Hacker News on Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Lynn Conway has died(en.wikipedia.org)

1600 points by kevvok 2 years ago | 308 comments

Wikipedia biography of Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer behind the Mead–Conway VLSI revolution, who died June 9, 2024.

I like the RP2040(dgroshev.com)

608 points by dgroshev 2 years ago | 334 comments

A blog post from June 2024 explaining why the author really likes the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller.

ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress(arcprize.org)

527 points by mikeknoop 2 years ago | 266 comments

Blog post announcing ARC Prize, a $1M+ public competition by Mike Knoop and François Chollet to beat and open-source a solution to the ARC-AGI benchmark.

Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries(bbc.com)

488 points by no_exit 2 years ago | 240 comments

BBC News article reporting that a US court held banana company Chiquita liable for funding Colombian paramilitary groups.

Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce(twenty.com)

346 points by client4 2 years ago | 144 comments

Landing page for Twenty, an open-source CRM platform positioned as a modern alternative to Salesforce for managing customer relationships.

Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'(independent.co.uk)

335 points by rudolfwinestock 2 years ago | 270 comments

Independent news article reporting that Noam Chomsky, 95, can no longer talk after suffering a medical event, according to a former assistant.

Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software(flameshot.org)

314 points by nikolay 2 years ago | 113 comments

Swift Static Linux SDK(swift.org)

309 points by mannuch 2 years ago | 228 comments

Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs(scientificamerican.com)

301 points by antineutrino 2 years ago | 154 comments

POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)(povray.org)

299 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 162 comments

Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code(github.com)

274 points by hkonsti 2 years ago | 75 comments

Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs(tech.lgbt)

255 points by kibwen 2 years ago | 134 comments

Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted(unforget.computing-den.com)

237 points by seansh 2 years ago | 124 comments

How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings(tembo.io)

235 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 73 comments

Self-Serve Dashboards(briefer.cloud)

233 points by vieiralucas 2 years ago | 78 comments

When Water Flows Uphill [video](youtube.com)

227 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 31 comments

Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition(lemire.me)

227 points by p_l 2 years ago | 112 comments

Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library(github.com)

224 points by bratao 2 years ago | 21 comments

Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals(cnbc.com)

219 points by belter 2 years ago | 211 comments

Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep(scientificamerican.com)

211 points by sabrina_ramonov 2 years ago | 157 comments

Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle(news.artnet.com)

200 points by RobertJaTomsons 2 years ago | 94 comments

Author Clock: a novel way to tell time(authorclock.com)

192 points by iamben 2 years ago | 114 comments

British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower(theregister.com)

189 points by skilled 2 years ago | 144 comments

Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech(github.com)

185 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 46 comments

How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)(twobithistory.org)

168 points by davikr 2 years ago | 106 comments

London–Calcutta Bus Service(en.wikipedia.org)

164 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 75 comments

Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman(cnbc.com)

163 points by hggh 2 years ago | 120 comments

A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material(nytimes.com)

163 points by 65 2 years ago | 164 comments

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)(academic.oup.com)

151 points by lazyjeff 2 years ago | 104 comments

Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi(nytimes.com)

149 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 97 comments

Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black(bbc.com)

148 points by ranit 2 years ago | 70 comments

Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM(christopher.engineering)

148 points by crowdhailer 2 years ago | 60 comments

Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US(9to5google.com)

136 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 111 comments

Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend(texastribune.org)

133 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 95 comments

FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging(fda.gov)

130 points by DoubleDerper 2 years ago | 147 comments

Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe(louisabraham.github.io)

129 points by Labo333 2 years ago | 41 comments

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing(mrd0x.com)

126 points by kolp 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS(clipbook.app)

126 points by Ikryanov 2 years ago | 73 comments

Jgs Font(adelfaure.net)

126 points by debesyla 2 years ago | 13 comments

AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse(frereit.de)

125 points by _tk_ 2 years ago | 53 comments

Borges on Chaos Theory(aethermug.com)

120 points by mrcgnc 2 years ago | 25 comments

Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020)(science.org)

116 points by getwiththeprog 2 years ago | 21 comments

Decade of the Battery(noahpinion.blog)

115 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 100 comments

macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips(developer.apple.com)

114 points by zshrc 2 years ago | 88 comments

Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts(technologyreview.com)

114 points by belter 2 years ago | 81 comments

Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers(nautil.us)

112 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 18 comments

Gruen Transfer(en.wikipedia.org)

112 points by thinkingemote 2 years ago | 63 comments

The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet(nytimes.com)

107 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 57 comments

Meta Open-Sources Megalodon LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling(infoq.com)

106 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

Firefox 127(mozilla.org)

106 points by skilled 2 years ago | 49 comments

macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs(developer.apple.com)

105 points by throwaway-blaze 2 years ago | 10 comments

Designing a website without 404s(pillser.com)

95 points by lilouartz 2 years ago | 90 comments

Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024(caltech.edu)

91 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 5 comments

DuckDB Isn't Just Fast(csvbase.com)

88 points by calpaterson 2 years ago | 23 comments

NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTs(github.com)

87 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 10 comments

Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye(newsshooter.com)

87 points by oidar 2 years ago | 63 comments

All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration(theverge.com)

87 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 76 comments

Making iron gall ink from oak galls(nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)

87 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 36 comments

Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats(lcamtuf.substack.com)

87 points by zdw 2 years ago | 71 comments

Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years(theguardian.com)

80 points by macsparrow 2 years ago | 71 comments