Hacker News on Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Diffusion models are real-time game engines(gamengen.github.io)

1087 points by jmorgan 2 years ago | 391 comments

Project page for GameNGen, a Google Research paper showing a diffusion model running a playable game in real time, with links to the paper, arXiv, and a demo video.

Maker Skill Trees(github.com)

423 points by saulpw 2 years ago | 90 comments

GitHub repository of Maker Skill Trees covering topics like 3D printing, amateur radio, and automotive, plus templates to create your own.

Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa(catonmat.net)

332 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 116 comments

A Catonmat blog post explaining how consecutive Fibonacci numbers can approximate conversions between miles and kilometers.

The 4-chan Go programmer(dolthub.com)

256 points by ingve 2 years ago | 144 comments

Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI(windowmaker.org)

252 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 125 comments

Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase(skip.tools)

252 points by marcprux 2 years ago | 86 comments

COSMIC Alpha Released(blog.system76.com)

244 points by fisian 2 years ago | 161 comments

Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs(github.com)

231 points by nicolodev 2 years ago | 47 comments

Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)(nnethercote.github.io)

212 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 50 comments

Typing lists and tuples in Elixir(elixir-lang.org)

209 points by idmitrievsky 2 years ago | 45 comments

FCast: Casting Made Open Source(fcast.org)

200 points by icar 2 years ago | 49 comments

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims(developer-tech.com)

197 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 263 comments

Panasonic Toughbook 40(connect.na.panasonic.com)

183 points by fidotron 2 years ago | 165 comments

The Future of TLA+ [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)

180 points by tkhattra 2 years ago | 73 comments

Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft(stepchange.work)

179 points by htormey 2 years ago | 53 comments

Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair(404media.co)

158 points by worik 2 years ago | 73 comments

Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps(gptengineer.app)

155 points by antonoo 2 years ago | 40 comments

Kotlin for data analysis(kotlinlang.org)

155 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 80 comments

Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files(github.com)

153 points by icar 2 years ago | 93 comments

Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine(news.griffith.edu.au)

153 points by stubish 2 years ago | 112 comments

Micrograd.jl(liorsinai.github.io)

140 points by the_origami_fox 2 years ago | 42 comments

Deterministic Replay of QEMU Emulation(qemu.org)

134 points by Intralexical 2 years ago | 30 comments

Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox(old.reddit.com)

131 points by 3371 2 years ago | 117 comments

Home Assistant Presence Simulation(github.com)

129 points by edward 2 years ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread(github.com)

127 points by themanmaran 2 years ago | 20 comments

Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker(wired.com)

120 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 73 comments

Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?(areweanticheatyet.com)

118 points by iscream26 2 years ago | 124 comments

A Post by Guido van Rossum Removed for Violating Python Community Guidelines(discuss.python.org)

114 points by oblvious-earth 2 years ago | 62 comments

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims(lwn.net)

112 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 72 comments

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus(baldurbjarnason.com)

108 points by zzzeek 2 years ago | 83 comments

Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties (2022)(lightbluetouchpaper.org)

106 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?

106 points by deeptechdreamer 2 years ago | 68 comments

French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court(apnews.com)

105 points by rntn 2 years ago | 85 comments

Thoughts on the Durov Arrest(prestonbyrne.com)

99 points by nailer 2 years ago | 149 comments

Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)(researchgate.net)

99 points by komape 2 years ago | 92 comments

Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go)(github.com)

96 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky(bsky.social)

92 points by runarberg 2 years ago | 111 comments

MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap(maproulette.org)

89 points by puddingvlaai 2 years ago | 29 comments

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress(techcrunch.com)

87 points by sogen 2 years ago | 88 comments

Regex Crossword(mathspp.com)

86 points by cab404 2 years ago | 20 comments

Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem(prospect.org)

84 points by yedava 2 years ago | 70 comments

Portraits of insects reveal the intricacies of a world(smithsonianmag.com)

81 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 24 comments

US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional(techcrunch.com)

75 points by warrenm 2 years ago | 10 comments

Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing(img.ly)

72 points by buss_jan 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Shed Light on Your Go Binary Bloat with Go Size Analyzer(github.com)

69 points by zxilly 2 years ago | 9 comments

We created a new account in Telegram and started looking for a job in Estonia(threadreaderapp.com)

67 points by toss1 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis(pdftranslate.ai)

65 points by sh_tomer 2 years ago | 78 comments

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite(sqlite.org)

64 points by tosh 2 years ago | 43 comments

High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable(arxiv.org)

61 points by KolenCh 2 years ago | 18 comments

Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month(tomshardware.com)

58 points by RyeCombinator 2 years ago | 61 comments

Show HN: Repo2vec – an open-source library for chatting with any codebase(github.com)

56 points by nutellalover 2 years ago | 41 comments

There is only one amphibian emoji(wonger.dev)

54 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 63 comments

Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights(futurism.com)

52 points by ra7 2 years ago | 31 comments

The Atari 7800(goto10retro.com)

51 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 12 comments

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025(nvidianews.nvidia.com)

51 points by kgwgk 2 years ago | 28 comments

Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?(whois.marcaria.com)

49 points by qxotk 2 years ago | 39 comments

Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models(arxiv.org)

49 points by soulofmischief 2 years ago | 1 comments

Rust Dylib Rabbit Holes(davidlattimore.github.io)

47 points by jmillikin 2 years ago | 9 comments

How to Use React Compiler(freecodecamp.org)

46 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 28 comments

Fermilab is 'doomed' without management overhaul claims whistleblower report(physicsworld.com)

45 points by f1shy 2 years ago | 7 comments