Hacker News on Friday, 22 November 2024

Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic(cnbc.com)

624 points by swyx 1 year ago | 350 comments

CNBC news article reporting that Amazon will invest another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, a major rival to OpenAI.

Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify(5-million-devs.netlify.com)

574 points by franck 1 year ago | 221 comments

An interactive Marble Madness-inspired WebGL browser game built with Three.js and Rapier physics to celebrate Netlify reaching 5 million developers.

Phased Array Microphone (2023)(benwang.dev)

560 points by bglazer 1 year ago | 179 comments

Blog post describing a 192-channel open-source phased array microphone with FPGA data acquisition and GPU beamforming and visualization.

Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal(opb.org)

365 points by gmays 1 year ago | 227 comments

OPB/AP news article on Chinook salmon spawning in historic Klamath River habitat less than a month after four dams were demolished.

The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired(wired.com)

269 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 315 comments

Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool(github.com)

255 points by jinqueeny 1 year ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates(github.com)

222 points by discoinverno 1 year ago | 62 comments

The Nearest Neighbor Attack(volexity.com)

216 points by throwaway99210 1 year ago | 67 comments

A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt(cacm.acm.org)

211 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 126 comments

Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development(lukaspetr.com)

183 points by Lukas_Petr 1 year ago | 77 comments

Poisoning the Day(ashore.io)

177 points by tollandlebas 1 year ago | 72 comments

Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough(quantum-machines.co)

164 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 83 comments

Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object(aws.amazon.com)

164 points by notgiorgi 1 year ago | 57 comments

RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library(github.com)

149 points by klaussilveira 1 year ago | 89 comments

MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX(docs.maxxinteractive.com)

148 points by gjvc 1 year ago | 70 comments

Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1(tailwindcss.com)

142 points by creativedg 1 year ago | 71 comments

NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens(nasa.gov)

140 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 66 comments

Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater(science.org)

134 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 101 comments

From string to AST: parsing (2019)(kubuszok.com)

132 points by sph 1 year ago | 22 comments

Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds(podcast.play.date)

132 points by textadventure 1 year ago | 55 comments

Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack(wired.com)

131 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 52 comments

The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere(tangramvision.com)

128 points by ThatGeoGuy 1 year ago | 29 comments

What made Dostoevsky's work immortal(thoughts.wyounas.com)

124 points by simplegeek 1 year ago | 130 comments

Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe(vice.com)

121 points by DamnInteresting 1 year ago | 77 comments

Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti(phys.org)

120 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 57 comments

Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser(jordaneldredge.com)

110 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 36 comments

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)(mcyoung.xyz)

104 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 21 comments

FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine(goto10retro.com)

102 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 22 comments

Monocle: Optics Library for Scala(optics.dev)

99 points by curling_grad 1 year ago | 48 comments

Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java(github.com)

98 points by eatonphil 1 year ago | 52 comments

Apple will now be treated like a bank(9to5mac.com)

93 points by mgh2 1 year ago | 42 comments

Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy(blog.korny.info)

90 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 29 comments

Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement(discourse.imfreedom.org)

78 points by rw_grim 1 year ago | 34 comments

A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks (2017)(blog.separateconcerns.com)

76 points by LAC-Tech 1 year ago | 19 comments

Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg(duckdb.org)

75 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 5 comments

Oppose the Patent-Troll-Friendly Prevail Act(eff.org)

75 points by batch12 1 year ago | 7 comments

Against the Dark Forest(wrecka.ge)

74 points by tobr 1 year ago | 54 comments

Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)(narratively.com)

69 points by Geekette 1 year ago | 50 comments

U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group(pewresearch.org)

66 points by samspenc 1 year ago | 69 comments

TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash(yossarian.net)

65 points by nathan_phoenix 1 year ago | 21 comments

The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)(pudding.cool)

63 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 54 comments

Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance(github.com)

59 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 32 comments

Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles(nature.com)

57 points by tosh 1 year ago | 25 comments

How did you do on the AI art Turing test?(astralcodexten.com)

55 points by sieste 1 year ago | 53 comments

The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996)(rgaros.nl)

55 points by Lammy 1 year ago | 37 comments

Key Transparency and the Right to Be Forgotten(soatok.blog)

54 points by zdw 1 year ago | 38 comments

The remarkable life and astonishing times of Dwight Smith Young(historyonthefox.wordpress.com)

48 points by omega3 1 year ago | 4 comments

The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction (2019)(irenezhang.net)

47 points by eventhelix 1 year ago | 28 comments

AI eats the world(ben-evans.com)

47 points by rohansood15 1 year ago | 33 comments

Slouch: Posture panic in modern America(thenation.com)

45 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 33 comments

DOJ proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships with Anthropic(bloomberg.com)

44 points by donsupreme 1 year ago | 45 comments

Why so many families are "drowning in toys"(vox.com)

42 points by gmays 1 year ago | 36 comments

Shallow sports and deep social hierarchies: pecking orders aren't equal(phys.org)

40 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: To those with successful browser extension(s), how did you grow it?

40 points by dandrew5 1 year ago | 30 comments

What We Learned from Red Teaming Our Top Charities(givewell.org)

40 points by ctoth 1 year ago | 13 comments

jQuery UI(jqueryui.com)

37 points by otobrglez 1 year ago | 38 comments

$2000-$3fff &D (2014)(csdb.dk)

37 points by luu 1 year ago | 9 comments

AI and the Last Mile 2: Subsidiarity(hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)

36 points by HR01 1 year ago | 5 comments

Futures and Multiple Values in Parallel Lisp (1991) [pdf](3e8.org)

36 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 0 comments

Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking(arxiv.org)

35 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 0 comments