top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-18

Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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

2 years ago

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

Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI

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

2 years ago

Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection

https://frigate.video/

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

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

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

https://deathbyai.gg

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

Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

https://uneebee.com

2 years ago

I Hacked the Magic Mouse

https://uplab.pro/2023/11/i-hacked-the-magic-mouse/

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

Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?

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

2 years ago

Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

https://nautil.us/cryptographers-solve-decades-old-privacy-problem-444899/

2 years ago

Berkeley Mono Typeface

https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/

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

Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen

2 years ago

GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload

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

2 years ago

Berlin's indoor pools

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

2 years ago

Greg (2017)

https://blog.samaltman.com/greg

2 years ago

An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th

https://www.universetoday.com/164299/an-asteroid-will-occult-betelgeuse-on-december-12th/

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

Kara Swisher: there will be more departures of top folks at OpenAI tonight

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028

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

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

Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson's across various lab models

https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/nanoplastics-promote-conditions-parkinsons-across-various-lab-models

2 years ago

Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country

https://www.volunteer.gov/s/

2 years ago

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman Joint Statement

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594

2 years ago

Surveillance Tech Write Press Releases for Cops; News Agencies Are Publishing It

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/17/surveillance-tech-companies-are-writing-press-releases-for-cops-worse-news-agencies-are-publishing-them/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38319543

2 years ago

OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/

2 years ago

Google is embedding inaudible watermarks into its AI generated music

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963607/google-deepmind-synthid-audio-watermarks

2 years ago

Yuzu Progress Report October 2023

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-oct-2023/

2 years ago

Altman was raising billions from Middle East sovereign funds for AI chip startup

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1725945364140986796?s=20

2 years ago

Parental controls? What parental controls?

https://gabrielsieben.tech/2023/11/15/parental-controls-are-unusable-and-its-why-congress-is-stepping-in/

2 years ago

LMAX Disruptor – High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

2 years ago

Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/11/perovskite-solar-cell-efficiency-record/

2 years ago

Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More

https://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/parprocbook

2 years ago

Rogue superintelligence: Inside the mind of OpenAI's chief scientist

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/26/1082398/exclusive-ilya-sutskever-openais-chief-scientist-on-his-hopes-and-fears-for-the-future-of-ai/

2 years ago

Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman's hot plate

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forgotten-268-million-cimabue-painting-found-in-an-elderly-womans-home-heads-to-the-louvre-180983280/

2 years ago

Coding Is Hard

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

2 years ago

A software epiphany

https://johnwhiles.com/posts/programming-as-theory

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Our structure

https://openai.com/our-structure

2 years ago

Board Members (2014)

https://blog.samaltman.com/board-members

2 years ago

A homeless man built a life underground Hampstead Heath (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath

2 years ago

Teddy Roosevelt pursues the boat thieves (2015)

https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/roosevelt-pursues-boat-thieves.htm

2 years ago

Julia as a unifying end-to-end workflow language on the Frontier exascale system

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10292

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

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

Text adventure ported to social media

https://www.threads.net/@80snostalgia/post/CzpPPuxNgDj

2 years ago