frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/supreme-court-trump-administration.html
1•mitchbob•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game

https://playwhittle.com/
2•babel16•1m ago•0 comments

Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

https://marimo.io/blog/dataflow
1•akshayka•2m ago•0 comments

Neanderthals likely ate fermented meat with a side of maggots

https://theconversation.com/neanderthals-likely-ate-fermented-meat-with-a-side-of-maggots-261628
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Watch Out for Vishing

1•titusblair•3m ago•0 comments

Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

https://mintlify.com/blog/debugging-a-mysterious-http-streaming-issue-when-cloudflare-compression-breaks-everything
1•skeptrune•3m ago•0 comments

GPT-OSS-120B Lisp interpreter in Go

https://gist.github.com/intellectronica/5459ec0b6afc21f78e03691640095c93
1•intellectronica•4m ago•0 comments

D-Wave's open-source toolkit integrates quantum computing into AI training

https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/d-wave-releases-open-source-toolkit-integrate-quantum-computing-ai-training/
1•giuliomagnifico•6m ago•0 comments

Hedge Funds Meet with Companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-08-05/hedge-funds-meet-with-companies
2•ioblomov•8m ago•1 comments

What can India do to industrialize?

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-can-india-do-to-industrialize
1•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

OpenAI releases its first open source models since 2019

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/openai-releases-its-first-open-source-models-since-2019/
2•m463•8m ago•1 comments

OpenAI's New Open Models Accelerated Locally on Nvidia GeForce RTX

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-openai-oss/
2•0x79de•9m ago•0 comments

John Henry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
1•mathattack•10m ago•0 comments

TikTok Videos About 'Clankers', a New Slur for Robots

https://gizmodo.com/15-tiktok-videos-about-clankers-a-new-slur-for-robots-2000638817
3•Bluestein•10m ago•1 comments

AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ai-is-listening-to-your-meetings-watch-what-you-say/ar-AA1JUaDQ
2•m463•10m ago•0 comments

Grieving for Art at the End of the World

https://www.criticalconstruct.com/p/grieving-for-art-at-the-end-of-the-world
1•Anon84•14m ago•0 comments

Soft drinks can affect communication of gut bacteria and immune system

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-soft-affect-communication-gut-bacteria.html
2•PaulHoule•14m ago•0 comments

Our smalll team vs millions of bots

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•15m ago•0 comments

A complete and dynamic tree of birds

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409658122
2•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-Source AI Assistant in Your Inbox. No Apps. No Login. Just Email

https://www.cruso.app/
1•wizenheimer•16m ago•1 comments

Is Universal Basic Income Effective? Not Really

https://www.city-journal.org/article/universal-basic-income-costs-jobs-work
4•Bostonian•16m ago•1 comments

Beast X: Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees

https://beast.community/
1•bryanrasmussen•17m ago•0 comments

Rod Burstall: In Memoriam

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06456
3•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

The Markdown Monster

https://git.sr.ht/~xigoi/markdown-monster/blob/master/monster.md
3•davikr•17m ago•1 comments

FliiipBook – A simple GIF animation app for the web

https://www.fliiipbook.com/
2•eustoria•18m ago•0 comments

New report shows more wealthy residents in MA, 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-institute-policy-studies-newsletter
4•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Fast-moving wildfires burn nearly 21,000 acres across northwestern Colorado

https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/05/elk-lee-fire-meeker-northwestern-colorado/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Australia Time Zone Map – Live Clock

https://time-time.net/times/time-zones/oceania/australia-time-zone-map.php
1•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

Grand Canyon Fossils Reveal Evolution's Weird Experiments

https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-grand-canyon-fossils-reveal-evolutions-weird-experiments
2•gmays•22m ago•0 comments

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/39
3•marklit•22m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Eleven Music Is Here

https://elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-music-is-here
50•meetpateltech•1h ago

Comments

abdullahkhalids•49m ago
OT: Has anyone tried the opposite - ask AI to listen to music and determine the notes or chords being played? Or watch someone playing an instrument and give a textual output of what notes/chords they are playing.
thepryz•26m ago
There’s a ton. Haven’t used any personally. AnthemScore, ScoreCloud, Melody Scanner are just a few I found after a quick search.
magicmicah85•23m ago
I would love this! There's a song I like by a band that broke up in 2013 and I am transcribing it by watching a live performance they did and trying my best but realizing I'm trying to take a mandolin/guitar and put it to acoustic. Even just being able to do a similar rendition would be nice by telling the AI "hey, do a twist on this and give me the chords/tabs".
sorrythanks•19m ago
what's the song??
magicmicah85•11m ago
It's called Ark in a Flood by Churchill. There's the studio recorded version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBHxWrXQT8

And then I found this live version here that I'm studying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPQZsp59szo

neonnoodle•22m ago
No, that would be useful, and as such AI is incapable of doing it.
KerrAvon•11m ago
LLMs can do this well, though, and there are such. They weren't calling themselves AI when I last looked a couple of years ago, but I'll bet any of them looking for VC money have rebranded since.
bigfishrunning•39m ago
Having a machine-learning algorithm crank out generic music seems like peak dystopia to me
thepryz•39m ago
Maybe I’m a Luddite, but this seems like it will just lead to music becoming superficial and lacking intentionality, or dare I say it, soul.
crazydoggers•38m ago
I think you just described pop music
thepryz•34m ago
It’s easy and popular to hate on pop music, but even pop music has value and requires a certain skill to understand what resonates with people.

