Hacker News with Generative AI: People

The Acid King (2001) (rollingstone.com)
Late last year, a new prisoner arrived at the Shawnee County Jail in Topeka, Kansas — a polite beanstalk of a man from the San Francisco Bay Area who stood out among the petty criminals who make up the majority of Shawnee’s inmate population.
Crime, Music, People
58 points by udit99 14 days ago | 48 comments
Xiaofeng Wang (researchgate.net)
Research, Academia, People
49 points by rolph 54 days ago | 16 comments
What Happened to Silicon Valley's Most Infamous Thought Criminal? (thefp.com)
LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg — It’s a bitterly cold day in the Low Country of Luxembourg. So when James Damore opens the door to a seventeenth-century cathedral, offering it up as a kind of refuge, I fall in line behind his gangly footsteps and follow him inside.
Silicon Valley, Controversy, Technology, People
8 points by fortran77 67 days ago | 0 comments
Ronald Read – Philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant (wikipedia.org)
Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant.
Philanthropy, Investing, Biography, People
11 points by thecosas 81 days ago | 0 comments
Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer – 25 Years at Google: From PageRank to AGI (dwarkeshpatel.com)
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field.
Google, Artificial Intelligence, History, Technology, People
4 points by ctoth 100 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Map showing which notable people were born in your backyard (tjukanovt.github.io)
Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world.
Data Visualization, Geography, People, History
16 points by wifehow248 133 days ago | 3 comments
It's the Most Indispensable Machine in the World–and It Depends on This Woman (wsj.com)
BOISE, Idaho—Brienna Hall has the most valuable role that you’ll never see at the most vital company that you’ve never heard of.
Technology, People, Business
6 points by Jimmc414 144 days ago | 2 comments
Francois Chollet is leaving Google (googleblog.com)
Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
Artificial Intelligence, Google, People
377 points by xnx 191 days ago | 174 comments
Software is about people, not code (2020) (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
Dear new developer,
Software Development, People, Technology, Career Advice
20 points by mooreds 248 days ago | 18 comments
Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way (economist.com)
The first thing you noticed about Simon Verity was his hair. It stuck out in wild grey corkscrews, as if sprayed with the fiercest sort of gel. That grey was not a sign of age, or only partly. It was mostly stone-dust, accumulated until he could never wash it out. That same dust covered the rest of his comfortably trampish clothes. When he walked down the street, he liked to think, he looked like an apparition.
Biography, People, Lifestyle
51 points by Bluestein 259 days ago | 36 comments
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell (5280.com)
Biography, Lifestyle, People
51 points by gmays 278 days ago | 2 comments
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announces he is joining Anthropic (twitter.com)
OpenAI, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, People
43 points by alphabetting 291 days ago | 8 comments
Ken Leishman (wikipedia.org)
Biographies, People, Wikipedia
19 points by luu 295 days ago | 0 comments
Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira (lwn.net)
Obituaries, Linux, People
57 points by seusscat 329 days ago | 2 comments