18511
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,697 posts.
18512
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum's Universal Robots (or…
18513
18514
18515
18516
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
A previously lost cache of celebrity and historical interviews from a long-dormant radio show have been discovered, digitized, and made available for all. The Internet Archive is now home to 53 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio show about the new world of home computers. The program included computer…
18517
The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
A question that is frequently occurring among my SQL training’s participants is: What’s the difference between putting a predicate in the JOIN .. ON clause and the WHERE clause? I can d…
18518
Whistled Turkish
May 31, 2019 @ 6:29 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture , Phonetics and phonology
18519
18520
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
18521
A Look inside Google’s Data Center Networks
Google has long been a pioneer in distributed computing and data processing, from Google File System to MapReduce to Bigtable and to Bor...
18522
Belgium launches nationwide safe harbor for ethical hackers
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
18523
Time Traveling Linux Bug Reporting: Coming in Julia 1.5
Julia 1.5 is gaining a cool new bug reporting capability, leveraging mozilla's rr project to automatically create fully-reproducible bug reports
18524
Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here's why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
18525
Intro to kernel debugging
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories .
18526
Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
18527
ClojureCUDA – CUDA programming in Clojure
Clojure library for GPU computing with CUDA
18528
18529
Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass…
18530
Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The increase reflects...
18531
xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.
18532
Where is the AI jobs crisis?
If AI were triggering a jobs crisis, we would expect job openings to collapse and unemployment to climb, yet the opposite is happening. Subscribe for daily updates.
18533
Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
Economic inequality in hiring is in part driven by snap perceptions of job applicants’ speech patterns, new Yale research shows.
18534
Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
18535
18536
Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
18537
EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor individual artists.
18538
ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal
For this rehearsal, the boosters were not ignited so Ariane 6 stayed firmly on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, as planned.
18539
Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis
Searchable archive of articles, posts and press on video denoising, per-shot encoding, AV1 film grain synthesis, MXL and broadcast AI.
18540
Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
O'Reilly's recently published 2017 Design Salary Survey showed not only that designers working in UX command the highest median salary ($89,000), but also that…