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sizzle

12,791 karmajoined 13 years ago
Science, art, culture, technology, and human-centered design enthusiast looking to improve the human condition through the work we do, fighting to change the privacy diminishing and unethical behaviors that plague our tech industry.

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California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

theguardian.com
13 points·by sizzle·yesterday·6 comments

Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in U.S. prison for fraud conviction

npr.org
4 points·by sizzle·10 days ago·2 comments

Congress passes largest housing affordability bill and Trump cancels signing

npr.org
7 points·by sizzle·16 days ago·0 comments

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

hai.stanford.edu
154 points·by sizzle·17 days ago·160 comments

'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence

bbc.com
14 points·by sizzle·last month·3 comments

H-1B Crackdown on Indian Workers Erodes a Texas Real Estate Boom

bloomberg.com
4 points·by sizzle·last month·4 comments

Missing worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory found dead in remote forest

latimes.com
27 points·by sizzle·last month·20 comments

Trump signs new order to shut down bank accounts of undocumented immigrants

finance.yahoo.com
8 points·by sizzle·last month·1 comments

A rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth's sixth ocean

thebrighterside.news
4 points·by sizzle·last month·0 comments

Risk or Reward: What First Thing People Want to Know When Decision Is Uncertain?

today.ucsd.edu
3 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·1 comments

Students Create a Self-Balancing, Self-Driving Bicycle

core77.com
18 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·3 comments

The missing men of the American marriage market

npr.org
5 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·1 comments

Britain just issued a cigarette ban that would shock Americans

slate.com
8 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·3 comments

The dark fascist WW2 secret hidden below one of Europe's largest railway station

cnn.com
3 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·0 comments

Harvard Students Furious over Plan to Crack Down on Grade Inflation

bloomberg.com
3 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·1 comments

Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19

techcrunch.com
2 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·2 comments

JPMorgan Offered $1M Settlement Before Sexual Assault Claims Went Viral

wsj.com
5 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·2 comments

The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

nymag.com
42 points·by sizzle·2 months ago·13 comments

YC-backed AI startup can now prescribe psychiatric drugs, first in world

nypost.com
3 points·by sizzle·3 months ago·0 comments

Reddit CEO: Humans welcome (bots must wear name tags)

reddit.com
5 points·by sizzle·4 months ago·0 comments

comments

sizzle
·7 hours ago·discuss
This… wow… should be tightly regulated and illegal to use on the general population.

Literally hijacking people’s neural activation pathways on a mass scale that can’t be easily blocked, unless you look away or start meditating.

Are there any other precedents for this kind of neural-subterfuge being released into the wild, effectively lowering the barrier to mass manipulation?
sizzle
·4 days ago·discuss
Should have launched it off from Geisel library
sizzle
·4 days ago·discuss
Does aluminum foil contain PFAS and does cooking on them on the grill for example expose the food to forever chemicals?
sizzle
·12 days ago·discuss
Take the output to a Radiologist and verify the veracity of the statements.
sizzle
·14 days ago·discuss
Curious what advice from the book did you not follow if you were already investing in index funds and doing well?
sizzle
·last month·discuss
“We've all experienced watching a company we love or admire be warped and broken beyond recognition; until it's a husk of its former self, or worse. I wanted to understand why. And I wanted to know what all of us can do to stop that from happening.”

Enshittification and maximizing founder/shareholder/c-suite profit?
sizzle
·last month·discuss
Lots made out handsomely with low interest rates and huge appreciation/equity.
sizzle
·2 months ago·discuss
How much would it cost a non enterprise paid customer to experiment and vibe code apps without too many token limits?
sizzle
·2 months ago·discuss
Thanks for the reply, I see you are quite the legend and am all caught up now.

Are you still coding these days? Does AI instill any new sense of awe and wonder or a new found passion for coding/computers? Hope you are in a better place now. Cheers.
sizzle
·2 months ago·discuss
How long were you locked up in the clink for? Did you get any access to computers there? How did your time there affect you or change how you think? Thanks for sharing
sizzle
·3 months ago·discuss
How do you see AI playing out there? Are you glad you got out before AI coding became a thing? What are you up to in your retirement years, anything fun? Thanks.
sizzle
·3 months ago·discuss
Grok already proved it was possible to replace that nsfw genre
sizzle
·3 months ago·discuss
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone wrote a script to pull all the sensitive PII and it’s already on the dark net hacking forums for identity thieves. Freeze your credit at all bureaus if you ever used this site.
sizzle
·4 months ago·discuss
Gift link for HN community, please update @Dang: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/olympics/ioc-transg...
sizzle
·4 months ago·discuss
Nothing unless it’s scanning that area and it will just create artifacts in the scan and heat up tissue locally.
sizzle
·4 months ago·discuss
I have annoying carpenter ants does anyone recommend Taurus SC?
sizzle
·5 months ago·discuss
I am? Why else would I share that perspective. It’s a fact of life, pass on your genes or end your lineage.
sizzle
·5 months ago·discuss
Noted for next time. What are your thoughts on the subject matter while you are here?
sizzle
·5 months ago·discuss
Article: http://archive.today/55FMC
sizzle
·5 months ago·discuss
It’s literally the only purpose of life to pass on our genetics to our offsprings in a Darwinian sense.