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1.
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)
5710 points by davidbarker on Nov 17, 2023 | 2530 comments
2.
I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video] (youtube.com)
1268 points by anonymfus on Nov 16, 2023 | 428 comments
3.
Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected (goldmansachs.com)
565 points by dakna on Nov 17, 2023 | 437 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 | 733 comments
5.
Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row (breakingdefense.com)
344 points by TurkishPoptart on Nov 17, 2023 | 267 comments
6.
Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years (ieee.org)
416 points by pseudolus on Nov 17, 2023 | 391 comments
7.
Xash3D: An open-source reimplementation of Half-Life (github.com/fwgs)
176 points by mepian on Nov 17, 2023 | 68 comments
8.
'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
380 points by locallost on Nov 17, 2023 | 250 comments
9.
A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger (stranger.video)
280 points by underanalyzer on Nov 17, 2023 | 86 comments
10.
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021) (eff.org)
441 points by tambourine_man on Nov 17, 2023 | 202 comments
11.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row (canarymedia.com)
356 points by Anon84 on Nov 17, 2023 | 364 comments
12.
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)
565 points by Philpax on Nov 17, 2023 | 257 comments
13.
Apostrophe Protection Society (apostrophe.org.uk)
155 points by Tomte on Nov 17, 2023 | 176 comments
14.
Arithmetic in Computer Hardware (thelast19digitsofpi.github.io)
99 points by alexahn on Nov 17, 2023 | 19 comments
15.
What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model (venturebeat.com)
112 points by swyx on Nov 15, 2023 | 54 comments
16.
Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence (narrative.bi)
98 points by fromthegut on Nov 17, 2023 | 27 comments
17.
Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator (acko.net)
107 points by cgadski on Nov 16, 2023 | 17 comments
18.
Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB (simonwillison.net)
146 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2023 | 75 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 | 85 comments
20.
Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down (reuters.com)
151 points by JeremyNT on Nov 17, 2023 | 74 comments
21.
I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets (matan-h.com)
223 points by matan-h on Nov 17, 2023 | 80 comments
22.
Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts (landaire.net)
105 points by lukastyrychtr on Nov 17, 2023 | 24 comments
23.
How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry (construction-physics.com)
90 points by jseliger on Nov 17, 2023 | 64 comments
24.
Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality (arxiv.org)
219 points by raybb on Nov 17, 2023 | 84 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 | 11 comments
26.
The astonishing behavior of recursive sequences (quantamagazine.org)
101 points by pseudolus on Nov 17, 2023 | 15 comments
27.
De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)
316 points by thunderbong on Nov 17, 2023 | 340 comments
28.
Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck (volvotrucks.com)
203 points by clouddrover on Nov 17, 2023 | 140 comments
29.
The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
253 points by pjmlp on Nov 17, 2023 | 396 comments
30.
Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans (wsj.com)
339 points by impish9208 on Nov 17, 2023 | 338 comments

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