New top story on Hacker News: Kia recalls over 427K Telluride SUVs because they might roll away while parked

Kia recalls over 427K Telluride SUVs because they might roll away while parked
11 by blakeashleyjr | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Hayes' 'aggression' comment irresponsible - Eidevall

Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall says it was "irresponsible" of Chelsea's Emma Hayes to refer to him showing "male aggression".

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New top story on Hacker News: A. K. Dewdney has died

A. K. Dewdney has died
41 by schoen | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Going from CTO to Developer?

Ask HN: Going from CTO to Developer?
4 by thatguyagain | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Let's say you work as a CTO at a failing startup, and you are tired of all the responsibilities, management, etc, and you just want to go back to being a productive developer and write code again. Will this be perceived as a stupid career move or will people understand? Is it a bad move? Asking for a friend.

Trump posts video of truck showing hog-tied Biden

The Biden campaign condemns the video, accusing Donald Trump of "regularly inciting political violence".

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Olly Alexander rejects call to boycott Eurovision

More than 450 artists and groups urged the singer to pull out of the contest over the inclusion of Israel.

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Oppenheimer released in Japan - what do people in Hiroshima think?

The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil spoke with Hiroshima residents who saw the film for the first time today.

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Rees-Zammit lands NFL contract with Chiefs

Former Wales rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit joins back-to-back Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Renter reforms watered down after Tory concerns

Ministers propose changes after some MPs said they wanted more protections for landlords.

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Nolan and Thomas to receive knighthood and damehood

The pair have worked on a string of films and are being honoured for services to their industry.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH

Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH
11 by cosiiine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

Katie Price warns about 'damaging' plastic surgery

The model says women have cosmetic procedures younger than she did, and they all look like "aliens".

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Care worker migrant surge 'should've been obvious'

The former independent borders watchdog has criticised the Home Office's approach foreign care staff and airport security.

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Fritzl could never come to UK, says home secretary

James Cleverly responds to claims the Austrian sex offender would like to live in the UK if he is ever freed.

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New top story on Hacker News: For the Love of Cats in Turkey

For the Love of Cats in Turkey
29 by Caiero | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse DNS IPv4 Map

Reverse DNS IPv4 Map
3 by elisaado | 1 comments on Hacker News.

BBC Verify examines how the Moscow attack unfolded

More than a hundred people were killed in a packed concert venue in Moscow after gunmen opened fire.

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Ex-boss of Poundland owner dies from gunshot wound

Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.

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Nationwide payments back to normal after delays

The building society says the problem has now been resolved and a payment backlog has been cleared.

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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators

Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators
18 by kantthpel | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everyone! We’re Mark, Justin, and Diandre of Soundry AI ( https://soundry.ai/ ). We provide generative AI tools for musicians, including text-to-sound and infinite sample packs. We (Mark and Justin) started writing music together a few years ago but felt limited in our ability to create anything that we were proud of. Modern music production is highly technical and requires knowledge of sound design, tracking, arrangement, mixing, mastering, and digital signal processing. Even with our technical backgrounds (in AI and cloud computing respectively), we struggled to learn what we needed to know. The emergence of latent diffusion models was a turning point for us just like many others in tech. All of a sudden it was possible to leverage AI to create beautiful art. After meeting our cofounder Diandre (half of the DJ duo Bandlez and expert music producer), we formed a team to apply generative AI to music production. We began by focusing on generating music samples rather than full songs. Focusing on samples gave us several advantages, but the biggest one was the ability to build and train our custom models very quickly due to the small required length of the generated audio (typically 2-10 seconds). Conveniently, our early text-to-sample model also fit well within many existing music producers’ workflows which often involve heavy use of music samples. We ran into several challenges when creating our text-to-sound model. The first was that we began by training our latent transformer (similar to Open AI’s Sora) using off-the-shelf audio autoencoders (like Meta’s Encodec) and text embedders (like Google’s T5). The domain gap between the data used to train these off-the-shelf models and sample data was much greater than we expected, which caused us to incorrectly attribute blame for issues in the three model components (latent transformer, autoencoder, and embedder) during development. To see how musicians can use our text-to-sound generator to write music, you can see our text-to-sound demo below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3k4VV5yrs&ab_channel=Sound... The second issue we experienced was more on the product design side. When we spoke with our users in-depth we learned that novice music producers had no idea what to type into the prompt box, and expert music producers felt that our model’s output wasn’t always what they had in mind when they typed in their prompt. It turns out that text is much better at specifying the contents of visual art than music. This particular issue is what led us to our new product: the Infinite Sample Pack. The Infinite Sample Pack does something rather unconventional: prompting with audio rather than text. Rather than requiring you to type out a prompt and specify many parameters, all you need to do is click a button to receive new samples. Each time you select a sound, our system embeds “prompt samples” as input to our model which then creates infinite variations. By limiting the number of possible outputs we’re able to hide inference latency by pre-computing lots of samples ahead of time. This new approach has seen much wider adoption and so this month we’ll be opening the system up so that everyone can create Infinite Sample Packs of their very own! To compare the workflow of the two products, you can check out our new demo using the Infinite Sample Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYhGipZCDY&ab_channel=Sound... Overall, our founding principle is to start by asking the question: "what do musicians actually want?" Meta's open sourcing of MusicGen has resulted in many interchangeable text-to-music products, but ours is embraced by musicians. By constantly having an open dialog with our users we’ve been able to satisfy many needs including the ability to specify BPM and key, including one-shot instrument samples (so musicians can write their own melodies), and adding drag-and-drop support for digital audio workstations via our desktop app and VST. To hear some of the awesome songs made with our product, take a listen to our community showcases below! https://ift.tt/1gE5Art We hope you enjoy our tool, and look forward to discussion in the comments

New top story on Hacker News: Array Languages: R vs. APL

Array Languages: R vs. APL
6 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Premier League charges Leicester with spending breach

Leicester City are charged by the Premier League with allegedly breaking spending rules during their last three seasons in the top flight.

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Woman found with £2bn in Bitcoin convicted

Jian Wen, 42, from north London, was involved in converting Bitcoin into assets like luxury houses.

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Egg Freezing and Me

Inside the world of one of the fastest growing fertility treatments in the UK.

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Katie Price declared bankrupt for second time

The model has been declared bankrupt by a High Court judge over a "substantial" unpaid tax bill.

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How a WhatsApp group helped save trafficked women

How 54 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions were rescued.

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New top story on Hacker News: DuckDB in Action

DuckDB in Action
12 by tosh | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Interactive Smartlog VSCode Extension – An Interactive Git GUI

Show HN: Interactive Smartlog VSCode Extension – An Interactive Git GUI
13 by tnesbitt210 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Interactive Smartlog is a graphical VSCode extension that presents a simplified view of the Git log, directly highlighting the branches and commits that are most relevant to your current work. And it's not just a visual tool — it's fully interactive, allowing you to add/switch/remove branches, stage/unstage files, and manage commits directly from the GUI. This tool draws inspiration from Meta's Interactive Smartlog built for the Sapling source control system, and I've adapted it to work with Git. Transitioning the functionality from Sapling to Git wasn't just about a one-to-one feature transfer; it involved changing how data is queried & presented, as well as introducing UI interactions for several Git concepts (like branches, staging/unstaging changes, etc) which are not present in the Sapling source control system. Originally a personal project to enhance my own workflow, I've published the extension on the VSCode marketplace for anyone who would like to use it. I'm keen to hear your feedback and suggestions, as community input is invaluable in shaping its future updates.

Bear bounds past cars in latest Slovakia attack

A 49-year-old woman and 72-year-old man are hospitalised during the attack in Liptovský Mikuláš.

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New top story on Hacker News: How to Play Renju

How to Play Renju
8 by fsnowdin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Siege after US gunman kills three in Pennsylvania

Police are at the scene in New Jersey after a suspect shot dead three people in nearby Falls Township.

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Putin's Russia: An election without democracy?

Voting begins in Russian election which Putin is bound to win

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Elon Musk's Starship goes 'farther than ever'

The world's most powerful rocket makes a huge leap in progress in its third test flight.

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PM: Tory donor’s alleged Diane Abbott comments are “racist”

A spokesperson for the PM released the statement late on Tuesday.

