Hacker News on Wednesday, 13 March 2024

A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments(deepmind.google)

513 points by nuz 2 years ago | 290 comments

Google DeepMind blog post introducing SIMA, a generalist AI agent that follows natural-language instructions across various 3D virtual environments and video games.

JIT WireGuard(fly.io)

456 points by Lwrless 2 years ago | 128 comments

Fly.io blog post describing how they provision WireGuard peers just-in-time across their gateway infrastructure.

How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s(kottke.org)

430 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 107 comments

A kottke.org post embedding a 1937 video explaining how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers in the 1930s.

Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs(github.com)

404 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 71 comments

GitHub repository for nvtop, an ncurses-based GPU and accelerator process monitor for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm.

Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix(github.com)

353 points by ronef 2 years ago | 167 comments

GitHub repository for Flox, an open-source CLI built on Nix for creating portable, reproducible developer environments, announced at version 1.0.

House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app(nytimes.com)

331 points by jbegley 2 years ago | 712 comments

New York Times article reporting that the US House passed a bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States.

LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing(github.com)

325 points by DanyWin 2 years ago | 91 comments

GitHub repository for LaVague, an open-source Large Action Model framework that uses AI to automate web browsing via Selenium.

Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died(bbc.com)

293 points by palijer 2 years ago | 188 comments

A world from a sheet of paper (2023) [video](youtube.com)

272 points by jhncls 2 years ago | 14 comments

Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town(newatlas.com)

260 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 156 comments

Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states(irs.gov)

255 points by lykahb 2 years ago | 145 comments

Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files(marker.pages.dev)

236 points by tk_ 2 years ago | 127 comments

Nanos – A Unikernel(nanos.org)

207 points by Alifatisk 2 years ago | 89 comments

Insult Passphrase Generator(cheswick.com)

204 points by rkta 2 years ago | 129 comments

IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states(arstechnica.com)

200 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 75 comments

BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar(eieio.games)

193 points by eieio 2 years ago | 14 comments

Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage(construction-physics.com)

161 points by taion 2 years ago | 675 comments

EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits(eff.org)

159 points by nfriedly 2 years ago | 18 comments

Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape(phys.org)

158 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers(portraitart.app)

158 points by stevels 2 years ago | 73 comments

IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible(research.ibm.com)

155 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 37 comments

Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration(twitter.com)

149 points by mvkel 2 years ago | 86 comments

Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes(ox.ac.uk)

137 points by panabee 2 years ago | 73 comments

The Myers diff algorithm: part 1(blog.jcoglan.com)

130 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 21 comments

OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API(platform.openai.com)

127 points by jonbraun 2 years ago | 70 comments

Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative(ibis.wiki)

125 points by chasingtheflow 2 years ago | 184 comments

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research(washingtonpost.com)

120 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 145 comments

Lemonade Stand(possiblywrong.wordpress.com)

114 points by elvis70 2 years ago | 36 comments

Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server(infoq.com)

112 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 50 comments

Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)(gutenberg.org)

110 points by wolfgang42 2 years ago | 24 comments

Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who(act.eff.org)

105 points by freedomben 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL(sheetsql.io)

97 points by tarasyarema 2 years ago | 52 comments

Features lost across versions of macOS(talk.tidbits.com)

96 points by zdw 2 years ago | 39 comments

Spinkube: Running WASM in Kubernetes(fermyon.com)

93 points by ridruejo 2 years ago | 35 comments

4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) [video](youtube.com)

91 points by asdfasdf1 2 years ago | 64 comments

Simplicity of IRC (2022)(susam.net)

90 points by susam 2 years ago | 56 comments

Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired(wired.com)

85 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 83 comments

Pi 5 overclocking: Silicon Lottery(jeffgeerling.com)

81 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 36 comments

Auto Makers Are Selling Data on Your Driving Habits to Your Insurer(techdirt.com)

80 points by us0r 2 years ago | 32 comments

More AR Glasses USB Protocols: The Worse, the Better and the Prettier(voidcomputing.hu)

77 points by Lwrless 2 years ago | 12 comments

How the biggest plane would supersize wind energy(wsj.com)

73 points by tlb 2 years ago | 117 comments

Marcel Grossmann and his contribution to the general theory of relativity(ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org)

69 points by joebig 2 years ago | 30 comments

Any Technology Indistinguishable from Magic Is Hiding Something(fromjason.xyz)

68 points by jayveeone 2 years ago | 10 comments

United Airlines tells Boeing to stop building Max 10s and to switch to max 9s(simpleflying.com)

65 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 110 comments

Nvidia founder tells Stanford students their high expectations is a hindrance(fortune.com)

64 points by Netherland4TW 2 years ago | 60 comments

March 14, 7:00 a.m. CT: Starship's third flight test(twitter.com)

60 points by hendi_ 2 years ago | 21 comments

How Arnold Schoenberg changed Hollywood(newyorker.com)

59 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 25 comments

Give some new links a chance(news.ycombinator.com)

58 points by samuell 2 years ago | 14 comments

Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf](sseh.uchicago.edu)

56 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 17 comments

Storybook 8(storybook.js.org)

56 points by unleashit 2 years ago | 20 comments

Tor's new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship(bleepingcomputer.com)

54 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 10 comments

Building an Arduino Car Gear Shifter Indicator Display [video](youtube.com)

53 points by FirmwareBurner 2 years ago | 38 comments

Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt law(europarl.europa.eu)

53 points by ericb 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Phospho – Text Analytics for LLM Apps (Posthog for Prompts)(github.com)

52 points by PL_Venard 2 years ago | 5 comments

What Is Enlightenment? (1784)(web.archive.org)

52 points by thorum 2 years ago | 38 comments

TeX Live 2024 released – ISO available for download via torrent file and magnet(texastim.dev)

52 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

80 Level: AI Simulation Platform Where Characters Make Their Own Decisions(80.lv)

51 points by frankcarey 2 years ago | 28 comments

Giant Volcano Discovered on Mars(phys.org)

50 points by belter 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: FlakeHub Cache: Fast, secure, configurable. A new take on Nix caching(determinate.systems)

50 points by grhmc 2 years ago | 16 comments

Airlines Colluded to Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful(viewfromthewing.com)

50 points by ao98 2 years ago | 49 comments