top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-21

Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 456 comments

Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

https://plsfix.co/

2 years ago

444 upvotes – 397 comments

What UI density means and how to design for it

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/

2 years ago

767 upvotes – 387 comments

The OpenAI board was right

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 342 comments

One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8889d7x8j4o

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 324 comments

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash

https://amber-lang.com/

2 years ago

463 upvotes – 314 comments

iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 307 comments

Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far

https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 297 comments

Taking Risk

https://tomblomfield.com/post/750852175114174464/taking-risk

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 293 comments

Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/business-booms-depressions-since-1775-145

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 267 comments

NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 266 comments

CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium

2 years ago

669 upvotes – 241 comments

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark

2 years ago

421 upvotes – 216 comments

Shipbreaking

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbreaking

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 200 comments

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 198 comments

The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]

https://www.allanschore.com/pdf/SchoreIMHJTrauma01.pdf

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 195 comments

The curious case of the missing period

https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period

2 years ago

531 upvotes – 193 comments

How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 178 comments

Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654

2 years ago

346 upvotes – 168 comments

A Road to Common Lisp (2018)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 168 comments
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