top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-11-17

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

a year ago

5710 upvotes – 2531 comments

280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

a year ago

789 upvotes – 733 comments

Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/microsoft-openai-sam-altman-ouster

a year ago

697 upvotes – 247 comments

Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected

https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling.html

a year ago

565 upvotes – 437 comments

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife25/

a year ago

565 upvotes – 258 comments

Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

a year ago

441 upvotes – 202 comments

Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ethernet-ieee-milestone

a year ago

416 upvotes – 391 comments

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months

https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/

a year ago

380 upvotes – 250 comments

We Automated Bullshit

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit

a year ago

369 upvotes – 319 comments

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

a year ago

356 upvotes – 364 comments

Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/11/with-trillions-at-play-pentagon-fails-audit-for-sixth-year-in-a-row/

a year ago

344 upvotes – 267 comments

Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/real-estate-buying-home-charts-6dc40caa

a year ago

339 upvotes – 338 comments

De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-strip-bing-edge-other-microsoft-cruft-from-windows-11/

a year ago

316 upvotes – 340 comments

A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger

https://stranger.video/

a year ago

280 upvotes – 86 comments

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable

https://trstringer.com/oss-compensation-broken/

a year ago

253 upvotes – 396 comments

An automatic indexing system for Postgres

https://pganalyze.com/blog/automatic-indexing-system-postgres-pganalyze-indexing-engine

a year ago

243 upvotes – 45 comments

NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go

https://www.uber.com/en-NL/blog/nilaway-practical-nil-panic-detection-for-go/

a year ago

241 upvotes – 242 comments

Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/unauthorized-david-attenborough-ai-clone-narrates-developers-life-goes-viral/

a year ago

237 upvotes – 190 comments

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17wu2gz/google_confirms_they_will_disable_ublock_origin/

a year ago

233 upvotes – 162 comments

I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets

https://matan-h.com/analyze-stackoverflow

a year ago

223 upvotes – 80 comments
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