Hacker News with Generative AI: Conferences

Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 (fosdem.org)
We were made aware of planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 in response to a scheduled talk which is causing controversy.
Protests, FOSDEM, Conferences, Open Source, Free Software
14 points by tledakis 1 day ago | 4 comments
No Billionares at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.
FOSDEM, Conferences, Technology, Billionaires
225 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 182 comments
Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area (sfstandard.com)
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, starting Monday in San Francisco, 8,000 insurance providers, pharma investors, and execs from Open AI, Amazon, and Meta will announce mergers, discuss advances in AI diagnostics and gene therapies, and puzzle over FDA scrutiny and compliance issues. But many of the sessions and “what’s next” debates will follow the Chatham House Rule — a gag order that prevents attendees from attributing information to speakers or sharing names or affiliations of other guests.
Healthcare, Conferences, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Business
132 points by mrry 6 days ago | 252 comments
BlinkenCity: From Art Project to Europe-Wide Blackout Scenario (positive.security)
At the [38c3 hacker conference](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/index.html), we [presented](https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/HSNZGR/) our “BlinkenCity” research, which **started as a fun art project idea**, and **ended up as a plausible European blackout scenario:**
Security, Cybersecurity, Art, Europe, Conferences
16 points by breakingsystems 8 days ago | 2 comments
The Life and Death of Htmx (unplannedobsolescence.com)
This past weekend, I gave a talk entitled “The Life & Death of htmx” at Big Sky Dev Con.
Web Development, JavaScript Frameworks, Open Source, Conferences
34 points by ksec 11 days ago | 2 comments
The existential threat against C++ – NDC TechTown 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
C++, Programming Languages, Conferences, Software Development, Tech Talks
5 points by ducaale 13 days ago | 0 comments
RailsConf 2025 will be the last gathering of its kind (rubycentral.org)
We are excited to officially announce that the final RailsConf will be taking place from Tuesday, July 8th to Thursday, July 10th, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. 🎉
Rails, Conferences
24 points by auvi 14 days ago | 11 comments
38C3: Illegal Instructions (media.ccc.de)
The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) takes place in Hamburg, 27.-30.12.2024, and is the 2024 edition of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers.
Technology, Conferences, Germany, Society
465 points by type0 20 days ago | 81 comments
EmacsConf 2024 Notes (sachachua.com)
The videos have been uploaded, thank-you notes have been sent, and the kiddo has decided to play a little Minecraft on her own, so now I get to write some quick notes on EmacsConf 2024.
Conferences, Emacs, Programming
340 points by JNRowe 21 days ago | 154 comments
CCC 2024 Videos Index (media.ccc.de)
Security, Conferences, Media
70 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 21 days ago | 11 comments
38C3: Illegal Instructions (media.ccc.de)
The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) takes place in Hamburg, 27.-30.12.2024, and is the 2024 edition of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers.
Technology, Society, Conferences, Germany
10 points by cookiengineer 21 days ago | 0 comments
38C3: Opening Ceremony [video] (media.ccc.de)
Glad you could make it! Take a seat and buckle up for a ride through four days of chaotic adventures.
38C3, Conferences, Technology, Video
10 points by doener 21 days ago | 14 comments
38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming (media.ccc.de)
38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
Streaming, Hackers, Conferences
18 points by ruik 22 days ago | 1 comments
38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
Cybersecurity, Conferences, Hacking
95 points by tannhaeuser 23 days ago | 4 comments
I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24 (kyunghyuncho.me)
Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Machine Learning
33 points by mooreds 24 days ago | 2 comments
38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) takes place in Hamburg on 27–30 Dec 2024, and is the 2024 edition of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers.
Technology, Society, Conferences, Germany, Hackers
353 points by joeig 25 days ago | 195 comments
Phrack 72 "40th Anniversary Edition" Call for Papers (phrack.org)
For the past 40 years, Phrack has been an outlet for hackers. A place for those who want to share knowledge, seek truth, find understanding, bridge gaps, celebrate culture, and of course, break spells.
Hacking, Security, Conferences, Community, History
83 points by keepamovin 25 days ago | 7 comments
Better Scala Builds with the Mill Build Tool, Functional Scala Online 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Scala, Programming, Tools, Functional Programming, Conferences
30 points by Ivoah 26 days ago | 4 comments
I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24 (kyunghyuncho.me)
Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Research, Machine Learning
201 points by wavelander 27 days ago | 133 comments
BugBash 2025: Software reliability conference (antithesis.com)
Find out on April 3-4, 2025 at a limited-seat tech conference at Yours Truly Hotel in Washington, D.C., organized by Antithesis. Industry legends will share their insights on building reliable software during DC's cherry blossom season.
Software Reliability, Conferences, Washington D.C.
11 points by wwilson 32 days ago | 1 comments
The Dawn of Formalized Mathematics (2021) (andrej.com)
Here are the slides of my talk "The dawn of formalized mathematics" from the 8th European Congress of Mathematics, which is taking place online and in Protorož, Slovenia, from June 20 to 26, 2021:
Mathematics, Conferences, Computer Science
5 points by fanf2 34 days ago | 0 comments
Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences (rubyvideo.dev)
On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
Ruby, Conferences, Community, Programming
289 points by faebi 34 days ago | 66 comments
In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape (jpcamara.com)
I was honored to present a talk on Ruby concurrency at RubyConf 2024. It represents a high-level distillation of much of my writing and research over the past year. The conference itself was great, and presenting was such a fun experience.
Ruby, Concurrency, Programming Languages, Conferences
166 points by chmaynard 34 days ago | 17 comments
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine (quantumfrontiers.com)
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here.
Quantum Computing, Conferences, Technology, Research
8 points by mathgenius 34 days ago | 0 comments
Pre-training as we know it will end: Sutskever at NeurIPS 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Pre-training, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Conferences
5 points by dsubburam 35 days ago | 0 comments
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video] (youtube.com)
OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Artificial Intelligence, AI Research, Conferences, Machine Learning
309 points by mfiguiere 35 days ago | 240 comments
Discover Code Beam: The Erlang and Elixir Conferences (elixirforum.com)
Programming, Conferences, Erlang, Elixir
6 points by unripe_syntax 37 days ago | 0 comments
The Google Willow Thing (scottaaronson.blog)
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should We Feel?” and also closing the conference via an Ask-Us-Anything session with John Preskill. (If you’re at Q2B, reader, come and say hi!)
Quantum Computing, Conferences, Google
763 points by Bootvis 38 days ago | 457 comments
"All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk (jgc.org)
As I've mentioned before my talk at the 2004 MIT Spam Conference was about using one machine learning system to beat another. In that case a spammer using machine learning to beat a machine learning spam filter.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Spam Filtering, Conferences
112 points by jgrahamc 40 days ago | 28 comments
EmacsConf 2024 (emacsconf.org)
EmacsConf 2024 | Online Conference December 7 and 8, 2024 (Sat-Sun)
Conferences, Emacs, Programming
148 points by hprotagonist 45 days ago | 9 comments