Hacker News on Saturday, 18 November 2023

Greg Brockman quits OpenAI(twitter.com)

1361 points by nickrubin 2 years ago | 637 comments

A post on X by Greg Brockman sharing the message he sent the OpenAI team announcing his departure after the news of Sam Altman's ouster.

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO(theverge.com)

1171 points by medler 2 years ago | 1519 comments

The Verge breaking news report that OpenAI's board is in discussions with Sam Altman about returning as CEO after firing him on Friday.

Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI

731 points by convexstrictly 2 years ago | 531 comments

Hacker News text post reporting that OpenAI researchers Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry, and Szymon Sidor resigned, citing a paywalled scoop from The Information.

Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection(frigate.video)

546 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 123 comments

Homepage of Frigate, an open-source network video recorder for security cameras that runs real-time AI object detection locally on your own hardware.

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI(arstechnica.com)

520 points by jncraton 2 years ago | 630 comments

Ars Technica article reporting details of the OpenAI board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman, with Greg Brockman and researchers resigning.

New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy(fortune.com)

504 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 308 comments

Fortune/AP article on a New York bill to ban noncompete employment agreements, awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision, and opposition from Wall Street firms.

Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time(spacex.com)

450 points by BenoitP 2 years ago | 500 comments

SpaceX mission page for the second Starship integrated flight test, scheduled for 7 AM Central Time.

Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive(deathbyai.gg)

441 points by overactor 2 years ago | 168 comments

Death by AI is a free browser-based Jackbox-style multiplayer party game where an AI judges whether players' survival plans succeed.

Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?(electronics.stackexchange.com)

401 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 311 comments

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question asking whether limiting lithium battery charging to 80% defeats the purpose of extending battery life.

Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo(uneebee.com)

394 points by ceolin 2 years ago | 105 comments

Landing page for UneeBee, an open-source, white-label Duolingo alternative for creating interactive courses for companies, schools, and creators.

I Hacked the Magic Mouse(uplab.pro)

375 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 98 comments

A blog post on Uptime Lab describing a hardware hack/modification of Apple's Magic Mouse.

Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?(twitter.com)

341 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 390 comments

Kara Swisher post on X reporting sources say Ilya Sutskever was at the center of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI amid tensions over role and influence.

Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space(jackpoulson.substack.com)

325 points by ed-209 2 years ago | 179 comments

Substack article reporting that HawkEye 360, a space-based radio signal location-tracking firm, partnered with Lockheed Martin, with the UAE military allegedly a strong customer.

Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem(nautil.us)

324 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 124 comments

Nautilus article by Madison Goldberg on cryptographers' advance toward fully private database lookups and internet searches (private information retrieval).

Berlin's indoor pools(bbc.com)

258 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 202 comments

GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload(blog.gtk.org)

257 points by signa11 2 years ago | 180 comments

Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0(calibre-ebook.com)

257 points by xbmcuser 2 years ago | 95 comments

Greg (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)

247 points by admp 2 years ago | 112 comments

Berkeley Mono Typeface(berkeleygraphics.com)

231 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 97 comments

An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th(universetoday.com)

226 points by belter 2 years ago | 64 comments

Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)(philip.greenspun.com)

183 points by cute_boi 2 years ago | 398 comments

I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

178 points by magoghm 2 years ago | 222 comments

Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson's across various lab models(corporate.dukehealth.org)

167 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 60 comments

Kara Swisher: there will be more departures of top folks at OpenAI tonight(twitter.com)

165 points by nikhilarundesai 2 years ago | 80 comments

No "malfeasance" behind Sam Altman's firing, OpenAI memo says(axios.com)

157 points by Amorymeltzer 2 years ago | 226 comments

Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country(volunteer.gov)

142 points by KoftaBob 2 years ago | 85 comments

Surveillance Tech Write Press Releases for Cops; News Agencies Are Publishing It(techdirt.com)

133 points by rntn 2 years ago | 31 comments

OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO(forbes.com)

131 points by thesecretceo 2 years ago | 78 comments

Yuzu Progress Report October 2023(yuzu-emu.org)

123 points by 0xDEADFED5 2 years ago | 15 comments

LMAX Disruptor – High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library(lmax-exchange.github.io)

116 points by dgudkov 2 years ago | 66 comments

Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More(heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)

111 points by abhi9u 2 years ago | 26 comments

Microsoft is a minority owner of OpenAI Global LLC(openai.com)

111 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 114 comments

Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record(news.northwestern.edu)

109 points by geox 2 years ago | 33 comments

Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman's hot plate(smithsonianmag.com)

108 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 85 comments

Rogue superintelligence: Inside the mind of OpenAI's chief scientist(technologyreview.com)

104 points by monort 2 years ago | 70 comments

Google is embedding inaudible watermarks into its AI generated music(theverge.com)

104 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?

102 points by soneca 2 years ago | 84 comments

Parental controls? What parental controls?(gabrielsieben.tech)

102 points by gjsman-1000 2 years ago | 73 comments

Teddy Roosevelt pursues the boat thieves (2015)(nps.gov)

101 points by keiferski 2 years ago | 57 comments

Board Members (2014)(blog.samaltman.com)

100 points by RyanShook 2 years ago | 16 comments

Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all(twitter.com)

100 points by convexstrictly 2 years ago | 109 comments

Julia as a unifying end-to-end workflow language on the Frontier exascale system(arxiv.org)

85 points by npalli 2 years ago | 28 comments

A software epiphany(johnwhiles.com)

84 points by jwhiles 2 years ago | 79 comments

Altman was raising billions from Middle East sovereign funds for AI chip startup(twitter.com)

81 points by A_Duck 2 years ago | 36 comments

Text adventure ported to social media(threads.net)

78 points by mayiplease 2 years ago | 15 comments

Mysterious 'Tasmanian devil' space explosion baffles astronomers(nature.com)

76 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 14 comments

Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution(space.com)

76 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 118 comments

A homeless man built a life underground Hampstead Heath (2020)(theguardian.com)

74 points by vermilingua 2 years ago | 50 comments

Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control(nature.com)

73 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 38 comments

TV: Now What?(commonsware.com)

72 points by ingve 2 years ago | 134 comments

SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight(bloomberg.com)

70 points by bgc 2 years ago | 86 comments

Ancient Tree Inventory(ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk)

70 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 9 comments

Coding Is Hard(duttakapil.com)

68 points by duttakapil 2 years ago | 93 comments

Optimism vs. Pessimism in Distributed Systems(brooker.co.za)

66 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 10 comments

Remembering the Crystal Radio (2020)(nutsvolts.com)

64 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 40 comments

OpenVMS Account at DECUServe(eisner.decus.org)

61 points by BSDobelix 2 years ago | 26 comments

A.S. Byatt has died(nytimes.com)

60 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 7 comments

Eoops: An object-oriented programming system for Emacs-Lisp (1992)(dl.acm.org)

60 points by lr0 2 years ago | 25 comments

Traitorous eight(en.wikipedia.org)

58 points by mcenedella 2 years ago | 7 comments

B.C. looks to standardize multiplex designs as latest fix to housing crisis(todayinbc.com)

57 points by cf100clunk 2 years ago | 26 comments