Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (September 02, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for September 02, 2023 :</p>
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Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
Summary: Wavacity is a web-based audio editor derived from Audacity, a free and open-source software under GNU GPL v2. It requires no installation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Audacity Team.
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Doug Lenat has died
Summary: AI pioneer Doug Lenat has passed away at the age of 73. Lenat was known for his groundbreaking work on symbolic AI and his 40-year project, Cyc, which aimed to codify common sense in machine-interpretable form. While Cyc didn't achieve commercial success, it remains an important experiment in the field of artificial general intelligence.
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