top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-05-01

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

2 years ago

1008 upvotes – 1202 comments

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical

https://prism-break.org/en/

2 years ago

707 upvotes – 273 comments

Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

https://krita.org/en/

2 years ago

643 upvotes – 232 comments

JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23034.html

2 years ago

554 upvotes – 541 comments

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]

https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf

2 years ago

521 upvotes – 36 comments

Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

https://www.michaeljfox.org/publication/michael-j-fox-foundation-announces-significant-breakthrough-search-parkinsons-biomarker

2 years ago

495 upvotes – 184 comments

A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/a-bacterial-culprit-for-rheumatoid-arthritis-71088

2 years ago

431 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773707

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 510 comments

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311/hinton-godfather-of-ai-threats-fears-warnings

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 7 comments

Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

https://apnews.com/article/germany-public-transit-cheap-ticket-trains-metro-3d83f1a35ab8e3945b8034b9bd511c29

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 393 comments

First clean water, now clean air

https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 146 comments

GradIEEEnt half decent

http://tom7.org/grad/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 31 comments

Storage on Vercel

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 139 comments

I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing

https://evhaste.com/blog/silenced-no-more

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 174 comments

Vacations in the Soviet Union

https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 406 comments

Heathkit

https://shop.heathkit.com/shop

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 81 comments

The web’s most important decision

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/the-webs-most-important-decision/

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 102 comments

Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 31 comments

Yurt Calculator

https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=1#Yurt%20Calculator

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 88 comments

Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/apr/27/ignore-microsoft-whines-activision-blizzard-the-cma-did-its-job

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 202 comments
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