Hacker News headlines

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Hhydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth (apnews.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | apnews.com | newest

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Joint venture with Intel unfavorable to TSMC: Expert (focustaiwan.tw)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | focustaiwan.tw | newest

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Less is more, discounts work: study looks at the minutiae of paywall strategy (niemanlab.org)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | newest

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How Paul Allen and Bill Gates Landed on the Idea for Microsoft (fortune.com)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | fortune.com | newest

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Campus attack 'worst mass shooting in Swedish history; around 10 people' killed (thejournal.ie)

3 months ago | giuliomagnifico | thejournal.ie | newest

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Music: Evolution across 4 centuries and 6 genres through network science (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | arxiv.org | newest

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Unsplash Now Accepts Illustrations (unsplash.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | unsplash.com | newest

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Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting "small town America" (niemanlab.org)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | frontpage

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The division between 'mental' and 'physical' illness fails us all (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | newest

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Ancient Romans Breathed in Enough Lead to Lower Their IQs (smithsonianmag.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The iconic macOS Dock has just turned 25 (9to5mac.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | 9to5mac.com | newest

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The new gray-area dollar in Venezuela is digital (elpais.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | elpais.com | newest

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This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive (ieee.org)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ieee.org | frontpage

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Substitute religions are reshaping the world (gisreportsonline.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | gisreportsonline.com | newest

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The Speed of Human Thought Is Far Slower Than the Average Wi-Fi, Study Suggests (smithsonianmag.com)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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How Many Minerals Do We Really Need for EV Batteries? (ucsusa.org)

4 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ucsusa.org | newest

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AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researcher warn (cam.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | cam.ac.uk | newest

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First open-source semiconductor-focused LLM (it claims new chips are 30% faster) (tomshardware.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | newest

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Why some people can get away with only a little sleep every night (pbs.org)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | pbs.org | frontpage

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Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously (digitalcameraworld.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | digitalcameraworld.com | best

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Building a backbone: scientists recreate the body's 'GPS system' in the lab (crick.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | crick.ac.uk | newest

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The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all (swissinfo.ch)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | swissinfo.ch | frontpage

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Italy fines OpenAI €15M after ChatGPT data privacy probe (euronews.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | euronews.com | newest

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Study: Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline (bmjgroup.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | bmjgroup.com | frontpage

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New US Space Force jammers aim to disrupt China's SATCOM signals (defensenews.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | defensenews.com | frontpage

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Bias in AI amplifies our own biases (ucl.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ucl.ac.uk | newest

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South Korea will introduce AI-based school textbooks in 2025 (koreatimes.co.kr)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | koreatimes.co.kr | newest

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[flagged] Infamous paper that popularized unproven Covid-19 treatment retracted (science.org)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | science.org | frontpage

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What Is a Bitcoin Address? (sprovoost.nl)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | sprovoost.nl | newest

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Researchers Demonstrate New Technique for Stealing AI Models (ncsu.edu)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ncsu.edu | newest

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Mp3.com launched December 17, 1997 (homeip.net)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

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Licensync: $1k for Listing a Podcast (podnews.net)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | podnews.net | newest

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Europe's innovation problem: Trying to regulate the future (gisreportsonline.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | gisreportsonline.com | newest

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Study: LLMs are prone to social identity biases similar to the way humans are (nyu.edu)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | nyu.edu | newest

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The Google/US Government Pacific Subsea Cable Power Play (subseacables.blogspot.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | blogspot.com | newest

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Researchers extend lithium metal battery lifespan by 750% using water (kaist.ac.kr)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | kaist.ac.kr | newest

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Microsoft enables file sharing between iPhone and Windows PCs (9to5mac.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | 9to5mac.com | newest

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Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor (scimex.org)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | scimex.org | best

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AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware (surrey.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | surrey.ac.uk | best

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Global ad market to surpass $1T for first time (axios.com)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | axios.com | newest

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Japan to use AI to tackle online manga and anime piracy (japantimes.co.jp)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | japantimes.co.jp | newest

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Original Sony Playstation: Audiophile CD Player Too? (homeip.net)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

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'Brutal' math test stumps AI but not human experts (science.org)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | science.org | newest

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Minimal proof that increased surveillance tech benefits mental health wards (ucl.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ucl.ac.uk | newest

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Scientists and engineers produce first carbon-14 diamond battery (bristol.ac.uk)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | bristol.ac.uk | newest

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Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images (utexas.edu)

5 months ago | giuliomagnifico | utexas.edu | frontpage

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Bluesky Quadruples Moderation Team (mindmatters.ai)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | mindmatters.ai | frontpage

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New US drones tested on Ukraine front line hailed as 'game changer' (newsweek.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | newsweek.com | newest

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Life-changing cream to treat skin cancer moves closer to reality (uq.edu.au)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | uq.edu.au | frontpage

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Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI (niemanlab.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | niemanlab.org | best

