Hacker News with Generative AI: Tech Culture

Tech Goes Hardcore: Companies Push Employees to Embrace Intensity (businessinsider.com)
A trifecta of economics, pandemic-era realities, and political pressure is changing tech culture.

Tech Culture, Business, Employment, Economics, Pandemic

3 points by adam__smith 13 days ago | 4 comments

Tech employees are getting the message: Playtime's over (businessinsider.com)
A trifecta of economics, pandemic-era realities, and political pressure is changing tech culture.From Big Tech to Silicon Valley startups, companies are pushing to "do more with less."Leaders aren't shy about wielding their power and aligning around a hard-driving strategy.

Tech Culture, Economics, Layoffs

13 points by robinhouston 15 days ago | 12 comments

AK HN: Is the Era of Hackers/Startups Over? (ycombinator.com)
As a longtime HN user. I've noticed a drastic shift in the last few years in the industry. The glamour of a "hot startup" has gone away in lieu of the inevitably of big corporations and big platforms. Being a programmer doesn't seem as desirable or command nearly the respect that it did just a decade ago.

Startups, Hacker News, Tech Industry, Tech Culture, Job Market

11 points by legitster 33 days ago | 11 comments

Bayes Is Not A Phase (dynomight.net)
People make fun of techie/rationalist/effective-altruist types for many weird obsessions, like stimulants or meditation or polyamory or psychedelics or seed oils or air quality or re-deriving all of philosophy from scratch. Some of these seem fair to me, or at least understandable.

Philosophy, Rationalism, Tech Culture

11 points by crescit_eundo 35 days ago | 0 comments

'Founder mode' is the latest Silicon Valley buzzword (cnn.com)

Silicon Valley, Business, Tech Culture

6 points by ChrisMarshallNY 198 days ago | 0 comments

Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003) (plausiblydeniable.com)

Social Media, Fallacies, Tech Culture

38 points by edent 210 days ago | 13 comments

I Hate the Term "Modern" (paritybit.ca)

Opinion, Language, Tech Culture

33 points by wild_egg 217 days ago | 70 comments

Silicon Valley's False Prophet (wheresyoured.at)

Silicon Valley, Tech Culture, Criticism

41 points by bgrainger 295 days ago | 3 comments