top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-05-24

How private equity rolled Red Lobster

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rolled-red-lobster-rcna153397

2 years ago

How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163389/joseph-cox-dark-wire-fbi-phone-startup-anom-criminals-secure-messaging-decoder-interview

2 years ago

Tests find high levels of PFAS in one-third of dental floss brands

https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html

2 years ago

America's $38T Retirement Pool Is Nowhere Near Enough

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-24/retirement-crisis-38-trillion-in-us-pensions-401-k-s-annuities-isn-t-enough

2 years ago

How fast can one reasonably expect to get inference on a ~70B model?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471457

2 years ago

Diffusion Models

https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/diffusion.html

2 years ago

LLM: Transformer Is Linear

https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.12250

2 years ago

Do We Live in an Infinite Nesting Doll of Black Hole Universes

https://kottke.org/24/05/infinite-black-hole-universes

2 years ago

Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning

https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/

2 years ago

ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/icq-messenger-shuts-down-after-almost-28-years/

2 years ago