top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-20

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

https://twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1792679435701014908

2 years ago

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html

2 years ago

3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

2 years ago

Enlightenmentware

https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware.html

2 years ago

Introducing Copilot+ PCs

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/

2 years ago

City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

https://frankforce.com/city-in-a-bottle-a-256-byte-raycasting-system/

2 years ago

pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL

https://tembo.io/blog/pg-timeseries

2 years ago

Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore

https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgerstore/

2 years ago

How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)

https://kevroletin.github.io/terminal/2021/12/11/how-terminal-works-in.html

2 years ago

Rethinking Text Resizing on Web

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rethinking-text-resizing-on-web-1047b12d2881

2 years ago

Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415646

2 years ago

How a 64k intro is made (2017)

https://www.lofibucket.com/articles/64k_intro.html

2 years ago

CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js

https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-4367-arbitrary-js-execution-in-pdf-js/

2 years ago

Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-cuts-mystery-check-us-bid-sidestep-jury-trial-2024-05-20/

2 years ago

Grothendieck’s use of equality

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10387

2 years ago

How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

2 years ago

Using Postgres for Everything

https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-to-collapse-your-stack-using-postgresql-for-everything/

2 years ago

Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy

https://www.anthropic.com/news/reflections-on-our-responsible-scaling-policy

2 years ago

OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/openai-to-pull-johansson-soundalike-sky-s-voice-from-chatgpt

2 years ago

What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3I3kAg2J7w

2 years ago