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New top story on Hacker News: The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times (2006)

The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times (2006)
2 by perihelions | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Prince William attends Thomas Kingston's funeral

The Prince of Wales joined Lady Gabriella Kingston, daughter of the Duke of Kent, for the private funeral.

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The gangsters and rebels jostling over power in Haiti

Haiti's prime minister has been forced to resign as gang violence surged - so who stands to gain?

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New top story on Hacker News: Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?

Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?
17 by arthurdelerue | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I am really puzzled by TPUs. I've been reading everywhere that TPUs are powerful and a great alternative to NVIDIA. I have been playing with TPUs for a couple of months now, and to be honest I don't understand how can people use them in production for inference: - almost no resources online showing how to run modern generative models like Mistral, Yi 34B, etc. on TPUs - poor compatibility between JAX and Pytorch - very hard to understand the memory consumption of the TPU chips (no nvidia-smi equivalent) - rotating IP addresses on TPU VMs - almost impossible to get my hands on a TPU v5 Is it only me? Or did I miss something? I totally understand that TPUs can be useful for training though.

Is pressure on Kate after photo chaos unfair?

Rather than killing off the media gossip, the edited picture of the Princess of Wales and her children has ended with the media killing off the photo.

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New top story on Hacker News: A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]

A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]
3 by bookofjoe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult (2018) [pdf]

Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult (2018) [pdf]
3 by tosh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Israel's president faces Gaza protest at Holocaust museum

Protesters calling for a ceasefire shouted slogans at the opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam.

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The Biggest Political Gossip of the Week?

And why are some cabinet members criticising the budget?

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: My first software project – a website to set goals and track progress

Show HN: My first software project – a website to set goals and track progress
3 by eastoeast | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Two years ago, I started building this site that allows people to document their learning and progress in real time. The idea is: as you learn new things, you document your progress piece by piece, creating a collection of failures, breakthroughs, and knowledge. Along the way, your friends can cheer you on, and the community can give you tips and feedback. Over time, we'll create a public collection on how different problems were solved. With each progress, the site prompts you to reflect on questions like, "If you could go back in time, what do you wish you had known?" This was my first web dev project, and everything was self-taught. It's been both a great passion and a significant learning experience! All feedback is welcome, big or small. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Stack: Angular, Python/Postgres, AWS, PWA service workers for notifications.

Sunak's mother-in-law to sit in India's parliament

Sudha Murthy says it was a "pleasant surprise" to be appointed to the upper house for a six-year term.

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Images show N Korea sealing its border with China

Guard posts along a stretch of the northern border have increased from fewer than 40 to 6,500.

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More than 100 pupils abducted by Nigeria gunmen

Dozens of gunmen ride through the school seizing children as young as eight, witnesses say.

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Guy Ritchie reimagines The Gentlemen for Netflix series

Ray Winstone and Giancarlo Esposito are among the stars of a new TV adaptation of the 2019 film.

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New top story on Hacker News: A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry
9 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

'Completely original' playwright Edward Bond dies

The British writer, known for controversial works that helped overturn theatre censorship, was 89.

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New top story on Hacker News: New Signal Usernames Help Stymie Subpoenas, Data Privacy

New Signal Usernames Help Stymie Subpoenas, Data Privacy
4 by georgecmu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

France makes abortion constitutional right

France becomes the first country to explicitly include the right to terminate a pregnancy in its constitution.

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Hunt: Childcare plan on track but no guarantees

The chancellor says he is confident an expansion of free childcare will be delivered as planned.

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Russia says 38 Ukrainian drones intercepted in Crimea

Reports say a fuel depot was hit during the attack on the town of Feodosiya on the occupied peninsula.

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New top story on Hacker News: Implementing RSA in Python from Scratch

Implementing RSA in Python from Scratch
14 by SudoSH | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]

Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]
10 by magnio | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Russia publishes German army meeting on Ukraine

German chancellor promises probe after leak of officers discussing the supply of long-range missiles.

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)
18 by whoishiring | 74 comments on Hacker News.
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Jools 'can't believe' he's finally hit number one

"I shall be celebrating tonight," says Jools Holland after topping the album chart with Rod Stewart.

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