Hacker News with Generative AI: Controversy

Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 (fosdem.org)
We were made aware of planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025 in response to a scheduled talk which is causing controversy. The talk in question is claimed to be on the schedule for sponsorship reasons; additionally, some of the speakers scheduled to speak during this talk are controversial to some of our attendees.

FOSDEM 2025, Protests, Controversy, Open Source

5 points by pantalaimon 11 hours ago | 4 comments

U.K. restaurant selling $177 pineapple pizza: the price for 'terrible judgment' (cbc.ca)
People who prefer their pizza peppered with pineapples will have to pay a pretty penny for the pleasure at a pizzeria in Norwich, England.

Food, United Kingdom, Controversy, Pricing

5 points by petethomas 22 hours ago | 2 comments

Norwich restaurant charges £100 ($122) for a pineapple pizza (theguardian.com)
A pizzeria is asking its customers to put their dough where their mouth is if they want to eat a Hawaiian – charging £100 for a ham and pineapple-topped pizza.

Food, Restaurants, UK, Pricing, Controversy

10 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 4 days ago | 10 comments

Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk's high-level character (pcgamer.com)

Gaming, Elon Musk, Controversy

12 points by eproxus 5 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk Is Lying About Being Good at Video Games (youtube.com)

Elon Musk, Video Games, Gaming, Controversy

34 points by CharlesW 6 days ago | 1 comments

Apple says it will update AI feature after BBC complaint (bbc.com)
Apple is facing fresh calls to withdraw its controversial artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones.

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Technology, News, Controversy

5 points by planetjones 11 days ago | 1 comments

MAGA opponents of Elon Musk claim he stripped them of their X badges (cnn.com)

Elon Musk, Social Media, Politics, Controversy

32 points by vinni2 16 days ago | 7 comments

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans (news.sky.com)
World chess number one Magnus Carlsen is back in a major tournament after he quit because he was told to change his jeans.

Chess, Sports, Fashion, Controversy

42 points by austinallegro 19 days ago | 67 comments

Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate (2019) (alumni.berkeley.edu)
IN THE SUMMER OF 1984 the senior scientists of Cetus Corp., a Berkeley biotech company, found themselves in a bind. One of their employees, a promising young scientist named Kary Mullis, had dreamed up a technique to exponentially replicate tiny scraps of DNA. He called it polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and if it worked it would change the world and likely earn Cetus a mountain of money. The only problem was Mullis was an interpersonal wrecking ball.

Science, Biography, Controversy, Academia

22 points by oli5679 19 days ago | 24 comments

Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement (chess.com)
GM Magnus Carlsen will no longer participate in the 2024 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship or the FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after a dress-code disagreement with FIDE.

Chess, Sports, Controversy, Magnus Carlsen, FIDE

345 points by throwup238 21 days ago | 437 comments

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia (newsweek.com)
Elon Musk has urged his followers not to donate to Wikipedia, which he branded "Wokepedia," until "they restore balance to their editing authority."

Elon Musk, Wikipedia, Social Media, Controversy

13 points by Tomte 24 days ago | 7 comments

A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic (cnn.com)

Climate Change, Arctic, Environment, Controversy

5 points by doener 29 days ago | 0 comments

Math Education Needs Reform. It Got a War Instead (alumni.berkeley.edu)
On July 7, 2023, a University of California faculty committee unanimously voted to reverse a highly controversial policy.

Education, Politics, Controversy, Higher Education

11 points by 7402 30 days ago | 2 comments

Top Gear, the biggest car show,faked a negative review of Tesla Roadster (twitter.com)

Television, Automotive, Tesla, Reviews, Controversy

5 points by vinnyglennon 32 days ago | 2 comments

Rage-inducing, unnecessary EOL from Spotify (reddit.com)
Yesterday, they shut it down. To be clear, they didn’t just stop selling them, they bricked every one that they had ever sold.

