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I did some contract work on a project that was produced with replit, extracting it to github and setting up its production and staging environments, auditing for issues, resolving some of them.

There was so much that wasn't done, it was basically an Airbnb-like service and it lacked any capacity to register users or hosts, pay for or disburse payments, create or manage listings, notifications, administration. They went from expecting to launch in a couple weeks to looking at my roadmap and quote of about 3 months more development work just for a launchable MVP, which wildly exceeded their budget or commitment to the project.

I don't know how much of this was Replit's fault but some of it certainly was, like despite being a monorepo the frontend had no connectivity with the backend, there was no barriers between user data and most endpoints were not secured, the server had zero hardening, some endpoints would take the user's id as a posted value.

What I find more important than replicating the appearance is the keyboard shortcuts and their consistency system-wide, for that I like this project Toshy which I use with Pop OS:

https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy

I think the other factor is all these additional projects are starting from the work Asahi has done, whether they're actually able to deliver substantial value themselves is yet to be seen, especially safely and securely.

Personally I don't think it's very likely the tables would turn and Asahi became dependent upon their contributions. I foresee a much bleaker future for Omarchy, crashing and burning from some reckless and unnecessarily abrasive whim of DHH. I'm not optimistic about Gravity Linux either, it's a single-dev project and that's prone to failure for many reasons.

What is the point of combining "wants to be hired" + "is hiring" into a singular line chart in the first chart?

The bottom chart is dismal, number of jobs declining, number of job searchers growing like crazy, and out of alignment pretty much this whole decade.

> Even if it's a token that was copied and pasted temporarily, the systems in place should not have to require this type of 1. copy 2. paste 3. remember-to-delete the token from my PC.

One of the first things I did in my last job was shift processes like this off my team's computers, aside from the security ramifications all it takes is one dumb mistake, one up-arrow too many, one didn't-read-the-whole-line, and now you're doing something to production by accident!

Absolutely insane, might as well just freeze production for a while.

A whistleblower revealed Apple were using a contracted sweatshop in Ireland to grade Siri recordings - although not for ads. They actually settled a class action for this just this year.

https://techworkerhandbook.org/stories/thomas-le-bonniec/

It's even worse when you are traveling cause then you run into country-blocks on websites and videos on top of all of that, and you didn't even mention the forced logging-in or registration walls to continue browsing/shopping/etc!

Feels like the whole internet is hitting that hockey stick growth... towards becoming shit.

Apple is always not-going to have enough compute of their own, they have billions of users and whatever they are investing in datacenters to service them is negligible.

That said renting storage from Google for iCloud reportedly carries an ~80% profit margin, there's no reason they can't also put a 5x markup on what Google charges them for PCC and Siri since they can still prevent rivals from providing the same service in most markets.

Yes but the "healthy" way is to have curated methods of finding the good stuff, it doesn't matter how much bad food there is if you can go to your supermarket and see a healthy selection they've curated.

Whereas for software, we're down to just a few supermarkets and they have made no effort to stay on top of curation - in fact Google and Apple straight up monetized bad curation with advertising, which inherently favors the "unhealthy" food able to recuperate that money through addiction.

It has definitely drowned out Steam and Itch. Steam are reportedly dedicating "significant" resources to trying to solve discovery now, so they must be assuming this would impact them negatively.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/valve-has-a-signifi...

Stripe Managed Payments is MoR too - https://stripe.com/managed-payments

Apple actually ran a comparison of both of these companies recently in their court filings - they determined companies with a lot of payments could do it cheaper themselves.

> Stripe and Paddle are leading full-service, turnkey payment processing, and merchant-of-record providers handling all the services necessary for link-out, including payment processing, tax compliance, fraud detection, and customer service. Id. ¶ 82. Across the top apps, the mean implied processing and merchant-of-record fee based on Stripe’s and Paddle’s rack rates (which few, if any, large developers actually pay because they negotiate discounts or provision in-house) is 8.1% using Stripe rates, or 7.8% using Paddle rates

> Large developers often negotiate processing fees below published rates or perform processing more cheaply in-house.

> Epic’s Head of Payments, testified at trial in this case that Epic’s “average cost of using . . . payment service providers … [i]n [the] U.S., [is] around 3.5%” and “Epic [has] the opportunity to negotiate these costs with its payment service providers.

https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/08/Epic_...

I think it will just cause France to be siloed. Imagine what a child downloads in 5-6 hours a day of mindless garbage, now that is a €20/month habit why would YouTube or TikTok want them anymore. Bingers on streaming services are also putting the providers in an awkward position. In the linked article VLC estimates this will cost them €1m/year so they won't be viable. Steam is on the hook for €3.25m/week that is the equivalent of them losing €11m/week in sales so even they will be lucky to still be profitable in France.

What an obtuse way to tax these services.

I think climate change is far more likely to get most of us.

