Hacker News headlines

41

Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7% (matharena.ai)

a day ago | alphabetting | matharena.ai | frontpage

2

Function Calling Guide: Gemini 2.0 Flash (philschmid.de)

4 weeks ago | alphabetting | philschmid.de | newest

7

Trump calls for creation of 'crypto strategic reserve' (techcrunch.com)

a month ago | alphabetting | techcrunch.com | newest

4

Report on specifically how state-backed hackers are using Gemini [pdf] (services.google.com)

a month ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

3

Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI (cloud.google.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

1

Delta Inks Exclusive Pact with YouTube for In-Flight Viewing (variety.com)

3 months ago | alphabetting | variety.com | newest

7

Plastic List (plasticlist.org)

4 months ago | alphabetting | plasticlist.org | newest

3

Tldraw Computer (tldraw.com)

4 months ago | alphabetting | tldraw.com | newest

49

Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report (arcprize.org)

4 months ago | alphabetting | arcprize.org | best

3

T-Mobile Hacked in Chinese Breach of Telecom Networks (wsj.com)

5 months ago | alphabetting | wsj.com | frontpage

7

More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI (theverge.com)

6 months ago | alphabetting | theverge.com | newest

94

NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews (blog.google)

6 months ago | alphabetting | blog.google | best

4

Mystery Drones Swarmed a US Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped (wsj.com)

6 months ago | alphabetting | wsj.com | newest

22

Ever: Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-Time View Synthesis (half-potato.gitlab.io)

6 months ago | alphabetting | gitlab.io | best

1

Example of NotebookLM converting obscure PDF into realistic podcast audio (twitter.com/danbrownusa)

7 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

2

The Vizier Gaussian Process Bandit Algorithm (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

1

Everchanging Quest: Rogue-like game powered by LLMs (huggingface.co)

8 months ago | alphabetting | huggingface.co | newest

28

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announces he is joining Anthropic (twitter.com/johnschulman2)

8 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

2

StormBamboo Compromises ISP to Abuse Insecure Software Update Mechanisms (volexity.com)

8 months ago | alphabetting | volexity.com | newest

1

Momentum Isn't Magic – The Revival of the Hot Hand [video] (youtube.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

1

Floating Hands Whiteboard (floating-hands-whiteboard.vercel.app)

9 months ago | alphabetting | vercel.app | newest

34

WildGaussians: 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild (arxiv.org)

9 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | best

6

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition) (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | blogspot.com | newest

15

Google questions Microsoft ability to secure cloud in promotional whitepaper [pdf] (services.google.com)

9 months ago | alphabetting | google.com | frontpage

2

ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models (arxiv.org)

9 months ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

3

MentatBot sets new SOTA result on SWE-bench Lite (mentat.ai)

10 months ago | alphabetting | mentat.ai | newest

1

Latest Chrome Canary build can run Gemini locally (twitter.com/mortenjust)

10 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

1

Do Alien Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem? [video] (youtube.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

1

Context chaching now available on Gemini APIs (twitter.com/officiallogank)

10 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

4

Generating Audio for Video (deepmind.google)

10 months ago | alphabetting | deepmind.google | newest

6

Apple supplier TDK claims solid-state battery breakthrough (ft.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | ft.com | frontpage

1

Driving Forward in Android Drivers (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | blogspot.com | newest

65

Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships (research.google)

10 months ago | alphabetting | research.google | best

2

Historical yearly trends in the usage of languages for websites (w3techs.com)

10 months ago | alphabetting | w3techs.com | newest

1

Real-time multimodal analysis using one 4090 and open-source paligemma (x.com)

11 months ago | alphabetting | x.com | newest

2

DeepMind releases exploratory framework for mitigating powerful AI risks [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)

11 months ago | alphabetting | googleapis.com | newest

3

CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (cat3d.github.io)

11 months ago | alphabetting | github.io | frontpage

1

DIY-Astra: Real-time video based AI assistant with TTS (twitter.com/skirano)

11 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

1

Recreating the Google Astra demo using Flash 1.5 and Eleven Labs for voice (twitter.com/skirano)

11 months ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

9

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures (wsj.com)

11 months ago | alphabetting | wsj.com | frontpage

2

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

11 months ago | alphabetting | reka.ai | newest

6

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

a year ago | alphabetting | blog.google | frontpage

62

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

a year ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | best

15

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

a year ago | alphabetting | justice.gov | frontpage

9

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

a year ago | alphabetting | blog.google | frontpage

0

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

a year ago | alphabetting | reuters.com | newest

175

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

a year ago | alphabetting | googleblog.com | best

4

The Decline of Hanging Out (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | theatlantic.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | googleapis.com | newest

5

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

a year ago | alphabetting | dartmouth.edu | newest

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | washingtonpost.com | newest

2

MusicFX (withgoogle.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | withgoogle.com | newest

3

ImageFX (withgoogle.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | withgoogle.com | frontpage

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | bloomberglaw.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | techcrunch.com | newest

4

Shaping the Future of Advanced Robotics (deepmind.google)

a year ago | alphabetting | deepmind.google | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | nytimes.com | newest

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | nytimes.com | newest

155

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

a year ago | alphabetting | theverge.com | best

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | roberthodgin.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | frontpage

1

MuJoCo 3 (github.com/google-deepmind)

a year ago | alphabetting | github.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | aboutamazon.com | newest

262

Pixel 8 Pro (store.google.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | best

5

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

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | hollywoodreporter.com | frontpage

1

Language Modeling Is Compression (arxiv.org)

a year ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

4

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

a year ago | alphabetting | nature.com | newest

25

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

a year ago | alphabetting | bloomberg.com | best

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | theindustry.pw | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | macrumors.com | frontpage

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | newest

6

Google Gemini Eats the World (semianalysis.com)

a year ago | alphabetting | semianalysis.com | frontpage

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | youtube.com | frontpage

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | ideogram.ai | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | security.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

3

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

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | github.io | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | blog.google | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | piratewires.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | curbed.com | newest

10

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

a year ago | alphabetting | coindesk.com | frontpage

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | arxiv.org | newest

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | ft.com | newest

7

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

a year ago | alphabetting | theatlantic.com | newest

4

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

a year ago | alphabetting | cnbc.com | frontpage

7

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

a year ago | alphabetting | scmp.com | frontpage

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | vox.com | newest

27

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

a year ago | alphabetting | reuters.com | frontpage

26

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

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | frontpage

2

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

a year ago | alphabetting | soundcloud.com | frontpage

1

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

a year ago | alphabetting | twitter.com | newest

5

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

a year ago | alphabetting | google.com | frontpage