Hacker News on Wednesday, 29 March 2023

The age of average(alexmurrell.co.uk)

877 points by kloch 3 years ago | 430 comments

Essay by Alex Murrell arguing that design, art, architecture, and culture are converging on homogeneous averages, starting with Komar and Melamid's survey-based painting.

Universal Speech Model(sites.research.google)

487 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 181 comments

Google Research project page for the Universal Speech Model, a 2B-parameter ASR model family trained on 12 million hours of speech covering 300+ languages.

AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover(wiz.io)

358 points by alosch7 3 years ago | 96 comments

Wiz Research blog post explaining how a common Azure Active Directory misconfiguration exposed Microsoft apps, enabling Bing.com result manipulation and account takeover.

Wat [video] (2012)(destroyallsoftware.com)

356 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 126 comments

Video page for "Wat," Gary Bernhardt's CodeMash 2012 lightning talk on surprising behaviors in JavaScript and Ruby.

Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs

322 points by KianHooshmand 3 years ago | 111 comments

Launch HN post for Vocode, a YC W23 open source Python library for building real-time voice conversation apps on top of LLMs.

How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)(mitadmissions.org)

288 points by textread 3 years ago | 107 comments

Original Prusa MK4(prusa3d.com)

261 points by oztamir 3 years ago | 237 comments

Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison(lunasec.io)

232 points by freeqaz 3 years ago | 62 comments

Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

232 points by ocdtrekkie 3 years ago | 86 comments

Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders [pdf](wrv.github.io)

225 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 54 comments

Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation(eig.org)

220 points by RickJWagner 3 years ago | 218 comments

The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

217 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 371 comments

Bing Chat now has ads(twitter.com)

207 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 189 comments

Type system of Fortnite's Verse language(brianmckenna.org)

205 points by ghuntley 3 years ago | 128 comments

Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county(newyorker.com)

204 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 521 comments

Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (2016)(fs.blog)

200 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 47 comments

Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another(arstechnica.com)

200 points by benkan 3 years ago | 138 comments

Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against Android, iOS and Chrome(blog.google)

195 points by satoshiiii 3 years ago | 60 comments

Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust(github.com)

162 points by agluszak 3 years ago | 51 comments

A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it(hellgatenyc.com)

155 points by laurex 3 years ago | 48 comments

Problem Details for HTTP APIs(rfc-editor.org)

153 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 38 comments

Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos(boingboing.net)

152 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 121 comments

Gambas Almost Means BASIC(gambas.sourceforge.net)

141 points by senko 3 years ago | 39 comments

I built an iMessage bot using Beeper(getclearspace.com)

130 points by anteloper 3 years ago | 58 comments

'Ultramassive' black hole discovered – bigger than the majority of galaxies(bbc.com)

125 points by achow 3 years ago | 82 comments

Rotten meat may have been a staple of Stone Age diets(sciencenews.org)

123 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 143 comments

Show HN: Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster(github.com)

114 points by teddarific 3 years ago | 21 comments

Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face(blog.eladgil.com)

108 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: go-nbd – A Pure Go NBD Server and Client(github.com)

106 points by pojntfx 3 years ago | 36 comments

Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption(ietf.org)

99 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 33 comments

“Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (2019)(arxiv.org)

96 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 33 comments

Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)(deepstateblog.org)

88 points by maxwell 3 years ago | 18 comments

Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries(scientificamerican.com)

85 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 90 comments

I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own(mythic.computer)

79 points by macnkeegs 3 years ago | 70 comments

New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)(bloomberg.com)

77 points by hobble 3 years ago | 35 comments

An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged(lithub.com)

74 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 6 comments

Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf](cs.unm.edu)

73 points by ofalkaed 3 years ago | 4 comments

Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing(appsmith.com)

71 points by arey_abhishek 3 years ago | 32 comments

In the age of AI, don't let your skills atrophy(cyberdemon.org)

68 points by alnis 3 years ago | 47 comments

Fixing the TVA – A 'Loki' perspective(idealgas.substack.com)

68 points by Nars088 3 years ago | 43 comments

Sex and the citizenship process(lux-magazine.com)

66 points by akiselev 3 years ago | 61 comments

Clues to the lives of North America’s first inhabitants are hidden underwater(smithsonianmag.com)

64 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 28 comments

Qt Creator 10 Released(qt.io)

64 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 36 comments

Cantu a tenore(en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 23 comments

Terence Tao makes progress on the Collatz conjecture (2019)(quantamagazine.org)

61 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 39 comments

Sōzu – HTTP reverse proxy in Rust for immutable infrastructures(sozu.io)

56 points by lwhsiao 3 years ago | 14 comments

XML Appliance(en.wikipedia.org)

52 points by runlevel1 3 years ago | 33 comments

CSS is hard no matter how good you are at it(aha.io)

50 points by SteelWo1f 3 years ago | 45 comments

Republican Rand Paul blocks TikTok ban(wionews.com)

48 points by malshe 3 years ago | 36 comments

Zion Climbing in the 1930s(bigwallgear.com)

47 points by oftenwrong 3 years ago | 6 comments

Fuel from discarded plastics comes with a high cancer risk(theguardian.com)

47 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 26 comments

The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet(publicinfrastructure.org)

40 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 22 comments

The audiences and authors of midwifery manuals(laphamsquarterly.org)

34 points by pepys 3 years ago | 4 comments

Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time(cnbc.com)

31 points by harambae 3 years ago | 37 comments

What is really going on at Amazon Fresh?(emaggiori.com)

29 points by amrrs 3 years ago | 26 comments

The world can only end once(ravisparikh.substack.com)

25 points by raviparikh 3 years ago | 24 comments

Our Man in Ajmer(literaryreview.co.uk)

22 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 11 comments