Hacker News on Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio(illuminate.google.com)

621 points by leblancfg 2 years ago | 227 comments

Landing page for Google Illuminate, an experimental tool that turns papers and books into AI-generated audio discussions, with public examples and a waitlist.

A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time(blog.cloudflare.com)

553 points by eaufavor 2 years ago | 156 comments

Cloudflare blog post on cutting Pingora proxy CPU usage by optimizing header handling in Rust with a custom trie data structure, trie-hard.

Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules(cnbc.com)

524 points by kklisura 2 years ago | 576 comments

CNBC news article reporting that the EU's top court ruled Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland, ending a decade-long legal battle.

New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike(axios.com)

482 points by ericnkatz 2 years ago | 511 comments

Axios news article reporting that the New York Times Tech Guild union voted to authorize a strike.

Another police raid in Germany(forum.torproject.org)

428 points by costco 2 years ago | 242 comments

Tor forum mailing-list post from Artikel 5 e.V. reporting an August 2024 German police raid on its registered office and announcing a general assembly on Sep 21, 2024.

What you can get out of a high-quality font(sinja.io)

274 points by OlegWock 2 years ago | 80 comments

Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life(chaidiscovery.com)

263 points by glowingvoices 2 years ago | 64 comments

Just for Fun (2022)(justforfunnoreally.dev)

263 points by zdw 2 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end(github.com)

261 points by zaiste 2 years ago | 79 comments

Some of us like "interdiff" code review(gist.github.com)

239 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 191 comments

DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial(arstechnica.com)

236 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 168 comments

Why Not Comments(buttondown.com)

235 points by ghewgill 2 years ago | 237 comments

Satellites Spotting Aircraft(tech.marksblogg.com)

213 points by marklit 2 years ago | 56 comments

Tutorial on diffusion models for imaging and vision(arxiv.org)

202 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 15 comments

Debugging in the Multiverse(antithesis.com)

180 points by wwilson 2 years ago | 55 comments

Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies(pcmag.com)

180 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 37 comments

Lottery Simulator (2023)(perthirtysix.com)

178 points by airstrike 2 years ago | 81 comments

Exploring the scalable matrix extension of the Apple M4 processor(github.com)

177 points by gok 2 years ago | 52 comments

Radiology-specific foundation model(harrison.ai)

176 points by pyromaker 2 years ago | 111 comments

Our Git Hash Bug(tmendez.dev)

152 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 84 comments

The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience(schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)

150 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 92 comments

Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell(ii.com)

149 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 112 comments

Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives(mixonline.com)

136 points by severine 2 years ago | 134 comments

Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database(visualdb.com)

130 points by visualdb 2 years ago | 41 comments

Going open-source as a VC-Backed company(briefer.cloud)

130 points by lucasfcosta 2 years ago | 70 comments

Google loses EU court battle over €2.4B antitrust fine(politico.eu)

127 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 93 comments

How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster(singlestore.com)

124 points by lneves12 2 years ago | 29 comments

Rust in illumos(wegmueller.it)

117 points by vermaden 2 years ago | 57 comments

Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript(manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com)

112 points by Luc 2 years ago | 26 comments

Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter(reactionwheel.net)

109 points by vedang 2 years ago | 49 comments

Arvo Pärt's Journey(plough.com)

106 points by motohagiography 2 years ago | 21 comments

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads(therecord.media)

104 points by croes 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Free tool to find RSS feeds, even if not linked on the page

101 points by domysee 2 years ago | 38 comments

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too(theregister.com)

99 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 122 comments

GPTs and Hallucination(queue.acm.org)

98 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 165 comments

Making progress on side projects with content-driven development(ntietz.com)

92 points by zdw 2 years ago | 11 comments

My Homelab Setup(arslan.io)

91 points by enescakir 2 years ago | 60 comments

Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box(theguardian.com)

83 points by speckx 2 years ago | 58 comments

On over-engineering; finding the right balance(16elt.com)

80 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 53 comments

Show HN: GitOps Template for Kubernetes(github.com)

74 points by pmig 2 years ago | 33 comments

Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg(thedial.world)

72 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 58 comments

Do Animals Know That They Will Die?(theatlantic.com)

71 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 38 comments

ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users(clickhouse.com)

69 points by saisrirampur 2 years ago | 2 comments

EU top court confirms Apple's €13 billion tax bill in the EU(dw.com)

68 points by slicedbrandy 2 years ago | 34 comments

Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)(engineering.fb.com)

66 points by lordleft 2 years ago | 58 comments

Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)(tunetheweb.com)

65 points by tosh 2 years ago | 7 comments

Pixhell Attack: Leaking Info from Air-Gap Computers via 'Singing Pixels'(arxiv.org)

63 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 26 comments

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)(publicdomainreview.org)

61 points by ljf 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legendary Wandering Magician(tokyoweekender.com)

60 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 17 comments

Who uses Accept-Language header?(serpapi.com)

60 points by terrytys 2 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python(github.com)

59 points by jedberg 2 years ago | 15 comments

Deductive Verification for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs(arxiv.org)

56 points by smooke 2 years ago | 6 comments

EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf](curia.europa.eu)

54 points by flexie 2 years ago | 40 comments

Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (PDF: ACM HT'24)(dl.acm.org)

54 points by recursivedoubts 2 years ago | 18 comments

Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page(twitter.com)

53 points by Shank 2 years ago | 33 comments

Haskell Postgres Stored Procedures(github.com)

52 points by runeks 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: How can I monetise an open source app of mine that has become popular?

51 points by gigamick 2 years ago | 39 comments

Strtod Is Wild(festina-lente-productions.com)

50 points by turtledragonfly 2 years ago | 13 comments

People who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters(theconversation.com)

48 points by zdw 2 years ago | 21 comments

Fman Build System(build-system.fman.io)

44 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 9 comments