Hacker News on Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Safe Superintelligence Inc.(ssi.inc)

1096 points by nick_pou 2 years ago | 954 comments

Announcement page for Safe Superintelligence Inc., a new AI lab focused solely on building a safe superintelligence, insulated from commercial pressures.

Please don't mention AI again(ludic.mataroa.blog)

583 points by ludicity 2 years ago | 373 comments

A Ludicity blog post by a data scientist ranting against corporate AI hype and organizations rushing to adopt AI without competence.

Fast Crimes at Lambda School(sandofsky.com)

431 points by plinkplonk 2 years ago | 267 comments

Blog post by Benjamin Sandofsky critiquing Lambda School and founder Austen Allred, recounting the coding bootcamp startup's downfall.

1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch(chrisfenton.com)

361 points by akkartik 2 years ago | 60 comments

Chris Fenton's blog post describing his build of a 1/25-scale replica of the Cray C90 supercomputer made into a wristwatch.

Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"(github.com)

313 points by Y444 2 years ago | 214 comments

NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode(science.nasa.gov)

279 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 161 comments

X debut 40 years ago (1984)(talisman.org)

275 points by guerby 2 years ago | 88 comments

EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution(easyos.org)

267 points by skilled 2 years ago | 118 comments

The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)(devever.net)

246 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 173 comments

Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time(eso.org)

234 points by croes 2 years ago | 99 comments

Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed(practical.engineering)

232 points by freetime2 2 years ago | 141 comments

EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday(patrick-breyer.de)

231 points by tdsone3 2 years ago | 222 comments

Arvind has died(news.mit.edu)

231 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 51 comments

Hypermedia Systems(hypermedia.systems)

224 points by dsego 2 years ago | 81 comments

OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer(osrd.fr)

218 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 45 comments

ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture(exectos.eu.org)

216 points by belliash 2 years ago | 183 comments

Monitoring marine litter from space(esa.int)

216 points by bitschubser_ 2 years ago | 87 comments

Software design gets worse before it gets better(tidyfirst.substack.com)

211 points by KentBeck 2 years ago | 123 comments

Agilent 2000a / 3000a Oscilloscope NAND Recovery(salvagedcircuitry.com)

183 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 32 comments

There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)(terrytao.wordpress.com)

178 points by haraball 2 years ago | 83 comments

Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)(iopscience.iop.org)

171 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 127 comments

AI-powered conversion from Enzyme to React Testing Library(slack.engineering)

162 points by GavCo 2 years ago | 93 comments

Nobody knows what's going on(raptitude.com)

161 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 148 comments

Google Gemini tried to kill me(old.reddit.com)

156 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 79 comments

U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment(reuters.com)

147 points by beefman 2 years ago | 117 comments

Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?

142 points by mjbale116 2 years ago | 152 comments

Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino(blog.jgc.org)

134 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 61 comments

F (2006)(nsl.com)

133 points by hwayne 2 years ago | 13 comments

The return of pneumatic tubes(technologyreview.com)

127 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 138 comments

Unique3D: Image-to-3D Generation from a Single Image(github.com)

113 points by jinqueeny 2 years ago | 27 comments

Willie Mays, SF Giants baseball player, has died(sfchronicle.com)

106 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 27 comments

Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy(candyjapan.com)

103 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 60 comments

The hacking of culture and the creation of socio-technical debt(schneier.com)

103 points by BorgHunter 2 years ago | 19 comments

NodeSwift: Bridge Node.js and Swift(github.com)

93 points by joshuawright11 2 years ago | 20 comments

One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work(marginalia.nu)

86 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?

79 points by codazoda 2 years ago | 45 comments

Ask HN: What does RISC-V custom chips for under $100K mean?

75 points by zkirill 2 years ago | 40 comments

The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation(tandfonline.com)

73 points by ericciarla 2 years ago | 43 comments

Chasing a Bug in a SAT Solver(ochagavia.nl)

66 points by wofo 2 years ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?

64 points by max_ 2 years ago | 41 comments

I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA(old.reddit.com)

64 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 55 comments

Linux China, which supported the Chinese open source community, has ended(linux.cn)

62 points by nogajun 2 years ago | 24 comments

2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties(torrentfreak.com)

61 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Modular Pi Cam(github.com)

57 points by jcun4128 2 years ago | 21 comments

Why Dolphin Isn't Coming to the App Store (Spoiler: It Needs a JIT)(daringfireball.net)

53 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 35 comments

Boeing sent two astronauts into space, now it needs to get them home(wsj.com)

52 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 59 comments

Rethinking Open Source Generative AI: Open-Washing and the EU AI Act(opening-up-chatgpt.github.io)

49 points by amai 2 years ago | 16 comments

Can men live without war? (1956)(theatlantic.com)

48 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 80 comments

Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives(ft.com)

45 points by marban 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Pomoglorbo, a TUI Pomodoro timer for your terminal(codeberg.org)

44 points by justusw 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Back of the Envelope (1984) [pdf](seltzer.com)

33 points by tjalfi 2 years ago | 7 comments

Intel 3 Represents an Intel Foundry Milestone(eetimes.com)

32 points by craigjb 2 years ago | 6 comments

27 Years Ago, Nintendo Almost Revolutionized Digital Games with Nintendo Power(xatakaon.com)

31 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 5 comments

Discovery of new white blood cell function(cam.ac.uk)

28 points by atombender 2 years ago | 9 comments

New UNESCO report warns that Generative AI threatens Holocaust memory(unesco.org)

28 points by t0bia_s 2 years ago | 34 comments

BBCode(en.wikipedia.org)

28 points by pjerem 2 years ago | 4 comments

An 'Algorithm' Turned Apartment Pools Green(prospect.org)

28 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 11 comments

Satellites like Starlink could deplete Earth's ozone layer, study says(independent.co.uk)

28 points by miles 2 years ago | 3 comments

Mrs Perkins's Quilt (2017)(squaring.net)

26 points by DWakefield 2 years ago | 3 comments

Text-to-Music Editing for Music Language Models via Instruction Tuning(heymusic.ai)

25 points by tonyabracadabra 2 years ago | 4 comments