Hacker News on Sunday, 19 November 2023

StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech(github.com)

668 points by sandslides 2 years ago | 220 comments

GitHub repository for StyleTTS 2, an open-source text-to-speech model using style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models.

Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads

585 points by rKarpinski 2 years ago | 635 comments

Show HN post presenting Ad Accelerator, a Chrome extension that mutes, speeds up 10x, and skips YouTube video ads, with links to the Web Store and GitHub code.

Deep Learning Course(fleuret.org)

376 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 43 comments

François Fleuret's University of Geneva deep learning course page offering slides, recordings, and a virtual machine, with examples in PyTorch.

datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

364 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 409 comments

Miguel Grinberg's blog post explaining that Python 3.12 deprecates datetime.utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp(), and discussing alternatives.

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team(theverge.com)

359 points by jo_beef 2 years ago | 323 comments

The Verge news article reporting that Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team, with members moving to other AI teams at the company.

HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder(forum.handbrake.fr)

357 points by neustradamus 2 years ago | 82 comments

HandBrake forum announcement post for the 1.7.0 release, with upgrade notices about pending encodes, .NET 6 desktop runtime, and a link to release notes.

Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy(zero-k.info)

327 points by azalemeth 2 years ago | 133 comments

Homepage of Zero-K, a free and open-source sci-fi real-time strategy game, with download link, trailer, and community navigation.

Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

311 points by rasbt 2 years ago | 24 comments

Awesome Engineering Games(github.com)

280 points by solardev 2 years ago | 87 comments

Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster(bloomberg.com)

276 points by ryzvonusef 2 years ago | 229 comments

U.S. agency declares 21 species now extinct(pbsnc.org)

272 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 172 comments

OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role(bloomberg.com)

252 points by himaraya 2 years ago | 501 comments

Why I tend not to use content negotiation(htmx.org)

246 points by TheBigRoomXXL 2 years ago | 118 comments

Kyutai AI research lab with a $330M budget that will make everything open source(techcrunch.com)

232 points by vasco 2 years ago | 85 comments

I will always prefer to work from home(shavingtheyak.com)

213 points by exponentialgenx 2 years ago | 219 comments

Ask HN: Any comprehensive courses on Auth?

204 points by bojangleslover 2 years ago | 74 comments

Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock(shavingtheyak.com)

203 points by exponentialgenx 2 years ago | 109 comments

Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks(arxiv.org)

202 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 156 comments

Victor Mono Typeface(rubjo.github.io)

191 points by jbverschoor 2 years ago | 120 comments

From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees(washingtonpost.com)

181 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 238 comments

Revenge bedtime procrastination(solvingprocrastination.com)

167 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 63 comments

Persuasion through status rather than argument(robkhenderson.com)

162 points by jger15 2 years ago | 187 comments

Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters(github.com)

161 points by m463 2 years ago | 20 comments

I cancelled my Replit subscription(journal.paoloamoroso.com)

157 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 119 comments

Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001)(forums.anandtech.com)

157 points by edent 2 years ago | 121 comments

Lindenmayer systems(vsekar.me)

149 points by vsekar 2 years ago | 19 comments

A Timeline of the OpenAI Board(loeber.substack.com)

147 points by prawn 2 years ago | 90 comments

Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty(opensource.net)

138 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 87 comments

HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened(github.com)

133 points by wrdsmsh321 2 years ago | 27 comments

The architecture of today's LLM applications(github.blog)

126 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ninth Dedekind number found by two independent groups(quantamagazine.org)

122 points by beefman 2 years ago | 24 comments

The big TDD misunderstanding (2022)(linkedrecords.com)

110 points by WolfOliver 2 years ago | 150 comments

A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe(twitter.com)

109 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 92 comments

Gang crisis shaking Sweden(ft.com)

106 points by pretext 2 years ago | 221 comments

Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce(twitter.com)

104 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 71 comments

A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco(sfgate.com)

103 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 38 comments

Non-profit Matrix.org Foundation seems to be moving funds to for-profit Element(github.com)

100 points by alohapersona3 2 years ago | 28 comments

Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president(reuters.com)

98 points by monero-xmr 2 years ago | 57 comments

The Myth of RAM (2014)(ilikebigbits.com)

93 points by jchook 2 years ago | 49 comments

US ex-President Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalynn dies aged 96(bbc.com)

90 points by lsllc 2 years ago | 11 comments

The microtype package: Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection [pdf](mirror.clientvps.com)

88 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 19 comments

Bootstrapping self awareness in GPT-4: Towards recursive self inquiry(thewaltersfile.substack.com)

87 points by birriel 2 years ago | 60 comments

FSL: A License for the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral(lucumr.pocoo.org)

86 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 108 comments

OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing(wsj.com)

85 points by outrun86 2 years ago | 97 comments

Help HN: Google has blocked our entire domain for harmful programs

83 points by nstart 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Cassette-Tape Revolution(newyorker.com)

80 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 122 comments

Underage Workers Are Training AI(wired.com)

80 points by ayabee 2 years ago | 57 comments

Ex-IBM sales veteran sues for access to health benefits(theregister.com)

79 points by rntn 2 years ago | 41 comments

Rational Ritual: Why everyone needs to know what everyone knows (2020)(ian-leslie.com)

75 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 23 comments

CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot(github.com)

75 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 7 comments

Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2 [pdf] (1994)(ssw.jku.at)

74 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 24 comments

A Tour of the Tektronix Ceramic CRT "Catacombs"(vintagetek.org)

71 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 27 comments

AI Girlfriend Went Down After CEO Jailed for Setting His Apartment on Fire(themessenger.com)

63 points by kordlessagain 2 years ago | 15 comments

Xa: Open-source 6502 cross assembler(floodgap.com)

63 points by ingve 2 years ago | 16 comments

U.S. FCC says new rules will curb SIM swapping(arstechnica.com)

61 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 50 comments

How to Shuffle Songs? (2014)(engineering.atspotify.com)

61 points by pablode 2 years ago | 52 comments

French authorities label Vitamin D as endocrine disruptor(nutraingredients.com)

61 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 50 comments

Songs of Syx: A city-builder with complex mechanics (2020)(store.steampowered.com)

61 points by BSDobelix 2 years ago | 13 comments

Rosalynn Carter has died(nbcnews.com)

59 points by ianai 2 years ago | 2 comments

The position of a watch influences accuracy (2020)(watchesbysjx.com)

59 points by nequo 2 years ago | 32 comments