Hacker News on Thursday, 17 October 2024

Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen(creativebloq.com)

771 points by ralusek 2 years ago | 253 comments

Creative Bloq news article about Adobe's Project Turntable, an AI concept tool that lets users fully rotate 2D vector illustrations in 3D space.

Crokinole(pudding.cool)

569 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 156 comments

A Pudding visual essay by Russell Samora exploring the tabletop game Crokinole, starting with video of two top players scoring perfect rounds.

Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought(scientificamerican.com)

509 points by orcul 2 years ago | 362 comments

Scientific American article by Gary Stix on brain studies showing language is not essential for the cognitive processes underlying thought.

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools(ading.dev)

371 points by vk6 2 years ago | 72 comments

Blog post describing how the author found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, Chromium bugs letting a malicious extension escape the sandbox via DevTools, earning a $20,000 bounty.

Grandmaster-level chess without search(github.com)

340 points by lawrenceyan 2 years ago | 150 comments

GitHub repository from Google DeepMind with code, data, and checkpoints for the paper 'Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search'.

NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews(blog.google)

319 points by alphabetting 2 years ago | 116 comments

Google blog post announcing customizable Audio Overviews in NotebookLM and a pilot program for NotebookLM Business.

Cats are (almost) liquid(cell.com)

310 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 173 comments

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces(gitlab.com)

306 points by awkravchuk 2 years ago | 60 comments

JSON Patch(zuplo.com)

285 points by DataOverload 2 years ago | 154 comments

Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent(simonwillison.net)

270 points by simonw 2 years ago | 40 comments

Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers(arxiv.org)

267 points by sebg 2 years ago | 37 comments

555 Timer Circuits(555-timer-circuits.com)

264 points by okl 2 years ago | 100 comments

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte(open-std.org)

240 points by Twirrim 2 years ago | 264 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

233 points by proberts 2 years ago | 323 comments

NASA freezes Starliner missions(gizmodo.com)

224 points by rntn 2 years ago | 241 comments

Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results(help.kagi.com)

220 points by lkellar 2 years ago | 77 comments

setBigTimeout(evanhahn.com)

194 points by cfj 2 years ago | 111 comments

Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?(neon.tech)

193 points by davidgomes 2 years ago | 344 comments

Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients(scitechdaily.com)

192 points by amichail 2 years ago | 82 comments

Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil(wpri.com)

187 points by geox 2 years ago | 69 comments

WordPress retaliation impacts community(lwn.net)

178 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 90 comments

My solar-powered and self-hosted website(dri.es)

176 points by lightlyused 2 years ago | 53 comments

Time is a dimension, but not like space(bigthink.com)

160 points by belter 2 years ago | 167 comments

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic(404media.co)

151 points by orangeteacups 2 years ago | 69 comments

Unit tests as documentation(thecoder.cafe)

151 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 165 comments

Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter(leontrolski.github.io)

147 points by leontrolski 2 years ago | 51 comments

Understanding how bureaucracy develops(dhruvmethi.substack.com)

138 points by dhruvmethi 2 years ago | 73 comments

OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust(github.com)

136 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 100 comments

Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)(randomcriticalanalysis.com)

127 points by jeffreyrogers 2 years ago | 217 comments

SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely(tilde.town)

127 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 87 comments

Industrious Dice(mathenchant.wordpress.com)

119 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 13 comments

Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet(crunchydata.com)

119 points by craigkerstiens 2 years ago | 18 comments

Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends(smolways.com)

118 points by jmward01 2 years ago | 69 comments

Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?(torment-nexus.mathewingram.com)

116 points by davidandgoliath 2 years ago | 58 comments

Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders(jeffgeerling.com)

108 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 100 comments

The Fifth Generation Project in Japan (1992)(sjsu.edu)

104 points by tosh 2 years ago | 92 comments

What do you visualize while programming?(dillonshook.com)

85 points by dillonshook 2 years ago | 138 comments

DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)(flexport.com)

85 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser(savaos.com)

75 points by owenfar 2 years ago | 60 comments

Tubeworms live around deep-sea vents(economist.com)

74 points by marban 2 years ago | 44 comments

4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [video](youtube.com)

72 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 17 comments

The science of "Zoom fatigue"(bigthink.com)

71 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 111 comments

Do Fungi Recognize Shapes?(tohoku.ac.jp)

66 points by svilches 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?

64 points by dtquad 2 years ago | 37 comments

A CLI tool for management of Next.js applications(quicky.dev)

64 points by alemalohe 2 years ago | 14 comments

AI Mathematical Olympiad – Progress Prize 2(kaggle.com)

63 points by trott 2 years ago | 6 comments

Workaround Clang v15 AArch64 miscompile that affects parallel collection(github.com)

60 points by gus_massa 2 years ago | 7 comments

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge(vitalik.eth.limo)

60 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 27 comments

Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)(skalt.github.io)

58 points by skalt 2 years ago | 10 comments

Removing PGP from PyPI(blog.pypi.org)

56 points by harporoeder 2 years ago | 41 comments

My experiences with Automattic: Part 3(aldavigdis.dev)

56 points by madmanweb 2 years ago | 27 comments

UEVR: An Exploration of Advanced Game Hacking Techniques (2023)(praydog.com)

54 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 4 comments

A Liveness Example in TLA+(surfingcomplexity.blog)

52 points by skeptrune 2 years ago | 7 comments

Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds(furkantokac.com)

47 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends(michaelshermer.substack.com)

46 points by royalroad 2 years ago | 110 comments

Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo(blog.mozilla.ai)

46 points by mscolnick 2 years ago | 6 comments

Why "founder mode" is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders(news.paolo.pm)

43 points by jrnkntl 2 years ago | 5 comments

UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior(daniel.haxx.se)

41 points by ekimekim 2 years ago | 54 comments

Rethinking School Design(architizer.com)

41 points by samsolomon 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old(launching.today)

39 points by mrsegev 2 years ago | 29 comments