Hacker News on Monday, 30 September 2024

Bop Spotter(walzr.com)

2301 points by walz 2 years ago | 367 comments

Riley Walz's art project: a solar-powered Android phone on a pole in SF's Mission running Shazam 24/7, publishing a live feed of songs heard on the street.

NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective(simonwillison.net)

842 points by simonw 2 years ago | 440 comments

Simon Willison blog post on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates AI-hosted podcast discussions from user-provided sources, with an example.

California bans legacy admissions at private universities(nytimes.com)

535 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 563 comments

New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.

Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene(marincomics.com)

460 points by blakespot 2 years ago | 111 comments

An article on Boris Vallejo's influence on demoscene pixel art, covering scene appropriation history and a walkthrough of making a four-color Vallejo-style graphic.

Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth(unfashionable.blog)

416 points by SvenSchnieders 2 years ago | 191 comments

Blog post on the Unfashionable blog arguing that Y Combinator has traded its prestige for growth by expanding batch sizes.

MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia(musicbrainz.org)

406 points by mmh0000 2 years ago | 88 comments

Homepage of MusicBrainz, an open, community-maintained music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and releases it under open licenses.

Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code(github.com)

368 points by zhengkyl 2 years ago | 57 comments

GitHub repository for qrframe, a code-based QR code generator using a Rust/wasm core with editable JavaScript rendering to SVG or canvas.

Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

256 points by yawn 2 years ago | 330 comments

BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH(borgbackup.readthedocs.io)

252 points by AdaX 2 years ago | 86 comments

GnuCash 5.9(gnucash.org)

245 points by moasda 2 years ago | 132 comments

Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene(npr.org)

214 points by notamy 2 years ago | 61 comments

Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?

207 points by nikasakana 2 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods(apps.apple.com)

206 points by mrtksn 2 years ago | 287 comments

John Wheeler saw the tear in reality(quantamagazine.org)

206 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 159 comments

AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO(cnbc.com)

201 points by TradingPlaces 2 years ago | 112 comments

The best browser bookmarking system is files(afewthingz.com)

194 points by josephernest 2 years ago | 132 comments

Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording(github.com)

181 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 110 comments

Phrase matching in Marginalia Search(marginalia.nu)

180 points by marginalia_nu 2 years ago | 21 comments

Keep Track: 3D Satellite Toolkit(app.keeptrack.space)

168 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 36 comments

Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models(liquid.ai)

164 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 130 comments

How we built ngrok's data platform(ngrok.com)

149 points by samber 2 years ago | 38 comments

Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes(twitter.com)

148 points by tosh 2 years ago | 170 comments

Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks(blog.archive.org)

139 points by TangerineDream 2 years ago | 94 comments

The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve(tomshardware.com)

139 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Facad – A colorful directory listing tool for the command line(github.com)

138 points by y-f-honeyguide 2 years ago | 87 comments

A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect(chrisdone.com)

130 points by kreyenborgi 2 years ago | 21 comments

New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness(sciencedaily.com)

128 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 168 comments

Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI(macrumors.com)

120 points by Kye 2 years ago | 29 comments

Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)

114 points by engomez 2 years ago | 57 comments

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack(int10h.org)

112 points by OuterVale 2 years ago | 13 comments

Code Generation in Rust vs. C++26(brevzin.github.io)

111 points by steveklabnik 2 years ago | 73 comments

Peer Calls: WebRTC peer to peer calls for everyone(github.com)

110 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 36 comments

FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs(jbkempf.com)

109 points by jbk 2 years ago | 26 comments

Tips for Building and Deploying Robots(rodneybrooks.com)

109 points by dannyobrien 2 years ago | 25 comments

Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)(technology.riotgames.com)

108 points by highfrequency 2 years ago | 47 comments

Hierarchical Navigable Small World: a scalable nearest neighbor search(github.com)

102 points by wilsonzlin 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Dogma of Otherness (1986)(davidbrin.com)

102 points by m463 2 years ago | 63 comments

Agentic patters from scratch using Groq(github.com)

100 points by mtrofficus 2 years ago | 28 comments

Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments(newyorker.com)

100 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 57 comments

Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project(github.com)

100 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 57 comments

Manuscripts reveal the details of everyday life on the Silk Road(historytoday.com)

89 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 17 comments

No such thing as exactly-once delivery(blog.sequinstream.com)

81 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Unraveling of Space-Time(quantamagazine.org)

76 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 61 comments

Raspberry Pi AI Camera on sale now at $70(raspberrypi.com)

76 points by TiredOfLife 2 years ago | 8 comments

Type-erased generic functions for C: A modest non-proposal(duriansoftware.com)

74 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 48 comments

Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified(launchpointzero.com)

71 points by padseeker 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Venator – Open-source threat detection(github.com)

70 points by 0x4d31 2 years ago | 3 comments

Deep Learning with Jax(manning.com)

68 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 10 comments

The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction(warfantasy.wordpress.com)

68 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 41 comments

Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx(tengine.taobao.org)

63 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 27 comments

Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms(theguardian.com)

63 points by n1b0m 2 years ago | 51 comments

Ping Storms at GreyNoise(darthnull.org)

63 points by jkamdjou 2 years ago | 4 comments

Engineers investigate another malfunction on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket(arstechnica.com)

61 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 37 comments

Eliminating Intermediate Array Allocations(tenderlovemaking.com)

61 points by ksec 2 years ago | 1 comments

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history(cell.com)

56 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 16 comments

How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water(npr.org)

56 points by adomasm3 2 years ago | 30 comments

UK to finish with coal power after 142 years(bbc.co.uk)

55 points by mhandley 2 years ago | 26 comments

Pooltool: A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics(github.com)

54 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 7 comments

Doom in the iPhone Photos App (Barely)(eieio.games)

48 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 9 comments

The End of Private Libraries?(robertbreen.com)

47 points by pbrowne011 2 years ago | 58 comments