Hacker News with Generative AI: San Francisco

As China seeks influence, it has a cuddly way into City Hall: Pandas (nytimes.com)
After joining the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for dinner last year, Mayor London Breed of San Francisco accompanied him to the airport to bid him farewell. There, on the tarmac, she made her request: pandas.

China, Politics, Diplomacy, San Francisco, Animals

3 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 1 comments

San Francisco Curbs Syphilis with Cheap 'Morning-After' Pill (bloomberg.com)
San Francisco reversed some of the highest rates of syphilis and chlamydia in the US after county health officials recommended a low-cost tablet taken like a “morning-after pill.”

Public Health, San Francisco, Health Policy

5 points by toomuchtodo 10 days ago | 1 comments

Get the Funk Out (lessheavy.substack.com)
In my crusty ratboy phase (mercifully over now, I hope), when I lived in San Francisco, I struggled. With many things, but specifically with laundry. Like the Johnny Cash song, my workdays began by looking in my closet for my cleanest dirty shirt.

Life Advice, Humor, San Francisco

42 points by bgoldste 12 days ago | 24 comments

SFPD refuses to say where they've placed 400 automated license plate readers (sfist.com)
The new armada of automated license plate readers in SF are taking three million surveillance photos every day, but the SF Police Department is being cagey about disclosing where the hundreds of cameras are located.

Privacy, Surveillance, Technology, San Francisco, Law Enforcement

42 points by anigbrowl 13 days ago | 34 comments

Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84 (sfgate.com)
At the turn of the mid-1960s, people knew they had landed at ground zero of an evolving San Francisco if they fell down the right rabbit hole and somehow tumbled inside Mnasidika.

Fashion, History, San Francisco

122 points by anigbrowl 16 days ago | 41 comments

SF Purity Test (sfpurity.com)
The official Purity Test checklist for the techies of San Francisco. Click on every item you have done.

San Francisco, Technology, Humor, Lifestyle

46 points by glowingvoices 16 days ago | 25 comments

San Francisco House Prices Drop Back to 2019 as Tech Jobs Evaporate (wolfstreet.com)
The big decline in tech employment in San Francisco and the northern part of Silicon Valley that we’ll get to in a moment has put its stamp on home prices in the city of San Francisco.

Real Estate, San Francisco, Technology, Employment

50 points by jarsin 19 days ago | 39 comments

San Francisco House Prices Drop Back to 2019, Condo Prices to 2015 (wolfstreet.com)
The big decline in tech employment in San Francisco and the northern part of Silicon Valley that we’ll get to in a moment has put its stamp on home prices in the city of San Francisco.

Real Estate, San Francisco, Technology, Economics

10 points by Ctyra 20 days ago | 1 comments

Tech entrepreneur found guilty of Cash App founder Bob Lee's murder (bbc.com)
A San Francisco jury has convicted a tech entrepreneur on charges of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Bob Lee, the founder of mobile payment service Cash App.

Tech, Crime, San Francisco, Mobile Payments

9 points by pseudolus 31 days ago | 0 comments

Suit charges SF's Scale AI with misclassifying workers, wage theft (sfexaminer.com)
A San Francisco-based artificial-intelligence startup misclassified workers as contractors and failed to pay them the money they were owed or give them paid breaks, according to a new class-action lawsuit.

Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Labor, San Francisco, Startups

7 points by romanhn 35 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (reddit.com)
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment (siliconvalley.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblower, Death, San Francisco

125 points by hobo_in_library 35 days ago | 10 comments

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (mercurynews.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, News, San Francisco

1041 points by mmorearty 35 days ago | 431 comments

Waymo market share just passed Lyft in SF (twitter.com)

Waymo, Lyft, Transportation, Self-Driving Cars, San Francisco

9 points by henrijn 35 days ago | 0 comments

AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying "stop hiring humans" (arstechnica.com)
A Y-Combinator-backed company called Artisan, which sells customer service and sales workflow software, recently launched a provocative billboard campaign in San Francisco playing on that angst, reports Gizmodo. It features the slogan "Stop Hiring Humans." The company markets its software products as "AI Employees" or "Artisans."

