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. US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes (proton.me)
   224 points by jethronethro 14 days ago | 121 comments
2. Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn (www.ft.com)
   201 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 18 days ago | 160 comments
3. Big tech has disrupted the social contract (basedfob.substack.com)
   136 points by herbertl 26 days ago | 116 comments
4. Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS (contentfoundry.com)
   58 points by randall 7 days ago | 28 comments
5. I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech (www.joanwestenberg.com)
   19 points by DanAtC 15 days ago | 14 comments
6. Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (pluralistic.net)
   18 points by hn_acker 7 days ago | 4 comments
7. Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech (www.theregister.com)
   18 points by ndsipa_pomu 18 days ago | 3 comments
8. Big Tech's water use is 100 times bigger than expected (gerrymcgovern.com)
   13 points by devonnull 24 days ago | 5 comments
9. JD Vance says Big Tech has "too much power" (www.cbsnews.com)
   7 points by jarsin 14 days ago | 5 comments
10. Why are big tech companies so slow? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    5 points by BerislavLopac 25 days ago | 1 comments
11. Trump Eyes Tariffs to Counter Digital Taxes Despised by Big Tech (www.bloomberg.com)
    4 points by adrian_mrd 20 days ago | 1 comments
12. Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4B (www.ft.com)
    4 points by marban 19 days ago | discuss
13. USA Big Tech Grip on Europe (rewiring.bearblog.dev)
    4 points by Mossy9 21 days ago | discuss
14. The Anti-SNARF Manifesto: Big tech destroyed the internet. What's next? (www.buzzfeed.com)
    4 points by andrewtorkbaker 30 days ago | discuss
15. AI startup CoreWeave files for 2025's first big tech IPO reporting 1.9B in Rev (fortune.com)
    3 points by jasdi 10 days ago | discuss
16. Make It Fair – The government is siding with big tech over British creativity (newsmediauk.org)
    3 points by ChrisArchitect 17 days ago | discuss
17. Big Tech Protection: U.S. Picks a Trade Fight to Defend Tech Firms (www.forbes.com)
    2 points by tldrthelaw 17 days ago | 1 comments
18. Big Tech is moving on from the DeepSeek shock (www.ft.com)
    2 points by gusfoo 29 days ago | 1 comments
19. Bridge Big-Tech User Understanding into Your Software (www.jeantechnologies.com)
    2 points by jap5 17 days ago | discuss
20. Why are big tech companies so slow? (www.seangoedecke.com)
    2 points by Garbage 21 days ago | discuss
21. Meta is winning over Wall Street while the rest of Big Tech struggles (finance.yahoo.com)
    2 points by papertowels 30 days ago | discuss
22. Ask HN: Why don't big tech companies unite to build an OS?
    1 points by delduca 25 days ago | 21 comments
23. Texas Is the Low-Cost, High-Reward Darling of Big Tech (www.wsj.com)
    1 points by Bostonian 12 days ago | 3 comments
24. Europe's DMA rules for Big Tech explained (techcrunch.com)
    1 points by andsoitis about 6 hours ago | discuss
25. Open letter calling for digital autonomy and independence from Big Tech (www.cs.ru.nl)
    1 points by maxed 4 days ago | discuss
26. Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google (websets.exa.ai)
    28 points by willbryk720 17 days ago | 4 comments
27. Ask HN: EM to Director
    19 points by emthrowaway123 1 day ago | 17 comments
28. Does anyone use MCP servers in their dev workflow?
    15 points by htormey 10 days ago | 3 comments
29. Show HN: I made read receipts for file sharing (sendfast.app)
    5 points by lukeluc 13 days ago | 2 comments
30. Show HN: Komment – make sense of messy codebases (www.komment.ai)
    2 points by thngs 13 days ago | 1 comments