Hacker News on Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor

687 points by the_king 2 years ago | 230 comments

Launch HN post introducing Aqua Voice (YC W24), a voice-native document editor combining dictation with natural-language editing commands via LLMs.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed(twitter.com)

685 points by repelsteeltje 2 years ago | 509 comments

An X (Twitter) post reporting the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland; the post content did not load.

Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses(wbaltv.com)

651 points by tbihl 2 years ago | 1001 comments

WBAL-TV news report on Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing after being struck by a cargo ship, with divers searching for multiple people.

Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques(pwning.tech)

372 points by Unroll0201 2 years ago | 102 comments

GitHub repository with a universal local privilege escalation proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2024-1086 in Linux nf_tables, affecting kernels v5.14 to v6.6.

Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)(copetti.org)

304 points by StefanBatory 2 years ago | 191 comments

Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16(reuters.com)

289 points by hotdailys 2 years ago | 599 comments

Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO(lucumr.pocoo.org)

287 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 171 comments

Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

283 points by jackedEngineer 2 years ago | 363 comments

Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe(finance.yahoo.com)

268 points by achow 2 years ago | 197 comments

Hybrid-Net: Real-time audio source separation, generate lyrics, chords, beat(github.com)

193 points by herogary 2 years ago | 62 comments

After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower(kffhealthnews.org)

171 points by rokkitmensch 2 years ago | 155 comments

Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting(blog.salesforceairesearch.com)

166 points by throwaway888abc 2 years ago | 32 comments

Deej: An open-source hardware volume mixer for Windows and Linux(github.com)

155 points by EclipseMantis 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped(512pixels.net)

151 points by ttepasse 2 years ago | 97 comments

Lifelong Disadvantage: How Socioeconomics Affect Brain Function(jneurosci.org)

146 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 218 comments

Show HN: I made a books recommendation app based on your mood(booksbymood.com)

145 points by gaelgthomas 2 years ago | 52 comments

Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US(theguardian.com)

142 points by skilled 2 years ago | 96 comments

A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years(engineering.columbia.edu)

137 points by geox 2 years ago | 64 comments

Nonlinearsolve.jl: Fast and Robust Solvers for Nonlinear Equations in Julia(arxiv.org)

137 points by adgjlsfhk1 2 years ago | 30 comments

Scientists rename genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)(theverge.com)

135 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 125 comments

Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit(wsj.com)

132 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 117 comments

Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future(sciencedaily.com)

127 points by laurex 2 years ago | 120 comments

An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow disease through Dutch bulb fields(apnews.com)

120 points by sizzle 2 years ago | 153 comments

Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture(echochess.com)

111 points by chedoku 2 years ago | 110 comments

Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec(blog.trl.sn)

110 points by bterlson 2 years ago | 55 comments

Death and typos: my six years screening online obituary comments(theguardian.com)

106 points by rntn 2 years ago | 70 comments

Binary vector search is better than FP32 vectors(blog.pgvecto.rs)

105 points by gaocegege 2 years ago | 24 comments

Pinnacle – a modern tribute to the 1986 classic, The Sentinel(viperfish.com.au)

102 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 34 comments

Spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for Arkanoid, Tempest, etc.(github.com)

91 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 29 comments

Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair(neuroscience.stanford.edu)

89 points by kryster 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: WhatTheDuck – open-source, in-browser SQL on CSV files(github.com)

89 points by slake 2 years ago | 9 comments

Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite(theverge.com)

85 points by quadrige 2 years ago | 55 comments

Gigantic Aluminium Spiders(windspider.com)

83 points by geox 2 years ago | 34 comments

Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)(sander.ai)

80 points by jszymborski 2 years ago | 34 comments

Neorg – organize your life in Neovim(github.com)

78 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 30 comments

The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside(newstatesman.com)

77 points by infinate 2 years ago | 102 comments

Launch HN: CommodityAI (YC W24) – Shipment management for commodity traders

76 points by KyleManuel 2 years ago | 43 comments

Rust data structures with circular references (2021)(eli.thegreenplace.net)

76 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 71 comments

Packet-editing games in Golang (2021)(remyhax.xyz)

75 points by jszymborski 2 years ago | 6 comments

Sudo-rs dependencies: when less is better(tweedegolf.nl)

73 points by marbu 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Stoppable March of Time(openttd.org)

65 points by c_joly 2 years ago | 1 comments

Computational Astronomy: Exploring the Cosmos with Wolfram(blog.wolfram.com)

62 points by kryster 2 years ago | 3 comments

Range Partitioning: Zero to One(aspiring.dev)

50 points by dangoodmanUT 2 years ago | 8 comments

Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle with Internet Archive(torrentfreak.com)

50 points by gslin 2 years ago | 16 comments

Astronomers find 49 galaxies in under three hours(icrar.org)

50 points by belter 2 years ago | 7 comments

I asked ChatGPT to write the code to print "Hello, world " as a junior developer(hachyderm.io)

49 points by vnglst 2 years ago | 23 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science(openlearninglibrary.mit.edu)

47 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 1 comments

HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working(theregister.com)

43 points by lproven 2 years ago | 37 comments

GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: An Evaluation(arxiv.org)

42 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Charcoal – Faster utf8.Valid using multi-byte processing without SIMD(github.com)

39 points by sugawarayuuta 2 years ago | 21 comments

Topologists tackle the trouble with poll placement(quantamagazine.org)

39 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 31 comments

Tunnel Vision: When you dig beyond all purpose, digging becomes the purpose(historynewsnetwork.org)

39 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 7 comments

What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness(yzena.com)

38 points by gavinhoward 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Bayesian Cringe (2021)(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

37 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 13 comments

VLC can't update on Android without giving Google private signing keys(social.treehouse.systems)

36 points by buro9 2 years ago | 7 comments

Acetate Revisited: A Key Biomolecule at the Nexus of Metabolism, Epigenetics(frontiersin.org)

36 points by flipchart 2 years ago | 5 comments

Binary array set(nayuki.io)

35 points by stereoabuse 2 years ago | 16 comments

Algebra problems selected from the Romanian Olympiad (Part 2)(andreinc.net)

34 points by argulane 2 years ago | 13 comments

Engineering managers should not exist(vrosasv.substack.com)

32 points by vrosas 2 years ago | 25 comments

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists(nature.com)

32 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 12 comments