Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-19

  1. OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO www.theverge.com - 1217 comments 861 points
  2. Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI news.ycombinator.com - 648 comments 845 points
  3. New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy fortune.com - 353 comments 537 points
  4. Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI arstechnica.com - 610 comments 498 points
  5. Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection frigate.video - 95 comments 428 points
  6. Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time www.spacex.com - 487 comments 426 points
  7. Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive deathbyai.gg - 153 comments 401 points
  8. Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo uneebee.com - 99 comments 370 points
  9. Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space jackpoulson.substack.com - 175 comments 307 points
  10. Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0 calibre-ebook.com - 114 comments 290 points
  11. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem nautil.us - 117 comments 284 points
  12. Berkeley Mono Typeface berkeleygraphics.com - 111 comments 274 points
  13. GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload blog.gtk.org - 190 comments 267 points
  14. Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads news.ycombinator.com - 185 comments 245 points
  15. Greg (2017) blog.samaltman.com - 95 comments 205 points
  16. I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding “glorified autocomplete” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu - 218 comments 175 points
  17. No “malfeasance” behind Sam Altman’s firing, OpenAI memo says www.axios.com - 258 comments 174 points
  18. Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson’s across various lab models corporate.dukehealth.org - 51 comments 146 points
  19. An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th www.universetoday.com - 44 comments 143 points
  20. Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal? news.ycombinator.com - 128 comments 135 points
  21. Surveillance Tech Write Press Releases for Cops; News Agencies Are Publishing It www.techdirt.com - 33 comments 135 points
  22. OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO www.forbes.com - 4 comments 135 points
  23. Google is embedding inaudible watermarks into its AI generated music www.theverge.com - 82 comments 125 points
  24. Altman was raising billions from Middle East sovereign funds for AI chip startup twitter.com - 80 comments 123 points
  25. Our structure openai.com - 142 comments 120 points
  26. Rogue superintelligence: Inside the mind of OpenAI’s chief scientist www.technologyreview.com - 104 comments 120 points
  27. Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce twitter.com - 113 comments 117 points
  28. Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record news.northwestern.edu - 39 comments 111 points
  29. Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman’s hot plate www.smithsonianmag.com - 87 comments 110 points
  30. Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom’s Z-machine interpreters github.com - 10 comments 108 points