top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-02

OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html

2 years ago

The Fastest Mutexes

https://justine.lol/mutex/

2 years ago

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/travel/wwii-bomb-miyazaki-airport-japan-scli-intl/index.html

2 years ago

I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tik/id6720712299

2 years ago

VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/crv-vc-fund-returning-money.html

2 years ago

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/02/an-adult-fruit-fly-brain-has-been-mapped-human-brains-could-follow

2 years ago

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

https://sidhion.com/blog/posts/nixos_server_issues/

2 years ago

A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html

2 years ago

Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

https://medium.com/@jpolak/why-im-leaving-medium-ai-policy-ce925cffb91c

2 years ago

Anatomy of an internet argument

https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-internet-argument

2 years ago

Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998)

https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]

2 years ago

Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet

https://automattic.com/2024/10/01/wpe-terms/

2 years ago

AMD GPU Inference

https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference

2 years ago

Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work

https://gizmodo.com/famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

2 years ago

You Too Could Have Made Curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/02/06/fosdem-2024-you-too-could-have-made-curl/

2 years ago

What Your Job Ad Says About You

https://www.talentstuff.com/blog/what-your-job-ad-says-about-you

2 years ago

What P vs. NP is about

https://vasekrozhon.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/what-p-vs-np-is-actually-about/

2 years ago

Noise

https://noise.jake.fun/

2 years ago

TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS

2 years ago

GitHub's Copilot lies about its documentation. Why would I trust it with my code

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/githubs-copilot-lies-about-its-own-documentation-so-why-would-i-trust-it-with-my-code/

2 years ago