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TSMC starts equipment installation for 2nm fab, six months ahead of schedule (taipeitimes.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | taipeitimes.com | frontpage

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Hybrid Minds: the ethical-legal assessment of intelligent neuroprostheses (hybridminds.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | hybridminds.org | newest

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The Anonymous Woman Journalist Reporting Inside Taliban-Run Afghanistan (cjr.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | cjr.org | newest

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Taiwan gets slammed with 15,000 cyber attacks per second – 4X more than average (tomshardware.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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A Chinese lab claims it has created an MCU "invulnerable" to external attacks (scmp.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

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Courts in Buenos Aires are using ChatGPT to draft rulings (restofworld.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | restofworld.org | newest

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Three Nvidia customers have each spent $10B on chips this year (qz.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | qz.com | newest

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FCC launches first review of submarine cable rules since 2001 (totaltele.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | totaltele.com | newest

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I almost lost a Bitcoin wallet due to Blockchain.com (giuliomagnifico.blog)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | giuliomagnifico.blog | newest

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Web-browsing patterns reflect and shape mood and mental health (nature.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | nature.com | newest

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DeepMind AlphaQubit tackles quantum error detection with unprecedented accuracy (siliconangle.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | siliconangle.com | newest

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Shanghai court says crypto ownership legal under China law (scmp.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | scmp.com | newest

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Almost 4 in 10 U.S. adults under 30 get news from news influencers on socials (pewresearch.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | pewresearch.org | newest

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Nvidia's new server design hits a roadblock, AI chips overheating beyond control (firstpost.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | firstpost.com | newest

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Russia bans crypto mining in several regions to address electricity shortages (themoscowtimes.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | themoscowtimes.com | frontpage

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xAI has shifted all AI server orders from troubled Supermicro to Dell (tomshardware.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | newest

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The Website That Predicted AI (thehistoryoftheweb.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | thehistoryoftheweb.com | newest

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My trip on a zero-gravity flight with an ESA astronaut (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | newest

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North Korea's 4G is rolling out (plans and details) (dailynk.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | newest

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Chinese company trained GPT-4 rival with just 2k GPUs and $3M (tomshardware.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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Google removes EU-based news content as part of 'time-limited test' (euronews.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | euronews.com | newest

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Ancient youth offers insights into why the human brain matures slowly (science.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | science.org | newest

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The sound of silence: Japan's no-conversation services (japantimes.co.jp)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | japantimes.co.jp | newest

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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows (news.mit.edu)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | mit.edu | best

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A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C (science.org)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | science.org | frontpage

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How a South Korean company creates a virtual K-pop group and influencer (channelnewsasia.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | channelnewsasia.com | newest

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Dutch police attempt to solve sex worker murder case with hologram (euronews.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | euronews.com | newest

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Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them (cell.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | cell.com | best

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Harris won at TikTok but lost the election (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg (unige.ch)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | unige.ch | frontpage

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Blockchain-Backed Click App Reinvents Trust in Photojournalism (petapixel.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | petapixel.com | frontpage

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BiomedGPT: A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Biomedical Tasks (github.com/taokz)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | github.com | newest

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AMD overtook Intel for the first time in data center revenue in 3Q24 (twitter.com/skundojjala)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | twitter.com | frontpage

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Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world (subseacables.blogspot.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | blogspot.com | best

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Is convenience making our lives more difficult? (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | newest

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Commodore could have owned AOL (homeip.net)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | homeip.net | newest

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Export controls failed to keep cutting-edge AI chips from China's Huawei (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | washingtonpost.com | newest

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A rare look at North Korea's official smartphone apps (dailynk.com)

6 months ago | giuliomagnifico | dailynk.com | newest

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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete (ieee.org)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | ieee.org | newest

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Mexican TikTokers coded words to report on narco-violence without getting banned (restofworld.org)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | restofworld.org | frontpage

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First in-depth look at Elon Musk's 100k GPU AI cluster – xAI Colossus [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | youtube.com | newest

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Man who used AI to create child abuse images jailed for 18 years (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | theguardian.com | frontpage

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How digital voting works in Kenya (privacyinternational.org)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | privacyinternational.org | newest

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Distraction Free Writing with a modern touch: FreeWrite devices (goodereader.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | goodereader.com | newest

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GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs (economist.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | economist.com | newest

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the US is the science superpower – but for how long? (nature.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | nature.com | newest

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CISA proposes new security requirements to protect govt, personal data (bleepingcomputer.com)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | bleepingcomputer.com | newest

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Valve Founder Gabe Newell Turned 'Half-Life' into a Nearly $10B Fortune (forbes.com/sites/stephenpastis)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | forbes.com | newest

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Global internet freedom declined for the 14th consecutive year (freedomhouse.org)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | freedomhouse.org | newest

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Elon Musk's Twitter takeover triggered academic exodus, study suggests (psypost.org)

7 months ago | giuliomagnifico | psypost.org | newest