Hacker News on Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku(anthropic.com)

1359 points by weirdcat 2 years ago | 688 comments

Anthropic announcement introducing a computer use capability in public beta, an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and the new Claude 3.5 Haiku model.

FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect(abcnews.go.com)

553 points by indus 2 years ago | 311 comments

AP news article on ABC News reporting that the FTC's federal rule banning fake online reviews has taken effect.

Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license(bloomberg.com)

498 points by necubi 2 years ago | 325 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Arm is giving Qualcomm 60-day notice to cancel its chip design license amid their breach-of-contract dispute.

The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)(theatlantic.com)

456 points by lispybanana 2 years ago | 175 comments

A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.

Show HN: Rust Web Framework(github.com)

454 points by levkk 2 years ago | 236 comments

GitHub repository for Rwf, a Rails-like MVC web framework for Rust with ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, and a WSGI server for running Django.

Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game(github.com)

388 points by solcloud 2 years ago | 151 comments

GitHub repository for an open-source multiplayer FPS game inspired by Counter-Strike, called Counter-Strike: Football, with server, CLI and Electron client.

A new JSON data type for ClickHouse(clickhouse.com)

362 points by markhneedham 2 years ago | 111 comments

ClickHouse engineering blog post by Pavel Kruglov explaining how the team built a new JSON data type for the ClickHouse database.

USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas(usgs.gov)

323 points by antidnan 2 years ago | 199 comments

USGS national news release on using machine learning to estimate large lithium resources in brines of the Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas.

MQTT turns 25(andypiper.co.uk)

252 points by andypiper 2 years ago | 64 comments

How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance(hai.stanford.edu)

240 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 212 comments

Pygfx(docs.pygfx.org)

236 points by figomore 2 years ago | 47 comments

Tog's Paradox(votito.com)

216 points by adzicg 2 years ago | 95 comments

The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers(backpacker.com)

210 points by iancmceachern 2 years ago | 203 comments

'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain(news.yale.edu)

207 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 82 comments

Against /tmp(dotat.at)

199 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 137 comments

Don't Publish with IEEE(cr.yp.to)

197 points by stargrave 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022)(japan.go.jp)

192 points by craigkerstiens 2 years ago | 105 comments

Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk(bloomberg.com)

178 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 157 comments

Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find(cnn.com)

151 points by ChumpGPT 2 years ago | 74 comments

Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs(arxiv.org)

140 points by ignoramous 2 years ago | 14 comments

I Got Dysentary So You Don't Have To(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

137 points by l1n 2 years ago | 94 comments

Understanding Gaussians(gestalt.ink)

136 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 28 comments

How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs(cloudinary.com)

124 points by bentocorp 2 years ago | 52 comments

How DRAM changed the world(micron.com)

121 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 79 comments

The PlanetScale vectors public beta(planetscale.com)

119 points by ksec 2 years ago | 29 comments

The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a (2017)(science.nasa.gov)

117 points by raattgift 2 years ago | 24 comments

Simone Giertz talks about invention(spectrum.ieee.org)

117 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 34 comments

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)(incompleteideas.net)

112 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 21 comments

Streaming joins are hard(estuary.dev)

107 points by danthelion 2 years ago | 42 comments

One Plus One Equals Two (2006)(blog.plover.com)

105 points by lemper 2 years ago | 57 comments

Parks on the Air(parksontheair.com)

99 points by thepuppet33r 2 years ago | 50 comments

Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox(github.com)

93 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 75 comments

Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns(cnn.com)

89 points by atlasunshrugged 2 years ago | 69 comments

Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia(mothership.sg)

84 points by wmstack 2 years ago | 98 comments

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL(memorysafety.org)

82 points by jaas 2 years ago | 20 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing(quansight.com)

77 points by sebg 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning(ambulate.app)

76 points by _phnd_ 2 years ago | 36 comments

TSMC told US of chip in Huawei product after TechInsights finding, source says(reuters.com)

70 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 40 comments

SEC charges four companies with misleading cyber disclosures(sec.gov)

67 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 27 comments

Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status(lwn.net)

65 points by koutsie 2 years ago | 37 comments

A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending(newyorker.com)

64 points by acabal 2 years ago | 27 comments

Species in Pieces(species-in-pieces.com)

64 points by microflash 2 years ago | 7 comments

Order and orient the keys on your keychain(practicalbetterments.com)

62 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 69 comments

Ataraxia(en.wikipedia.org)

61 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 18 comments

Marketing the Odin programming language is weird(gingerbill.org)

58 points by 0x0203 2 years ago | 73 comments

How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author(thecodist.com)

57 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 8 comments

IBM's new SWE agents for developers(research.ibm.com)

56 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 55 comments

Vampire Number(mathworld.wolfram.com)

56 points by dustfinger 2 years ago | 13 comments

Seeing faces in things: A model and dataset for pareidolia(mhamilton.net)

56 points by sebg 2 years ago | 8 comments

RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile(riscv.org)

52 points by snvzz 2 years ago | 13 comments

StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5(tomsguide.com)

52 points by s-gonzales 2 years ago | 46 comments

Defender Sound Studio(zapspace.net)

51 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1(medium.com)

50 points by peakji 2 years ago | 16 comments

Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins(saturdayeveningpost.com)

49 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 26 comments

Solving Sudoku with the Python package resolver(github.com)

42 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 4 comments

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission(nature.com)

39 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 6 comments

Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range(electrek.co)

39 points by doener 2 years ago | 39 comments

How fast is quantum entanglement? Scientists investigate it at attosecond scale(phys.org)

38 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 29 comments

The Human Cost of Our AI-Driven Future(noemamag.com)

38 points by gmays 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists(snack.xyz)

38 points by chshux 2 years ago | 14 comments