top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-05-04

Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

3 years ago

2455 upvotes – 1039 comments

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90

3 years ago

989 upvotes – 507 comments

So this guy is now S3. All of S3

https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

3 years ago

595 upvotes – 358 comments

Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ftc-says-facebook-violated-privacy-order-proposes-ban-on-monetizing-youth-data/

3 years ago

486 upvotes – 314 comments

The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park

https://outdoorstatus.com/articles/recreation-gov-lottery-fees/

3 years ago

465 upvotes – 262 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2021)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 202 comments

Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-05-03-mojo-launch.html

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 195 comments

EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users

https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/

3 years ago

364 upvotes – 192 comments

A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/nimitz-mansion-hidden-under-bay-bridge-17999245.php

3 years ago

352 upvotes – 147 comments

Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 505 comments

Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/googlers-angry-about-ceos-226m-pay-after-cuts-in-perks-and-12000-layoffs/

3 years ago

318 upvotes – 313 comments

Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/heavy-marijuana-use-increases-schizophrenia-in-men-study-finds

3 years ago

313 upvotes – 279 comments

Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF

https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 413 comments

America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan

https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/americas-first-high-volume-pfas-annihilator-is-up-and-running-in-west-michigan/

3 years ago

300 upvotes – 168 comments

How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed

https://pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patterns/

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 179 comments

Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-up-with-shrinking-savings-europeans-drain-billions-banks-2023-05-04/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 286 comments

Google employees complain about CEO's pay raise as cost cuts hit company

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/google-employees-complain-about-ceo-sundar-pichais-pay-raise.html

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 207 comments

Google Introduces Passkey Authentication

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-thanks-for-all-phish.html

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 166 comments

New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition

https://gizmodo.com/nyc-msg-facial-recognition-landlords-ban-law-hearing-1850401997

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 173 comments

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 83 comments
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