Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-21

  1. YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox old.reddit.com - 447 comments 1788 points
  2. Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft twitter.com - 1294 comments 1704 points
  3. OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns www.wired.com - 1223 comments 1405 points
  4. I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions twitter.com - 400 comments 595 points
  5. Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO www.theverge.com - 860 comments 588 points
  6. 550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign twitter.com - 1 comments 577 points
  7. Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down www.theverge.com - 907 comments 545 points
  8. Krita AI Diffusion github.com - 227 comments 511 points
  9. After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data www.itbrew.com - 301 comments 447 points
  10. OpenAI’s misalignment and Microsoft’s gain stratechery.com - 260 comments 445 points
  11. Airlines will make $118B in extra fees www.fastcompany.com - 284 comments 374 points
  12. OpenAI’s employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired www.businessinsider.com - 475 comments 369 points
  13. 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming brandonspark.github.io - 106 comments 359 points
  14. River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres brandur.org - 89 comments 314 points
  15. RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information colinwalker.blog - 152 comments 298 points
  16. Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language www.roc-lang.org - 144 comments 279 points
  17. Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019) www.zdnet.com - 115 comments 278 points
  18. OpenAI’s chaos does not add up builtnotfound.proseful.com - 208 comments 274 points
  19. The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017) fxrant.blogspot.com - 125 comments 273 points
  20. Typst – Compose Papers Faster typst.app - 66 comments 247 points
  21. 75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing www.engprax.com - 111 comments 244 points
  22. Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team – GPU Capacity, Incentives, IP www.semianalysis.com - 121 comments 230 points
  23. SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange www.sec.gov - 176 comments 228 points
  24. FreeBSD 14.0-Release www.freebsd.org - 82 comments 220 points
  25. FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell www.cnn.com - 61 comments 217 points
  26. Why TSA’s Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think epic.org - 114 comments 216 points
  27. Microsoft is eating the world aisupremacy.substack.com - 181 comments 208 points
  28. LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them arxiv.org - 83 comments 195 points
  29. Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn’t Want to Fix It www.evanjones.ca - 289 comments 194 points
  30. Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI twitter.com - 126 comments 193 points