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November 8, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (November 09, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for November 09, 2023 :</p>

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Omegle founder shuts down site forever?

https://www.omegle.com/

Summary: Omegle founder, Leif K-Brooks, announces the closure of the platform due to financial and psychological stress. Despite efforts to combat misuse and criminal activity, recent attacks on the service have been overwhelming. K-Brooks expresses concern for the future of online communication and urges support for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web

https://github.com/ishan0102/vimGPT

Summary: vimGPT is a project that aims to use GPT-4V's vision capabilities for web browsing by integrating it with Vimium, a Chrome extension for keyboard-only navigation. The project explores the potential of multimodal models as an interface for web browsing and plans to implement features like automatic context retrieval, higher resolution images, and speech-to-text functionality for improved accessibility.

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