Hacker News on Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Veo(deepmind.google)

1671 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 468 comments

Google DeepMind's product page for Veo, its generative video model, with a sign-up link to try it via VideoFX.

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI(twitter.com)

1039 points by wavelander 2 years ago | 687 comments

Tweet by Ilya Sutskever announcing he is leaving OpenAI after almost a decade to pursue a personally meaningful new project.

Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency(github.com)

641 points by mistercheph 2 years ago | 117 comments

GitHub repository for Glider, Modos Labs' open-source E-ink monitor project with PCB, firmware, and case designs, mirrored from GitLab.

Gemini Flash(deepmind.google)

418 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 121 comments

Google DeepMind product page for Gemini Flash, a lightweight AI model optimized for speed and efficiency.

Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension(lcamtuf.substack.com)

410 points by zdw 2 years ago | 64 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack explaining frequency-domain transforms and their properties, illustrated with a cat image hidden in an alternate frequency domain.

Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)(spectrum.ieee.org)

267 points by jagged-chisel 2 years ago | 126 comments

Model Explorer: intuitive and hierarchical visualization of model graphs(ai.google.dev)

257 points by antognini 2 years ago | 33 comments

VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use(blogs.vmware.com)

233 points by ganoushoreilly 2 years ago | 114 comments

The most talented person in the world(matt.sh)

212 points by keyboardJones 2 years ago | 111 comments

Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic(github.com)

209 points by andydunstall 2 years ago | 36 comments

The new APT 3.0 solver(blog.jak-linux.org)

177 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 100 comments

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body(ethz.ch)

174 points by geox 2 years ago | 197 comments

The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres(brandur.org)

173 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 41 comments

Fast linked lists(dygalo.dev)

160 points by dmitry_dygalo 2 years ago | 97 comments

Glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place(github.com)

152 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 26 comments

Firefox search update(blog.mozilla.org)

149 points by murillians 2 years ago | 151 comments

My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)(dl.acm.org)

142 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 135 comments

Branded types for TypeScript(carlos-menezes.com)

137 points by carlos-menezes 2 years ago | 120 comments

Bossware is a big legal risk(kolide.com)

132 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 150 comments

A review on protein language models(apoorva-srinivasan.com)

131 points by apoorva26 2 years ago | 24 comments

Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair(smithsonianmag.com)

128 points by marban 2 years ago | 91 comments

PaliGemma(ai.google.dev)

120 points by tosh 2 years ago | 12 comments

Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us(highlight.io)

118 points by podoman 2 years ago | 15 comments

Claude is now available in Europe(anthropic.com)

117 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 81 comments

Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha(qmacro.org)

109 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Most common PIN codes (2012)(datagenetics.com)

105 points by dhotson 2 years ago | 58 comments

HBase Deprecation at Pinterest(medium.com)

99 points by cloudsql 2 years ago | 40 comments

What factors explain the nature of software?(tratt.net)

98 points by ingve 2 years ago | 75 comments

Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds (2021)(blog.can.ac)

94 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 1 comments

Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden(bbc.co.uk)

90 points by gadders 2 years ago | 19 comments

New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation(santafe.edu)

88 points by dlojudice 2 years ago | 17 comments

Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East(washingtonpost.com)

88 points by marban 2 years ago | 102 comments

The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA(nanonuclearenergy.com)

85 points by claytongulick 2 years ago | 145 comments

Google announces Veo, their Sora competing text/image-to-video model(aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com)

84 points by synthwave 2 years ago | 23 comments

Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse [pdf](static01.nyt.com)

84 points by mhb 2 years ago | 57 comments

Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck(al.com)

82 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 22 comments

Compiler Explorer(thechipletter.substack.com)

81 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)(daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com)

76 points by goles 2 years ago | 19 comments

Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook(finance.yahoo.com)

76 points by marban 2 years ago | 69 comments

Project Astra(theverge.com)

75 points by cs702 2 years ago | 25 comments

Wasp-193B, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy(exotic.uliege.be)

74 points by geox 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ancient Eastern European mega-sites: a social levelling concept?(cambridge.org)

74 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 59 comments

Truffle ISLISP(arvyy.github.io)

74 points by mepian 2 years ago | 21 comments

One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US(bleepingcomputer.com)

71 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 106 comments

The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong(defector.com)

67 points by superbyte 2 years ago | 37 comments

Verilator: Open-Source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system(github.com)

64 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 5 comments

Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types(verdagon.dev)

64 points by agluszak 2 years ago | 27 comments

A Tale of Two Sieves (1996) [pdf](ams.org)

64 points by pera 2 years ago | 7 comments

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design(computerhistory.org)

57 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 2 comments

'Shake' Design Documents(digitalcomposting.wordpress.com)

55 points by ingve 2 years ago | 18 comments

Convolutional-KANs(github.com)

53 points by AntonioTepsich 2 years ago | 5 comments

Muse Retrospective(adamwiggins.com)

53 points by hboon 2 years ago | 6 comments

Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization(theverge.com)

52 points by rntn 2 years ago | 39 comments

U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense(crfb.org)

49 points by webninja 2 years ago | 31 comments

Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 – Congestion Control)(marc.info)

45 points by peter_hansteen 2 years ago | 19 comments

Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (2023)(tenderlovemaking.com)

40 points by FigurativeVoid 2 years ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?

40 points by uptownfunk 2 years ago | 21 comments

Google Gems(blog.google)

37 points by arnabgho 2 years ago | 8 comments

Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year (of his own treatment)(bbc.co.uk)

37 points by AndrewDucker 2 years ago | 3 comments

The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)(highcaffeinecontent.com)

37 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 32 comments