Hacker News with Generative AI: Industry

How Airbus Took Off (worksinprogress.news)
Would you rather fly in an Airbus or a Boeing? It seems like an easy question.
Ask HN: How do you propose to rebuild industry in a post-apocalypse world? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: How do you propose to rebuild industry in a post-apocalypse world?
Rickover's Lessons (chinatalk.media)
Strategic competition demands more than technological innovation — it requires building industrial power.
Carbon-Negative Ironmaking Using Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil Gasification (charmindustrial.com)
Steel is the backbone of modern industry, but America’s steel supply chain is heavily dependent on imports that leave jobs and industries vulnerable.
California banned polystyrene. Has industry spooked the governor into silence? (latimes.com)
California’s ban on polystyrene was one of the biggest wins for environmentalists in the state’s recent history.It went into effect on Jan. 1 — but no one, including the governor’s office and CalRecycle, is talking about it.
Why Quantum Engineering Is Emerging as a Distinct Industrial Sector (ieee.org)
Quantum tech isn't just about going smaller—it's about doing the impossible
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead (filfre.net)
“How do you make a small fortune in tabletop gaming?” runs an old joke.
Heat pump sales in Europe fall 23% to pre-Ukraine war levels (theguardian.com)
Heat pump sales fell 23% in Europe last year, industry data shows, reverting to the level they were at before the war in Ukraine and slowing the shift away from gas-burning boilers.
When industry manipulates science to prevent a PFAS ban (lemonde.fr)
Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good (nytimes.com)
One way to understand the video game industry’s current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man’s spandex.
Truck dealers push back on electric sales mandates in New Jersey (npr.org)
As a handful of states start adopting California's sales mandates for zero-emission trucks, dealers in New Jersey are pushing back.
Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip (twitter.com)
The industry structure of LLM makers (calpaterson.com)
Large language models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT and Claude.ai are whizzy and cool. A lot of people think that they are going to be The Future. Maybe they are — but that doesn't mean that building them is going to be a profitable business.
Dead Labor, Dead Speech – What happens when culture becomes an industry's raw... (newcartographies.com)
If, as Marx argued, capital is dead labor, then the products of large language models might best be understood as dead speech.
Apple internally believes that it's at least two years behind in AI development (9to5mac.com)
According to the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, some employees at Apple believe that the company is around two years behind in artificial intelligence development.
"The End of Telecoms History" (iicintermedia.org)
In his latest book, WILLIAM WEBB argues that we mostly have all the connectivity we need. The telecoms industry needs to refocus away from technical innovation and towards efficiency. Governments and regulators, he says, will need a new mindset
Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout (ign.com)
Last week, Bloomberg reported that 25 people comprising the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive walked out the door in a group resignation. But while some of the circumstances around their departure emerged in the reporting, one pressing question was left unanswered: why?
Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry (surveillancewatch.io)
Alcohol Researcher Says Alcohol-Industry Lobbyists Are Attacking His Work (slashdot.org)
Delivery worker minimum wage is bringing order to a wild industry (streetsblog.org)
The Semiconductor Design Software Duopoly: Cadence and Synopsys [video] (youtube.com)
Many US solar factories are lagging. Except those China owns (reuters.com)
How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017) (ft.com)
AI industry needs to earn $600B per year to pay for hardware spend (tomshardware.com)
German industry turns to solar in race to cut energy costs (reuters.com)
Big Tech's playbook for swallowing the AI industry (theverge.com)
FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel (thebignewsletter.com)
China has spent at least $230B to build its EV industry, new study finds (cnbc.com)
Inside FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel (thebignewsletter.com)
FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in Food Packaging (fda.gov)