But AI could certainly make some poor choices and cause havoc - if AI messed up Walmart's refrigerator configuration that would be 15x greater effect than France earlier this month, there would certainly be localized food shortages:

> On 11 October 2026, an unknown party hacked into the refrigeration controllers at up to 700 French supermarkets[2] and set them to defrost mode overnight, causing their refrigerators to overheat.

There must be many situations like this entrenched in industries that could be brought to their knees maliciously or accidentally - even where there should be security like eMudhra the certificate authority:

> The affected refrigeration controllers each ran a web server reachable over the public internet, many of them[2] accessible using login credentials 'admin' as the username and the current date as the password.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_French_supermarket_refrig...

It would be interesting if browsers supported more languages but I don't mind the monoculture. I have spent a lot of time investing in languages, frameworks and tools, so much of that learning is both useless and worthless today. Most of what I have mastered isn't viable to use for anything in 2026.

About ten years ago I deliberately started doubling-down on JavaScript instead, it's good-enough for practically any use case and I've been able to leverage it for web, mobile, desktop, server and games. There are things other languages can do better, but I love not having to install them and manage their different versions and dependencies, and stay familiar with their idiomatic approaches, and keep up-to-date with their evolution.

There are outcomes where a monoculture can be bad, but structurally I think JavaScript is in a good place - open standard, open governance, open to proposals, massive open source culture.

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#ne...

The title is actually withholding not hiding.

And what they're actually doing is refusing to submit copies of their passport and license, they have not been ordered to surrender their passport as the article headline implies.

Anecdotally I think the launch submissions have been a lot less popular for this device than normal:

- it did top the Mac subreddit (700 upvotes) but ranks as the 12th-most popular post in the last month

- it didn't top HN (491 upvotes)

- it didn't top Reddit's main Apple subreddit (1000-1200 upvotes)

I might be remembering wrong but I think this kind of news usually gets thousands of upvotes.

Sad. I always hope they will reach a tipping point where inertia doesn't keep the money gushing in anymore amidst the decline in quality and the 10.000s of layoffs and invitation to 60.000 more to leave.

At this point it's pretty certain they've skipped M6 Pro/Max or they'd be a flagship feature of today's laptop.

The odds of > 128GB are very good, AMD have already bumped the Strix Halo to 192GB of RAM and both AMD and Nvidia should have successors to their offerings in 2028 that will compete with the M7 Pro and Max. Both AMD and Nvidia will be using TSMC N2 too so the competition will be ramping up.

That was looking at it as a usability problem.

Now it's a "how will you still need an iPad" problem, that they have solved perfectly because it's a usability problem.

That's a second moderator, dang has been moderating since PG left a dozen or whatever years ago and still is. So they've lost zero moderators unless I'm missing something?

And still have what looks like a very healthy number of long-time users, although I didn't dig deeper than the top 10.

If the reports are true that it is still a traditional laptop form factor unlocking none of the ecosystem benefits of touch functionality it will just be something people have to put with, like the Touch Bar, because they can't buy what they want without it: OLED, ligher/thinner chassis.

> HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods

I can still remember when they hired dang and he's still around, I see people posting I recognize from 18 years ago when I first started reading this site...

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

The youngest "top ten" account is from 2020, most of them are from 15-20 years ago. Two of the top ten have not posted for months, seven have posted today.

That's not what's being decided, it's the input of copyright content and so far it is leaning strongly towards the AI companies being able to do that and only getting in trouble for pirating the material first.

> A Meta spokesperson called the state’s claims “unfounded,” noting that the company regularly partners with law enforcement to disrupt scam networks.

UnFoUnDeD!

> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

> Much of the fraud came from marketers acting suspiciously enough to be flagged by Meta's internal warning systems. But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents. The idea is to dissuade suspect advertisers from placing ads.

> The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta's ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user's interests.

> At the same time, the documents indicate that Meta's own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company's platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US Meta also acknowledged in other internal documents that some of its main competitors were doing a better job at weeding out fraud on their platforms.

https://www.tbsnews.net/world/meta-earning-fortune-deluge-fr...

He probably made hundreds of millions off it.

And the fact that he did this years after Cambridge Analytica, just wow.

I wonder if it can even be stopped at this stage - Brazil can only arrest him or execs if they are in Brazil, even international warrants are tricky to enforce against people who can travel by private jet and mega-yacht.

If you know you will pay Claude a few thousand bucks a year a decade adds up too, owning the hardware could just as well end up cheaper because you can sell it or as others have alluded the price to rent could get much worse.

> Insiders cited broad industry-wide online traffic problems plaguing numerous online publishers, including Meta’s decision to deprioritize links to news articles and the rise of chatbots and AI summaries, which have decimated search traffic. It also wasn’t positioned to take advantage of increases in media attention tied to Trump and US politics.

Won't be much left to read next year, similar thing just happened to Liliputing traffic hit the floor and the founder accepted a job.

https://liliputing.com/whats-up-with-liliputing-fall-2026-ed...

> AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in Love

Really just highlighting how screwed up copyright law is, that's a 65-year old song, of someone who died 49 years ago.