The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2023

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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com · davidbarker · 17 Nov 2023

5.7k pts 2.5k comments

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Omegle 2009-2023 omegle.com · liamcottle · 9 Nov 2023

2.5k pts 998 comments

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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google ln.hixie.ch · whiplashoo · 22 Nov 2023

2.2k pts 1k comments

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Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted nytimes.com · donohoe · 2 Nov 2023

2k pts 1.7k comments

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO twitter.com · staranjeet · 22 Nov 2023

2k pts 2k comments

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YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox old.reddit.com · csvm · 20 Nov 2023

1.9k pts 461 comments

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Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft twitter.com · JimDabell · 20 Nov 2023

1.7k pts 1.3k comments

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Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year younganimator.uk · countrymile · 15 Nov 2023

1.6k pts 254 comments

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Charlie Munger has died berkshirehathaway.com · mfiguiere · 28 Nov 2023

1.5k pts 405 comments

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OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns wired.com · skilled · 20 Nov 2023

1.4k pts 1.3k comments

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Greg Brockman quits OpenAI twitter.com · nickrubin · 18 Nov 2023

1.4k pts 662 comments

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Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA? insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com · klaussilveira · 21 Nov 2023

1.3k pts 159 comments

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Stable Video Diffusion stability.ai · roborovskis · 21 Nov 2023

1.3k pts 302 comments

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My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar jacobbartlett.substack.com · jakey_bakey · 27 Nov 2023

1.3k pts 245 comments

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I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] youtube.com · anonymfus · 16 Nov 2023

1.3k pts 428 comments

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OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO theverge.com · medler · 18 Nov 2023

1.2k pts 1.6k comments

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As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code dunfield.themindfactory.com · elvis70 · 3 Nov 2023

1.2k pts 323 comments

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Cosmopolitan Third Edition justine.lol · jart · 1 Nov 2023

1.2k pts 240 comments

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Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API home-assistant.io · eamonnsullivan · 8 Nov 2023

1.2k pts 640 comments

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New models and developer products openai.com · kevin_hu · 6 Nov 2023

1.1k pts 545 comments

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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive signal.org · mikece · 16 Nov 2023

1.1k pts 906 comments

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Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file github.com · tfinch · 29 Nov 2023

1.1k pts 288 comments

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What I learned getting acquired by Google shreyans.org · shreyans · 9 Nov 2023

1k pts 611 comments

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My $500M Mars rover mistake chrislewicki.com · bryanrasmussen · 28 Nov 2023

1k pts 343 comments

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Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor washingtonpost.com · CartyBoston · 22 Nov 2023

1k pts 746 comments

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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster reuters.com · mfiguiere · 22 Nov 2023

990 pts 1.1k comments

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Steam Deck OLED store.steampowered.com · robbiet480 · 9 Nov 2023

983 pts 683 comments

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Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs tuta.com · grammers · 27 Nov 2023

964 pts 709 comments

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Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating retro.social · anotherevan · 27 Nov 2023

930 pts 735 comments

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How I got here pthorpe92.github.io · low_tech_love · 11 Nov 2023

925 pts 346 comments

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Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly blog.paavo.me · paavohtl · 5 Nov 2023

901 pts 563 comments

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HTML First html-first.com · tonyennis · 12 Nov 2023

880 pts 533 comments

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Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI convexstrictly · 18 Nov 2023

879 pts 672 comments

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It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian krebsonsecurity.com · todsacerdoti · 11 Nov 2023

874 pts 331 comments

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Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models dangeng.github.io · beefman · 30 Nov 2023

826 pts 71 comments

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Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario businessinsider.com · g42gregory · 2 Nov 2023

799 pts 843 comments

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Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job mensurdurakovic.com · thunderbong · 8 Nov 2023

796 pts 758 comments

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I think I need to go lie down twitter.com · mfbx9da4 · 16 Nov 2023

796 pts 457 comments

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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year 9to5mac.com · dm · 16 Nov 2023

793 pts 709 comments

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Cursorless is alien magic from the future xeiaso.net · todsacerdoti · 10 Nov 2023

790 pts 337 comments

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280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars theconversation.com · rglullis · 17 Nov 2023

789 pts 733 comments

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The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster octodon.social · srijan4 · 29 Nov 2023

785 pts 651 comments

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NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android newpipe.net · vyrotek · 4 Nov 2023

782 pts 389 comments

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A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com · jsomers · 14 Nov 2023

778 pts 1.1k comments

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Ansel ansel.photos · sts153 · 23 Nov 2023

775 pts 156 comments

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Developer account removed by Apple seraleev.notion.site · vilfredoparet0 · 23 Nov 2023

753 pts 425 comments

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MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers nihalsid.github.io · jackcook · 28 Nov 2023

738 pts 157 comments

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Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer ledger.com · vberg · 15 Nov 2023

732 pts 725 comments

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Starship will attempt a launch this Friday fly.faa.gov · LorenDB · 14 Nov 2023

731 pts 903 comments

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WeWork Goes Bankrupt bloomberg.com · toomuchtodo · 7 Nov 2023

727 pts 430 comments

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Google Drive files suddenly disappeared support.google.com · vedlin · 27 Nov 2023

726 pts 317 comments

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StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech github.com · sandslides · 19 Nov 2023

725 pts 234 comments

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Writing documentation for your house luke.hsiao.dev · lwhsiao · 28 Nov 2023

722 pts 319 comments

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$20k bounty was claimed prettier.io · conaclos · 27 Nov 2023

716 pts 326 comments

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Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads rKarpinski · 19 Nov 2023

713 pts 710 comments

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Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony apnews.com · thunderbong · 13 Nov 2023

709 pts 503 comments

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Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board openai.com · davidbarker · 30 Nov 2023

708 pts 728 comments

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EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram reuters.com · pbrw · 2 Nov 2023

697 pts 735 comments

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Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman axios.com · aaronds · 17 Nov 2023

697 pts 247 comments

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I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video] youtube.com · donpott · 3 Nov 2023

696 pts 322 comments