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1. YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox (reddit.com)
1919 points by csvm on Nov 20, 2023 | 464 comments
2. Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft (twitter.com/satyanadella)
1738 points by JimDabell on Nov 20, 2023 | 1311 comments
3. OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns (wired.com)
1441 points by skilled on Nov 20, 2023 | 1260 comments
4. After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data (itbrew.com)
560 points by turtlegrids on Nov 20, 2023 | 388 comments
5. Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) (sebastianraschka.com)
342 points by rasbt on Nov 19, 2023 | 27 comments
6. Krita AI Diffusion (github.com/acly)
574 points by unstuck3958 on Nov 20, 2023 | 269 comments
7. Friends don't let friends make bad graphs (github.com/cxli233)
500 points by ZunarJ5 on Nov 20, 2023 | 85 comments
8. FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell (cnn.com)
300 points by rntn on Nov 20, 2023 | 124 comments
9. 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming (brandonspark.github.io)
448 points by brandonspark on Nov 20, 2023 | 126 comments
10. Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (theverge.com)
625 points by mfiguiere on Nov 20, 2023 | 920 comments
11. RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information (colinwalker.blog)
319 points by walterbell on Nov 20, 2023 | 165 comments
12. Typst – Compose Papers Faster (typst.app)
376 points by iNic on Nov 20, 2023 | 134 comments
13. LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them (arxiv.org)
239 points by koie on Nov 20, 2023 | 142 comments
14. The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017) (fxrant.blogspot.com)
287 points by BerislavLopac on Nov 20, 2023 | 131 comments
15. I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions (twitter.com/ilyasut)
619 points by Palmik on Nov 20, 2023 | 412 comments
16. Airlines will make $118B in extra fees (fastcompany.com)
397 points by thunderbong on Nov 20, 2023 | 306 comments
17. River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres (brandur.org)
360 points by bo0tzz on Nov 20, 2023 | 104 comments
18. Increasing QUIC and UDP Throughput over Tailscale (tailscale.com)
254 points by PaulHoule on Nov 20, 2023 | 31 comments
19. Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think (epic.org)
261 points by underseacables on Nov 20, 2023 | 147 comments
20. Launch HN: Stralis (YC W23) – Hydrogen electric aircraft for medium-haul travel
149 points by stuart8ol on Nov 20, 2023 | 93 comments
21. Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More (ucdavis.edu)
122 points by abhi9u on Nov 18, 2023 | 30 comments
22. OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain (stratechery.com)
463 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 20, 2023 | 282 comments
23. The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month (codemanship.wordpress.com)
164 points by JazCE on Nov 20, 2023 | 89 comments
24. Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It (evanjones.ca)
204 points by r4um on Nov 20, 2023 | 326 comments
25. FreeBSD 14.0-Release (freebsd.org)
273 points by cperciva on Nov 20, 2023 | 121 comments
26. A Tour of the Tektronix Ceramic CRT "Catacombs" (vintagetek.org)
77 points by dangle1 on Nov 19, 2023 | 34 comments
27. NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance (collabora.com)
130 points by mfilion on Nov 20, 2023 | 26 comments
28. The microtype package: Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection [pdf] (clientvps.com)
91 points by Tomte on Nov 19, 2023 | 20 comments
29. Ancient Tree Inventory (woodlandtrust.org.uk)
77 points by zeristor on Nov 18, 2023 | 11 comments
30. Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down (theverge.com)
551 points by andsoitis on Nov 20, 2023 | 917 comments

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