Hackernews posts about Big Tech

Big Tech is a term used to describe the four largest and most influential technology companies in the world - Amazon, Facebook (now Meta), Google, and Apple - that have significant power and influence over the digital landscape.

1. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)
   297 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 174 comments
2. How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.investigate-europe.eu)
   184 points by cyberlimerence 18 days ago | 65 comments
3. EU should regulate Big Tech, not banning kids from social media, Estonia says (www.politico.eu)
   13 points by donohoe 24 days ago | 2 comments
4. Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI in 2026. No one knows where buildout ends (fortune.com)
   11 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 days ago | 2 comments
5. Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media (www.politico.eu)
   7 points by pabs3 21 days ago | 5 comments
6. Big Tech will spend nearly $700B on AI this year (fortune.com)
   7 points by mgh2 5 days ago | 3 comments
7. How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (www.thejournal.ie)
   6 points by austinallegro 7 days ago | discuss
8. The problem with Europe's Big Tech breakup: It's still hooked (www.politico.eu)
   6 points by andrewstetsenko 14 days ago | discuss
9. Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic (www.cnn.com)
   5 points by breve 3 days ago | 1 comments
10. Stop Begging Big Tech to Fix Your Social Media Experience. Do It Yourself (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by speckx 13 days ago | discuss
11. Big Tech cut 80k jobs, blamed AI; experts say firms are overstaffed 25%-75% (finance.yahoo.com)
    4 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 1 comments
12. Against Big Tech Credentialism (alexwennerberg.com)
    4 points by Sukram21 18 days ago | discuss
13. UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk (www.theregister.com)
    4 points by beardyw 20 days ago | discuss
14. Show HN: Grovs – Open-source attribution to escape the 'Big Tech' tax (www.grovs.io)
    3 points by dobreandl 21 days ago | 4 comments
15. Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic (www.cnn.com)
    3 points by yurivish 4 days ago | 1 comments
16. EU Big Tech fines top $7B in 2 years (www.cnbc.com)
    3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 25 days ago | discuss
17. Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone (arstechnica.com)
    2 points by Bender 16 days ago | discuss
18. Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone (arstechnica.com)
    2 points by Brajeshwar 18 days ago | discuss
19. Big Tech's $300M election war chest rattles Democrats (www.ft.com)
    2 points by petethomas 19 days ago | discuss
20. The 'Google for AI Agents' Is Coming – and It's Being Built Outside Big Tech (superai.systems)
    1 points by joshuabellew 15 days ago | 1 comments
21. Big tech engineers need big egos (www.seangoedecke.com)
    1 points by kiyanwang 28 days ago | 1 comments
22. The AI Splurge Is Costing Big Tech Its Workforce (www.wsj.com)
    1 points by mmurph211 8 days ago | discuss
23. Cutting Costs, Not Corners by moving out of big tech (knuthellan.com)
    1 points by khellan 12 days ago | discuss
24. Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone (arstechnica.com)
    1 points by bookmtn 17 days ago | discuss
25. Encrypted Client Hello: A Big Tech Privacy Fix (blog.miloslavhomer.cz)
    1 points by ArcHound 20 days ago | discuss
26. Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?
    6 points by apatheticonion 5 days ago | 28 comments
27. Ask HN: How do I learn software engineering and transition to building products?
    2 points by jdw64 9 days ago | 3 comments
28. Show HN: Loopback – Verified interview feedback that builds your live resume (www.joinloopback.com)
    2 points by DataMind 26 days ago | discuss
29. Free Google Workspace Account Falsely Accused of Commercial Use
    2 points by Apreche 27 days ago | discuss
30. A brief generational overview of the tech industry
    1 points by 5color 19 days ago | 2 comments