This is taking a monkeys on a typewriter approach to all music. Click a button, see what the monkeys made and then click another button to publish to Spotify while you figure out a way to either market the music or just game search and digital assistants by creating an artist with a similar or slightly misspelled name as someone popular. Rinse and repeat.

darth_avocado•20m ago
A lot of criticism of AI in music seems to be around the lack of originality and it being generic slop. But unfortunately that’s true for pretty much the entire music industry. Handful of people write songs for all the artists, “artists” don’t create the songs as much as they perform them, most of the music isn’t created but rather sampled or is “inspired” by other music and pretty much most of the artists sound like other artists.

Yes there are smaller creators who are trying to make something net new, but unfortunately 99.9% of the small artists are also derivative and lack originality.

I see AI music as just continuation of the sad state of the industry at the moment. Hopefully it accelerates the demise of the industry as we know it and restarts the cycle of creation.

feoren•10m ago
None of that is new, but there were ways for the genuinely new, inspired, and genius to actually shine through before. It was hard, but possible. Humanity is making decisions that make that even harder: AI music, Spotify's revenue model, etc. They're all to the benefit of cookie-cutter slop (AI or human-made) over creativity.

This wouldn't necessarily be a problem as long as people were still free to create on their own. But instead, everyone is forced to spend more hours in menial bullshit jobs for less and less (relative) pay just to survive. Give everyone enough resources to live at least a simple life, and both human creativity and AI creativity can blossom at the same time. But of course that means fewer yachts and hookers and drugs for the billionaires, so it is verboten.

mixologic•32m ago
Well, so much for culture. Every use case where you can plausibly use AI generated music removes one more method that provided an avenue to a reasonable career making music.
static_void•10m ago
But at least there are jobs in tech!

Oh wait.

recursive•32m ago
> Studio-grade

The vocals are definitely not that.

two-sandwich•31m ago
If you consider that Entertainment gives the viewer what they want, and art intends to challenge, none of what's created here is "art". It doesn't push boundaries, create new genres, or satisfy an uncomfortable curiosity.

The tech here is fantastic. I love that such things are possible now and they're an exciting frontier in creation.

It's very dystopian to feel that the robots are making generic human-music with indescribably lifeless properties. I'm not an artist, so I don't feel personally attacked. Much like image gen, this seems to be aimed at replacing the bare-minimum artist (visual or auditory) with a "fill in the blanks" entertainment piece.

paxys•19m ago
Tech is tech. What you create with the tech can be art.
bix6•16m ago
These feels different than experimenting with a new synth or something though. It’s just feeding a sentence to the model.
altruios•7m ago
'Just' is a loaded word here.

In image gen: comfyUI gives a node-based workflow that gives a lot of room for 'creative' control, of mixing, and mathematically combining masks, filters, and prompts (and starting images / noise {at any node in that process}).

I would expect the same interface for audio to emerge for 'power users'.

kelseyfrog•10m ago
Art is a framing device largely independent of the content. It's how we get Fountain[1], Piss Christ[2], Comedian[3], Mother![4], 4’33”[5], and Seedbed[6] to name a few among countless others. To claim that AI content is incapable of being framed as art is nonsense when we have example after example of the diversity of what art can be. Let's remember, bad art is still art.

1. Marcel Duchamp. 1917

2. Andres Serrano. 1987

3. Maurizio Cattelan. 2019

4. Darren Aronofsky. 2017

5. John Cage. 1952

6. Vito Acconci. 1972

hudo•31m ago
AI is great, I can see it benefit so many industries, except music. There's something profoundly wrong with AI generated music.
amradio1989•22m ago
I could be wrong, but I think the use case here is mainly for non-artists in domains where the music is not particularly important.

For example, a podcaster/youtuber may want a short intro track. An entertainer or a marketer may want some generic or silly background music.

Does it have a use case for a producer/musician? Maybe. It might give them ideas for chord progressions, melodies, etc. But real music does that too, and much more effectively.

bigbuppo•18m ago
Well, they've done it boys, they've made creative fulfillment obsolete. They've DISRUPTED the concept of going to big music festivals, and small cozy shows. Just plug your ear holes with the AI slop bucket's pure beeps and boops and never have to worry again about paying artists for music. You can pay a techbro instead.

This is like the dotcom era of where every idiotic idea that ended with, "but on the internet", would get a pile of cash thrown at it. We are officially at the beginning of the end. It's only going to get dumber from here.

everfrustrated•14m ago
Finally non-repeating muzak is here
RyanOD•14m ago
I'm dreading the day I discover a new "band" I'm totally into only to discover it's entirely AI.
artninja1988•14m ago
The context length seems super small. The prompt needs to be shorter than 2k characters, which is super limiting. Hope they address this soon.
65•13m ago
Yet Another Slop Machine™
yanis_t•12m ago
Did anyone compared to Suno quality wise? Seems like one benefit being the API availability
wturner•11m ago
Write a song about the billionaire social engineer Peter Thiel getting robbed and murdered by a broke minimum wage worker with no healthcare.

"That is not allowed by our terms of service"

I think the rebellious nature of art inherently has boundaries these people won't cross.

pr337h4m•9m ago
This could be repurposed for really good stylistic search for music (similar to how CLIP powered stylistic search for images on same.energy)
Oceoss•7m ago
I've been waiting for this AI development for a while

It's amazing that the songs sound pretty natural

jp1016•6m ago
lot of ai progress today, open ai, claude and now eleven labs