Hacker News on Friday, 4 October 2024

Meta Movie Gen(ai.meta.com)

1028 points by brianjking 2 years ago | 938 comments

Meta's research page introducing Movie Gen, a set of media foundation AI models for generating video and audio from text.

Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)(unix.stackexchange.com)

952 points by jamesy0ung 2 years ago | 388 comments

A Unix & Linux Stack Exchange question asking why the man command printed "gimme gimme gimme" to stderr when run at 00:30.

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer(aschmelyun.com)

856 points by chrisdemarco 2 years ago | 224 comments

Blog post describing a PHP project that prints a custom daily news front page on a dot matrix printer bought from eBay.

Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing(szymonkaliski.com)

532 points by cernocky 2 years ago | 103 comments

Project page for Cartographist, Szymon Kaliski's experimental web browser that uses horizontally scrolling panes and a tree-structured browsing history.

Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first(onestack.dev)

475 points by nwienert 2 years ago | 215 comments

Landing page for One, a new React framework built on Vite that unifies web and React Native apps with typed file-system routing and local-first support via Zero.

12 Months of Mandarin(isaak.net)

454 points by misiti3780 2 years ago | 249 comments

A personal blog post on Isaak.net recounting the author's experience learning Mandarin Chinese over twelve months.

Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support(mitmproxy.org)

338 points by mhils 2 years ago | 64 comments

Mitmproxy blog post announcing version 11, which adds full HTTP/3 support in transparent and reverse proxy modes plus DNS improvements.

Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator(stuffmatic.com)

261 points by stuffmatic 2 years ago | 44 comments

LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday(github.com)

255 points by stereoabuse 2 years ago | 123 comments

Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice(github.com)

235 points by russ 2 years ago | 51 comments

How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

214 points by SeenNotHeard 2 years ago | 108 comments

Don't squander public trust on bullshit(livboeree.substack.com)

213 points by NavinF 2 years ago | 100 comments

Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer(techcrunch.com)

210 points by gniting 2 years ago | 244 comments

Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones(nv1t.github.io)

203 points by mtlynch 2 years ago | 37 comments

New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data(independent.co.uk)

190 points by cpncrunch 2 years ago | 135 comments

Playing with BOLT and Postgres(vondra.me)

153 points by aquastorm 2 years ago | 41 comments

ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)(theor.xyz)

144 points by larodi 2 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go(tiniuc.com)

139 points by tiniuclx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI(ycombinator.com)

134 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 100 comments

Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers(github.com)

129 points by steelbrain 2 years ago | 61 comments

ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface(github.com)

126 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux(github.com)

118 points by ravachol 2 years ago | 52 comments

Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second(github.com)

113 points by L_ 2 years ago | 23 comments

Max Schrems wins privacy case against Meta over data on sexual orientation(apnews.com)

112 points by c420 2 years ago | 77 comments

Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership(waymo.com)

108 points by ra7 2 years ago | 54 comments

Why Is Light So Fast?(profmattstrassler.com)

104 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 101 comments

Computer scientists combine two 'beautiful' proof methods(quantamagazine.org)

104 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 30 comments

One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island(hakaimagazine.com)

102 points by abscond 2 years ago | 56 comments

IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers more tax situations in 2025(irs.gov)

93 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 32 comments

Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him(wsj.com)

91 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 46 comments

Bureaucrat Mode(andrewchen.substack.com)

86 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 43 comments

Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest(qcnews.com)

81 points by NavinF 2 years ago | 65 comments

Wikidata as a Giant Crosswalk File(dbreunig.com)

79 points by dbreunig 2 years ago | 6 comments

Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures(pnas.org)

74 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 8 comments

Sequencing wastewater may be key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak(statnews.com)

59 points by ethbr1 2 years ago | 20 comments

Magic Isn't Real(pthorpe92.dev)

56 points by dvektor 2 years ago | 39 comments

C64 OS Programmer's Guide(c64os.com)

55 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 6 comments

Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother(theguardian.com)

54 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 29 comments

Knowledge Growth and Specialization: Evidence from Oncologists(papers.ssrn.com)

52 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 4 comments

PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study(ztoz.blog)

50 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

Please Don't Make Me Download Another App(theatlantic.com)

47 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 29 comments

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems(psycnet.apa.org)

44 points by beefman 2 years ago | 74 comments

NumPy QuadDType: Quadruple Precision for Everyone(labs.quansight.org)

42 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 37 comments

Fixed-point arithmetic as a replacement for soft floats(pigweed.dev)

38 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 39 comments

Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay(tomshardware.com)

38 points by doener 2 years ago | 36 comments

Oura Ring 4(ouraring.com)

36 points by lazyjeff 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: The Gmail unsubscribe tool with bulk deletion and personal data removal(againstdata.com)

35 points by extrabright 2 years ago | 15 comments

I got everything off the cloud: I'm now paying 10x LESS money(twitter.com)

32 points by baxtr 2 years ago | 34 comments

A Compiler Bug (2023)(rsaxvc.net)

29 points by pbrowne011 2 years ago | 5 comments

Working Set Size Estimation (2018)(brendangregg.com)

27 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 2 comments

All Work and No Play (2021)(dissentmagazine.org)

27 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 7 comments

Wikipedia and Wikidata as sources for analyzing Americanization(kie.ue.poznan.pl)

27 points by wslh 2 years ago | 1 comments

Solving mazes with neural cellular automata (2021)(umu1729.github.io)

23 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 0 comments

OpenFLUX.1(huggingface.co)

22 points by Palmik 2 years ago | 2 comments

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)(marshallbrain.com)

22 points by thesuperbigfrog 2 years ago | 17 comments

EU top court sides with activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta(reuters.com)

21 points by marban 2 years ago | 1 comments

Paul Milgrom, a Nobel and Emmy winner who became Google’s antitrust witness(semafor.com)

20 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 33 comments

Vaccines, past and present(science.org)

20 points by etiam 2 years ago | 6 comments

Money Buys Happiness, Even If You're Already Rich(wsj.com)

19 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 28 comments

I made $1M in 67 days during Covid(marshallhaas.com)

19 points by thamer 2 years ago | 7 comments