Hacker News on Thursday, 3 October 2024

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public(blog.cloudflare.com)

1340 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 377 comments

Cloudflare blog post announcing that patent troll Sable Networks settled, paid Cloudflare, and dedicated all its patents to the public.

Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT(openai.com)

911 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 647 comments

OpenAI announcement introducing canvas, a new ChatGPT interface for collaborative writing and coding projects alongside the chat.

Were RNNs all we needed?(arxiv.org)

466 points by beefman 2 years ago | 245 comments

arXiv paper proposing minimal LSTM and GRU variants without hidden-state gate dependencies that can be trained in parallel, rivaling recent sequence models.

Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died(spectrum.ieee.org)

341 points by jnord 2 years ago | 28 comments

IEEE Spectrum obituary article reporting the death of DRAM inventor Robert Dennard at 91, alongside remembrances of other IEEE members.

Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)(journals.plos.org)

295 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 172 comments

Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx(htmx.org)

293 points by rmason 2 years ago | 150 comments

Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs(it-notes.dragas.net)

287 points by msangi 2 years ago | 169 comments

ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera(abc.net.au)

286 points by puffl 2 years ago | 119 comments

Terminal colours are tricky(jvns.ca)

282 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 116 comments

Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf](arxiv.org)

229 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 55 comments

Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting(unite.ai)

225 points by Hard_Space 2 years ago | 59 comments

Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users(arstechnica.com)

224 points by RadixDLT 2 years ago | 140 comments

炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space(github.com)

216 points by hiroshi3110 2 years ago | 83 comments

Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims(starlink.com)

208 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 177 comments

Google says it won't follow Amazon's lead with a return-to-office mandate(entrepreneur.com)

207 points by christhecaribou 2 years ago | 194 comments

MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone(mikrophone.net)

205 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 76 comments

What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain(longevity.stanford.edu)

203 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 157 comments

FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs(replicate.com)

201 points by fagerhult 2 years ago | 132 comments

An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes(gregorygundersen.com)

196 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 79 comments

Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction(arstechnica.com)

195 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 55 comments

Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?

182 points by MrsPeaches 2 years ago | 143 comments

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius(bbc.co.uk)

179 points by andystanton 2 years ago | 224 comments

France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved(goldenowlhunt.com)

162 points by femtozer 2 years ago | 35 comments

US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements(upi.com)

146 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 81 comments

Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms(phys.org)

141 points by wglb 2 years ago | 99 comments

Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library(flyonui.com)

140 points by devsoul 2 years ago | 56 comments

Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store(frozenfractal.com)

139 points by grodriguez100 2 years ago | 93 comments

The real data wall is billions of years of evolution(dynomight.substack.com)

137 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 84 comments

The Heart of Unix (2018)(ericnormand.me)

136 points by kugurerdem 2 years ago | 79 comments

Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers(aquasec.com)

134 points by johnfernow 2 years ago | 37 comments

EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing(statewatch.org)

134 points by croes 2 years ago | 150 comments

Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown(quantamagazine.org)

129 points by Duximo 2 years ago | 47 comments

Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line(space.com)

115 points by rootforce 2 years ago | 45 comments

Solving methane mysteries with satellite imagery(blog.datadesk.eco)

115 points by ltrg 2 years ago | 20 comments

HTTrack Website Copier(github.com)

111 points by iscream26 2 years ago | 29 comments

NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade(spectrum.ieee.org)

110 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 49 comments

Who Pays for the Arts?(esquire.com)

104 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 236 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown(tanayj.com)

100 points by flyaway123 2 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui)(github.com)

96 points by cxreiff 2 years ago | 20 comments

DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support(github.com)

93 points by Fission_Strike 2 years ago | 34 comments

Most gamers prefer single-player games(midiaresearch.com)

87 points by omnibrain 2 years ago | 103 comments

IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41(hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org)

81 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 24 comments

Solving the Maker-Taker Problem(dri.es)

69 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 32 comments

What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?(newyorker.com)

67 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 49 comments

Ever: Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-Time View Synthesis(half-potato.gitlab.io)

67 points by alphabetting 2 years ago | 12 comments

Update on Reflection-70B(glaive.ai)

65 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 36 comments

CEO of Wordpress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me with Legal Action(medium.com)

62 points by greyface- 2 years ago | 19 comments

Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down(theguardian.com)

59 points by geox 2 years ago | 38 comments

Improving Accessibility Using Vision Models(myswamp.substack.com)

57 points by bearjaws 2 years ago | 11 comments

Biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed(cnn.com)

57 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 14 comments

AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence(theregister.com)

56 points by DirkH 2 years ago | 38 comments

A single cloud compromise can feed an army of AI sex bots(krebsonsecurity.com)

54 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost "stamp" machine(arstechnica.com)

53 points by bornfreddy 2 years ago | 10 comments

You Can't Opt-Out of A.I. Online(newyorker.com)

53 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: I have published a mobile HN client to have coffee chat with HN users

46 points by canergl 2 years ago | 13 comments

NSO Should Lose Spyware Case for Discovery Violations, Meta Says(news.bloomberglaw.com)

45 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 17 comments

Skymont: Intel’s E-Cores reach for the Sky(chipsandcheese.com)

44 points by zdw 2 years ago | 5 comments

Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit(automattic.com)

43 points by kif 2 years ago | 57 comments

The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline(lore.kernel.org)

43 points by keybored 2 years ago | 17 comments

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius(bbc.com)

38 points by rafram 2 years ago | 13 comments