top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-11-18

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

2 years ago

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/report-sutskever-led-board-coup-at-openai-that-ousted-altman-over-ai-safety-concerns/

2 years ago

Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378

2 years ago

Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559?s=20

2 years ago

Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2

2 years ago

Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/03/22/why-arent-motherboards-mostly-usb-c-by-now/

2 years ago

Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

2 years ago

New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

https://fortune.com/2023/11/16/new-york-may-ban-noncompete-employment-agreements-wall-street-not-happy-kathy-hochul/

2 years ago

Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/623358/wouldnt-charging-a-lithium-battery-to-80-only-defeat-the-purpose-of-putting-th

2 years ago

No "malfeasance" behind Sam Altman's firing, OpenAI memo says

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/openai-memo-altman-firing-malfeasance-communications-breakdown?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology

2 years ago

I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/11/18/i-disagree-with-geoff-hinton-regarding-glorified-autocomplete/

2 years ago

Berlin's indoor pools

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231116-the-hidden-beauty-of-berlins-indoor-pools

2 years ago

GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload

https://blog.gtk.org/2023/11/15/introducing-graphics-offload/

2 years ago

Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/lockheed-is-now-tracking-phones-and

2 years ago

SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/spacex-loses-starship-spaceraft-during-test-flight

2 years ago

Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive

https://deathbyai.gg

2 years ago

Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1725707548106580255

2 years ago

TV: Now What?

https://commonsware.com/blog/2023/11/18/tv-now-what.html

2 years ago

Coding Is Hard

https://duttakapil.com/posts/coding-is-hard

2 years ago

Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution

https://www.space.com/astronomy-light-pollution-streetlight-hack

2 years ago