Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video]
Show HN: My open-world voxel game with a magic system, playable in the browser
Wildmagic is in early access. It’s playable, it’s growing, and buying now gets you everything that comes next. ✨ More Spells & Combos New ways to break things 🌍 New Biomes More places, more secrets ⚔ Tougher Rivals Smarter wizards who fight back harder 🌐 Multiplayer Shared worlds with friends
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
“An OkCupid spokeswoman said Clarifai contacted the company in 2014 ‘about collaborating to determine if they could build unbiased AI and facial recognition technology’ and that the dating site ‘did not enter into any commercial agreement then and ha[s] no relationship with them now.’ She did not address whether Clarifai had gained access to OkCupid’s […]
Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid
Customers are hoping that consumer protection laws will require Costco to refund money they paid due to tariffs. The proposed class includes “all persons in the United States who purchased goods from Costco during the period February 1, 2025, through February 24, 2026, that were subject to tariffs” that Donald Trump unlawfully imposed under the […]
Show HN: How This Graybeard Built the Fastest and Freest Postgres BM25 Search
Modern ranked text search for Postgres. Simple syntax: ORDER BY content ’search terms’ BM25 ranking with configurable parameters (k1, b) Works with Postgres text search configurations (english, french, german, etc.) Fast top-k queries via Block-Max WAND optimization Parallel index builds for large tables Supports partitioned tables Best in class performance and scalability 🚀 Status: v1.0.0 […]
Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
Cohere is announcing Transcribe, a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that is open source and available today for download. Speech is rapidly becoming a core modality for AI-enabled workloads and automations — from meeting transcription and speech analytics to real-time customer support agents. Our objective was straightforward: push the frontier of dedicated ASR model […]
Tell HN: Chrome says ”Suspicious Download” when trying to download yt-dlp
> Chrome itself is ”a tool to download files from Google’s servers.” …legitimately. While Google (I will reinforce: Google, not everyone) sees downloading of the videos and other content from the YouTube by third-party services as illegitimate because of YouTube’s ToS. After all, they’re making money from the YouTube Premium and ”Download” option provided by […]
GitHub Monaspace Case Study
The Monaspace superfamily contains five distinct typefaces, each with their own voice. Syntax highlighting, which in the past has relied on color and in some cases, bold or italics, now has an entirely separate dimension of emphasis to explore: typographic style. Our task was to satisfy all the constraints of making legible and successful monospace […]
Good code will still win
A couple of years ago, ”slop” became the popular shorthand for unwanted, mindlessly generated AI content flooding the internet including images, text, and spam. Simon Willison helped popularize the term, though it had been circulating in engineering communities in the years prior. At Greptile, we spend a lot of time thinking about questions like: Is […]
Zml-smi: universal monitoring tool for GPUs, TPUs and NPUs
zml-smi is a universal diagnostic and monitoring tool for GPUs, TPUs and NPUs. It provides real-time insights into the performance and health of your hardware. It is a mix between nvidia-smi and nvtop. It transparently supports all the platforms ZML supports. That is NVIDIA, AMD, Google TPU and AWS Trainium devices. It will be extended […]