Hacker News with Generative AI: Silicon Valley

Waymo gets OK to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo’s request to expand its commercial robotaxi service area, opening the door for the Alphabet company to bring its driverless ride-hailing vehicles into more communities south of San Francisco.
Self-Driving Cars, Transportation, Technology, California, Silicon Valley
7 points by badmonster 4 days ago | 1 comments
Experts say Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, AI research (cnbc.com)
Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Safety, Tech Industry, Research
14 points by Capstanlqc 8 days ago | 4 comments
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley (theamericanconservative.com)
If America’s technology sector had a “founder” it was Uncle Sam.
Silicon Valley, History, Technology, Politics
4 points by ibobev 9 days ago | 3 comments
Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup (theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Holmes’s romantic partner – the father of her children – reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing company that is strikingly similar to the one that landed the Theranos founder in federal prison.
Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Legal, Silicon Valley
59 points by elorm 12 days ago | 75 comments
A letter from concerned Palantir alumni to the tech workers of Silicon Valley (documentcloud.org)
Palantir, Tech Industry, Silicon Valley, Open Letter
18 points by stefap2 18 days ago | 0 comments
For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough (forbes.com)
Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Work Culture, Silicon Valley
19 points by iancmceachern 19 days ago | 25 comments
For AI Startups, a 7-Day Work Week Isn't Enough (forbes.com)
Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks.
AI Startups, Work Culture, Silicon Valley
5 points by e2e4 20 days ago | 3 comments
Depressed tech workers can't stop talking about Zuck and Musk, therapists say (sfstandard.com)
Tech workers who spend hundreds of dollars for 50-minute therapy sessions increasingly have one man they want to discuss: Mark Zuckerberg.
Mental Health, Technology, Social Media, Silicon Valley
20 points by adefa 21 days ago | 9 comments
Why I'm getting off US tech (disconnect.blog)
In January, we watched Donald Trump be inaugurated as president for the second time, but there was something new: the billionaires of Silicon Valley had a front row seat.
Politics, Technology, US, Silicon Valley
32 points by NickDouglas 22 days ago | 27 comments
The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're Closing (nytimes.com)
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.
Education, Silicon Valley, Social Justice, Philanthropy
24 points by KnuthIsGod 25 days ago | 33 comments
The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston's Route 128 in the Dust (2009) (techcrunch.com)
No one disputes that Silicon Valley is the global capital of the tech world. But this wasn’t always so. It is the Valley’s dynamism and networks which have given it an unassailable advantage. Silicon Valley has simply left rivals like Boston’s Route 128 in the dust.
Silicon Valley, Technology, History, Boston, Route 128
19 points by teleforce 26 days ago | 14 comments
The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley (thehustle.co)
Stanford built one of the first office parks in the country. Tech pioneers swooped in.
Silicon Valley, History, Real Estate, Business, Technology
123 points by rmason 26 days ago | 36 comments
You can't just replace science with Silicon Valley (theintrinsicperspective.com)
New directives from on high, shouted from a governmental megaphone at scientists, might not be so bad if they were clear. But since they are very much unclear, there is a new mood among my fellow scientists: paranoia. I don’t remember this ever happening before.
Science, Government, Silicon Valley
22 points by domofutu 28 days ago | 3 comments
The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're Closing (nytimes.com)
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.
Education, Philanthropy, Social Impact, Silicon Valley, Facebook
10 points by reaperducer 28 days ago | 1 comments
Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018) (nytimes.com)
Steve Jobs tried to create a manufacturing culture in Silicon Valley. As one former Apple engineer put it, "It wasn't great for business."
Apple, Manufacturing, History, Silicon Valley
39 points by ViktorRay 29 days ago | 29 comments
More Everything Forever (nytimes.com)
In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.
Technology, Criticism, Silicon Valley
157 points by c0rtex 30 days ago | 290 comments
Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong (vox.com)
Last year, a coterie of tech billionaires rallied behind Donald Trump’s candidacy.
Silicon Valley, Politics, Donald Trump, 2016 Election
31 points by miles 35 days ago | 8 comments
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Sci-Fi They Grew Up on Real (scientificamerican.com)
Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s a bad thing: it leaves us facing a future we were all warned about, courtesy of dystopian novels mistaken for instruction manuals.
Science Fiction, Technology, Silicon Valley, Dystopia, Future
7 points by gladwindos 37 days ago | 2 comments
Hacked Silicon Valley crosswalk signals imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices (usatoday.com)
"The voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were heard along the streets of Silicon Valley this weekend, but neither of the tech billionaires were in the vicinity."
Hacking, Technology, Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Humor
10 points by rmason 38 days ago | 2 comments
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices (techcrunch.com)
Audio-enabled traffic control crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley were hacked over the weekend to include audio snippets imitating the voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Security, Hacking, Silicon Valley, Technology, Audio
5 points by pqtyw 38 days ago | 1 comments
'Silicon Six' accused of avoiding ~$278B in US corporation taxes over 10 years (theguardian.com)
The big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn (£211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.
Tax Avoidance, Big Tech, Silicon Valley, United States, Corporate Tax
32 points by miles 39 days ago | 4 comments
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices (techcrunch.com)
Audio-enabled traffic control crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley were hacked over the weekend to include audio snippets imitating the voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Technology, Hacking, Silicon Valley, Audio, Social Media
20 points by sylvainkalache 39 days ago | 3 comments
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices (paloaltoonline.com)
Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.
Silicon Valley, Hacking, Artificial Intelligence, Humor, Technology
487 points by coloneltcb 41 days ago | 147 comments
This is what a digital coup looks like (broligarchy.substack.com)
Six years ago I was sued for libel. This time, I call Silicon Valley collaborators and data rapists. What could possibly go wrong?
Lawsuits, Technology, Digital Media, Silicon Valley
26 points by Create 43 days ago | 3 comments
The New Legislators of Silicon Valley (theideasletter.org)
There is a certain disorienting thrill in witnessing, over the past few years, the profusion of bold, often baffling, occasionally horrifying ideas pouring from the ranks of America’s tech elite.
Silicon Valley, Technology, Innovation, Politics, Ethics
37 points by _delirium 44 days ago | 57 comments
Silicon Valley 'nepo baby' publishes scathing first novel about growing up rich (sfstandard.com)
In his debut book, Daniel Breyer, son of billionaire VC Jim Breyer, skewers the world of wealth and privilege he grew up in.
Silicon Valley, Social Commentary, Wealth, Family, Literature
23 points by CalChris 46 days ago | 15 comments
Captured: How Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose (codastory.com)
AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers.
Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Society, Technology
6 points by defrost 50 days ago | 2 comments
Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) (grantland.com)
Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs is about the spiritual yearnings and time-frittering activities of youngish coders immersed in the drudgery of the software-development process, and how those activities become an expression of those yearnings.
Silicon Valley, Books, Culture, Technology, Software Development
111 points by Apocryphon 52 days ago | 113 comments
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 55 days ago | 3 comments
Founders and VCs Working with Elon Musk's Doge (techcrunch.com)
Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of government. And that’s thanks, in large part, to the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE.
Tech, Politics, Silicon Valley, Government, Elon Musk
14 points by tech-it-out 56 days ago | 1 comments