Hacker News with Generative AI: Awards

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 3 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 5 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 7 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 8 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 8 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 14 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 23 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 29 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 35 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 40 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 51 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 52 days ago | 65 comments

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

Show HN, Apple, AI, Awards, Sam Altman

4 points by shayarma 78 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 79 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 82 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 85 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 85 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 86 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 88 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 96 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 98 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 110 days ago | 46 comments

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

Politics, News, Awards, United States

9 points by gniting 112 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 113 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 115 days ago | 14 comments

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

Honda, Advertising, Video, Awards

13 points by barrettondricka 116 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 117 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 123 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 135 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 141 days ago | 10 comments