Hacker News with Generative AI: Bill Gates

The Old Model of Billionaire Philanthropy Is Ending (bloomberg.com)
Bill Gates is an optimist. He believes the world will be a better place in 20 years, that diseases like polio, measles and malaria will be eradicated, and that there will be other rich people lining up to fill the void when, as he announced last week, his foundation shuts its doors in 2045.

Philanthropy, Bill Gates, Wealth, Technology, Public Health

8 points by petethomas 43 days ago | 0 comments

Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for 'the deaths of the poorest children' (theverge.com)
Gates calls out the ‘stunning’ reductions in USAID funding during an interview with The New York Times.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Philanthropy, Public Health, Criticism

22 points by breadwinner 50 days ago | 6 comments

Mining Group Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Expands into DR Congo (ft.com)
Mining group backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos expands into DR Congo

Mining, Business, Congo, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos

8 points by ViktorRay 61 days ago | 0 comments

Bill Gates on first OS he wrote: 'Code remains the coolest I've ever written' (fortune.com)
Bill Gates offers to let anyone download the first operating system he and Paul Allen wrote 50 years ago: ‘That code remains the coolest I’ve ever written’

Software, History, Programming, Technology, Bill Gates

6 points by CharlesW 85 days ago | 2 comments

The coolest code I've ever written – Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)

Programming, Software, Personal Stories, Bill Gates

29 points by xero1 86 days ago | 8 comments

Bill Gates on the iPod (2003) (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Bill Gates, iPod, History

16 points by mfiguiere 111 days ago | 2 comments

Review of "Source Code" by Bill Gates (theguardian.com)
The enduring mystery about William Henry Gates III is this: how did a precocious and sometimes obnoxious kid evolve into a billionaire tech lord and then into an elder statesman and philanthropist? This book gives us only the first part of the story, tracing Gates’s evolution from birth in 1955 to the founding of Microsoft in 1975. For the next part of the story, we will just have to wait for the sequel.

Biography, Technology, Microsoft, Bill Gates

23 points by Archelaos 145 days ago | 4 comments

Jimmy Carter Remembered Fondly by Bill Gates, Environmentalists (gatesnotes.com)

Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Environment

5 points by m463 173 days ago | 0 comments

Bill Gates Faces Backlash for Calling India 'a laboratory to try things' (indiatimes.com)
Bill Gates' comments on India's potential as a 'laboratory to try things' during a podcast have sparked backlash among Indian social media users, who felt the remark was disrespectful.

India, Bill Gates, Backlash, Social Media, International Relations

5 points by rmason 199 days ago | 0 comments

I've been writing software for the last 25 years. Here some things I learned so (rpanachi.com)
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

Software Development, Experience, Programming, Bill Gates

5 points by todsacerdoti 252 days ago | 0 comments

Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (techemails.com)

Bill Gates, Microsoft, Humor

93 points by lifeisstillgood 299 days ago | 38 comments

Microsoft reportedly had to ban Bill Gates from being alone with interns (futurism.com)

Microsoft, Bill Gates, Workplace Culture

13 points by gapistes 328 days ago | 0 comments

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw, technology will adapt (theregister.com)