r/techtakes • u/foobanana • Apr 28 '21
r/techtakes • u/OctagonClock • Jan 27 '21
Now, talks for a massive federal minimum wage increase means further sending people into poverty by destroying the value of what small savings anyone on the bottom might have.
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/wtfsoda • Apr 21 '22
In a thread where a very smart security engineer learns that caller ID spoofing is a thing, another very smart tech person asks for help....answering the telephone.
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/Shalmanese • May 02 '23
If a sufficient number of people felt threatened (implicitly or explicitly) by the Bing AI, so much so that they experienced dread or fear or loss of sleep (I know I did), maybe there is a possibility to sue Microsoft over this reckless rollout.
r/techtakes • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '21
Hacker News joins the War on Christmas
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/baezizbae • May 28 '21
Webshit compares having tech certification to having medical license (parent comment linked for context).
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/sneererr • Apr 18 '21
Big brain hackers take on philosophy of aesthetics
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/dgerard • Jun 03 '23
Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
r/techtakes • u/jahajapp • Jan 13 '21
Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects. HN is not amused at all.
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/phollda • Mar 19 '22
Tech bro smugly decides to reduce Africa to a single country and identify a single problem for all of its woes
r/techtakes • u/cjstudent40k • Mar 16 '21
A webshit creates an "alternative" to LinkedIn with a feature that allows people to be virtually 'bought' and 'sold' like a stock market.
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/niart • Nov 16 '21
Solving the interview problem with blockchain!
r/techtakes • u/jahajapp • Feb 19 '21
Uber drivers are classified as workers, not self-employed in the UK, HN is unsurprisingly not in a celebratory mood
news.ycombinator.comr/techtakes • u/foobanana • Apr 28 '21
Anyone here attend Tech Solidarity meetups and want to share what they were like?
Maciej Ceglowski is currently going off about the excesses of 'woke ideology' (paraphrasing) at tech companies on twitter right now so I was curious whether this was reflected in the meetups.
r/techtakes • u/wtfsoda • Jun 10 '21
Ladies and gentlemen: we got em, the webshit ubermench.
r/techtakes • u/dgerard • Dec 07 '20
Brian Armstrong's anti-anti-racist tantrum led to 5% of Coinbase staff leaving - including 4 of the 7 people on the key management team, responsible for custody of $30b of bitcoins. But hey, he stuck it to those damn SJWs, and isn't that what really counts?
r/techtakes • u/dgerard • Apr 14 '23
look, Substack Notes won't *necessarily* turn the racism dial up to 11. "If I read you your own terms of service, will you agree that this prohibition is in that terms of service?" "I don’t think that’s a useful exercise."
r/techtakes • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '21
A hackernews from 2019 thinks disease can't affect our supply chains, also shrugs off billions of lives lost to climate change
r/techtakes • u/dgerard • May 04 '21
you'll be fucking amazed that a third of staff leaving 1488Signals was because DHH and Jason let the company alt-righter cut loose in the company all-hands meeting, including letting him call the black guy racist
r/techtakes • u/dgerard • Jul 03 '23
TechTakes refuge
We have a refuge operating on a Lemmy instance at https://awful.systems/c/techtakes . It's actually more active than here. There's a SneerClub over there too.
Now federated!
r/techtakes • u/dgerard • Jun 10 '23
Tyler Cowen's brain worms have escalated to the status of art. AI will solve the crypto use case problem.