Hacker News: hoshi73https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoshi73Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:54:17 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by hoshi73 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"]]>This clearly falls under the definition of automated individual decision-making per Article 22 of the GDPR and would be blatantly illegal if it were done in the EU. The GDPR is explicitly designed to outlaw this kind of algorithmic profiling and exclusion in hiring.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/external/document/X4BBTPFO00000...

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:35:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441959hoshi73https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441959<![CDATA[New comment by hoshi73 in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"]]>Many call Wikipedia "the last good place on the internet", but that's really only true of the English edition. Non-English versions are generally filled with political misinformation and propaganda from people trying to politicize a nation's history, which, frankly, makes them not worth bothering with:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misi...

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