HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com)

3647 points by davidbarker on Feb 15, 2024 | 2231 comments

2.

Airfoil (ciechanow.ski)

2544 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 27, 2024 | 296 comments

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I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner (willempennings.nl)

2460 points by dutchkiwifruit on Feb 11, 2024 | 377 comments

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Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site (old.reddit.com)

1783 points by laubonghaudoi on Feb 27, 2024 | 798 comments

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Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished (troyhunt.com)

1723 points by ahonhn on Feb 23, 2024 | 564 comments

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European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption (eureporter.co)

1673 points by robtherobber on Feb 14, 2024 | 258 comments

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Alexei Navalny has died (reuters.com)

1641 points by 0xdeafbeef on Feb 16, 2024 | 1541 comments

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Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (effectiviology.com)

1620 points by walterbell on Feb 24, 2024 | 1126 comments

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Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero (saveflipper.ca)

1496 points by pabs3 on Feb 21, 2024 | 878 comments

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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (signal.org)

1422 points by Josely on Feb 20, 2024 | 872 comments

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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll (scrollprize.org)

1374 points by amrrs on Feb 5, 2024 | 215 comments

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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 (blog.google)

1244 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 15, 2024 | 588 comments

13.

Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret (cep.dev)

1181 points by slyall on Feb 9, 2024 | 626 comments

14.

Is something bugging you? (antithesis.com)

1179 points by wwilson on Feb 13, 2024 | 417 comments

15.

FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal (fcc.gov)

1156 points by ortusdux on Feb 8, 2024 | 674 comments

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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input (simonwillison.net)

1136 points by simonw on Feb 21, 2024 | 484 comments

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Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork (mailman.nginx.org)

1131 points by bkallus on Feb 14, 2024 | 475 comments

18.

Gemma: New Open Models (blog.google)

1129 points by meetpateltech on Feb 21, 2024 | 509 comments

19.

GPT in 500 Lines of SQL (explainextended.com)

1111 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 | 76 comments

20.

Relativistic Spaceship (dmytry.github.io)

1085 points by thunderbong on Feb 5, 2024 | 485 comments

21.

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial (blog.cloudflare.com)

1074 points by jgrahamc on Feb 12, 2024 | 410 comments

22.

John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died (scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)

1072 points by jdougan on Feb 8, 2024 | 227 comments

23.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)

1071 points by mtlynch on Feb 16, 2024 | 321 comments

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AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source (phoronix.com)

1045 points by mfiguiere on Feb 12, 2024 | 410 comments

25.

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing (arxiv.org)

1040 points by fgfm on Feb 28, 2024 | 447 comments

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)