Hacker News with Generative AI: Transparency

Did DOGE Take Credit for Spending Cuts Related to President Carter's Death? (lawfaremedia.org)
Inaccuracies on DOGE’s website raise questions about DOGE’s activities and transparency.

Cryptocurrency, Politics, Misinformation, Transparency

16 points by hn_acker 2 days ago | 1 comments

DOGE's Website Is Just One Big X Ad (wired.com)
At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the actions of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project would be “maximally transparent,” thanks to information posted to its website.

Dogecoin, Elon Musk, Transparency, Cryptocurrency, Advertising

57 points by OuterVale 8 days ago | 18 comments

Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it (muckrock.com)
Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all.

Government, Data, Transparency, Politics, Internet

180 points by 20after4 9 days ago | 86 comments

'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation (theguardian.com)
A US company that was secretly profiling hundreds of food and environmental health advocates in a private web portal has said it has halted the operations in the face of widespread backlash, after its actions were revealed by the Guardian and other reporting partners.

Social Media, Advocacy, Environmentalism, Journalism, Transparency

67 points by rguiscard 11 days ago | 18 comments

USASpending.gov (usaspending.gov)

Government, Data, Transparency

24 points by evo_9 13 days ago | 5 comments

Compensation Data for Every NYC Police Officer (cityofnewyork.us)

Police, Public Data, Transparency, Compensation

5 points by gigalord 13 days ago | 1 comments

German court orders X to give data access to researchers ahead of elections (techcrunch.com)
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks — such as to elections and other democratic processes. But the Elon Musk-owned company formerly known as Twitter has been blocking civil society access to platform data, according to two civil society organizations, which on Friday secured a summary judgement against X in a Berlin regional court.

Social Media, Elections, Germany, Transparency

11 points by marban 14 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk proposes putting the U.S. Treasury on blockchain for full transparency (twitter.com)

Blockchain, Finance, Transparency, Elon Musk, Government

14 points by rmason 15 days ago | 5 comments

"We cannot provide details as to the reason for termination" (mastodon.de)

Social Media, Transparency, Censorship

14 points by TazeTSchnitzel 20 days ago | 3 comments

The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed (reddit.com)
The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed (data.gov)

Government Data, Transparency, Open Data

240 points by xbmcuser 22 days ago | 58 comments

Pros and cons of greater pay transparency (economist.com)
How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income. But in most places, finding out people’s salaries means asking them what they earn. And that is about as socially acceptable as saying “What an ugly baby.”

Salary, Work Culture, Transparency, Economics

8 points by pseudolus 28 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Why can't we comment on YC hiring ads? (ycombinator.com)
I’ve noticed that YC companies often advertise their hiring positions. That’s great news! However, I’ve also seen some of their comments that raise concerns. I know for a fact that some of them have toxic hiring or team practices (which is why they need to advertise so frequently). I’m curious why comments aren’t available on those ads.

Startup Hiring, YC, Transparency, Community Feedback, Hiring Practices

10 points by haliskerbas 31 days ago | 3 comments

Some Lessons from the OpenAI FrontierMath Debacle (lesswrong.com)
Recently, OpenAI announced their newest model, o3, achieving massive improvements over state-of-the-art on reasoning and math. The highlight of the announcement was that o3 scored 25% on FrontierMath, a benchmark comprising hard, unseen math problems of which previous models could only solve 2%. The events afterward highlight that the announcements were, unknowingly, not made completely transparent and leave us with lessons for future AI benchmarks, evaluations, and safety.

Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking, Transparency, AI Safety

12 points by pja 31 days ago | 5 comments

Track US politician stock trades (capitoltrades.com)

Politics, Finance, Transparency

14 points by handfuloflight 33 days ago | 3 comments

OpenAI funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3 (the-decoder.com)
OpenAI's involvement in funding FrontierMath, a leading AI math benchmark, only came to light when the company announced its record-breaking performance on the test. Now, the benchmark's developer Epoch AI acknowledges they should have been more transparent about the relationship.

Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Research, Benchmarking, Transparency

56 points by rar00 33 days ago | 6 comments

European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents (arstechnica.com)
Brussels has ordered Elon Musk to fully disclose recent changes made to recommendations on X, stepping up an investigation into the role of the social media platform in European politics.

Social Media, Regulation, European Union, Elon Musk, Transparency

9 points by nemoniac 35 days ago | 0 comments

EU orders X to hand over info on recent algorithm changes (theregister.com)
The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk's X with a request to examine recent changes made to the platform's recommendation algorithms.

EU Regulations, Social Media, Algorithms, Transparency

10 points by thunderbong 35 days ago | 1 comments

Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm (ft.com)

Brussels, Government, Transparency, Algorithms

15 points by belter 35 days ago | 1 comments

Congress Trading Report for 2024 (unusualwhales.com)

Politics, Finance, Transparency

4 points by coloneltcb 45 days ago | 0 comments

Transparency? Not from the European Commission (38C3) [video] (media.ccc.de)
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union with the duty to uphold the law. The transparency of the Commission´s actions and decisions range from questionable to abysmal.

Transparency, European Union, Politics, Government, Law

7 points by DyslexicAtheist 54 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs (amazon.com)
We’re updating our Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy to help provide you greater transparency and more predictability in how reimbursements are calculated for items that are lost or damaged before a customer order.

Amazon, E-commerce, Business, Policy, Transparency

53 points by ilamont 64 days ago | 73 comments

Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri) (palant.info)
Transparency note: According to Colibri Hero, they attempted to establish a business relationship with eyeo, a company that I co-founded. I haven’t been in an active role at eyeo since 2018, and I left the company entirely in 2021. Colibri Hero was only founded in 2021. My investigation here was prompted by a blog comment.

Transparency, Digital Advertising, Business, Online Privacy

76 points by ookware 65 days ago | 7 comments

Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (reddit.com)
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (self.redscarepod)

Healthcare, Business, Transparency, Public Relations

101 points by paganel 78 days ago | 114 comments

Deprecating outdated issues on the GitHub public roadmap (github.com/github)
At GitHub, transparency and clarity are at the heart of our relationship with the community.

Software, GitHub, Transparency, Roadmap

116 points by preya2k 88 days ago | 90 comments

An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots to Combat Mistrust (nytimes.com)
After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

Politics, Elections, Transparency, Idaho, Conspiracy Theories

9 points by pcl 90 days ago | 15 comments

An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots (nytimes.com)
After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

Elections, Voting, Transparency, Idaho, Conspiracy Theories

8 points by aiz0Houp 90 days ago | 2 comments

Implementing Order-Independent Transparency (osor.io)
The reasoning for wanting Order-Independent Transparency comes from Order-Dependent Transparency being the way transparency rendering ends up being implemented in most computer graphics scenarios, and certainly in the majority of real-time rendering contexts.

Computer Graphics, Rendering, Transparency

67 points by ibobev 102 days ago | 23 comments

Google admits document leak related to search algorithm is authentic (nypost.com)
Google has confirmed that a massive leak of some 2,500 internal documents related to its search engine is authentic – and one expert said the trove shows that “Google tells us one thing and they do another” when it comes to its mysterious algorithms.

Google, Search Engines, Leaks, Technology, Transparency

8 points by r_singh 106 days ago | 1 comments

Google Hit 1B DMCA Requests Last Year – Here's What They're Really Used For (unbound.news)
Torrentfreak recently reported that Google had processed over 1,000,000,000 DMCA requests in the past 12 months.

Copyright, Law, Google, Technology, Transparency

12 points by zxlk21e 108 days ago | 0 comments

Google's Shadow Campaigns (microsoft.com)
Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to be genuine, responsive, and transparent.

Google, Microsoft, Business Strategy, Transparency

13 points by cmilton 115 days ago | 0 comments