Hacker News with Generative AI: Silicon Valley

How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms (nytimes.com)
My guest is one of those tech leaders, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. For decades he was, in his words, a “good” Democrat. But now he’s been spending time at Mar-a-Lago and advising on Trump’s transition.
Politics, Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, Democrats
12 points by reducesuffering 11 hours ago | 8 comments
Meta lawyer Mark Lemley quits AI case citing Zuckerberg 'descent' (bloomberglaw.com)
California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn.
Legal Cases, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Silicon Valley
46 points by jsheard 3 days ago | 38 comments
Cory Doctorow: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (pluralistic.net)
Silicon Valley's "authoritarian turn" is hard to miss: tech bosses have come out for autocrats like Trump, Orban, Milei, Bolsonaro, et al, and want to turn San Francisco into a militia-patrolled apartheid state operated for the benefit of tech bros:
Politics, Technology, Authoritarianism, Silicon Valley
11 points by moritzruth 5 days ago | 2 comments
Silicon Valley homeless nonprofit sues Microsoft over disrupted email access (mercurynews.com)
One of Silicon Valley’s largest homelessness nonprofits has sued Microsoft to compel the tech giant to restore access to the nonprofit’s email accounts, claiming the nearly month-long outage has impeded its day-to-day operations and ability to connect homeless people with needed services.
Nonprofit Organizations, Lawsuits, Technology, Microsoft, Silicon Valley
5 points by pizza 9 days ago | 0 comments
Silicon Valley Tech Investor Orchestrated Takedown Plot of Startup Toptal (cnbc.com)
Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Startups, Business
39 points by persnicker 11 days ago | 7 comments
Musk, Ramaswamy defend Silicon Valley's foreign-born hires (thehill.com)
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-elect Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” are defending the tech industry’s reliance on foreign-born engineers as the incoming Trump administration prepares to crack down on immigration.
Politics, Technology, Immigration, Silicon Valley
40 points by moosedman 22 days ago | 18 comments
Trump supporters demand ban on H1B Visa and fewer Indians in Silicon Valley (indiatoday.in)
The appointment of Indian-American venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the White House has ignited a political firestorm.
Politics, Immigration, Technology, Silicon Valley
35 points by dtquad 22 days ago | 10 comments
China's AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream job (restofworld.org)
China’s elite AI tech workers are at a crossroads.
China, Artificial Intelligence, Employment, Silicon Valley
7 points by Brajeshwar 30 days ago | 0 comments
David Sacks' Intellectual Journey (eriktorenberg.substack.com)
David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of PayPal. As an early member of the "PayPal Mafia," he has been a prominent voice in Silicon Valley for over two decades. In this wide-ranging conversation with Erik Torenberg, Sacks discusses the transformation of Silicon Valley's culture, the rise of tech censorship, and the future of institutional reform.
Silicon Valley, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Censorship, Institutional Reform
8 points by paulpauper 37 days ago | 0 comments
The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government (economist.com)
On the night of December 7th San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, with its lakeside colonnade echoing a Roman ruin, turned into Mar-a-Lago, as Silicon Valley’s newly emboldened right-wingers gathered for a Christmas bash organised by the All-In podcast.
Politics, Silicon Valley, Technology, Social Media
145 points by Anon84 38 days ago | 173 comments
The tech bosses who poured $394.1M into US election (theguardian.com)
Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.
Politics, Elections, Silicon Valley, Donations
52 points by wslh 41 days ago | 46 comments
Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley (commoncog.com)
On September 10, 2010, AdGrok founder Antonio Garcia-Martinez was hanging out at co-founder Argyris Zymnis’s San Francisco apartment when he received a call from Rodger Cole.
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Startups
300 points by nsoonhui 46 days ago | 164 comments
Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear (2017) (buzzfeednews.com)
This summer, Elon Musk spoke to the National Governors Association and told them that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”
Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Future, Society
101 points by catskull 48 days ago | 63 comments
Silicon Valley is on edge as Trump's immigration policy sparks fears (businessinsider.com)
Many in the tech industry are concerned that President Donald Trump will make it harder to hire immigrants, sapping an important source of technical talent for the sector.
