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Silicon Valley Insider Exposes Cult Like AI Companies [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU
2•ttctciyf•6h ago

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ttctciyf•6h ago
I've given this the (awful, clickbaity) title that it's under on YouTube, but it's actually a very interesting long form interview with Karen Hao, an MIT alumnus acquainted with several OpenAI execs since university, whose recently published Empire of AI[0] offers an informed, critical look at the AI explosion in Big Tech.

The channel is a Leftist UK media outlet with a capital L and the interviewer a self-professed Marxist, but if you can ignore or fight your way through the left spin there's plenty of informative and well presented narrative details about the history of OpenAI, its ambitions and methods and those of its CEO.

0: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai...

Title would possibly be better as Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao, but there you are.

What "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" Means for Your R&D Tax Credits

https://exactera.com/resources/what-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-means-for-your-rd-tax-credits/
1•antimora•2m ago•0 comments

She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k

https://reason.com/2025/06/28/she-got-a-permit-for-her-chickens-now-the-city-is-fining-her-80000/
3•fortran77•6m ago•0 comments

Project Farm: Digital calipers review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KtKAee0jw
1•burnt-resistor•9m ago•0 comments

Context Engineering: A first-principles handbook with the latest research

https://github.com/davidkimai/Context-Engineering
1•davidkimai•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is the header CSS broken for you?

5•LorenDB•21m ago•1 comments

EĿlipsis, a Language Independent Preprocessor

https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/ellipsis/index.html
2•faresahmed•30m ago•0 comments

New Zealand Approved Psychedelic Therapy. He's the Only Doctor Who Can Do It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/asia/new-zealand-psilocybin-magic-mushrooms-therapy.html
2•bookofjoe•35m ago•2 comments

The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/29/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-school-closure/
7•1vuio0pswjnm7•40m ago•4 comments

On Wanting to Believe

https://www.carsengrote.com/2025/06/on-wanting-to-believe.html
2•dante44•44m ago•0 comments

Largest Digital Camera Snaps Its First Photos of the Universe

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/worlds-largest-digital-camera-snaps-its-first-photos-of-the-universe-68099904
1•gmays•46m ago•0 comments

The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/only-fans-leonid-radvinsky-profile-706c914d
2•Geekette•51m ago•2 comments

AI-Generated Psych-Rock Band Rack Up Spotify Streams

https://www.stereogum.com/2313501/ai-generated-psych-rock-band-the-velvet-sundown-rack-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-spotify-streams/news/
2•TrackerFF•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free AI Thumbnail Tester (based on real YouTube data)

https://www.aithumbnail.so/tools/thumbnail-tester
1•sachou•52m ago•0 comments

Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses

https://chipx86.blog/2025/06/29/tip-use-keyword-only-arguments-in-python-dataclasses/
2•Bogdanp•53m ago•0 comments

Thousands in Norway told they won up to millions in lottery error

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15wn70v7z8o
5•ednite•59m ago•1 comments

OpenAI reportedly 'recalibrating' compensation in response to Meta hires

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/29/openai-reportedly-recalibrating-compensation-in-response-to-meta-hires/
3•ednite•1h ago•2 comments

Orange Pi Nova Teased with Loongson 2K3000 as Loongson Expands Product Line

https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-nova-teased-with-loongson-2k3000-as-loongson-expands-product-line/
4•chsum•1h ago•0 comments

How to Do Autocomplete

https://bonsai.io/blog/how-to-really-do-autocomplete/
3•softwaredoug•1h ago•0 comments

Why Extreme Couponers Have Given Up on Coupons

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/extreme-coupon-prices-savings-e7604515
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

How to Potty-Train a Co-Worker

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/business/co-worker-bathroom-issues-advice.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which Free Software or Open Source Project Needs Help?

3•em-bee•1h ago•2 comments

Early Retirement – What Fire Is Absolutely Not About

https://onboardedhq.substack.com/p/early-retirement-what-fire-is-absolutely
1•plentysun•1h ago•1 comments

Manifold: An open-source tool to run AI models for 90% less

https://github.com/Esrbwt1/manifold
3•esrbwt1•1h ago•0 comments

Automatic Beyond Belief

http://automaticbeyondbelief.org/
1•blahaj•1h ago•1 comments

An Incentive to Label

https://olshansky.substack.com/p/an-incentive-to-label
1•Olshansky•1h ago•0 comments

Scientists Uncover New Concerns About Billion-Dollar Heart Drug

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-new-concerns-about-billion-dollar-heart-drug/
3•mhb•1h ago•0 comments

In the beginning was CAOS (1988)

https://web.archive.org/web/19991006031218/http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html
2•erickhill•1h ago•0 comments

The Hard Problem of Prompt Injection

https://alexcbecker.net/blog/prompt-injection.html
1•alexbecker•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Superclass – Classify Files, PDF, Images, Docx etc. with GPT

https://github.com/adaptive-scale/superclass
2•debarshri•1h ago•0 comments

WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21539
4•chrsw•1h ago•0 comments