Hacker News on Wednesday, 4 December 2024

IMG_0001(walzr.com)

1750 points by walz 1 year ago | 278 comments

Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.

Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model(deepmind.google)

1189 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 394 comments

Google DeepMind research blog post introducing Genie 2, a large-scale foundation world model that generates interactive 3D environments.

Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals(ft.com)

447 points by kvee 1 year ago | 2007 comments

Financial Times article examining why the US economy is outperforming other major economies, shown behind a subscription paywall.

How to grow professional relationships(tej.as)

337 points by Liriel 1 year ago | 171 comments

Blog post introducing the TJS (Journey to Synergy) collaboration model for building professional relationships, drawn from the author's career experience with gatekeeping.

Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI(github.com)

314 points by burcs 1 year ago | 133 comments

They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard(kevinboone.me)

303 points by ingve 1 year ago | 196 comments

Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby(jpcamara.com)

282 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 111 comments

OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe(openttd.org)

280 points by doener 1 year ago | 89 comments

Native dual-range input(muffinman.io)

243 points by Wolfr_ 1 year ago | 44 comments

A particle physics course for high-school students(ppc.web.cern.ch)

234 points by treetalker 1 year ago | 28 comments

AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells(newscenter.lbl.gov)

222 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 98 comments

Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything(ginkgonotes.com)

220 points by iskrataa 1 year ago | 79 comments

No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4(blog.infected.systems)

175 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 108 comments

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant(propublica.org)

171 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 96 comments

AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)(kapa.ai)

167 points by emil_sorensen 1 year ago | 192 comments

Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters(seangoedecke.com)

163 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 79 comments

Y2K(y2k.movie)

148 points by ChrisArchitect 1 year ago | 64 comments

Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C(github.com)

139 points by alexyoung91 1 year ago | 51 comments

EmacsConf 2024(emacsconf.org)

127 points by hprotagonist 1 year ago | 3 comments

A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929(moreisdifferent.blog)

110 points by drcwpl 1 year ago | 115 comments

Show HN: A 5th order motion planner with PH spline blending, written in Ada(600f3559.prunt-docs.pages.dev)

109 points by LiamPowell 1 year ago | 31 comments

Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf](deno.com)

92 points by cfnewsperson1 1 year ago | 66 comments

Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US(acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

92 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 year ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques(github.com)

91 points by hbamoria 1 year ago | 15 comments

History of rat control in Alberta(alberta.ca)

89 points by matteoraso 1 year ago | 83 comments

Self-Funding Harberger Taxes(gwern.net)

86 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 81 comments

Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires(journals.plos.org)

83 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 49 comments

Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel(divisbyzero.com)

80 points by noiv 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Hoare Cube(johnwickerson.wordpress.com)

79 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 16 comments

Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide(bkiran.com)

74 points by bkiran 1 year ago | 45 comments

Test Driven Development (TDD) for your LLMs? Yes please, more of that please(blog.helix.ml)

71 points by lewq 1 year ago | 28 comments

Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982)(arraycast.com)

70 points by tosh 1 year ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Vekos – a Rust OS with Built-In Cryptographic Verification(github.com)

69 points by jgiraldo29 1 year ago | 14 comments

The ambiguous witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014)(newcriterion.com)

68 points by Pamar 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why did clothing become boring?(resobscura.substack.com)

67 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 83 comments

Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

65 points by sand1929 1 year ago | 48 comments

Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension(ourworldindata.org)

64 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 62 comments

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

61 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 25 comments

The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child(oxfordclarion.uk)

53 points by Doctor_Fegg 1 year ago | 22 comments

You're Breathtaking [Godot #100000](github.com)

45 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 4 comments

Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone(thedriftmag.com)

45 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 18 comments

Splash pads are fountains of fecal material; CDC reports 10K illnesses(arstechnica.com)

43 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 19 comments

Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution(globalinitiative.net)

41 points by nkko 1 year ago | 9 comments

Bringing the Instructions to the Data(mattpo.pe)

40 points by mattpope 1 year ago | 8 comments

UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan(cnn.com)

38 points by sonabinu 1 year ago | 3 comments

Keyset cursors, not offsets, for Postgres pagination(blog.sequinstream.com)

36 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 4 comments

The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)(kevinmunger.substack.com)

35 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 24 comments

Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations(aws.amazon.com)

32 points by rustastra 1 year ago | 27 comments

Drawbacks and solutions for the Meilisearch document indexer(blog.kerollmops.com)

31 points by ko_pivot 1 year ago | 3 comments

Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders(danwilkerson.com)

30 points by danwilkerson 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Booze of Monkey Island is an unofficial fan game(bean-adventure-agency.itch.io)

29 points by doener 1 year ago | 1 comments

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts(nytimes.com)

29 points by ctc24 1 year ago | 2 comments

Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety(azeemba.com)

27 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 23 comments

Show HN: A Directory of Free, Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software(alternateoss.com)

26 points by syakirurahman 1 year ago | 7 comments

On Bullshit (2005)(press.princeton.edu)

25 points by kaladin-jasnah 1 year ago | 5 comments

Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI(cloud.google.com)

24 points by srameshc 1 year ago | 6 comments

S3 Tables(meltware.com)

21 points by pongogogo 1 year ago | 1 comments

DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute(brooker.co.za)

21 points by louis-paul 1 year ago | 2 comments

Pisces: UK regulated market for private shares [pdf](assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)

21 points by thom 1 year ago | 12 comments

Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform(limejourney.com)

20 points by flyingsky 1 year ago | 7 comments