Hacker News with Generative AI: Bureaucracy

'We Just Want to Get Back to Work': NOAA Hurricane Hunter Speaks After Layoffs (gizmodo.com)
After mass layoffs at NOAA, meteorologist Andrew Hazelton finds himself in a bureaucratic no man’s land—fired, then reinstated, but still unable to work.
Government, Layoffs, Meteorology, Bureaucracy
10 points by rntn 35 days ago | 0 comments
A man's quest to show the Social Security Administration he's alive and kicking (cnn.com)
Social Security, Bureaucracy, Government, Identity
9 points by zfg 35 days ago | 1 comments
Move Fast and Break People (thehandbasket.co)
When Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees arrived at work on a recent frigid day in Washington, DC, they found a long, snaking line outside the building where they typically breeze through security.
Government, Bureaucracy, Security
25 points by rbanffy 62 days ago | 16 comments
The Utopia of Rules: Technology, Stupidity and Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) (theguardian.com)
At the start of this unusual and interesting book, which is subtitled “On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy”, David Graeber states what he calls the iron law of liberalism: any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.
Bureaucracy, Technology, Politics, Economics
44 points by FinnLobsien 65 days ago | 11 comments
When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause.
Names, Technology, Identity, Bureaucracy
272 points by impish9208 65 days ago | 295 comments
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured in Bureaucrats (astralcodexten.com)
An old tweet from Vivek Ramaswamy, now co-head of the Department of Government Efficacy:
Bureaucracy, Government, Politics, Social Commentary
6 points by feross 107 days ago | 0 comments
Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)
Bureaucracy, Social Sciences, Politics, Sociology
196 points by dhruvmethi 191 days ago | 97 comments
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010) (jerrypournelle.com)
Bureaucracy, Law, 2010s
67 points by Bluestein 243 days ago | 44 comments
The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem (tricitypsychology.com)
Scheduling, Optimization, Bureaucracy, Psychology
13 points by yamrzou 286 days ago | 5 comments
Chinese civilization's longevity? Exams and bureaucracy (csmonitor.com)
Chinese Civilization, History, Bureaucracy, Exams
7 points by Tomte 288 days ago | 4 comments
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape (theguardian.com)
Cannabis, Legalization, Germany, Bureaucracy
12 points by Pete-Codes 292 days ago | 2 comments