<story><title>OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openais-board-information-reports-2024-03-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it&amp;#x27;s not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Thanks Dan.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>(this was originally posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&lt;/a&gt; but we&amp;#x27;ve merged that thread hither)</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily saying they&amp;#x27;re wrong, but there&amp;#x27;s really no way to put out a release like this without a &amp;quot;history is written by the victors&amp;quot; vibe coming across.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pests</author><text>Yep! His name is Daniel Gackle, here is a 10 year old YN blog from pg introducing him and others:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;meet-the-people-taking-over...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look&amp;#x27;s like its almost 10 years since he officially joined full-time. We should have a party.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openais-board-information-reports-2024-03-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it&amp;#x27;s not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Thanks Dan.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>(this was originally posted in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=39647488&lt;/a&gt; but we&amp;#x27;ve merged that thread hither)</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not necessarily saying they&amp;#x27;re wrong, but there&amp;#x27;s really no way to put out a release like this without a &amp;quot;history is written by the victors&amp;quot; vibe coming across.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IncreasePosts</author><text>I think you&amp;#x27;re confusing dang with someone else. dang is actually Da Ng, a Malaysian Chinese hacker extraordinare</text></comment>