Hacker News with Generative AI: Donations

FEMA: Never donate clothing (it is never needed) (fema.gov)
After a disaster, people come together to help. To make the most of your contributions, it’s important to follow guidelines for donating and volunteering responsibly.

Disaster Relief, Donations, FEMA

51 points by carabiner 1 day ago | 29 comments

Microsoft contributes $1M to Trump's inauguration fund (cnbc.com)

Politics, Business, Donations

11 points by bloomingkales 9 days ago | 14 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1M to Trump's Inaugural Fund (macrumors.com)
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple.

Politics, Business, Donations

18 points by latexr 13 days ago | 24 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1M to Trump's inauguration fund (9to5mac.com)
Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined a chorus of Big Tech executives making sizeable donations to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Politics, Business, Donations

9 points by doener 14 days ago | 1 comments

Awesome Donations: A repository of FLOSS donation options (github.com/n1trux)
A repository of FLOSS donation options, sorted A-Z.

Open Source, Donations, Software, GitHub

31 points by prompt_overflow 15 days ago | 4 comments

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund (theguardian.com)
US business leaders are spending big on Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund, which is predicted to exceed even the record-setting $107m raised in 2017.

Politics, Business, Donations, Trump

4 points by rf15 23 days ago | 3 comments

MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations (yieldgiving.com)
I love words, and this year this one has been on my mind a lot. It’s another one that seems to have undergone a kind of semantic shriveling.

Philanthropy, Donations, Nonprofits

81 points by Geekette 27 days ago | 92 comments

The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022) (unherd.com)
No one wants to be a bad person, and you probably felt pretty bad when you saw the heart-breaking appeal and just carried on clicking. Wikipedia is midway through a six-week fund-raising drive in Anglophone regions including the United States, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. The banner ads beg for “just £2”, which doesn’t sound like much, for all that free information. But before you start feeling too guilty, it’s worth considering some facts.

Wikipedia, Donations, Online Content, Charity, Philanthropy

49 points by xqcgrek2 33 days ago | 19 comments

Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are the latest billionaires to donate $1M to Trump (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon plan to donate $1 million each to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, according to reports from Fox and the Wall Street Journal.

Politics, Business, Donations

12 points by pera 36 days ago | 7 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1M to Trump's Inaugural Fund (nytimes.com)
Meta said on Wednesday that it had donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, in the latest move by Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, to foster a positive rapport with Mr. Trump.

Politics, Business, Donations

15 points by reaperducer 36 days ago | 2 comments

Meta donates $1M to Trump fund (bbc.com)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (£786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.

Politics, Social Media, Business, Donations

8 points by willvarfar 37 days ago | 0 comments

The tech bosses who poured $394.1M into US election (theguardian.com)
Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.

Politics, Elections, Silicon Valley, Donations

52 points by wslh 41 days ago | 46 comments

I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source (kvinogradov.com)

Open Source, Algorithms, Donations, Programming

365 points by lorey 45 days ago | 84 comments

DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation (perl.com)
Today, on “Giving Tuesday”, The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is extremely pleased to announce a donation of $25,000 from DuckDuckGo.

Programming Languages, Donations, Open Source

314 points by oalders 46 days ago | 202 comments

300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto (ziglang.org)
The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now.

Donations, Programming Languages, Open Source

160 points by rc00 109 days ago | 66 comments

KDE Asking for Donations (pointieststick.com)

Open Source, Software, Donations

131 points by maverick74 142 days ago | 44 comments

Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation? (osm.town)

OpenStreetMap, AI, Donations

430 points by RicoElectrico 172 days ago | 160 comments

Elon Musk backs down from $45M a month pledge to Trump (fortune.com)

Elon Musk, Twitter, Politics, Business, Donations

17 points by tldrthelaw 178 days ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: How do you fairly split donations among an open source team? (ycombinator.com)