Music Streaming, Spotify, Consumer Issues, Controversy

10 points by ValentineC 33 days ago | 2 comments

Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage (gizmodo.com)
In San Francisco, the heart of Silicon Valley, an AI startup called Artisan has spent an untold sum blitzing the city with an advertising campaign that dispenses with the need for humanity.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Controversy, San Francisco, Advertising

90 points by alister 38 days ago | 50 comments

Anthem drops controversial new plan to cap anesthesia coverage after backlash (usatoday.com)
After receiving intense backlash, a health insurance provider has rolled back its plan to implement a new policy that would have limited its coverage for anesthesia used during procedures.

Health Insurance, Healthcare, Controversy, Backlash

47 points by donsupreme 40 days ago | 36 comments

The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is a Dangerous Criminal (slate.com)
On the surface, it’s a funny curiosity of a story that would normally take up just enough of the news cycle for viewers to jab their thumbs and mutter to one another, “Can you believe this shit?” But Justin Sun’s involvement here takes this beyond the realm of mere amusement and into something far more insidious: a yearslong saga of skimping on international law, funneling ill-gotten wealth and splurging ostentatiously, abusing employees, becoming the subject of government investigations, plagiarizing white

Art, Crime, Controversy

21 points by rntn 43 days ago | 3 comments

Banned C++ Contributor Speaks Out [video] (youtube.com)

Programming, Controversy, C++

8 points by snvzz 47 days ago | 3 comments

Writers condemn startup's plans to publish 8k books next year using AI (theguardian.com)
Writers and publishers are criticising a startup that plans to publish up to 8,000 books next year using AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Publishing, Writers, Technology, Controversy

4 points by bookofjoe 48 days ago | 1 comments

C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question' (slashdot.org)

C++, Programming Languages, Standards, Controversy

94 points by jamesy0ung 55 days ago | 90 comments

Linux CoC Announces Decision Wrt Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) (kernel.org)
The Code of Conduct Committee received reports about your conduct in this email discussion.

Linux, Open Source, Community, Conduct, Controversy

62 points by pantalaimon 56 days ago | 103 comments

Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-made ad (nbcnews.com)
Coca-Cola is facing backlash online over an artificial intelligence-made Christmas promotional video that users are calling “soulless” and “devoid of any actual creativity.”

Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Advertising, Controversy, Social Media

6 points by pseudolus 58 days ago | 1 comments

Hafnium Controversy (wikipedia.org)
The hafnium controversy was a debate over the possibility of "triggering" rapid energy releases, via gamma-ray emission, from 178m2Hf, a nuclear isomer of hafnium.

Physics, Nuclear Energy, Controversy, Science

10 points by _Microft 65 days ago | 0 comments

Ban on women marrying after 25: the proposal to boost birth rate in Japan (firstpost.com)
The leader of Japan’s Conservative Party has sparked an uproar by advocating for a ban on women marrying after the age of 25 and having their uteruses removed at the age of 30.

Japan, Social Policy, Demographics, Women's Rights, Controversy

8 points by RyeCombinator 66 days ago | 21 comments

A $1M teacher scheme left uncertified teachers in Texas (cnn.com)

Education, Texas, Politics, Controversy

13 points by LopRabbit 75 days ago | 0 comments

Beware of Poison in the Source (danb.me)
Bitwarden found itself caught in a spot of drama last week introducing non-free and non-open code into their desktop client. I don’t use Bitwarden myself, but in a similar vein I remember they launched their “Passwordless” project as open source while under non-open terms.

Security, Open Source, Software, Controversy

8 points by ssddanbrown 80 days ago | 0 comments

Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source (ft.com)

Meta, Open Source, Social Media, Technology, Controversy

17 points by sherlockxu 84 days ago | 1 comments

Kernel contributor James Bottomley's response to the recent maintainers removal (kernel.org)
Please accept all of our apologies for the way this was handled.

Linux Kernel, Open Source, Community, Controversy

11 points by simonmysun 86 days ago | 3 comments

Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds (typeblog.net)
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:15, Peter Cai <peter@typeblog.net> wrote: > > Again -- are you under any sort of NDA not to even refer to a list of > these countries? No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.

Open Source, Linux, Controversy

79 points by yuriko 86 days ago | 40 comments