Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role(twitter.com)

189 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 106 comments

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

195 points by raybb 2 years ago | 78 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO(twitter.com)

1973 points by staranjeet 2 years ago | 1941 comments

OpenAI's post on X announcing an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO with a new board of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes'(twitter.com)

46 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 26 comments

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references(twitter.com)

539 points by gjuggler 5 months ago | 191 comments

A tweet by Thomas G. Dietterich reminding arXiv authors that signing a paper means taking full responsibility for its contents, however they were generated.

When did Google get so weird?(sancho.bearblog.dev)

1899 points by sancho-panza 29 days ago | 1065 comments

A Bear Blog post titled "When did Google get so weird?"; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.

Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”(semianalysis.com)

2299 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 963 comments

SemiAnalysis publishes a leaked internal Google memo arguing that open source AI will outcompete both Google and OpenAI, which lack a competitive moat.

Googler... ex-Googler(nerdy.dev)

836 points by namukang 1 year ago | 747 comments

Personal blog post by Adam Argyle announcing his role at Google was eliminated and sharing his sadness and anger about the layoff.

Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?

4 points by 59percentmore 20 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN thread posing a hypothetical where the US government nationalizes Alphabet to restore Google Search quality and remove LLM features.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

331 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 319 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for May 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

381 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 416 comments

Monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for April 2023 where company employees post job openings with location and remote/visa details.