Hacker News headlines

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Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for multimodal LLMs (reka.ai)

3 hours ago | alphabetting | reka.ai | newest

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A review of zero-day in-the-wild exploits in 2023 (blog.google)

a month ago | alphabetting | blog.google | frontpage

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Stealing Part of a Production Language Model (arxiv.org)

a month ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | best

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Chinese National Arrested for Theft of AI Trade Secrets from Google (justice.gov)

a month ago | alphabetting | justice.gov | frontpage

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Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better (blog.google)

3 months ago | alphabetting | blog.google | frontpage

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Apple rolls out iMessage upgrade to withstand decryption by quantum computers (reuters.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | reuters.com | newest

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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification (googleblog.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | googleblog.com | best

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The Decline of Hanging Out (theatlantic.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | theatlantic.com | newest

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Google One hits 100M subscriber milestone (twitter.com/sundarpichai)

3 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Buying Spying [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | googleapis.com | newest

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Update on Dartmouth's Standardized Testing Policy (dartmouth.edu)

3 months ago | alphabetting | dartmouth.edu | newest

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DraftKings hacker gets 18-month sentence aimed at 'deterring' similar crimes (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | washingtonpost.com | newest

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MusicFX (withgoogle.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | withgoogle.com | newest

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ImageFX (withgoogle.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | withgoogle.com | frontpage

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Apple Fights to Block Masimo's New Watch on Heels of Import Ban (bloomberglaw.com)

4 months ago | alphabetting | bloomberglaw.com | newest

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Isomorphic inks deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis for drug discovery (techcrunch.com)

4 months ago | alphabetting | techcrunch.com | newest

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Shaping the Future of Advanced Robotics (deepmind.google)

4 months ago | alphabetting | deepmind.google | newest

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GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

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New York Times vs. Microsoft, OpenAI [pdf] (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | alphabetting | nytimes.com | newest

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Luiz Barroso, Who Supercharged Google's Reach, Dies at 59 (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | alphabetting | nytimes.com | newest

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Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail (theverge.com)

7 months ago | alphabetting | theverge.com | best

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Experiments with 3D meshes from the Google Maps API (roberthodgin.com)

7 months ago | alphabetting | roberthodgin.com | newest

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Simulation of the stellar orbits around black hole at center of Milky Way (youtube.com)

7 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | frontpage

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MuJoCo 3 (github.com/google-deepmind)

7 months ago | alphabetting | github.com | newest

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Video Language Planning (video-language-planning.github.io)

7 months ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

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Update on Amazon's Project Kuiper test satellites (aboutamazon.com)

7 months ago | alphabetting | aboutamazon.com | newest

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Pixel 8 Pro (store.google.com)

7 months ago | alphabetting | google.com | best

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“Apple is making more money on Bing existing than Bing does” – Microsoft exec (twitter.com/modestproposal1)

8 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Naked Attraction Surges to Become Max’s “Most Popular” Show (hollywoodreporter.com)

8 months ago | alphabetting | hollywoodreporter.com | frontpage

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Language Modeling Is Compression (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

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AlphaFold tool pinpoints protein mutations that cause disease (nature.com)

8 months ago | alphabetting | nature.com | newest

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Xi’s Security Obsession Turns Ordinary Citizens into Spy Hunters (bloomberg.com)

8 months ago | alphabetting | bloomberg.com | best

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Full interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

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A Bus Driver Killed a Man, the City Blamed Tech (theindustry.pw)

8 months ago | alphabetting | theindustry.pw | newest

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RoboTAP: Tracking Arbitrary Points for Few-Shot Visual Imitation (robotap.github.io)

9 months ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

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China Overtakes U.S. to Become Biggest iPhone Market (macrumors.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | macrumors.com | frontpage

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Transforming Google's Datacenter Network Through Optical Circuit Switching [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

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Google Gemini Eats the World (semianalysis.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | semianalysis.com | frontpage

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Time-lapse showing the growth of objects in low Earth orbit (1957-2025) [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | frontpage

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Ideogram from the creators of Imagen is open to users now (ideogram.ai)

9 months ago | alphabetting | ideogram.ai | newest

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Hackers use Microsoft-signed malware to target victims in Hong Kong (security.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | security.com | newest

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Bigtable processes over 6B requests per second at peak (cloud.google.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

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Statement by director of Pentagon's UAP office criticizing UAP hearings (twitter.com/ddeanjohnson)

10 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Robotics Transformer 2 (robotics-transformer2.github.io)

10 months ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

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Review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild in 2022 (blog.google)

10 months ago | alphabetting | blog.google | newest

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Labor’s Shadow War with Self-Driving Cars (piratewires.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | piratewires.com | newest

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What’s in the Subway Water That Drips on Your Head? (curbed.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | curbed.com | newest

