Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-12-14

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1. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment www.mercurynews.com - 172 comments 491 points
2. Test www.defense.gov - 117 comments 480 points
3. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit openai.com - 464 comments 448 points
4. MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown github.com - 60 comments 242 points
5. macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive www.shirtpocket.com - 102 comments 214 points
6. McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis www.npr.org - 106 comments 205 points
7. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR ai.meta.com - 30 comments 205 points
8. Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made weborigami.org - 46 comments 178 points
9. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? news.ycombinator.com - 113 comments 172 points
10. Donald Bitzer has died computerhistory.org - 19 comments 169 points
11. Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 blog.langworth.com - 25 comments 162 points
12. Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue news.mit.edu - 18 comments 159 points
13. Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise nypost.com - 263 comments 147 points
14. People who are good at reading have different brains: study theconversation.com - 127 comments 125 points
15. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment old.reddit.com - 10 comments 116 points
16. Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications www.npmjs.com - 39 comments 111 points
17. Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection maplant.com - 57 comments 105 points
18. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) matt.might.net - 33 comments 104 points
19. Htmx 2.0.4 Released github.com - 44 comments 103 points
20. AT&T won't upgrade millions of DSL users to fiber despite billions in subsidies www.techdirt.com - 83 comments 102 points
21. Luon programming language github.com - 36 comments 102 points
22. AI Product Management www.deeplearning.ai - 40 comments 82 points
23. Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG www.zellic.io - 74 comments 71 points
24. Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes github.com - 29 comments 70 points
25. Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia archaeologymag.com - 40 comments 67 points
26. Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT ithy.com - 56 comments 62 points
27. Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Scientists Warn www.the-scientist.com - 39 comments 60 points
28. Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use www.themarshallproject.org - 28 comments 59 points
29. SCCS roach motel www.tuhs.org - 12 comments 51 points
30. Intel built best budget GPU for 1440p gaming www.tomshardware.com - 14 comments 48 points