Hacker News on Monday, 13 May 2024

GPT-4o(openai.com)

3006 points by Lealen 2 years ago | 2218 comments

OpenAI's announcement of GPT-4o, its new flagship model that reasons across audio, vision, and text in real time.

Static Chess(val.town)

464 points by maxmcd 2 years ago | 107 comments

A Val Town project page for Static Chess, a chess game implemented as static web pages with each board state as a URL.

Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android(apple.com)

451 points by WalterSobchak 2 years ago | 417 comments

Apple Newsroom update announcing that Apple and Google have shipped cross-platform alerts for unwanted Bluetooth tracker tracking in iOS and Android.

The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed(apps.npr.org)

432 points by geox 2 years ago | 197 comments

NPR interactive map showing how the USDA plant hardiness gardening zones shifted in the updated map and what changed by location.

GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack(nian.llmonpy.ai)

430 points by parrt 2 years ago | 193 comments

Page introducing Needle in a Needlestack (NIAN), a benchmark testing LLM attention over long contexts of limericks, showing GPT-4o's strong results versus GPT-4 Turbo and Claude-3.

It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.

Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants(github.com)

320 points by kwindla 2 years ago | 34 comments

GitHub repository for Pipecat, an open source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational AI agents.

Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant(github.com)

319 points by nkaz123 2 years ago | 78 comments

GitHub repository for Pi-C.A.R.D, a locally running AI voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi that can converse and describe camera photos.

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right(macstories.net)

294 points by ihuman 2 years ago | 448 comments

Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript(rouninmedia.github.io)

255 points by FrostKiwi 2 years ago | 158 comments

Falcon 2(tii.ae)

216 points by tosh 2 years ago | 100 comments

Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing(spectrum.ieee.org)

211 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 74 comments

DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories(neuviemeporte.github.io)

203 points by LowLevelMahn 2 years ago | 88 comments

A Pattern Language(patternlanguage.cc)

197 points by lambdaba 2 years ago | 33 comments

Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent(unitree.com)

177 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 106 comments

Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?

157 points by neya 2 years ago | 85 comments

Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite(qualcomm.com)

154 points by dblitt 2 years ago | 53 comments

Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian splatting from camera motion blurred images(chaphlagical.icu)

154 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 35 comments

Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres(github.com)

144 points by landingunless 2 years ago | 50 comments

How did authorities identify the alleged LockBit boss?(krebsonsecurity.com)

135 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 58 comments

Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images(tomshardware.com)

135 points by nickbild 2 years ago | 28 comments

Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier(intel.com)

127 points by mepian 2 years ago | 121 comments

Timekeeping Before Clocks(worldhistory.substack.com)

120 points by orcul 2 years ago | 70 comments

Unix version control lore: what, ident(dotat.at)

119 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 22 comments

Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?(matheducators.stackexchange.com)

105 points by azeemba 2 years ago | 45 comments

MSX Elite(thefoggiest.dev)

90 points by ingve 2 years ago | 23 comments

Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku(fujitsu.com)

89 points by gslin 2 years ago | 31 comments

QBE – Compiler Back End(c9x.me)

84 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 31 comments

Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics (2017)(medium.com)

82 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 45 comments

References are like jumps(without.boats)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 6 comments

Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (1987) [pdf](mtome.com)

69 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 13 comments

Dijkstra on real map data with raylib(github.com)

69 points by uysalibov 2 years ago | 18 comments

GNU LibreJS: blocks JavaScript traps(gnu.org)

68 points by AbuAssar 2 years ago | 39 comments

Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode(theguardian.com)

68 points by uncooked3557 2 years ago | 76 comments

Meteor Lake's E-Cores: Crestmont Makes Incremental Progress(chipsandcheese.com)

68 points by ingve 2 years ago | 13 comments

Photography Laws in Germany (2023)(allaboutberlin.com)

63 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 36 comments

Exploring GNU extensions in the Linux kernel(maskray.me)

59 points by ingve 2 years ago | 6 comments

Why Surrealism Matters: Book review(the-tls.co.uk)

59 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 8 comments

Chatbots tell people what they want to hear(hub.jhu.edu)

58 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial(cs.utexas.edu)

57 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 11 comments

Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem(fornaxis.org)

54 points by gelstudios 2 years ago | 4 comments

IBM open-sources its Granite AI models – and they mean business(zdnet.com)

54 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 5 comments

Fifteen Fundamental Properties (2022)(camillovisini.com)

53 points by camillovisini 2 years ago | 14 comments

Frank Ramsey: A genius by all tests for genius (2020)(hnn.us)

53 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Death of a Mnemonist(historytoday.com)

52 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 17 comments

A list of open source games(github.com)

51 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Guide to Haskell Strings(hasufell.github.io)

51 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 1 comments

In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%–that was bogus (2019)(arstechnica.com)

45 points by mcguire 2 years ago | 11 comments

FDA: Do Not Use Cue Health's Covid-19 Tests Due to Risk of False Results(fda.gov)

45 points by resolutebat 2 years ago | 13 comments

Towards accurate and efficient document analytics with large language models(arxiv.org)

42 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 6 comments

Goldboot: Immutable infrastructure for the desktop(github.com)

41 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 13 comments

SQL co-creator embraces NoSQL(theregister.com)

33 points by damethos 2 years ago | 37 comments

Open Source Tool Changer for FDM 3D Printers(github.com)

30 points by FloatArtifact 2 years ago | 6 comments

The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

29 points by pramodbiligiri 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Cult of the Haskell Programmer(wired.com)

29 points by vector_spaces 2 years ago | 12 comments

New Earliest Emoji Sets from 1988 and 1990 Uncovered(blog.emojipedia.org)

21 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 6 comments

Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature(arxiv.org)

20 points by belter 2 years ago | 2 comments

The Linux kernel giving CVEs to all bugfixes is sort of predictable(utcc.utoronto.ca)

20 points by zdw 2 years ago | 1 comments

Prototypal Inheritance (2008)(crockford.com)

20 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 11 comments

Tired of Makefiles(dmitryfrank.com)

19 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 17 comments