Hacker News on Monday, 20 May 2024

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice(twitter.com)

1281 points by mjcl 2 years ago | 823 comments

A post on X by NPR reporter Bobby Allyn sharing Scarlett Johansson's statement about OpenAI's ChatGPT "Sky" voice resembling hers.

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes(cnn.com)

577 points by spzx 2 years ago | 924 comments

CNN article on an exclusive interview in which the ICC prosecutor announces he is seeking arrest warrants for Sinwar and Netanyahu over October 7 and Gaza.

Enlightenmentware(mmapped.blog)

393 points by zaik 2 years ago | 195 comments

A blog post on the mmap(blog) site about 'enlightenmentware', software like UNIX, Git, Emacs, Boost.Graph and Bazel that changed how the author thinks about programming.

3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe(propublica.org)

336 points by whereistimbo 2 years ago | 190 comments

ProPublica investigation into how 3M executives persuaded a company scientist that the PFAS forever chemicals she found in human blood were safe.

Introducing Copilot+ PCs(blogs.microsoft.com)

329 points by skilled 2 years ago | 460 comments

Official Microsoft Blog post from May 20, 2024 by Yusuf Mehdi announcing Copilot+ PCs, a new category of AI-focused Windows PCs.

City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System(frankforce.com)

313 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 20 comments

Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore(uber.com)

312 points by gronky_ 2 years ago | 307 comments

pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL(tembo.io)

301 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 61 comments

Rethinking Text Resizing on Web(medium.com)

245 points by GavCo 2 years ago | 155 comments

How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)(kevroletin.github.io)

233 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 17 comments

How a 64k intro is made (2017)(lofibucket.com)

195 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 38 comments

Grothendieck’s use of equality(arxiv.org)

172 points by golol 2 years ago | 110 comments

CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js(codeanlabs.com)

168 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 80 comments

How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search(tedium.co)

161 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 116 comments

Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial(reuters.com)

149 points by tildef 2 years ago | 91 comments

Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy(anthropic.com)

144 points by Josely 2 years ago | 125 comments

Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

138 points by thisisfatih 2 years ago | 116 comments

The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

119 points by nixass 2 years ago | 106 comments

What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video](youtube.com)

114 points by gladuz 2 years ago | 24 comments

26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

112 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 16 comments

British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim(cnn.com)

110 points by gds44 2 years ago | 85 comments

Using Postgres for Everything(timescale.com)

109 points by rmason 2 years ago | 64 comments

Lumina's legal threats and my about-face(trevorklee.substack.com)

105 points by gdudeman 2 years ago | 34 comments

On the trail of my identity thief(msn.com)

102 points by signa11 2 years ago | 95 comments

Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

97 points by westurner 2 years ago | 83 comments

Counted B-Trees (2017)(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

90 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 30 comments

Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

84 points by birriel 2 years ago | 46 comments

Paying freelancers in equity and dividends(sahillavingia.com)

81 points by sahillavingia 2 years ago | 24 comments

Linux 6.10 Will Print the Number of Populated Memory Slots at Boot Time(phoronix.com)

80 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 17 comments

The People Deliberately Killing Facebook(wheresyoured.at)

76 points by bgrainger 2 years ago | 16 comments

Restoring an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit "DTK" Mac Mini [video](youtube.com)

75 points by theogravity 2 years ago | 18 comments

Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban(washingtonpost.com)

69 points by rntn 2 years ago | 59 comments

Cognitive reflection, intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis(sciencedirect.com)

69 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 41 comments

A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead(bbc.com)

67 points by gds44 2 years ago | 44 comments

Konrad Zuse's Homepage(web.archive.org)

67 points by nanna 2 years ago | 21 comments

2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years(cam.ac.uk)

61 points by gmays 2 years ago | 14 comments

Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature(theguardian.com)

53 points by Kaibeezy 2 years ago | 33 comments

SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit(twitter.com)

50 points by delichon 2 years ago | 58 comments

This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years(tomshardware.com)

49 points by marvinborner 2 years ago | 64 comments

Dieter Rams turns 92 – Stream "Rams" for free May 20 and 21(ohyouprettythings.com)

48 points by Bondi_Blue 2 years ago | 0 comments

High performers job hop when they can't find a high performance culture(thedailydeveloper.substack.com)

46 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 34 comments

Fact checking of claims about nuclear power projects(neutronbytes.com)

46 points by hairytrog 2 years ago | 37 comments

Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry(cointelegraph.com)

45 points by andrewfromx 2 years ago | 45 comments

Why I love Laravel (2022)(ben.page)

43 points by bdlowery 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to Game Development?

43 points by seattle_spring 2 years ago | 14 comments

Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text(bishopfox.com)

41 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 36 comments

OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT(bloomberg.com)

40 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 47 comments

How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen(openai.com)

40 points by saliagato 2 years ago | 37 comments

Install Alpine Linux on FreeBSD Jail(it-notes.dragas.net)

37 points by vermaden 2 years ago | 1 comments

Truth Social losses $300M on Q1(variety.com)

37 points by miohtama 2 years ago | 21 comments

Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork(github.com)

37 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 33 comments

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice(npr.org)

32 points by greenie_beans 2 years ago | 1 comments

Recall is Microsoft's key to unlocking the future of PCs(theverge.com)

31 points by nsriv 2 years ago | 14 comments

Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range(abc7.com)

28 points by lxm 2 years ago | 39 comments

The parents who are saying no to "extracurriculars"(slate.com)

25 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 32 comments

Learn things that don't change(newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com)

24 points by kugurerdem 2 years ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Why do you all think that Htmx is such a recent development?

24 points by Akronymus 2 years ago | 17 comments

The President of Iran has died(x.com)

23 points by de_nied 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF for a while?

23 points by babyent 2 years ago | 30 comments

It pays to be a double major in college(wsj.com)

22 points by lxm 2 years ago | 39 comments