Hacker News on Friday, 17 May 2024

OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?(vox.com)

1135 points by fnbr 2 years ago | 858 comments

Vox Future Perfect article by Kelsey Piper on OpenAI's superalignment team departures and why former employees are restricted from speaking out.

Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)(github.com)

948 points by LightMachine 2 years ago | 179 comments

GitHub repository for Bend, a massively parallel, high-level programming language from HigherOrderCO that runs on GPUs via the HVM2 runtime.

Exercises to Learn Rust(rust-exercises.com)

622 points by sebg 2 years ago | 115 comments

Welcome page of "100 Exercises To Learn Rust", a free online course teaching Rust's syntax, type system, standard library and ecosystem through incremental exercises.

Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video](media.ccc.de)

563 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 161 comments

Video of an MCH2022 conference talk by Luke Gotszling exploring what happens to the Doom game engine when the value of pi is changed.

Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective(toon3d.studio)

397 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 104 comments

Project page for Toon3D, a UC Berkeley research method for reconstructing 3D scenes from non-geometrically-consistent hand-drawn cartoon images.

Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity(x.com)

368 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 189 comments

A post on X by journalist Kelsey Piper reporting that departing OpenAI employees must sign lifetime non-disparagement agreements or forfeit vested equity.

Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email(gabrielsieben.tech)

348 points by gjsman-1000 2 years ago | 250 comments

Personal blog post by Gabriel Sieben brainstorming what a redesigned second-generation email system and protocol could look like.

ADSL works over wet string (2017)(revk.uk)

263 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 104 comments

Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online(useequityval.com)

251 points by trevzercap 2 years ago | 138 comments

A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans(corporate.dukehealth.org)

250 points by geox 2 years ago | 64 comments

The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible(time.com)

223 points by matroid 2 years ago | 36 comments

Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API(github.com)

210 points by metaskills 2 years ago | 71 comments

Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)(vice.com)

198 points by bentcorner 2 years ago | 149 comments

LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less(arxiv.org)

169 points by wolecki 2 years ago | 59 comments

The beauty of concrete(worksinprogress.co)

146 points by jger15 2 years ago | 78 comments

Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop(rnz.co.nz)

141 points by GrumpyNl 2 years ago | 101 comments

Welcome to the Parallel Future of Computation(hvm-page.pages.dev)

138 points by Epholys 2 years ago | 52 comments

ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#(github.com)

135 points by neonsunset 2 years ago | 18 comments

How to read C type declarations (2003)(unixwiz.net)

133 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 117 comments

The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)(blog.datawrapper.de)

131 points by Leftium 2 years ago | 57 comments

DNA confirms there IS a big cat roaming the British countryside(discoverwildlife.com)

119 points by throwaway38375 2 years ago | 52 comments

Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020)(bdtechtalks.com)

119 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 74 comments

The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon(acoup.blog)

113 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 86 comments

500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks(newscientist.com)

109 points by gumby 2 years ago | 25 comments

A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial(thenameless.net)

108 points by thenameless7741 2 years ago | 15 comments

Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build(darrellowens.substack.com)

105 points by greenie_beans 2 years ago | 74 comments

Ideas and Creativity (2019)(bastian.rieck.me)

98 points by Pseudomanifold 2 years ago | 22 comments

Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used(atlasobscura.com)

94 points by onnimonni 2 years ago | 105 comments

BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit(zone.eu)

90 points by obscurette 2 years ago | 37 comments

Thunderbird.net Has a New Look(blog.thunderbird.net)

87 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 46 comments

HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing(arxiv.org)

83 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 5 comments

Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement(jnnnthnn.com)

78 points by jnnnthnn 2 years ago | 38 comments

Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research(arxiv.org)

76 points by snats 2 years ago | 30 comments

Scrabble, Anonymous(theparisreview.org)

72 points by crescit_eundo 2 years ago | 24 comments

Ambitious but at peace(jugheadjones10.github.io)

71 points by juggy69 2 years ago | 46 comments

Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console(developer.chrome.com)

70 points by ssahoo 2 years ago | 44 comments

Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R(luisdva.github.io)

63 points by sebg 2 years ago | 15 comments

The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?(jakeseliger.com)

62 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 34 comments

I'm Bearish OpenAI(stovetop.substack.com)

59 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 28 comments

GDPR: Is It Worth It?(arxiv.org)

58 points by belter 2 years ago | 147 comments

N-Dimensional Gaussians for Fitting of High Dimensional Functions(sdiolatz.info)

56 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 7 comments

Rust 1.78: Performance Impact of the 128-Bit Memory Alignment Fix(codspeed.io)

53 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 4 comments

Expedia Group fired their CTO, Rathi Murthy(phocuswire.com)

52 points by s3r3nity 2 years ago | 27 comments

Hashing Modulo Theories(philipzucker.com)

48 points by philzook 2 years ago | 3 comments

Many Searchers Want to Turn Off Google AI Overviews(seroundtable.com)

46 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 27 comments

Demystifying the protobuf wire format(kreya.app)

45 points by CommonGuy 2 years ago | 61 comments

It was online for 3 seconds before getting a 404 request for /.git/config(honeypot.net)

45 points by loumf 2 years ago | 33 comments

Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles(blog.arduino.cc)

44 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 9 comments

Wine 9.9 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS(gitlab.winehq.org)

44 points by neustradamus 2 years ago | 34 comments

'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference(theguardian.com)

43 points by racional 2 years ago | 50 comments

Colorless green DNNs sleep furiously in an unexplainable fantasy(cacm.acm.org)

42 points by arthurtakeda 2 years ago | 33 comments

OpenBSD – sshd(8) split into multiple binaries(undeadly.org)

40 points by peter_hansteen 2 years ago | 9 comments

Rents are rising faster than wages across the country(cbsnews.com)

39 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 34 comments

wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices(wxhexeditor.org)

37 points by Lammy 2 years ago | 6 comments

WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives – First Upgrade in Seven Years(anandtech.com)

36 points by ksec 2 years ago | 27 comments

Falling in love again with disposable cameras(washingtonpost.com)

36 points by goles 2 years ago | 86 comments

NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls in 5 NYC precincts,officials say(gothamist.com)

34 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 28 comments

Moment: A Family of Open Time-Series Foundation Models(arxiv.org)

33 points by sarusso 2 years ago | 3 comments

Static Wordle(val.town)

33 points by stevekrouse 2 years ago | 12 comments

Linus Torvalds Now Favors Ampere Arm Chip over Apple Silicon MacBook(tomshardware.com)

33 points by doener 2 years ago | 5 comments