top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-13

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

2 years ago

Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder

https://velofuso.com

2 years ago

Test

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4000004/test/

2 years ago

Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/

2 years ago

New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-llm-optimization-technique-slashes-memory-costs-up-to-75/

2 years ago

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/aiplatformblog/introducing-phi-4-microsoft%E2%80%99s-newest-small-language-model-specializing-in-comple/4357090

2 years ago

NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/nyc-wants-you-to-stop-taking-traffic-cam-selfies-but-heres-how-to-do-it

2 years ago

McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5155962/mckinsey-purdue-opioid-prosecution-doj

2 years ago

A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-demo

2 years ago

MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

2 years ago

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fair-updates-agents-robustness-safety-architecture/?_fb_noscript=1

2 years ago

Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn

https://www.the-scientist.com/mirror-bacteria-research-poses-significant-risks-dozens-of-scientists-warn-72419

2 years ago

Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences

2 years ago

My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)

https://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42410582

2 years ago

The age of average (2023)

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

2 years ago

The Luon programming language

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/blob/master/Readme.md

2 years ago

Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made

https://weborigami.org

2 years ago

Donald Bitzer has died

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-donald-bitzer-1934-2024/

2 years ago

I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

https://mfasold.net/blog/displaying-website-content-on-an-e-ink-display/

2 years ago