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Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

https://www.designarena.ai/
2•grace77•2m ago•0 comments

Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now

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1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Memories Without Brains

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Contours of European Strategic Autonomy

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1•gavinray•14m ago•0 comments

Exact Predicates, Exact Constructions and Combinatorics for Mesh CSG

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1•ibobev•15m ago•0 comments

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2•ceejayoz•24m ago•0 comments

Graph foundation models for relational data

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3•simonpure•25m ago•1 comments

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Should the Federal Government Sell Land?

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1•devadityb•59m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Marc Andreesen says universities will 'pay the price' for DEI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/
26•perihelions•3h ago

Comments

davidw•1h ago
Guy who owes his fortune to public funding of research wants to tear it all down.
jbverschoor•39m ago
Bs.. DEI is simply toxic discrimination against non-DEI.

It has nothing to do with equality and it promotes helplessness

John23832•23m ago
If I'm a straight black man, am I DEI or non-DEI? Who do you think I side with?

If I'm a gay white man, am I DEI or non-DEI? Who do you think I side with?

If I straight black man and a gay white man are both applying for a job, who do you think the conspiratorial forces of DEI side with?

We could increase the combinatorial factors by adding gender.

If a Republican hired an Indian man for a job, is that DEI?

If a Democrat hired a Asian woman, is that DEI?

Let's all please get over the DEI boogie man. At this point references to DEI and "woke" are signals of low intelligence.

gjsman-1000•19m ago
> At this point references to DEI and "woke" are signals

Quite the opposite: it’s a mark of low intelligence to pretend that people need to have perfectly articulated labels for a phenomenon they are expressing irritation with.

It’s okay to walk into the doctor saying “I’m feeling pains in my stomach” without the doctor yelling at you that it’s actually a kidney issue, idiot.

John23832•14m ago
To continue your euphemism, the doctor then tells you to stop eating junk food, but you dismiss them and continue to yell about bad humors and black bile.

Sometimes you have to work on you and it's not some conspiratorial force against you.

This is all incredibly ironic coming from the party/side of self-sufficiency and bootstrapping.

gjsman-1000•11m ago
Sometimes it actually is provably a conspiratorial force against you, 100%, and those who stand to benefit from the conspiracy will certainly not be honest about that.

They can only be held accountable by losing lawsuits- which has caused even Google to drop all DEI targets due to repeatedly illegal practices.

John23832•2m ago
> those who stand to benefit from the conspiracy will certainly not be honest about that.

The same could be said about your position as well, you'd lie to get a leg up.

Nobody has to/or should believe that you are some benevolently honest being. If anything, it should be assumed that people are self interested and support the way their "bread is buttered".

That should make it even MORE clear that we should focus on improving ourselves rather than fighting foils.

> They can only be held accountable by losing lawsuits- which has caused even Google to drop all DEI targets due to repeatedly illegal practices.

Major companies are dropping DEI because it's en-vouge with the current admin. Nothing inherent to the policies. If you can't see that incentive, I personally think you're delusional.

gjsman-1000•2m ago
Nonsense; I believe in doing both.

I will happily work on myself, while suing the living daylights out of any company that dares to illegally discriminate against any race; White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, you name it. I will also do everything in my power to pierce the corporate veil on the individual people involved.

skywhopper•20m ago
You have been misinformed about what DEI is and does. Folks like Andreessen are outright liars. It’s not reverse discrimination. It’s an attempt to level the playing field.
jbverschoor•18m ago
No I don’t think I am. We had it in the Netherlands for over 20-30 years. It was called “positieve discriminatie”.

It was supposed to level the playing field for people who are just as/more capable, but did not even get considered.

Instead of that, they don’t consider others anymore, nor do they care about actual capabilities.

It’s very simple… politics set policies by rewarding and punishing with taxes. Companies will “game” anything to reach certain numbers.

malcolmgreaves•1m ago
Ah! Thanks for identifying yourself as Dutch.

Your allegiance makes more sense now. The Dutch people absolutely love the racist Christmas tradition of Zwarte Piet. (What was it back in 2017 — something like 70% of Dutch folk polled wanted to end the tradition not because they wanted to accept it’s blatantly obvious racism, but because they were tired of having the discussion of should it be ended?)

For anyone reading that doesn’t know, it’s a tradition where they get a white person to put on black face, parade them around, then blame all of their problems on this (fake) Black person.

Black face is racist: learn the history of blackface — white folks wanted Black characters, but not actual Black people.

Oh another favorite of mine — every culture has their national shames, but some are better than others at being honest about it — do your people learn about the incredible criminal history of the Dutch during colonialism? Do they teach you about the horrors of the Dutch West India Company over there?

gjsman-1000•18m ago
… by reverse discrimination in many companies.

Changing words doesn’t change practice. Inventing words like “unhoused” doesn’t fix “homeless.”

UncleMeat•3m ago
Andreesen says that its been 60 years of "discrimination" against white people. My alma mater didn't even admit women in 1965. He says that immigration is "discrimination." The world he pines for is a world of explicit and massive discrimination against women and non-whites.
davidw•34m ago
And it's all for some really ugly reasons

https://bsky.app/profile/sifill.bsky.social/post/3ltrkbtyam2...

layer8•58m ago
https://archive.ph/TDQk1
drcongo•21m ago
Why is anyone still listening to this arsehole.
malcolmgreaves•17m ago
What a out of touch, narcissistic, clueless baby:

> “The insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020, totally shredded that complacency,” Andreessen added, apparently referring to protests and discussion of diversity after the [murder] of Floyd. “And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore,” he wrote.

Now “my people,” meaning what — rich white folks? Just white folks? Just rich billionaires? I’m inclined to believe it’s the class, and not the racial, group.

“Are furious” — about what? Being confronted with reality? With truth? With history? To be confronted with the fact that he doesn’t actually know how the world works?

What an absolute baby.

This is a guy who offers incredibly little to society. His capital is valuable, but he is not his capital. His donations are the equivalent's of someone giving a dollar. They’re not generous.

felixgallo•14m ago
I went to school with Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina. Eric was the one who did the work, and Marc was the loud figurehead being groomed by the money folks. It boggles my mind that someone who spent his formative years on such a diverse and thriving campus as the University of Illinois, being educated, advised, and working side-by-side with the thousands of first- and second-generation immigrant scholars, students and workers from India, China, Korea, Japan, and the Middle East, could now be an unabashed public revanchist racist dogwhistling white supremacy.
gjsman-1000•12m ago
This assumes that most DEI departments have their hands clean and actually were solely focused on improving diversity in a fair manner; when in reality, companies are losing lawsuits left and right for completely illegal DEI practices.
felixgallo•4m ago
You're transparently trying to wedge in some right wing talking point to an unrelated discussion. Get out of here with that incompetent nonsense.
dahart•6m ago
I wonder why Andreesen doesn’t suggest public funding of higher education, instead of fighting DEI. If education was free for all Americans, it would achieve what he’s arguing for and it would undermine and make DEI efforts completely moot. As far as I can tell, we can afford to fund university for all entirely on the extra income taxes that people with degrees make above people without degrees, at least according to income data studies I’ve read from the Fed. (I’m honestly curious why our country hasn’t come to this conclusion already - it certainly looks today like funding higher education for all would increase GDP and reduce the tax burden.)