Hacker News with Generative AI: San Francisco

Silicon Valley vs. San Francisco Socialists (jacobin.com)
On the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, socialist Dean Preston championed policies that tackled the gross inequality Silicon Valley brought to the city. That’s why he was targeted by tech capitalists like Garry Tan and Elon Musk last year.

Politics, San Francisco, Socialism, Silicon Valley

20 points by reesericci 5 days ago | 3 comments

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood (supernuclear.substack.com)
18 months ago, I wasn’t planning on spending more time hanging out with my neighbors than with friends I’d known for decades. It started with a simple goal: my husband Tyler and I wanted that sense of community that feels like it’s only possible in the suburbs, but we believed we could achieve this while living in San Francisco. We brainstormed: should we make cookies and knock on doors? Should we invite neighbors over for dinner?

Community Building, Neighborhood, San Francisco

1648 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 497 comments

Stripe is stealing over $50k from me (ycombinator.com)
I run a coffee cart in SF. I am legally allowed to operate here and am not doing anything sketchy.

Stripe, Payment Processing, Small Businesses, San Francisco

28 points by sfcoffeeguy 15 days ago | 22 comments

Waymo's milestone SFO mapping permit comes with strings attached (techcrunch.com)
Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step in the Alphabet company’s bid to unlock a potentially lucrative use case for its robotaxis.

Autonomous Vehicles, San Francisco, Transportation, Technology, Permits

8 points by jumarm 17 days ago | 0 comments

Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco (smithsonianmag.com)
Discovered in an abandoned storage locker, the 2,042 processed color slides and 102 rolls of black-and-white film depict key moments in the city’s history

Photography, San Francisco, History, 1960s

114 points by gnabgib 17 days ago | 42 comments

The 2005 Sony Bravia ad (sfgate.com)
On a sunny July day in 2005, a frog jumped out of a rain gutter to see an unexpected sight: an avalanche of thousands of colorful bouncy balls careening down a San Francisco street.

Advertising, Viral Marketing, San Francisco

281 points by coloneltcb 22 days ago | 218 comments

Explore Sutro Tower (sutrotower.com)

San Francisco, Landmarks, Architecture

84 points by archagon 30 days ago | 27 comments

The Mission is the new Tenderloin (sfstandard.com)
The Sixth Street drug market has found a new home.

San Francisco, Drugs, Crime, Urban Planning

7 points by iancmceachern 41 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
Welcome to my 3D model of San Francisco's Sutro Tower. Feel free to explore it at your own pace. If you're on a phone, you can also engage the AR mode by clicking the little cube, it'll let you explore the scene by walking around and waving your phone.

3D Modeling, San Francisco, Augmented Reality, Interactive Art

825 points by akanet 42 days ago | 193 comments

San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
To watch park ranger Amanda Barrows is to be faced with a disturbing question: If this is what it takes to help one unhoused person, how can we manage thousands?

Homelessness, San Francisco, Social Issues, Community Action

381 points by NaOH 46 days ago | 706 comments

Engineer built 200 public benches in Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco (missionlocal.org)
For more than a decade, a roller-skating engineer in the Inner Sunset has opted to go his own way, making and installing some 210 benches in the Sunset and around the city — for free.

Community Projects, Engineering, San Francisco, Public Art

5 points by adamhowell 47 days ago | 0 comments

New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation (sfstandard.com)
Daniel Tsai, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s choice to lead the Department of Public Health, has a blue-chip résumé: After studying at Harvard University, he landed a prestigious consulting gig before jumping into government, leading Medicaid programs in Massachusetts, then federally under former President Joe Biden.

Public Health, San Francisco, Opioid Crisis, Consulting

253 points by iancmceachern 47 days ago | 78 comments

The San Francisco stadium that fog killed (sfgate.com)
The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home.

Baseball, San Francisco, History, Weather

69 points by PaulHoule 48 days ago | 39 comments

Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records (cbsnews.com)
San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices before fleeing.

San Francisco, Cryptocurrency, Government, Law Enforcement

107 points by anigbrowl 48 days ago | 97 comments

San Francisco unveils marble bust of Aaron Swartz (sfstandard.com)
Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as an open-access hero.

San Francisco, Statues, Aaron Swartz, Open Access, Internet Archive

29 points by leotravis10 54 days ago | 2 comments

Salesforce lays off staff in San Francisco after exec talks up offshoring (sfgate.com)
Salesforce, the software giant with deep ties to San Francisco, is laying off 153 local workers.

Salesforce, Layoffs, San Francisco, Technology, Offshoring

11 points by c420 55 days ago | 4 comments

Waymo drives through sinkhole in San Francisco during storm [video] (youtube.com)

Self-Driving Cars, Accidents, Weather, San Francisco, Technology

16 points by lopkeny12ko 58 days ago | 6 comments

For just $763, you can make a lot sit empty for 5 years (sfstandard.com)
In a sane world, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would do everything in its power to approve new grocery stores.

San Francisco, Politics, Real Estate, Economics

6 points by weitendorf 59 days ago | 1 comments

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 81 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 86 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 88 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 89 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 92 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 92 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 95 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 96 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 107 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 111 days ago | 0 comments

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