots of features to add (sessions, sharing, navigation, highlight-to-delve, images, ...). Would love to hear other usecases and ideas!

Donating forks to the dining hall 474 by kickofline | 149 comments on Hacker News.

Kino: Pro Video Camera 584 by louis-paul | 222 comments on Hacker News.

I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business 527 by mtlynch | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting 468 by blackmanta | 339 comments on Hacker News.

TTE: Terminal Text Effects 478 by makapuf | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Priced out of home ownership 422 by user20180120 | 1024 comments on Hacker News.

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? 394 by pantalaimon | 290 comments on Hacker News.

Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero 419 by jgrahamc | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” 400 by tambourine_man | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Big data is dead (2023) 387 by armanke13 | 308 comments on Hacker News.

Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging 387 by tfsh | 168 comments on Hacker News.

How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks 372 by slovette | 149 comments on Hacker News.

Writing a Unix clone in about a month 375 by drewdevault | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare took down our site after trying to force us to pay $120k within 24h 457 by nolverostae | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003) 378 by Borrible | 238 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product 419 by aazo11 | 137 comments on Hacker News. Long story short: We (Dataherald) just open-sourced our entire codebase, including the core engine, the clients that interact with it and the backend application layer for authentication and RBAC. You can now use the full solution to build text-to-SQL into your product. The Problem: modern LLMs write syntactically correct SQL, but they struggle with real-world relational data. This is because real world data and schema is messy, natural language can often be ambiguous and LLMs are not trained on your specific dataset. Solution: The core NL-to-SQL engine in Dataherald is an LLM based agent which uses Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning and a number of different tools to generate high accuracy SQL from a given user prompt. The engine achieves this by: - Collecting context at configuration from the database and sources such as data dictionaries and unstructured documents which are stored i...

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show 552 by richardatlarge | 1148 comments on Hacker News.

ICQ will stop working from June 26 660 by Uncle_Sam | 429 comments on Hacker News.

We're ending our Samsung collaboration 575 by skilled | 327 comments on Hacker News.

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder 541 by smcameron | 151 comments on Hacker News.

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet 570 by asadm | 323 comments on Hacker News.

Introducing Copilot+ PCs 396 by skilled | 565 comments on Hacker News.

The curious case of the missing period 445 by the_real_tjaart | 157 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How? 399 by pinakinathc | 356 comments on Hacker News. Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms? Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views). Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it. I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough? If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works? ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency/cost like running view count algorithms.

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes 608 by spzx | 1034 comments on Hacker News.

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice 632 by mjcl | 438 comments on Hacker News.

The Lunacy of Artemis 543 by feross | 372 comments on Hacker News.

Coding My Handwriting 521 by tobr | 42 comments on Hacker News.

Llama3 implemented from scratch 461 by Hadi7546 | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Floor796 462 by gtirloni | 62 comments on Hacker News.

Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check 473 by edent | 217 comments on Hacker News.

The Worst Website in the Entire World 386 by speckx | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count 549 by jasondavies | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Slack AI Training with Customer Data 526 by mlhpdx | 263 comments on Hacker News.

A forged Apple employee badge 536 by ecliptik | 181 comments on Hacker News.

VCs aren’t your friends 482 by taubek | 335 comments on Hacker News.

Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking 472 by dmd | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) 463 by PaulHoule | 179 comments on Hacker News.

It’s an age of marvels 425 by pavel_lishin | 395 comments on Hacker News.

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI 491 by wavelander | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Veo 460 by meetpateltech | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Static Chess 457 by maxmcd | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach? 402 by todsacerdoti | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs 516 by gnabgib | 398 comments on Hacker News.

GPUs Go Brrr 861 by nmstoker | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Immersive Linear Algebra (2015) 799 by oumua_don17 | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years 749 by thedg | 183 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer wasn't sure if I meant that it returned an error or if it was unresponsive. So the engineer would be frustrated, I would be frustrated, and fixing stuff would slow to a halt while we went back and forth to clarify how to repro the issue over async Jira comments. It’...

Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora 750 by luispa | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Jim Simons has died 722 by fgblanch | 226 comments on Hacker News.

It's always TCP_NODELAY 552 by todsacerdoti | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial 531 by belter | 258 comments on Hacker News.

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" 500 by chromakode | 65 comments on Hacker News.

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules 504 by zerojames | 235 comments on Hacker News.

Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation 427 by ople | 271 comments on Hacker News.

Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video] 421 by sschueller | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Apple introduces M4 chip 502 by excsn | 530 comments on Hacker News.

Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers 373 by q2loyp | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years 420 by rodarima | 104 comments on Hacker News. As commented before[1], I've been working on the past months to get the Dillo back to life and today I'm happy to release the 3.1.0 version, after almost 9 years since the last one. [1]: https://ift.tt/elQgqvT During this time: - A new mailing list was created[2] which is beginning to get some messages and patches. It is available in gmane via NNTP at gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel. [2]: https://ift.tt/eRNaxnl... - A LiberaPay page[3] which received the first donations (thanks!). [3]: https://ift.tt/RqQXDyz - Some more bugs where fixed and new features where added (details in the release page and/or changelog). Thanks to all the people that contributed with patches and tests. Now let's see if we can make it land in some distros!

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero 484 by alessiodm | 42 comments on Hacker News.

Social engineering takeovers of open source projects 515 by mooreds | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices 455 by jjgreen | 556 comments on Hacker News.

MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions 469 by nsoonhui | 312 comments on Hacker News.

Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland 425 by coloneltcb | 119 comments on Hacker News.

I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension 498 by sebg | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 498 by imaq | 428 comments on Hacker News.

DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android 496 by ementally | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 385 by Freedom2 | 437 comments on Hacker News.

mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours 358 by birriel | 189 comments on Hacker News.

The File Filesystem (2021) 339 by wegwerff | 99 comments on Hacker News.

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js 379 by spxneo | 65 comments on Hacker News.

New startup sells coffee through SSH 548 by ethanholt1 | 283 comments on Hacker News.