1254
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OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release
2 years ago
1041
253
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend
752
123
Exercises to Learn Rust
https://rust-exercises.com/
607
170
Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-236-non-euclidean-doom-what-happens-to-a-game-when-pi-is-not-3-14159-
449
5
Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity
https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1791584357184127269
414
111
Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
https://toon3d.studio/
396
301
Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
https://gabrielsieben.tech/2024/05/17/thinking-out-loud-2nd-gen-email/
287
150
Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
https://www.useequityval.com/
284
22
HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]
https://vimeo.com/260291607
282
68
A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/trial-hiv-vaccine-triggered-elusive-and-essential-antibodies-humans
273
109
ADSL works over wet string (2017)
https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html
239
44
The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/
228
208
Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-online-death-cuc-cendant-fraud
227
80
Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
https://github.com/metaskills/experts
214
45
A transport protocol's view of Starlink
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-05/starlink-tcp.html
177
60
LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09673
174
87
The beauty of concrete
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/
168
6
Welcome to the Parallel Future of Computation
https://higherorderco.com/
161
122
Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516930/beekeeper-steven-brown-furious-over-destruction-of-2m-honey-crop
157
35
ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#
https://github.com/m4rs-mt/ILGPU
156
88
DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/big-cat-british-countryside
152
65
The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)
https://blog.datawrapper.de/dualaxis/
131
How to read C type declarations (2003)
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html
144
21
A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial
https://thenameless.net/astral-kit/anthropic-peit-00
143
Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/how-urban-renewal-ruined-everything
130
83
Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)
https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/16/deep-learning-game-of-life/
124
Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zwentendorf-nuclear-power-plant
47
BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit
https://www.zone.eu/blog/2024/05/17/bimi-and-dmarc-cant-save-you/
120
27
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2430522-500-year-old-maths-problem-turns-out-to-apply-to-coffee-and-clocks/
113
Ideas and Creativity (2019)
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2019/ideas/
110
103
I'm Bearish OpenAI
https://stovetop.substack.com/p/im-bearish-openai
107
78
Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement
https://jnnnthnn.com/leike.png
46
OpenAI Dissolves High-Profile Safety Team After Chief Scientist Sutskever's Exit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-dissolves-key-safety-team-after-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-s-exit
102
67
Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392668
100
57
OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/
97
Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/understand-messages
96
Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated
https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf
75
Thunderbird.net Has a New Look
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/the-new-thunderbird-website-has-hatched/
89
The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?
https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/16/the-financial-costs-of-healthcare-costs-or-is-keeping-me-alive-worth-it/
94
NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls in 5 NYC precincts: officials
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-will-deploy-drones-to-respond-to-911-calls-in-5-nyc-precincts-officials-say
HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06067
63
Ambitious but at peace
https://jugheadjones10.github.io/kim-young-jin/posts/ambitious-and-content.html
85
31
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07425
8
Rust 1.78: Performance Impact of the 128-Bit Memory Alignment Fix
https://codspeed.io/blog/rust-1-78-performance-impact-of-the-128-bit-memory-alignment-fix
82
37
Scrabble, Anonymous
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/15/scrabble-anonymous/
199
Rents are rising faster than wages across the country
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rent-cost-us-2024-housing-national/
72
205
GDPR: Is It Worth It?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10225
It was online for 3 seconds before getting a 404 request for /.git/config
https://honeypot.net/2024/05/16/i-am-not.html
71
50
Many Searchers Want to Turn Off Google AI Overviews
https://www.seroundtable.com/searchers-want-to-turn-off-google-ai-overviews-37405.html
70
OpenBSD – sshd(8) split into multiple binaries
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240517092416
69
19
Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R
https://luisdva.github.io/rstats/problematic-spreadsheets/
11
N-Dimensional Gaussians for Fitting of High Dimensional Functions
https://www.sdiolatz.info/ndg-fitting/
16
Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5M fraud
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/16/facebook-nike-furlow-smile-prison-fraud.html
64
119
'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology
42
Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2B of Crypto
https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-developer-found-guilty-of-laundering-crypto/
Demystifying the protobuf wire format
https://kreya.app/blog/protocolbuffers-wire-format/
62
WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives – First Upgrade in Seven Years
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21400/not-dead-yet-wd-intros-6tb-25-inch-external-hard-drives
61
wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices
http://www.wxhexeditor.org/
59
"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai-resignations-ai-safety-ilya-sutskever-jan-leike-artificial-intelligence
30
Expedia Group fired their CTO, Rathi Murthy
https://www.phocuswire.com/rathi-murthy-expedia-group-cto
3
Hashing Modulo Theories
https://www.philipzucker.com/hashing-modulo/
Farfalle – Open-source AI-powered search engine
https://www.farfalle.dev/
58
53
BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html
Gemini 1.5 Model Family: Technical Report [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf
Wine 9.9 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.9
55
1
"Unprecedented" Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/
Moment: A Family of Open Time-Series Foundation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03885
