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Reminder that Sam Altman chose to rush the safety process for GPT-4o so that he could launch before Gemini, which then led directly to this teen's suicide: https://news.ycombinator…

This was more than several years prior to that, I just tried to look up the financial aid of previous years and for some reason couldn't find it. If someone else finds it, I'd be c…

I met him when I was at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend when accepted students visit the school. Is it necessary to assume things in such a cynical fashion?

I'm a bit hesitant to give my voice away to really any company. Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine the ways this could go wrong?

When I was touring colleges as a high school senior I met someone who had gotten into MIT but whose family could only afford to send one kid to an elite college, him or his sister.…

> build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours It depends on what kind of functionality we're talking about, but this kind of task is exactly what people at my current startup…

Just out of curiosity, where do you live?

This is the person who was in the news a few years ago for commuting to Google campus using 19 different methods in 19 days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWftDrwY2U

Probably the phrase "you hold the keys to your clone" should give anyone pause. I once worked at a company where the head of security gave a talk to every incoming technical staff …

Is anyone else thinking that it might not be a good idea to give away your voice and face to a startup that is making digital clones of people?

For this interested in topic, you might enjoy reading The Anxious Generation, which has been on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for a while. It goes into the data on how teen me…

I would have presumed that security-minded people, which includes those who work in tech, would not so easily give away their genome, and that most of 23andMe's customers are a sli…

A couple questions — Could you link to the film you used, and also the curtains? Did this at all block your ability to use your own cellphone?

The world you propose sounds good in theory, but we are starting at a point where certain groups of people have been discriminated against (or enslaved) for the better part of two …

I guess there's no unions for VFX work? They're meant to prevent companies from making unreasonable demands of workers, that are described many times in the article.

That's Max Park. I'm not a cuber but I recognize him from the excellent short documentary The Speed Cubers, on Netflix. It's nerdy, engaging, and heartwarming — perfect for HN.

Is it lawful for an employer to factor in criminal history when choosing employees? Asking for my own education.

What are the reasons you've heard your friends give? I don't know anyone who's done it.

Many companies have skilled engineers and enough hardware, and still have outages. It's an expected part of running any software service. Outages can be minimized, but the idea tha…

This post strongly resonated with me. Recently I have had no external life commitments for an extended period and I've constantly had the impression that I'm wasting my life. Most …

Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay about why the Segway failed. http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html Same principle here. People don't look cool wearing strange robot sandal shoes.…

I would hire a security consulting firm to do the work for you. This is not the kind of thing you can learn overnight, or even in a short to medium timeframe. Countless startups ha…

Similar to “not your keys, not your crypto” is there not an analogy to be made for passwords? Genuinely interested in the reasoning of people who store their passwords in a cloud s…

Multiple engineering teams I’ve worked on have used per-individual “preview” environments as early as 15 years ago, and I’m sure they were widely used far earlier than that. The cl…