top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-22

Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees

2 years ago

US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/justice-department-to-seek-breakup-of-live-nation-ticketmaster

2 years ago

Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/

2 years ago

Pluckable Strings

https://string.spiel.com/

2 years ago

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/

2 years ago

Try Clojure

https://tryclojure.org/

2 years ago

Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Brave-New-Words

2 years ago

One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1791299631558823954

2 years ago

'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/right-to-roam-movement-fights-to-give-the-commons-back-to-the-commoners/

2 years ago

Number 16 (spider)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_16_(spider)

2 years ago

Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried

2 years ago

Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

https://unify.ai/chat?default=true

2 years ago

Scandal at America's top science fair

https://www.karlstack.com/p/exclusive-scandal-at-americas-top

2 years ago

S3 is showing its age

https://materializedview.io/p/s3-is-showing-its-age

2 years ago

Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/22/my-songs-spread-like-herpes-why-did-satirical-genius-tom-lehrer-swap-worldwide-fame-for-obscurity

2 years ago

Show HN: Neosync – Open-Source Data Anonymization for Postgres and MySQL

https://github.com/nucleuscloud/neosync

2 years ago

Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs

https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw

2 years ago

Psion 5mx Emulator

https://wuffs.org/WindEmu/index.html

2 years ago

How and why to make a /now page on your site

https://sive.rs/now2

2 years ago

Bluesky adds direct messages

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages

2 years ago

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-4323/

2 years ago

Show HN: PBT – A property-based testing library for Ruby

https://github.com/ohbarye/pbt

2 years ago

Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C?

https://thephd.dev/just-put-raii-in-c-bro-please-bro-just-one-more-destructor-bro-cmon-im-good-for-it

2 years ago

Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say

https://www.thedrive.com/news/automakers-will-give-your-location-to-police-without-a-warrant-senators-say

2 years ago

Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2025

2 years ago

Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/

2 years ago

Systematically Improving Your RAG

https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/05/22/systematically-improving-your-rag/

2 years ago

Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

https://github.com/leukipp/cortile

2 years ago

Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/21/microsoft-paints-new-ai-image-generator-builds-on-your-brushstrokes/

2 years ago

Show HN: B-field, a novel probabilistic key-value data structure (`rust-bfield`)

https://github.com/onecodex/rust-bfield

2 years ago

Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

2 years ago

Tensor Puzzles

https://github.com/srush/Tensor-Puzzles

2 years ago

What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)

https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/whats-the-difference-between-a-motor-and-an-engine/

2 years ago

The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum

https://socket.dev/blog/the-push-to-ban-ransom-payments-is-gaining-momentum

2 years ago

YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign

https://9to5google.com/2024/05/22/youtube-redesign-rolling-out-again/

2 years ago

Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-ancient-viral-dna-human-genome.html

2 years ago

Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/356580.356581

2 years ago

Tillywork: Open-Source Work Management

https://github.com/tillywork/tillywork

2 years ago

All the remedial classes in one place

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/06/all-remedial-classes-in-one-place.html

2 years ago

When Kodak and Polaroid went to war

https://steveblank.com/2024/05/16/secret-history-when-kodak-went-to-war-with-polaroid/

2 years ago

Citi Missed a Fat Finger

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-22/citi-missed-a-fat-finger

2 years ago

A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows

2 years ago

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

2 years ago

The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare

https://worldofmatthew.com/post/cloudflare-ssl/

2 years ago

Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/comment/c8t7bbp/

2 years ago

Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

2 years ago

Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/26/are-commercial-third-places-a-dying-breed/

2 years ago

How to destroy your OS with tar

https://vorakl.com/articles/tar-curdir/

2 years ago

LunarML – Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript

https://github.com/minoki/LunarML

2 years ago

Forebruary

https://ilyabirman.net/forebruary/

2 years ago

What We're Working on in Firefox

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694

2 years ago

Show HN: Adblock for Podcasts

https://github.com/jdrbc/podly_pure_podcasts

2 years ago

Nvidia revenue up 262%, thanks to the AI boom

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Nvidia%27s-Q1-revenue-up-262-to-dollar26.0B-beating-estimates/62096450

2 years ago

Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

https://gizmodo.com/congress-just-made-it-way-harder-to-track-taylor-swift-1851492383

2 years ago

Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01487-6

2 years ago

India's government is trying to silence US critics

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

2 years ago

Unprecedented flooding in Brazil leaves hundreds of thousands displaced

https://www.msf.org/unprecedented-flooding-brazil-leaves-millions-affected-and-hundreds-thousands-displaced

2 years ago

Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sales-europe-fall-15-083601211.html

2 years ago

WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being enshitified

https://kerkour.com/webassembly-wasi-preview2

2 years ago