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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 79,584 posts.
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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Mechanical Watch
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in
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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
I received an official response from Replit and my open-source project will be back up soon; please see the bottom of the blog post for an update. The rest of the content here will remain as a historical artifact.
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re
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Bye, Amazon
May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.
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Google Search Is Dying
(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year.
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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
An open letter, or something
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My First Impressions of Web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …
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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive suspending all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by foreign nationals inside or outside the US.
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GPT-4o
We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
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Moon
Interactive article about the Moon
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Sound
Interactive article explaining how sound works.
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Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
Posted by Marc Stevens (CWI Amsterdam), Elie Bursztein (Google), Pierre Karpman (CWI Amsterdam), Ange Albertini (Google), Yarik Markov (Goog...
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
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Bicycle
Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, using a variety of recent tools and algorithms or even via direct weight editing.
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No Cookie for You
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War and national security uses of AI.
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GPS
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Slack has just recently rolled out a “WYSIWYG text input” widget to its Web browser interface. (Apparently, the phased rollout started at the beginning of November 2019, but it’s just now starting to hit the workspaces that I participate in.) The user experience of using this new input method is really, really, really…
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Gears
Interactive article explaining how mechanical gears work.