Hacker News with Generative AI: Government Technology

18F transformed government technology, and why its elimination matters (theconversation.com)
Healthcare.gov, the government health insurance marketplace website, launched in October 2013 only to buckle under the weight of just 2,000 simultaneous users. As millions of Americans stared at error messages and frozen screens, a political crisis unfolded, but so did a new era of government technology.
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, offering support on the social network Bluesky for newly laid-off federal workers whose job it was to make government tech work better.