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1.OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)
5710 points by davidbarker on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 2530 comments [ext]
2.I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] (youtube.com)
1268 points by anonymfus on Nov 16, 2023 [ext] | 428 comments [ext]
3.Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected (goldmansachs.com)
565 points by dakna on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 437 comments [ext]
4. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 17 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
4.280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
789 points by rglullis on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 733 comments [ext]
5.Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row (breakingdefense.com)
344 points by TurkishPoptart on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 267 comments [ext]
6.Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years (ieee.org)
416 points by pseudolus on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 391 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Xash3D: An open-source reimplementation of Half-Life (github.com/fwgs)
176 points by mepian on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
8.'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
380 points by locallost on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 250 comments [ext]
9.A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger (stranger.video)
280 points by underanalyzer on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021) (eff.org)
441 points by tambourine_man on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 202 comments [ext]
11.Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row (canarymedia.com)
356 points by Anon84 on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 364 comments [ext]
12.Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)
565 points by Philpax on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
13. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Apostrophe Protection Society (apostrophe.org.uk)
155 points by Tomte on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 176 comments [ext]
14.Arithmetic in Computer Hardware (thelast19digitsofpi.github.io)
99 points by alexahn on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
15.What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model (venturebeat.com)
112 points by swyx on Nov 15, 2023 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
16. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
16.Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence (narrative.bi)
98 points by fromthegut on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
17.Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator (acko.net)
107 points by cgadski on Nov 16, 2023 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
18.Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB (simonwillison.net)
146 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2023 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs (github.com/emacs-ng)
113 points by kuba-orlik on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
20.Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down (reuters.com)
151 points by JeremyNT on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
21.I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets (matan-h.com)
223 points by matan-h on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
22. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
22.Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts (landaire.net)
105 points by lukastyrychtr on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
23.How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry (construction-physics.com)
90 points by jseliger on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
24.Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality (arxiv.org)
219 points by raybb on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
25. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "Python for Programmers" course (executeprogram.com)
99 points by gary_bernhardt on Nov 16, 2023 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
26.The astonishing behavior of recursive sequences (quantamagazine.org)
101 points by pseudolus on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
27.De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)
316 points by thunderbong on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 340 comments [ext]
28. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
28.Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck (volvotrucks.com)
203 points by clouddrover on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
29.The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
253 points by pjmlp on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 396 comments [ext]
30.Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans (wsj.com)
339 points by impish9208 on Nov 17, 2023 [ext] | 338 comments [ext]
31. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments

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