Hacker News with Generative AI: Awards

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 11 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 12 days ago | 65 comments

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

Show HN, Apple, AI, Awards, Sam Altman

4 points by shayarma 37 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 38 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 41 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 45 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 45 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 45 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 48 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 56 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 58 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 69 days ago | 46 comments

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

Politics, News, Awards, United States

9 points by gniting 71 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 72 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.

Science Fiction, Awards, Literature

59 points by pseudolus 75 days ago | 14 comments

Honda's award winning commercial "Cogs" [video] (youtube.com)

Honda, Advertising, Video, Awards

13 points by barrettondricka 76 days ago | 4 comments

Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report (arcprize.org)
The Grand Prize remains unclaimed.

Awards, Technology, Research

127 points by alphabetting 77 days ago | 56 comments

Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain (theguardian.com)
The World Beekeeping Awards will not award a prize for honey next year after warnings of widespread fraud in the global supply chain.

Beekeeping, Food Industry, Fraud, Awards, Supply Chain

203 points by a_w 83 days ago | 232 comments

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

110 points by sohkamyung 94 days ago | 15 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 101 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 105 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 124 days ago | 0 comments

Winners of the 2024 IFComp (ifcomp.org)

Games, Competition, Awards

30 points by mdom 124 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 134 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 134 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 135 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 136 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 136 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 140 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 155 days ago | 7 comments