Hacker News on Friday, 17 November 2023

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman(openai.com)

5420 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 2333 comments

OpenAI blog post from November 17, 2023 announcing a leadership transition, in which the board removed Sam Altman as CEO.

280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars(theconversation.com)

706 points by rglullis 2 years ago | 663 comments

The Conversation article arguing that the world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds reduce oil demand more than electric cars do.

Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman(axios.com)

659 points by aaronds 2 years ago | 218 comments

Axios news article reporting that Microsoft was caught off guard by OpenAI's board firing CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.

Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected(goldmansachs.com)

509 points by dakna 2 years ago | 346 comments

Goldman Sachs Intelligence article from November 2023 reporting that electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected.

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update(half-life.com)

509 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 211 comments

Valve's official page for the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update, celebrating the 1998 game's release with new content and improvements.

Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening – EFF (2021)(eff.org)

383 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 149 comments

EFF article from December 2021 criticizing Google Chrome's Manifest V3 extension platform as deceitful and harmful to privacy and security extensions.

Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years(spectrum.ieee.org)

365 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 354 comments

IEEE Spectrum article on Ethernet's 50-year history and its status as the worldwide standard LAN technology, recognized as an IEEE Milestone.

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months(theprogressplaybook.com)

333 points by locallost 2 years ago | 213 comments

News article from The Progress Playbook reporting that Uruguay's electricity grid ran on 100% renewable energy for four consecutive months.

Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row(breakingdefense.com)

310 points by TurkishPoptart 2 years ago | 252 comments

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row(canarymedia.com)

301 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 230 comments

We Automated Bullshit(cst.cam.ac.uk)

293 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 260 comments

Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans(wsj.com)

274 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 272 comments

A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger(stranger.video)

246 points by underanalyzer 2 years ago | 78 comments

De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon(arstechnica.com)

239 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 252 comments

An automatic indexing system for Postgres(pganalyze.com)

223 points by ako 2 years ago | 40 comments

NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go(uber.com)

205 points by advanderveer 2 years ago | 189 comments

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable(trstringer.com)

205 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 316 comments

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3M Restitution(torrentfreak.com)

203 points by gslin 2 years ago | 47 comments

Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality(twitter.com)

195 points by raybb 2 years ago | 78 comments

I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets(matan-h.com)

191 points by matan-h 2 years ago | 68 comments

Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral(arstechnica.com)

185 points by seasicksteve 2 years ago | 153 comments

Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck(volvotrucks.com)

170 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 104 comments

Xash3D: An open-source reimplementation of Half-Life(github.com)

159 points by mepian 2 years ago | 58 comments

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024(sh.reddit.com)

156 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 100 comments

Apostrophe Protection Society(apostrophe.org.uk)

144 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 142 comments

Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async(rocket.rs)

144 points by sbenitez 2 years ago | 50 comments

Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down(reuters.com)

138 points by JeremyNT 2 years ago | 70 comments

Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds(arstechnica.com)

135 points by anymouse123456 2 years ago | 72 comments

The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess"(bradmunchen.substack.com)

124 points by jojobas 2 years ago | 157 comments

Ultorg: A User Interface for Relational Data(ultorg.com)

123 points by veltas 2 years ago | 36 comments

Pinball implemented using Squint, a ClojureScript dialect(squint-cljs.github.io)

114 points by Borkdude 2 years ago | 17 comments

HTML Web Components: An Example(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

106 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 62 comments

Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs(github.com)

105 points by kuba-orlik 2 years ago | 79 comments

A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5(jeffgeerling.com)

104 points by mikece 2 years ago | 17 comments

I wrote in June 2021 how Sam Altman's departure from YC had been under explored(twitter.com)

97 points by doener 2 years ago | 19 comments

FCC Is Trying to Stop Discrimination in Broadband Deployment. Telecoms Are Mad(techdirt.com)

95 points by rntn 2 years ago | 109 comments

Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts(landaire.net)

95 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence(narrative.bi)

94 points by fromthegut 2 years ago | 26 comments

The astonishing behavior of recursive sequences(quantamagazine.org)

93 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Changing "Guarantees" Given by Python's Global Interpreter Lock(stefan-marr.de)

90 points by abhi9u 2 years ago | 101 comments

Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move(text.npr.org)

90 points by rntn 2 years ago | 111 comments

Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division(cnbc.com)

90 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 63 comments

Arithmetic in Computer Hardware(thelast19digitsofpi.github.io)

86 points by alexahn 2 years ago | 12 comments

In two moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol redefined the future (2016)(wired.com)

85 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 69 comments

How I optimized Portal to run on the Nintendo 64 [video](youtube.com)

84 points by skibz 2 years ago | 13 comments

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges(arstechnica.com)

83 points by kurthr 2 years ago | 34 comments

Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue(filfre.net)

82 points by doppp 2 years ago | 71 comments

AIConfig – source control format for gen AI prompts, models and settings(github.com)

80 points by saqadri 2 years ago | 13 comments

Show HN: less than 650 LOC trainable GPT only using NumPy(github.com)

77 points by joennlae 2 years ago | 15 comments

How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry(construction-physics.com)

73 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 43 comments

The state of silicon and the GPU poors(latent.space)

73 points by swyx 2 years ago | 34 comments

Old engineering simulation games, now open source [pdf](github.com)

72 points by fifteenth 2 years ago | 5 comments

Google's Gemini model is delayed(theverge.com)

71 points by keskival 2 years ago | 47 comments

Amazon will cut 'several hundred' Alexa jobs as it ends unspecified initiatives(geekwire.com)

67 points by dmschulman 2 years ago | 64 comments

YouTube Dream Track AI Music Experiment (clones pop stars voices)(blog.youtube)

67 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 25 comments

Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her(lesswrong.com)

61 points by doener 2 years ago | 8 comments

A Revolution Devours Its Children(blog.koehntopp.info)

61 points by zdw 2 years ago | 15 comments

SheepIt Render Farm(sheepit-renderfarm.com)

60 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster(wired.com)

60 points by uberm 2 years ago | 7 comments

Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)(blog.sentry.io)

58 points by aviks 2 years ago | 38 comments