Hacker News on Friday, 27 September 2024

Fraud, so much fraud(science.org)

1421 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 775 comments

A Science magazine blog post about scientific research fraud; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

I Am Tired of AI(ontestautomation.com)

1012 points by Liriel 2 years ago | 904 comments

Blog post by test automation consultant Bas Dijkstra expressing fatigue with AI hype and how AI is applied and marketed in software testing and beyond.

CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them(larslofgren.com)

663 points by greg_V 2 years ago | 240 comments

Blog post by Lars Lofgren arguing that affiliate review subdomains on CNN and USA Today sites are operated by Forbes Marketplace as parasite SEO.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'(tomshardware.com)

412 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 423 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that TSMC executives allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as a 'podcasting bro' over his request for 36 fabs costing $7 trillion.

The best $4 ever spent(papanotes.com)

327 points by pmzy 2 years ago | 117 comments

A personal essay on the Papa Notes parenting blog titled "The best $4 ever spent," illustrated with a photo of a child riding a bus.

Maggie Smith has died(variety.com)

322 points by asix66 2 years ago | 35 comments

Variety obituary reporting that actress Maggie Smith, known for Downton Abbey and Harry Potter, has died at 89.

How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design(deepmind.google)

281 points by isof4ult 2 years ago | 162 comments

AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M(community.amd.com)

247 points by figomore 2 years ago | 69 comments

Comedy Theory (2022)(rpgadventures.io)

242 points by harryf 2 years ago | 170 comments

Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales(arstechnica.com)

230 points by BuildWithMason 2 years ago | 88 comments

Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller(arxiv.org)

219 points by czx111331 2 years ago | 26 comments

MTA Open Data Challenge(new.mta.info)

212 points by oftenwrong 2 years ago | 64 comments

Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)(thesecretlivesofdata.com)

211 points by Hrun0 2 years ago | 70 comments

Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer(codeberg.org)

210 points by flykespice 2 years ago | 92 comments

SAML: A Technical Primer(ssoready.com)

201 points by ned_at_codomain 2 years ago | 80 comments

My MEGA65 is finally here(lyonsden.net)

194 points by harel 2 years ago | 71 comments

Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry(globalchinapulse.net)

185 points by speckx 2 years ago | 129 comments

US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Marks(reuters.com)

165 points by h2odragon 2 years ago | 57 comments

Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastin(hannahilea.com)

164 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it(polygon.com)

163 points by sxp 2 years ago | 72 comments

If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed(joshcollinsworth.com)

155 points by graeme 2 years ago | 94 comments

Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links(readpolymathematics.substack.com)

155 points by onlyfootnotes 2 years ago | 94 comments

Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look(blog.cloudflare.com)

149 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 41 comments

Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud(xda-developers.com)

144 points by shaunpud 2 years ago | 103 comments

LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs(arxiv.org)

110 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 28 comments

Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds(historytoday.com)

108 points by pepys 2 years ago | 68 comments

The Architecture of London Pubs (1966)(thelondonmagazine.org)

107 points by youbet 2 years ago | 45 comments

Lion Cove: Intel's P-Core Roars(chipsandcheese.com)

105 points by luyu_wu 2 years ago | 42 comments

Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012)(higherorderfun.com)

103 points by vvoruganti 2 years ago | 7 comments

Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday(fortune.com)

103 points by svenfaw 2 years ago | 80 comments

The CRPG Book Project (2023)(crpgbook.wordpress.com)

102 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet(quadratichq.com)

98 points by Manchego79 2 years ago | 34 comments

Everything we know about spies is wrong(lithub.com)

98 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 76 comments

Rewriting Rust: A Response(gavinhoward.com)

97 points by gavinhoward 2 years ago | 69 comments

The fight to save Chile's white strawberry(atlasobscura.com)

97 points by ofou 2 years ago | 31 comments

Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'(smithsonianmag.com)

95 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 83 comments

Japan's humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world(theguardian.com)

91 points by n1b0m 2 years ago | 53 comments

Gaussian Frosting: Editable complex radiance fields with real-time rendering(anttwo.github.io)

89 points by hellohello2 2 years ago | 5 comments

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second(newscientist.com)

87 points by squiffsquiff 2 years ago | 62 comments

Will plants grow on the moon?(nautil.us)

83 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 95 comments

Prep: Golang Comptime(github.com)

82 points by Seb-C 2 years ago | 20 comments

Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it(thespectator.com)

82 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 54 comments

Minix 3 (2014)(minix3.org)

81 points by droideqa 2 years ago | 19 comments

OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history(axios.com)

79 points by znq 2 years ago | 61 comments

Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law(eaftan.github.io)

79 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 32 comments

A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System [pdf] (1977)(lemis.com)

78 points by DanielZendejas 2 years ago | 15 comments

CouchDB 3.4.1 Released(blog.couchdb.org)

76 points by katsura 2 years ago | 39 comments

Mathiness(votito.com)

73 points by adzicg 2 years ago | 41 comments

Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998(sdomi.pl)

69 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 10 comments

OpenAI as we knew it is dead(vox.com)

62 points by craneca0 2 years ago | 23 comments

Fix photogrammetry bridges so that they are not "solid" underneath (2020)(forums.flightsimulator.com)

62 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 18 comments

Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry(coe.psu.ac.th)

62 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Case of the Missing Increment(computerenhance.com)

60 points by eigenform 2 years ago | 19 comments

The Physics of Colliding Balls(vanhunteradams.com)

59 points by vha3 2 years ago | 14 comments

Steve Jobs Swore the 10-Minute Rule Made Him Smarter. He Was Right(inc.com)

57 points by Corrado 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ceefax and the Birth of Interactive TV(bbc.com)

56 points by speckx 2 years ago | 31 comments

NASA confirms space station cracking a "highest" risk and consequence problem(arstechnica.com)

55 points by addaon 2 years ago | 29 comments

NIST Interoperable Randomness Beacons(csrc.nist.gov)

55 points by diggan 2 years ago | 24 comments

You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE(xeiaso.net)

52 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 49 comments