Immigration Policy, Technology, Politics, Silicon Valley
3 points by moosedman 66 days ago | 3 comments
Why Chinese spies are sending a chill through Silicon Valley (telegraph.co.uk)
Tech companies are a growing target for corporate espionage and trade theft
Cybersecurity, China, Silicon Valley, Corporate Espionage
25 points by RickJWagner 75 days ago | 8 comments
Silicon Valley's Elite Pour Money into Blotting Out the Sun (bloomberg.com)
Venture capitalists, startup founders and tech executives are funding studies, experiments and small deployments of controversial technology that could cool the planet.
Climate Change, Technology, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley
11 points by viewtransform 81 days ago | 6 comments
The Push to Fire Lina Khan Reveals a Serious Problem in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
High-profile venture capitalists are demanding that Kamala Harris, if elected president, fire a top regulator for her aggressive policing of Big Tech.
Politics, Silicon Valley, Big Tech, Regulation
16 points by mitchbob 83 days ago | 1 comments
How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me (ft.com)
How ‘Factorio’ seduced Silicon Valley — and me
Video Games, Silicon Valley, Business, Technology
423 points by 005vc16607 84 days ago | 430 comments
A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance (hai.stanford.edu)
In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law.
Politics, Democracy, Technology, Silicon Valley
333 points by alexzeitler 87 days ago | 344 comments
Silicon Valley worker finds brain fog cause (nightshade allergy) (twitter.com)
Health, Allergies, Silicon Valley
7 points by Apocryphon 88 days ago | 0 comments
Silicon Valley Billionaires Became Trump's Biggest Donors (nytimes.com)
Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.
Politics, Business, Donald Trump, Silicon Valley
8 points by tysone 91 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley veering to the far-right? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley veering to the far-right?
Silicon Valley, Politics, Technology, Social Issues
8 points by cfarre 92 days ago | 5 comments
Oral History of Jim Keller [video] (youtube.com)
Oral History, Interviews, Technology, Silicon Valley
7 points by anotherhue 93 days ago | 0 comments
The web I want vs. the one we have (wordpress.com)
I remember when I first arrived in Silicon Valley with a couple of products and after meeting Steve Jobs at Apple, and signing with the company that bought Visicalc, I felt like I had arrived, and quickly found my tribe.
Web Development, Silicon Valley, Technology, Nostalgia
87 points by luu 98 days ago | 101 comments
'Founder Mode' Explains the Rise of Trump in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
Silicon Valley’s current fascination with a trendy management meme illustrates a broader and more troubling turn in certain powerful pockets of its culture — one that has seized our politics and could even unduly influence our election (again).
Silicon Valley, Politics, Culture, Management, Elections
14 points by mitchbob 99 days ago | 2 comments
Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor (nonzero.substack.com)
In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of the Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, described Sam Altman, who was then 23 years old, like this: “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he’d be the king.”
Silicon Valley, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Predictions
119 points by _1 102 days ago | 98 comments
Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster (newyorker.com)
From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda.
Silicon Valley, Politics, Lobbying, Tech Industry
282 points by fortran77 103 days ago | 298 comments
Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round (wsj.com)
Apple AAPL 0.12%increase; green up pointing triangle is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in another major Silicon Valley company.
OpenAI, Investments, Apple, Technology, Silicon Valley
98 points by mfiguiere 112 days ago | 108 comments
Roy Clay, a Silicon Valley pioneer who knocked down racial barriers, dies at 95 (usatoday.com)
Roy Clay Sr., a Black pioneer in the technology industry whose influence spanned nearly five decades in Silicon Valley, died Sunday. He was 95.
Technology, Silicon Valley, Race Relations, Obituary, History
7 points by rconti 114 days ago | 2 comments
In Silicon Valley, a Rogue Plan to Alter the Climate (nytimes.com)
SARATOGA, Calif. — A silver Winnebago pulled up to a self storage warehouse on the outskirts of a Silicon Valley suburb and three renegade climate entrepreneurs piled out, all mohawks, mustaches and camouflage shorts.
Climate Change, Technology, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship
10 points by chiffre01 114 days ago | 1 comments