Hacker News with Generative AI: Awards

xPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering (ieee.org)
The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, US $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal.

Climate Change, Science, Environmental Technology, Awards

31 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 7 comments

The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation (sydneyreviewofbooks.com)
International literary prizes and book reviews are increasingly acknowledging the importance of translated work. However, as Jennifer Lindsay argues, while translators themselves are receiving acclaim, their art remains largely underappreciated.

Translation, Literature, Publishing, Awards

31 points by Thevet 5 days ago | 26 comments

Seth Rogen's Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast (nytimes.com)
Organizers of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony, sometimes called the “Oscars of Science,” cut Seth Rogen’s jokes about President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, from the broadcast it posted on YouTube.

Celebrities, Politics, Censorship, Awards, Science

10 points by josefresco 9 days ago | 2 comments

Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It (kottke.org)
For the past 11 years, the Breakthrough Prize awards have “celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in gene editing, human diseases, the search for the fundamental laws of the Universe and pure mathematics”.

Celebrities, Censorship, Science, Awards

219 points by rendx 9 days ago | 52 comments

In Defense of the Rat (hakaimagazine.com)
Congratulations to J. B. MacKinnon for winning a Society of Environmental Journalists award for this article.

Animals, Journalism, Awards

48 points by ivm 27 days ago | 40 comments

Mathematician who reshaped theory of symmetry wins Abel Prize (nature.com)
Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today.

Mathematics, Awards, Science

3 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 0 comments

Mathematician who reshaped theory of symmetry wins Abel Prize (nature.com)
Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today.

Mathematics, Awards, Science

5 points by sohkamyung 31 days ago | 0 comments

Abel Prize Awarded to Japanese Mathematician Who Abstracted Abstractions (nytimes.com)
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in math. Dr. Kashiwara’s highly abstract work combined algebra, geometry and differential equations in surprising ways.

Mathematics, Awards, Japan, Algebra, Geometry

12 points by donohoe 31 days ago | 0 comments

Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Mgmt Sciences (wikipedia.org)
The Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences recognizes excellence in the execution of operations research on the organizational level.

Operations Research, Management Sciences, Awards, Business, Analytics

5 points by teleforce 31 days ago | 0 comments

300-year-old Polish beech voted Tree of the Year (bbc.co.uk)
The Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills, a breathtaking 300-year-old beech, has won Poland the European Tree of the Year award for the fourth consecutive time.

Poland, Trees, Awards, Nature, Europe

222 points by n1b0m 38 days ago | 61 comments

Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize (pritzkerprize.com)
Chicago, IL (March 4, 2025) – The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Liu Jiakun, of Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, as the 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.

Architecture, Awards, China

53 points by pseudolus 46 days ago | 39 comments

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award (awards.acm.org)
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

Artificial Intelligence, Awards, Computer Science

520 points by camlinke 52 days ago | 112 comments

A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars (stephenfollows.com)
Some see the Oscars as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a night of cinematic excellence that honours the best of the best.

Data Analysis, Film Industry, Awards, Oscars

168 points by PourquoiPas 58 days ago | 20 comments

Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019) (wired.com)
Kudos to the fans. One of the nominees for the Hugo Awards this year is Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction archive containing nearly 5 million fanworks—about the size of the English Wikipedia, and several years younger. It's not just the fanfic, fanart, fanvids, and other fanworks, impressive as they are, that make Archive of Our Own worthy of one of the biggest honors in science fiction and fantasy. It's also the architecture of the site itself.

Fanfiction, Science Fiction, Online Communities, Awards

122 points by Tomte 63 days ago | 87 comments

Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner? (bbc.com)
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.

Movies, History, Criticism, Awards

4 points by Tomte 74 days ago | 2 comments

Ada crate of the year 2024 announced (adacore.com)
In 2024 we announced our fourth Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards. We see the Alire source package manager as a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to use the Crate of the Year awards to honor the people contributing to the ecosystem. Today we are pleased to announce the results.

Awards, Software Development

106 points by LionelDraghi 76 days ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Apple Engineer Made Samaltmanprize.com (samaltmanprize.com)

Show HN, Apple, AI, Awards, Sam Altman

4 points by shayarma 101 days ago | 0 comments

PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (db-engines.com)
DB-Engines is today announcing that PostgreSQL is our DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall after also being top-ranked in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. Second in the rankings was Snowflake, followed by Microsoft in third place. PostgreSQL has emerged as the most popular database management system over the past year, outpacing all other 423 monitored systems.

Databases, Awards, PostgreSQL

263 points by plaur782 102 days ago | 106 comments

Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science (today.duke.edu)
Mathematician Ingrid Daubechies will receive the National Medal of Science, the highest possible recognition bestowed on scientists and engineers in the nation.

Mathematics, Science, Awards

185 points by sedtacet 105 days ago | 14 comments

2024 Shkreli Awards: Profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare (lowninstitute.org)
JANUARY 7, 2025 — Welcome to the 8th annual Shkreli Awards, the Lown Institute’s top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.

Healthcare, Awards, Profiteering, Dysfunction

13 points by kjhughes 108 days ago | 0 comments

Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced (theguardian.com)
The 2024 “winners” of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank.

Healthcare, Awards, United States, Profiteering

162 points by hkmaxpro 108 days ago | 103 comments

First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe (variety.com)
In a major upset, Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis‘ “Flow” won the Golden Globe for best animated feature on Sunday evening.

Animation, Awards, Film Industry, Latvia

296 points by jgilias 109 days ago | 49 comments

Harriet Tubman posthumously honored as brigadier general (harriettubmanbyway.org)
On Veterans Day, Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as a brigadier general by the Maryland National Guard.

Military, History, Awards, Harriet Tubman

5 points by handfuloflight 112 days ago | 0 comments

Andrew Ng on NeurIPS paper of the year (deeplearning.ai)
I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Awards, NeurIPS

5 points by highfrequency 119 days ago | 0 comments

International Bank Note Society (theibns.org)
The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has for the first time selected the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to receive its annual prestigious “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2023.

Awards, Banking, Currency, International Organizations

30 points by gone35 121 days ago | 7 comments

Konwinski Prize (andykonwinski.com)
Last night, I tweeted on stage at NeurIPS that I’ll give $1M to the open source AI that breaks 90% on a sweet new version of my favorite benchmark, SWE-bench. The competition is called the K Prize!

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Computer Science, Awards

146 points by tosh 133 days ago | 46 comments

Time magazine names Trump "Person of the Year 2024" (time.com)

Politics, News, Awards, United States

9 points by gniting 135 days ago | 5 comments

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners (rmg.co.uk)
The winner of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 16 has been revealed.

Astronomy, Photography, Awards

141 points by helsinkiandrew 136 days ago | 30 comments

Science Fiction Writer Ted Chiang Wins Pen/Malamud Prize (npr.org)
Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow.