Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2024-05-24

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How private equity rolled Red Lobster

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

2 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

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4

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

22 upvotes – 4 comments

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3

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

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

2 years ago

27 upvotes – 3 comments

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3

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

8 upvotes – 3 comments

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

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

2 years ago

9 upvotes – 6 comments

315

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Diffusion Models

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

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 31 comments

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1

LLM: Transformer Is Linear

https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.12250

2 years ago

25 upvotes – 1 comments

5

0

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

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

2 years ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

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7

Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning

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

2 years ago

18 upvotes – 7 comments

46

7

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

46 upvotes – 7 comments

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0

NOAA predicts above-normal 2024 Atlantic hurricane season

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season

2 years ago

23 upvotes – 0 comments

21

5

Puter.js – Turn the Web into an OS: An Alternative to the Cloud

https://nj.puter.site/web-os/

2 years ago

21 upvotes – 5 comments

10

1

Once celebrated, an inventor's breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html

2 years ago

10 upvotes – 1 comments

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Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/another-us-state-repeals-law-that-protected-isps-from-municipal-competition/

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

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Sam Altman's under pressure amid questions about OpenAI's commitment to safety

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-glory-days-ending-problems-chatgpt-2024-5

2 years ago

43 upvotes – 46 comments

5

0

Show HN: IngrediCheck – An "AI-Native" Food Scanning App

https://www.ingredicheck.app

2 years ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

7

4

Show HN: Split-Test Different Voice AI Providers (Playground)

https://vocalized.dev/playground

2 years ago

7 upvotes – 4 comments

23

6

Feds add nine more incidents to Waymo robotaxi investigation

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/feds-add-nine-more-incidents-to-waymo-robotaxi-investigation/

2 years ago

23 upvotes – 6 comments

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1

Samsung right-to-repair story just got worse

https://www.theverge.com/samsung/2024/5/23/24163372/samsung-repair-snitch-aftermarket-parts

2 years ago

28 upvotes – 1 comments

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A Cursory Look at Cursors

https://www.eno-writer.com/016-a-cursory-look-at-cursors/

2 years ago

27 upvotes – 20 comments