HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)

5710 points by davidbarker on Nov 17, 2023 | 2531 comments

2.

Omegle 2009-2023 (omegle.com)

2454 points by liamcottle on Nov 9, 2023 | 998 comments

3.

Reflecting on 18 Years at Google (ln.hixie.ch)

2213 points by whiplashoo on Nov 22, 2023 | 1040 comments

4.

Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted (nytimes.com)

1993 points by donohoe on Nov 2, 2023 | 1739 comments

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

1980 points by staranjeet on Nov 22, 2023 | 1950 comments

6.

YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox (old.reddit.com)

1919 points by csvm on Nov 20, 2023 | 464 comments

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Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft (twitter.com)

1738 points by JimDabell on Nov 20, 2023 | 1311 comments

8.

Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year (younganimator.uk)

1603 points by countrymile on Nov 15, 2023 | 254 comments

9.

Charlie Munger has died (berkshirehathaway.com)

1479 points by mfiguiere on Nov 28, 2023 | 407 comments

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OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns (wired.com)

1441 points by skilled on Nov 20, 2023 | 1260 comments

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Greg Brockman quits OpenAI (twitter.com)

1423 points by nickrubin on Nov 18, 2023 | 662 comments

12.

Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? (insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com)

1349 points by klaussilveira on Nov 21, 2023 | 159 comments

13.

Stable Video Diffusion (stability.ai)

1330 points by roborovskis on Nov 21, 2023 | 302 comments

14.

My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar (jacobbartlett.substack.com)

1304 points by jakey_bakey on Nov 27, 2023 | 245 comments

15.

I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] (youtube.com)

1268 points by anonymfus on Nov 16, 2023 | 428 comments

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

1243 points by medler on Nov 18, 2023 | 1611 comments

17.

As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code (dunfield.themindfactory.com)

1227 points by elvis70 on Nov 3, 2023 | 323 comments

18.

Cosmopolitan Third Edition (justine.lol)

1205 points by jart on Nov 1, 2023 | 240 comments

19.

Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API (home-assistant.io)

1181 points by eamonnsullivan on Nov 8, 2023 | 640 comments

20.

New models and developer products (openai.com)

1146 points by kevin_hu on Nov 6, 2023 | 545 comments

21.

Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive (signal.org)

1114 points by mikece on Nov 16, 2023 | 907 comments

22.

Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file (github.com)

1075 points by tfinch on Nov 29, 2023 | 288 comments

23.

What I learned getting acquired by Google (shreyans.org)

1045 points by shreyans on Nov 9, 2023 | 611 comments

24.

My $500M Mars rover mistake (chrislewicki.com)

1028 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 28, 2023 | 343 comments

25.

Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor (washingtonpost.com)

1011 points by CartyBoston on Nov 22, 2023 | 746 comments

26.

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster (reuters.com)

990 points by mfiguiere on Nov 22, 2023 | 1106 comments

27.

Steam Deck OLED (store.steampowered.com)

983 points by robbiet480 on Nov 9, 2023 | 683 comments

28.

Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs (tuta.com)

964 points by grammers on Nov 27, 2023 | 709 comments

29.

Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating (retro.social)

930 points by anotherevan on Nov 27, 2023 | 735 comments

30.

How I got here (pthorpe92.github.io)

925 points by low_tech_love on Nov 11, 2023 | 346 comments