Hacker News with Generative AI: Awards

A silly science prize changed my career (nature.com)
A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work. Here’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes unwanted ‘honour’.

Science, Awards, Career, Humor

6 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 1 comments

Samantha Harvey's 'beautiful and ambitious' Orbital wins Booker prize (theguardian.com)
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, the only British writer shortlisted this year, has won the 2024 Booker prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for fiction.

Literature, Awards, United Kingdom

39 points by mitchbob 8 days ago | 10 comments

Vim Developer Bram Moolenaar Posthumously Receives the European SFS Award (fsfe.org)
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bolzano-Bozen (LUGBZ) posthumously honored Bram Moolenaar, creator of the widely used Vim text editor, with the European SFS Award at SFSCON 2024.

Free Software, Open Source, Awards, Programming, Vim

8 points by kirschner 13 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk given Rusty Razor pseudoscience award (skeptic.org.uk)
Twitter owner Elon Musk has today been named the 2024 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award, the prize given by The Skeptic to the year’s worst promoters of pseudoscience

Elon Musk, Pseudoscience, Awards, Skepticism

13 points by mikehall314 32 days ago | 0 comments

Winners of the 2024 IFComp (ifcomp.org)

Games, Competition, Awards

30 points by mdom 32 days ago | 2 comments

South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize (aljazeera.com)
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Literature, Nobel Prize, South Korea, Awards

70 points by ricardoplouis 42 days ago | 56 comments

Han Kang gets Nobel Prize in literature 2024 (theguardian.com)
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Literature, Awards, South Korea

5 points by PikelEmi 42 days ago | 0 comments

David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry (twitter.com)

Science, Awards, Chemistry, AI, Biology

7 points by ackbar03 43 days ago | 1 comments

Teacher Hannah Willow crowned as Glasgow's first tree-hugging champion (theguardian.com)
Hannah Willow had little doubt what she wanted. She wanted the glory of being crowned Glasgow’s first champion tree hugger. And she got it.

Environment, Glasgow, Awards, Competition

7 points by Tomte 43 days ago | 1 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] (nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Science, Nobel Prize, Awards

943 points by drpossum 44 days ago | 794 comments

Paul Milgrom, a Nobel and Emmy winner who became Google’s antitrust witness (semafor.com)
Just before Google wrapped up the recent three-week US antitrust trial, it called a star witness to the stand who has won a Nobel prize and an Emmy.

Antitrust, Google, Awards, Technology

20 points by paulpauper 48 days ago | 62 comments

Demographer's work debunking regions of exceptional lifespan wins Ig Nobel Prize (ucl.ac.uk)
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.

Demography, Science, Awards, Research, Longevity

45 points by _qua 62 days ago | 7 comments

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science (1996-2023) (jeffhuang.com)
This is a collection of best paper awards from conferences in each computer science subfield, starting from 1996.

Computer Science, Awards, Research, Conferences, History

4 points by cpeterso 66 days ago | 0 comments

The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (improbable.com)

Humor, Awards, Science

24 points by mfld 69 days ago | 7 comments

The winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes (arstechnica.com)
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think."

Science, Awards, Humor

36 points by dangle1 69 days ago | 5 comments

Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque (djmag.com)

Music, Beastie Boys, Awards

121 points by iancmceachern 91 days ago | 65 comments

2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced (thehugoawards.org)

Science Fiction, Awards, Literature

41 points by m463 93 days ago | 45 comments

Rands Useful App Awards 2024 (randsinrepose.com)

Awards, Software, Technology

3 points by herbertl 94 days ago | 0 comments

CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)