Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-18
- OpenAI’s board has fired Sam Altman openai.com - 1807 comments 4347 points
- Greg Brockman quits OpenAI twitter.com - 516 comments 1070 points
- 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars theconversation.com - 661 comments 703 points
- Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI’s ouster of CEO Sam Altman www.axios.com - 171 comments 539 points
- Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update www.half-life.com - 201 comments 482 points
- Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021) www.eff.org - 192 comments 415 points
- Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected www.goldmansachs.com - 239 comments 390 points
- Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years spectrum.ieee.org - 360 comments 372 points
- ‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months theprogressplaybook.com - 233 comments 354 points
- We Automated Bullshit www.cst.cam.ac.uk - 309 comments 345 points
- Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans www.wsj.com - 333 comments 319 points
- Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row breakingdefense.com - 238 comments 297 points
- Ilya Sutskever “at the center” of Altman firing? twitter.com - 313 comments 264 points
- A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger stranger.video - 76 comments 234 points
- The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable trstringer.com - 378 comments 231 points
- Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral arstechnica.com - 179 comments 216 points
- YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution torrentfreak.com - 47 comments 213 points
- I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets matan-h.com - 72 comments 210 points
- Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality arxiv.org - 82 comments 202 points
- I Hacked the Magic Mouse uplab.pro - 30 comments 188 points
- Kara Swisher: there will be more departures of top folks at OpenAI tonight twitter.com - 107 comments 185 points
- Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck www.volvotrucks.com - 100 comments 161 points
- Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds arstechnica.com - 76 comments 149 points
- UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges arstechnica.com - 56 comments 148 points
- Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async rocket.rs - 50 comments 145 points
- Apostrophe Protection Society www.apostrophe.org.uk - 133 comments 126 points
- Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move text.npr.org - 192 comments 125 points
- Sam Altman and Greg Brockman Joint Statement twitter.com - 62 comments 124 points
- FCC Is Trying to Stop Discrimination in Broadband Deployment. Telecoms Are Mad www.techdirt.com - 144 comments 117 points
- Amazon cuts ‘several hundred’ jobs in Alexa division www.cnbc.com - 105 comments 115 points
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