Artificial Intelligence, Business, San Francisco, Marketing, Labor

7 points by kristianp 37 days ago | 0 comments

AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying "stop hiring humans" (arstechnica.com)
A Y-Combinator-backed company called Artisan, which sells customer service and sales workflow software, recently launched a provocative billboard campaign in San Francisco playing on that angst, reports Gizmodo. It features the slogan "Stop Hiring Humans." The company markets its software products as "AI Employees" or "Artisans."

Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, San Francisco, Labor

11 points by tivert 38 days ago | 2 comments

San Francisco is on track to have lowest homicide rate in 60 years – KTVU FOX 2 (ktvu.com)
San Francisco is on track to have the lowest homicide rate in 60 years, according to the police department and mayor's office.

Crime, San Francisco, News, Statistics

11 points by t23 38 days ago | 1 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

Amazon forms a new AI agent-focused lab (techcrunch.com)
Amazon says that it’s establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building “foundational” capabilities for AI agents.

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco

7 points by nancy_le 39 days ago | 0 comments

The great tweezer takeover: Is fine dining hijacking the soul of San Francisco? (sfstandard.com)
As more chefs embrace the fuss and foam, the city's sweet spot — the midlevel restaurant — is at risk of becoming extinct.

Food, San Francisco, Restaurants, Culinary Trends

5 points by Stratoscope 39 days ago | 0 comments

A San Francisco Navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments (theguardian.com)
Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist

Science, History, San Francisco, Military, Health

4 points by c420 53 days ago | 0 comments

How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup? (ycombinator.com)
We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup.

Startups, Angel Investors, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco

17 points by ttsemih 59 days ago | 14 comments

SFO Ballot Measure Reflects 10-Year Battle to Reinstate 8th-Grade Algebra (justequations.org)
The San Francisco Unified School District, which pulled algebra from its middle schools 10 years ago in the name of equity, will bring the course back next fall, ending a controversial experiment that some say squandered the opportunity for advanced learners to excel in mathematics—and did little to close the achievement gap.

Education, Math, San Francisco, Equity

8 points by throwoutway 67 days ago | 1 comments

4-Way Waymo Standoff Is Autonomous Vehicle Comedy Gold (roadandtrack.com)
Waymo's self-driving Jaguar I-Paces are all over San Francisco, and sometimes they do silly (and annoying) things.

Autonomous Vehicles, San Francisco, Comedy, AI

9 points by radpanda 73 days ago | 2 comments

San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month (gizmodo.com)
A startup in San Francisco that rents out bunkbed-style pods large enough to fit a twin mattress is overwhelmed with demand for its $700-a-month living quarters.

Real Estate, Startups, San Francisco, Housing Crisis

14 points by pseudolus 75 days ago | 4 comments

300 people applied to rent $700/month sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco (theguardian.com)
A company that rents “sleeping pods” in downtown San Francisco for $700 a month has had 300 people apply for its remaining 17 beds, the company’s CEO said.

Housing Crisis, San Francisco, Startups, Affordable Housing

81 points by bookofjoe 78 days ago | 149 comments

Company renting SF sleeping pods for $700 a month gains city approval (abc7news.com)
After over a year, San Francisco finally approved the startup's tiny sleeping pods to be leased out by renters. Here's a look inside.

Real Estate, San Francisco, Startups, Housing

14 points by theredsix 81 days ago | 12 comments

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source (theregister.com)
Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use.

Open Source, Technology, San Francisco, Business

6 points by pabs3 83 days ago | 0 comments

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source (theregister.com)
Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use.

Open Source, Technology, San Francisco, Advertising, Business

5 points by rntn 85 days ago | 0 comments

Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source (gazetteer.co)
Some slightly unsettling billboards and ads have recently popped up around the city. They feature phrases like “Chief Freeload Officer” and “Chief Excuse Officer” accompanied by unsubtle caricatures, including one of a creepy guy with dollar signs for eyes, and money flying out of his drooling mouth.

Technology, San Francisco, Open Source, Advertising

38 points by coloneltcb 86 days ago | 13 comments

San Francisco to pay $212M to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni Metro light rail off floppy disks.

Technology, San Francisco, Public Transportation, Legacy Systems, Floppy Disks

14 points by LordAtlas 86 days ago | 11 comments