Hacker News on Monday, 18 March 2024

YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI(blog.google)

837 points by marban 2 years ago | 469 comments

Google India Blog post from the YouTube Team announcing a tool requiring creators to disclose realistic altered or AI-generated synthetic content in videos.

Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D(stability.ai)

710 points by ed 2 years ago | 123 comments

Stability AI announcement of Stable Video 3D (SV3D), a generative model based on Stable Video Diffusion for novel view synthesis and 3D generation from single images.

900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability(env.fail)

499 points by MrBruh 2 years ago | 111 comments

Security researchers' write-up on scanning the internet for misconfigured Firebase instances, finding 900 sites exposing about 125 million user records.

Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law(amazingcto.com)

431 points by KingOfCoders 2 years ago | 415 comments

Blog post on Amazing CTO responding to Paul Graham, arguing that no law requires cookie banners and that they stem from sites' choice to track users.

WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport(rxdb.info)

417 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 189 comments

An RxDB article comparing WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, long-polling, WebRTC and WebTransport for sending real-time events from server to client.

Cranelift code generation comes to Rust(lwn.net)

398 points by ridruejo 2 years ago | 99 comments

LWN article on Cranelift, the Wasmtime code-generation backend now available as an optional faster debug-build backend for the Rust compiler.

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after partial ban(apnews.com)

348 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 326 comments

AP News article reporting that the EPA has banned asbestos, a carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’(cnbc.com)

339 points by tiahura 2 years ago | 267 comments

CNBC article on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiling the Blackwell generation of AI GPUs and software, expected to ship later in 2024.

Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?

322 points by parpfish 2 years ago | 240 comments

Ask HN thread where the poster reflects on the hidden complexity of making everyday items like a spool of wire and asks others for similar examples.

Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted(github.com)

277 points by thushanfernando 2 years ago | 90 comments

I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL(pinaraf.info)

263 points by mattashii 2 years ago | 31 comments

Unconventional Uses of FPGAs(voltagedivide.com)

256 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 95 comments

Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial(arstechnica.com)

237 points by ludovicianul 2 years ago | 175 comments

How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)(truetex.com)

229 points by bronzekaiser 2 years ago | 295 comments

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment(momentummag.com)

210 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 135 comments

Thoughts on the Future of Software Development(sheshbabu.com)

197 points by rkwz 2 years ago | 315 comments

Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility(jacobbartlett.substack.com)

196 points by jakey_bakey 2 years ago | 181 comments

Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN(github.com)

189 points by ha_ru 2 years ago | 39 comments

How do neural networks learn?(phys.org)

181 points by wglb 2 years ago | 117 comments

On limitations that hide in your blindspot(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

176 points by jger15 2 years ago | 33 comments

RP2040 Boot Sequence(vanhunteradams.com)

172 points by vmoore 2 years ago | 45 comments

Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect(gitlab.com)

165 points by fljdin 2 years ago | 40 comments

Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)(hbr.org)

157 points by makerdiety 2 years ago | 69 comments

macOS Sonoma 14.4 might break Java on your machine(appleinsider.com)

156 points by siddharthgoel88 2 years ago | 155 comments

Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf](cs.stanford.edu)

150 points by kbradero 2 years ago | 78 comments

Optimizing the Particle Life: From 400 to 4M particles(programmingattack.com)

142 points by caranea 2 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Let's Build AI(letsbuild.ai)

136 points by aprxi 2 years ago | 30 comments

Waffle House's Magic Marker System(kottke.org)

118 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 110 comments

Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows(bleepingcomputer.com)

115 points by cebert 2 years ago | 102 comments

Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)(devaboone.com)

110 points by cassepipe 2 years ago | 100 comments

Compiling with Constraints(philipzucker.com)

108 points by philzook 2 years ago | 31 comments

Nomadic Identity Is Coming to ActivityPub(wedistribute.org)

101 points by jalict 2 years ago | 12 comments

First-in-class MKK4 inhibitors enhance liver regeneration, prevent liver failure(cell.com)

99 points by birriel 2 years ago | 11 comments

5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients(cbc.ca)

97 points by awnird 2 years ago | 48 comments

Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)(thenewstack.io)

92 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 108 comments

Building a streaming SQL engine with Arrow and DataFusion(arroyo.dev)

92 points by necubi 2 years ago | 28 comments

A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything(rollingstone.com)

87 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 77 comments

Tata joins hands with PSMC to build India's first 12-inch fab(powerchip.com)

85 points by RetroTechie 2 years ago | 48 comments

Spent brewer's yeast as a biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste(frontiersin.org)

83 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 25 comments

Implementation of mixture of experts language model in a single file of PyTorch(github.com)

81 points by avisoori1x 2 years ago | 7 comments

Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs(rysana.com)

78 points by swyx 2 years ago | 18 comments

Turning Points: A meeting with Enrico Fermi (2004)(lilith.fisica.ufmg.br)

78 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 13 comments

Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers(github.com)

74 points by InitEnabler 2 years ago | 9 comments

Experience with an Uncommon Lisp (1986) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

74 points by mepian 2 years ago | 19 comments

Don't upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues(cdm.link)

72 points by bj-rn 2 years ago | 56 comments

LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit(commutative.xyz)

69 points by miguelmurca 2 years ago | 67 comments

We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong(slate.com)

68 points by _ngm01 2 years ago | 38 comments

I Turned 72 Today(old.reddit.com)

67 points by thefox 2 years ago | 28 comments

Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes(utcc.utoronto.ca)

67 points by ingve 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method (2023)(discover.lanl.gov)

66 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 5 comments

In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted(chronicle.com)

66 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 94 comments

Hypothesis That Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is 27B Years Old(sciencealert.com)

66 points by passwordoops 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions(docs.sweep.dev)

58 points by williamzeng0 2 years ago | 46 comments

Intermittent fasting linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death(eurekalert.org)

56 points by geox 2 years ago | 22 comments

Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts(theregister.com)

56 points by nickcw 2 years ago | 24 comments

Encyclopaedia Britannica Seeking $1B Valuation in IPO(bloomberg.com)

53 points by marban 2 years ago | 51 comments

Upside-Down-Ternet(pete.ex-parrot.com)

51 points by LlamaTrauma 2 years ago | 13 comments

Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene(phys.org)

51 points by wglb 2 years ago | 42 comments

Empty Frames and Other Oddities from the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist(nytimes.com)

50 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 29 comments

Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates(nypost.com)

50 points by hotdailys 2 years ago | 38 comments