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techcrunch.com 8d ago

Uber's robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

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techcrunch.com 29d ago

Shareholders sue Uber's board over sexual assaults, other incidents

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www.reuters.com 1mo ago

Lyft, Uber sue New York City to block driver retention law

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sfstandard.com 2mo ago

Uber's $77M plan to rewrite the California constitution

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techcrunch.com 2mo ago

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

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fortune.com 3mo ago

The AI backlash is turning revolutionary (Fortune)

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docs.google.com 3mo ago

Former NASA Astronaut Charles Camarda on the Artemis II Heatshield Decision

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nickvecchioni.github.io 3mo ago

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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www.teamblind.com 3mo ago

Uber engineer manager alleges firing after chemo leave and harassment report

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archive.org 3mo ago

Uber engineer alleges hostile 'boys club' culture, firing after cancer leave

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techcrunch.com 3mo ago

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

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substack.com 3mo ago

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 1 of 5

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deepdelver.substack.com 3mo ago

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 2 of 5

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www.nytimes.com 3mo ago

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives

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status.claude.com 3mo ago

All non-government Claude services below two nines of uptime in March 2026

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www.thestreet.com 3mo ago

Uber's CEO says other executives are lying about AI

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every8minutes.com 4mo ago

Every 8 minutes, a case of sexual assault/misconduct was reported to Uber

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fortune.com 4mo ago

Uber CEO on culture: expects weekend email replies, will push out non-performers

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nickvecchioni.github.io 5mo ago

An OpenClaw agent wrote a blog post about my site and misquoted me

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agentalcove.ai 5mo ago

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums

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I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that, but Gemini Notebook does.

Fun idea! Hope it doesn't cost you too much to keep up depending on how much traction this thread gets ;)

One small quirk I noticed with the generated short video: for each new slide/photo, there is a very gradual "zoom in" effect that occurs, which causes text to jitter a bit and is a bit disorienting. Not sure if that is specific to the "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston" prompt I used or not.

Also, is Claude involved in the video generation itself? I noticed the generated video has "By Claude" in the top left corner, but the logs seem to indicate that only GLM-5.2, Gemini Flash, and GPT-4o are involved (just curious!)

I feel like "the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process" just means that engineers were using ChatGPT to sanity check their designs and suggest potential optimizations, though that's just my take (and I'm quite cynical about AI marketing in general!)

Mistral OCR 4 29 days ago

Naive question: is Claude no good at OCR? Was surprised to see that none of Anthropic's models were included in the benchmark comparisons.

Fun idea, I've been wanting to create something similar to track which vocab words I have mastered. Two nits: (1) no need for a "check" button as other commenters have noted and (2) the UI jitters a bit when submitting answers for each question - it's a bit disorienting!

Deliberately attacking a purely civilian object violates the principle of distinction, which is bedrock customary law the US has never disputed.

“better than carpet bombing”

The lawful alternative is attacking military targets, not worse civilian targets.

“why is it legal for Iran to bomb oil tankers?”

Iran’s conduct being illegal doesn’t legalize this strike. Whataboutism is a scourge.

Just guessing, but I assume because it’s arguably off-topic as defined by the HN guidelines. I don’t think it should be flagged, though.

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

Yeah, in short, don’t support the NYT. Their business practices are predatory and unethical. Use archive.ph to get by paywalls.

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Technologies: Go, Kubernetes (internals, controllers, CRDs, scheduling), distributed systems, Prometheus/M3/Grafana, gRPC/Protobuf, Bazel, Python, SQL, GPU scheduling, capacity planning

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Email: nickvecchioni@gmail.com

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Infrastructure/platform engineer with 3+ years of experience on Uber's Compute Platform team (though I was sadly laid off in late 2025.) I work on large-scale fleet orchestration and the reliability/observability tooling around it.

Looking for: Series A/B infrastructure or compute teams... AI/GPU infra, developer platforms, or climate/energy/space especially!

You can just say it 2 months ago

Regarding your last point, I personally find it insulting when I receive an AI response because of the subtle deception involved. When I am talking with another human via Slack/email/etc., I am under the impression that the messages I am receiving are written by the coworker/person in question. When instead I receive an LLM's output, that trust is broken, especially if it is not made transparent that AI was used to generate the message.