The best of Hacker News - June 13, 2024

1.
Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

545 points

2.
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

476 points

3.
Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores

446 points

4.
MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

398 points

5.
Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections

389 points

6.
How Meta trains large language models at scale

378 points

7.
Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

341 points

8.
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack

309 points

9.
Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]

292 points

10.
AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference

267 points

11.
AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

264 points

12.
Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative

249 points

13.
U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years

238 points

14.
Diffractive Chocolate

236 points

15.
Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library

230 points

16.
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds

230 points

17.
Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize

200 points

18.
Group chats rule the world

194 points

19.
Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

187 points

20.
Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend

178 points

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