Hacker News on Thursday, 30 November 2023

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of dangeng.github.io: Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models

Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models (dangeng.github.io)

758 points by beefman 2 years ago | 64 comments

Project page for Visual Anagrams, a University of Michigan research paper using pretrained diffusion models to generate multi-view optical illusions.

diffusion-models optical-illusions image-generation computer-vision

Screenshot of openai.com: Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (openai.com)

652 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 621 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing Sam Altman's return as CEO, a new initial board chaired by Bret Taylor, and Greg Brockman returning as President.

openai sam-altman corporate-governance board-of-directors

Screenshot of engineering.gusto.com: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

The weirdest bug I've seen yet (engineering.gusto.com)

525 points by jevans 2 years ago | 292 comments

A Gusto engineering blog post recounting how investigating an on-call issue led to an unlikely culprit behind a strange bug.

debugging on-call gusto engineering-blog

Screenshot of brickception.xyz: Brickception

Brickception (brickception.xyz)

510 points by duck 2 years ago | 76 comments

Brickception is a browser breakout game played across popup windows, where the paddle window contains a nested game and moving it moves the paddle.

breakout browser-game popup-windows javascript

Screenshot of nytimes.com: Henry Kissinger Has Died

Henry Kissinger Has Died (nytimes.com)

503 points by Kye 2 years ago | 413 comments

News report on the death of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; the screenshot shows a BBC article covered by a welcome modal.

henry-kissinger obituary us-foreign-policy diplomacy

Screenshot of businessinsider.com: I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans (businessinsider.com)

464 points by cebert 2 years ago | 404 comments

Business Insider first-person essay by a former Amazon HR employee describing the company's PIP practices and quitting after being put on one.

amazon performance-improvement-plans human-resources workplace

Screenshot of thereader.mitpress.mit.edu: Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

444 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 155 comments

An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.

stanislaw-lem science-fiction the-invincible artificial-life

Screenshot of edri.org: CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages

CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages (edri.org)

420 points by pera 2 years ago | 74 comments

EDRi article explaining the European Parliament's 22 November position on the draft CSAR regulation, which rejects mass scanning of private messages.

csar chat-control european-parliament encryption

Screenshot of blog.marcocantu.com: Turbo Pascal Turns 40

Turbo Pascal Turns 40 (blog.marcocantu.com)

400 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 231 comments

Marco Cantù blog post marking the 40th anniversary of Borland's Turbo Pascal, introduced in November 1983 as an early popular IDE.

turbo-pascal borland pascal ide

Screenshot of blog.burntsushi.net: Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)(blog.burntsushi.net)

344 points by subset 2 years ago | 171 comments

Andrew Gallant's 2016 blog post introducing ripgrep, a Rust command-line search tool, with 25 benchmarks against grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt and sift.

ripgrep rust grep command-line