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Issue #1321 — November 20, 2023

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OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO theverge.com \| points: 1216 \| comments: 1579

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Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads news.ycombinator.com \| points: 602 \| comments: 654

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Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team theverge.com \| points: 378 \| comments: 346

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Deep Learning Course fleuret.org \| points: 376 \| comments: 47

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HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder forum.handbrake.fr \| points: 366 \| comments: 85

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StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech github.com \| points: 345 \| comments: 107

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Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster bloomberg.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 307

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Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy zero-k.info \| points: 270 \| comments: 105

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Kyutai AI research lab with a $330M budget that will make everything open source techcrunch.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 86

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I will always prefer to work from home shavingtheyak.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 241

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An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th universetoday.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 66

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Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock shavingtheyak.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 124

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Ask HN: Any comprehensive courses on Auth? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 74

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Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks arxiv.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 154

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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) philip.greenspun.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 455

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datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated blog.miguelgrinberg.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 270

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Victor Mono Typeface rubjo.github.io \| points: 195 \| comments: 138

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A Timeline of the OpenAI Board loeber.substack.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 136

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Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom’s Z-machine interpreters github.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 22

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I cancelled my Replit subscription journal.paoloamoroso.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 133

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