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Is Earendil backed by Peter Thiel or did they just also choose a LOTR name?

wolfcolaon Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

what about when an autonomous car kills someone, and the car company remotely deletes important onboard logs to avoid culpability?

wolfcolaon DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

ah, but the boot is off of a16z’s neck, so it’s all worth it!

wolfcolaon Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Holding the rich and powerful to account is not something that seems to happen much, or ever, in the US these days.

wolfcolaon Ear Training Practice

website refuses to play sounds on mobile safari; extremely frustrating.

wolfcolaon AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks

i guess tech workers should have unionized when they had the chance; too bad everyone thought they were too special.

wolfcolaon Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them

one time i mentioned peter thiel and dang immediately responded scolding me for not engaging in constructive debate.

wolfcolaon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans

lol, lmao

wolfcolaon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

What has been proven to increase bus speeds is bus-only lanes and congestion pricing. This article is some techno austerity slop.

wolfcolaon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

does the author ride the bus as their primary (or secondary or tertiary) form of transit?

wolfcolaon Writing code is cheap now

i’ve yet to see an agent that can take a figma design and produce high fidelity UI

wolfcolaon AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

apologies, comment withdrawn

wolfcolaon AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

because of a concerted effort to break labor power… you’re making my point.

wolfcolaon AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

Do you like working 8 hours a day instead of 12? 5 days a week instead of 7? You can thank organized labor.

wolfcolaon AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

edited: quote misattributed

wolfcolaon The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat

Post 2022, tech CEOs decided that workers had too much power and needed to be brought down a peg, so they did layoffs and worked to get Trump elected to erode worker power even further. Just look at the leaked group chats with Andreesen.

wolfcolaon Your app subscription is now my weekend project

And so the solution is… paying Anthropic $200/mo…

wolfcolaon Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

Except you blamed “entitlement spending” for the deficit, which the comment above clearly disproves.

wolfcolaon Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again

I don’t think any silicon valley leaders believe themselves to be progressive at this point.

wolfcolaon Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students

bad, ideologically-motivated idea when thiel did it, and bad, ideologically-motivated idea now

wolfcolaon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

just a way to extract further concessions, rinse and repeat

wolfcolaon U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

Yeah, the supreme court will get right on that

wolfcolaon The National Design Studio is a scam

hero

wolfcolaon Sequoia backs Zed

won’t be using the Zed IDF anymore… whoops i mean IDE

wolfcolaon New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

Donald Trump has done this multiple times, saying that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are disloyal or traitors because he treats Israel better.

wolfcolaon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

and it’s all thanks to a16z and co

wolfcolaon Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D

right, and we all got to work 20 hour weeks bc of the industrial revolution.

wolfcolaon Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D

but layoffs are happening _now_, purely based on what people who stand to benefit directly claim AI will do.

wolfcolaon The Demoralization is just Beginning

“When I said on Lex”

wolfcolaon Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules

paulg is more concerned with “wokeism” than he is with the federal government being stripped for parts.