top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-20

YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/

2 years ago

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122

2 years ago

OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/

2 years ago

OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-explanations-why-sam-altman-out-2023-11

2 years ago

Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969586/sam-altman-plotting-return-open-ai-microsoft

2 years ago

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

2 years ago

550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726598360277356775

2 years ago

Krita AI Diffusion

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

2 years ago

After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data

https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/11/17/after-boeing-declines-to-pay-up-ransomware-group-leaks-45-gb-of-data

2 years ago

Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23967515/sam-altman-openai-board-fired-new-ceo

2 years ago

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs

https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

2 years ago

OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain

https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/

2 years ago

15-150: Principles of Functional Programming

https://brandonspark.github.io/150/

2 years ago

Airlines will make $118B in extra fees

https://www.fastcompany.com/90981005/airlines-fees-118-billion-dark-patterns

2 years ago

Typst – Compose Papers Faster

https://typst.app/

2 years ago

River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

https://brandur.org/river

2 years ago

A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

2 years ago

RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

https://colinwalker.blog/blog/?date=2023-11-19

2 years ago

SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-237

2 years ago

Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language

https://www.roc-lang.org/

2 years ago

Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/

2 years ago

FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/health/fda-considers-crispr-treatment-cure-sickle-cell/index.html

2 years ago

Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/19/cruise-co-founder-and-ceo-kyle-vogt-resigns/

2 years ago

The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-death-star-and-final-trench-run.html

2 years ago

OpenAI's chaos does not add up

https://builtnotfound.proseful.com/openais-chaos-does-not-add-up

2 years ago

Inside The Chaos at OpenAI

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/

2 years ago

75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing

https://www.engprax.com/post/75-of-software-engineers-faced-retaliation-last-time-they-report-wrongdoing

2 years ago

FreeBSD 14.0-Release

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/

2 years ago

Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think

https://epic.org/dont-take-it-at-face-value-why-tsas-implementation-of-facial-recognition-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think/

2 years ago

Increasing QUIC and UDP Throughput over Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/quic-udp-throughput/

2 years ago

LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08516

2 years ago

Microsoft Swallows OpenAI's Core Team – GPU Capacity, Incentives, IP

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/microsoft-swallows-openais-core-team

2 years ago

Why did base64 win against uuencode?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3019/why-did-base64-win-against-uuencode

2 years ago

Microsoft is eating the world

https://aisupremacy.substack.com/p/microsoft-is-eating-the-world

2 years ago

Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

https://www.evanjones.ca/setenv-is-not-thread-safe.html

2 years ago

Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275?s=46&t=a8Pjw_2Gzth_zpOPBTHQaw

2 years ago

Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Three-chips-in-and-Google-Tensor-is-on-life-support.768438.0.html

2 years ago

Anti Tank Vespa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_150_TAP

2 years ago

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/openai-facts-from-a-weekend/

2 years ago

Apple plans to equip MacBooks with in-house cellular modems

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/20/macbook-integrated-cellular-modem-2028/

2 years ago

The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/the-bluffers-guide-to-the-mythical-man-month/

2 years ago

Emmett Shear Becomes Interim OpenAI CEO as Altman Talks Break Down

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/breaking-sam-altman-will-not-return-as-ceo-of-openai

2 years ago

Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers

https://taylor.town/knuth-airgap

2 years ago

Launch HN: Stralis (YC W23) – Hydrogen electric aircraft for medium-haul travel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353473

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38351370

2 years ago

Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/argentinas-new-president-wants-to-adopt-the-u-s-dollar-as-national-currency-86da3444

2 years ago

Cosmopolitan v3.1

https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/1726141024597324189?s=46&t=K1nIh-2Y7JjaoOc9Y6bUzA

2 years ago

"Et Tu, Ilya?"

https://techarena.substack.com/p/et-tu-ilya

2 years ago

NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-reaches-vulkan-conformance.html

2 years ago

Who Controls OpenAI?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-controls-openai

2 years ago

US Seeks More Than $4B from Binance to End Criminal Case

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/us-seeks-more-than-4-billion-from-binance-to-end-criminal-case

2 years ago

Venmo, Cash App users sue Apple over peer-to-peer payment fees

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/venmo-cash-app-users-sue-apple-over-peer-to-peer-payment-fees-2023-11-20/

2 years ago

Interactive Common Lisp Development

https://www.n16f.net/blog/interactive-common-lisp-development/

2 years ago

A very subtle bug (2010)

https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/02/a-very-subtle-bug/

2 years ago

Canada Inches Closer to 'Right to Repair' Reform

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/canada-inches-closer-to-right-to-repair-reform/

2 years ago

A guide to open-source LLM inference and performance

https://www.baseten.co/blog/llm-transformer-inference-guide/

2 years ago

TIL you could make xkcd-like plots with matplotlib

https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/showcase/xkcd.html

2 years ago

RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite

https://github.com/bitswired/rustgpt

2 years ago

Data-Driven Development Is a Lie

https://grishaev.me/en/ddd-lie

2 years ago

OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/openai-s-murati-aims-to-re-hire-altman-brockman-after-exits

2 years ago