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Ethereum’s Buterin Expresses Concerns over Sam Altman’s Worldcoin (coindesk.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | coindesk.com | frontpage

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Android in the Wild: A Large-Scale Dataset for Android Device Control (arxiv.org)

10 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

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Red Teams Play a Central Role in Helping Orgs Secure AI Systems [pdf] (services.google.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

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EU set to clear Broadcom’s $69B acquisition of VMware (ft.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | ft.com | newest

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Reddit and TikTok sleuths leave wake of damage in small town after Idaho murders (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | alphabetting | theatlantic.com | newest

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FTC to file injunction seeking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision (cnbc.com)

11 months ago | alphabetting | cnbc.com | frontpage

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Tests indicate Chinese firm's ‘home-grown’ chip is a rebadged Intel CPU (scmp.com)

12 months ago | alphabetting | scmp.com | frontpage

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How some people get away with doing nothing at work (vox.com)

12 months ago | alphabetting | vox.com | newest

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EU antitrust regulators clear $69B Microsoft, Activision deal (reuters.com)

12 months ago | alphabetting | reuters.com | frontpage

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Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.” (twitter.com/palmerluckey)

12 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

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Full lofi album made with the MusicLM app (soundcloud.com)

12 months ago | alphabetting | soundcloud.com | frontpage

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The first draft of a human pangenome reference published in Nature (twitter.com/nature)

12 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot (sites.google.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | frontpage

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A comparison of search censorship in China (citizenlab.ca)

a year ago | alphabetting | citizenlab.ca | newest

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The Washington Gambler (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Bard coding update with Colab exporting (blog.google)

a year ago | alphabetting | blog.google | best

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Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields (jonbarron.info)

a year ago | alphabetting | jonbarron.info | newest

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Bing exploit through Azure which allows access to Office 365 user files (twitter.com/hillai)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | techcrunch.com | newest

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Google Apollo: The >$3B Game-Changer in Datacenter Networking (semianalysis.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | semianalysis.com | best

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AI for developers and Google Workspace (blog.google)

a year ago | alphabetting | blog.google | best

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OpenXLA Is Available Now (googleblog.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | googleblog.com | best

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Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model (palm-e.github.io)

a year ago | alphabetting | github.io | best

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Safety performance of the Waymo rider-only automated driving system [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | googleapis.com | best

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Scaling Robot Learning with Semantically Imagined Experience (diffusion-rosie.github.io)

a year ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

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What Do US Growth Zones Have in Common? They Build Housing (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | bloomberg.com | newest

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Behavior Models for Autonomous Driving (Conference Talk) (youtube.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

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Bitter Lesson 2.0 for Robotics (twitter.com/hausman_k)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Joe Biden op-ed: Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses (wsj.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | wsj.com | frontpage

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Clarification on Large Language Model Policy LLM (icml.cc)

a year ago | alphabetting | icml.cc | newest

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ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location (forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white)

a year ago | alphabetting | forbes.com | best

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TikTok pays content creator $3.75 for video which got 7.5M views (twitter.com/lukemiani)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

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Ship from 1800s uncovered on Florida beach after hurricane erosion (nbcnews.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | nbcnews.com | newest

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Waymo now open to everyone in San Francisco (twitter.com/waymo)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | best

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Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google (appleinsider.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | appleinsider.com | best

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YouTube Music and Premium gained 30M subscribers in just one year (theverge.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | theverge.com | newest

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Vox journo says NYT tech reporters had mandate to not cover big tech positively (twitter.com/kelseytuoc)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

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Character AI chat bots can now produce AI images in conversations (twitter.com/character_ai)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

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Robots That Write Their Own Code (googleblog.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | googleblog.com | newest

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Python in Indonesia swallows 54-year-old woman (theguardian.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | theguardian.com | newest

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iMessage for Android would have stifled innovation, says Apple's Craig Federighi (appleinsider.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | appleinsider.com | newest

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Mandiant report on Dragonbridge, a Chinese influence campaign targeting election (mandiant.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | mandiant.com | newest

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iOS 16.1 requires social media “boosts” be purchased as IAPs (twitter.com/eric_seufert)

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

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ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens (forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white)

a year ago | alphabetting | forbes.com | best

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Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles (waymo.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | waymo.com | best

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An Accident at SpaceX (semafor.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | semafor.com | best

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Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)

a year ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Apple AR/VR headset includes iris scanning for authentication and payments (9to5mac.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | 9to5mac.com | frontpage

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Google Fiber to Launch 5Gbps and 8Gbps Plans in 2023 (Utah, KC, Des Moines) (fiber.google.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | frontpage

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With New Crackdown, Biden Wages Global Campaign on Chinese Technology (nytimes.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Crypto Hackers Set for Record Year After Looting over $3B (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | bloomberg.com | best

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LGBT Couples from China Say ‘I Do’ in Utah over Zoom (wsj.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | wsj.com | newest