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I would like to mention Bill Gates as a tech bro who has been doing "good works". Like fighting malaria, funding vaccine development (yes), Na reactors, and so forth. He was the nasty tech bro in the 90's and early 00's but evolved into a good tech bro.

I agree with the author about the other big tech bros. They're evil.

My kid is in college now. But I do so appreciate this work, and other works dedicated to finding alternate spaces to the current toxicity and marketing that has taken over the internet. Kudos!

Interesting work! Definitely deserved the #1 spot on HN

Could people say they used "AI" to build the new code?

Compare learning math to learning to bicycle. There is some some sweat and struggle that needs to be put in, before one "gets it". After this it can become enjoyable. I encouraged my daughter with practice exercises from a young age, but tried to avoid making it a drudge. She built up confidence and did well with it. She is also very hands on creative. She decided to study engineering and is working towards her PhD.

More and more my response to stuff from the Magnificent Seven is to opt out, opt out, opt out. The number of annoyances on Windows keeps going up. Even Annoyances.org seems to have given up.

Could this be used as a shakedown by Trump (give me 1 billion and I'll get the case withdrawn)

At some point in the distant future (if we haven't blown each other up by then,or reduced ourselves to Somalia) .. We will figure out good robust rules and regulations to snuff out this depravity from the tech giants. .. Thankfully, my kid is already in grad school. Maybe in time for her grandchildren.

Top notch work and writeup. Many Thanks.

I couldn't do 10% of this, and don't wish to spend a part of my life wrestling with gadgets like this. Simply will not buy. Also simply will avoid most all social media.

Biology was always a mystery in college, but I have also felt that this was obvious. They look very similar for heaven's sake! My paranoid self thinks shrimp, crabs and lobsters are labeled differently from bugs, so people can eat them without being repulsed.