hackernews 1 year ago

Comparing desktop development tools, Qt, Electron and macOS Native Comments (

Comparing desktop development tools, Qt, Electron and macOS Native | Hacker News

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BumbleMeow Tech Talk

Tutorials and other information about mobile game development, Godot Engine, and other technical topics

hackernews 1 year ago

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties Comments (

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Futurism

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

An ML researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies linked to OpenAI in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses.

hackernews 1 year ago

The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape Comments (

The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape | Hacker News

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The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape

What the **** does that mean?

hackernews 1 year ago

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50% Comments (

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50% | Hacker News

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June 2024 pricing update for Instant Payouts for businesses in the United States : Stripe: Help & Support

With Instant Payouts, Stripe lets you access your funds and pay them out to your bank account or debit card immediately. Starting June 1, 2024, the…

hackernews 1 year ago

Scientists Confirm Microplastics Now Detected in Human Testicles Comments (

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ScienceAlert

Scientists Confirm Microplastics Now Detected in Human Testicles

We can now add testicles to the list of places where microplastics have managed to spread – alongside human placentas, ancient rocks, clogged art...

hackernews 1 year ago

Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by an Accounting Fraud Comments (

Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020) | Hacker News

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VICE

How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud

Sierra was one of the biggest game publishers of the 90s. Then they got an offer that was way too good to be true, but too good to decline.

hackernews 1 year ago

Dual Antibacterial Properties of Copper-Coated Nanotextured Stainless Steel Comments (

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) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202311546

hackernews 1 year ago

Restoring an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit "DTK" Mac Mini [video] Comments (

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hackernews 1 year ago

Enthusiast gets Windows XP running on an i486 Comments (

Enthusiast gets Windows XP running on an i486 | Hacker News

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Tom

Enthusiast gets Windows XP running on an i486 — merging two dinosaurs from different eras

Modded Windows Xp SP3 ISO (German) available on Archive.org.

hackernews 1 year ago

Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R Comments (

Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R | Hacker News

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Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R

Tackling problematic spreadsheets

hackernews 1 year ago

SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit Comments (

SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit | Hacker News

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X (formerly Twitter)

Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) on X

The Q1 Launch Report just came out. SpaceX has grown to 87% of the world's tonnage to orbit, a new high. The graph uses a magnifying projection to ...

hackernews 1 year ago

City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System Comments (

City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System | Hacker News

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City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System – Killed By A Pixel

hackernews 1 year ago

Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky Comments (

Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky | Hacker News

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X (formerly Twitter)

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) on X

NEWS Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI. I have confirmed its authenticity directly with her publicist. "Last Septem...

hackernews 1 year ago

Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial Comments (

Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial | Hacker News

) https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-cuts-mystery-check-us-bid-sidestep-jury-trial-2024-05-20/

hackernews 1 year ago

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice Comments (

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice | Hacker News

) https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

hackernews 1 year ago

Colorless green DNNs sleep furiously in an unexplainable fantasy Comments (

Colorless green DNNs sleep furiously in an unexplainable fantasy | Hacker News

) https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/when-colorless-green-dnns-sleep-furiously-in-an-unexplainable-fantasy/

hackernews 1 year ago

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice Comments (

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice | Hacker News

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X (formerly Twitter)

Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) on X

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

hackernews 1 year ago

UK to introduce new offence of causing death or injury by dangerous cycling Comments (

UK to introduce new offence of causing death or injury by dangerous cycling | Hacker News

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the Guardian

UK to introduce new offence of causing death or injury by dangerous cycling

Law change not ‘anti-cycling’ says Iain Duncan Smith, who brought the amendment to the criminal justice bill

hackernews 1 year ago

FBI Arrests Man for Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery Comments (

FBI Arrests Man for Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | Hacker News

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404 Media

FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” pros...

hackernews 1 year ago

Truth Social losses $300M on Q1 Comments (

Truth Social losses $300M on Q1 | Hacker News

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Trump Media: Q1 Revenue of $770,500 and Net Loss of $327.6 Million

Trump Media and Technology Group reported $770,500 in revenue for the first quarter of 2024 and a net loss of $327.6 million.