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> Culturally JS doesn't have a tradition of libraries with deep inheritance hierarchies so you aren't wasting a bunch of memory, and cpu, constructing layer upon layer of useless base classes. This is an improvement over both Java and some C++. This also means the GC doesn't have to work as hard.

No it doesn't, but instead it has normalized using a ton of third party packages even for as silly as left-pad [1] that might take your whole application down, put the security of your users in jeopardy or even take bulk of JS built websites down [1]. Even if the left pad incident is excluded, everyday, JS developers rely on unaudited third party libraries from the shitstorm that NPM is. So, you just offset the library problem, not really solved it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

> no developer worth a damn would ever use

There are a lot of junior developers across the world in different economic situations who might. To think otherwise is just arrogance. Think students, freshers, job-seekers switching industries.

In other words, if your programming language makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot, then it isn't a good programming language to begin with.

In certain industries, compliance/lack thereof has serious consequences, so it might be more to do with that rather than punishing non-technical users just for using AI. For example, if an AI model trains on your internal financials, and someone else uses it to make a quick buck, then that's insider trading. Things like that.

> Perhaps first you could explain what exactly makes it an unsuitable foundation for building software?

https://i.redd.it/rz3o1yibnc511.png

> And whats your plan to move all the browsers and websites in the world to this new language?

I'm not proposing this, I am saying there should have been options to begin with.

> how come everything is built on top of it

Can you share something else they could've built everything else on top of, instead? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Do you really think a normal junior dev is going to be/should be writing web assembly code to build a basic portfolio website?

You can optimize all you want, but if your foundation is a pack of cards, you're not going very far. JavaScript is not a solid foundation to build anything on. It's a language that should have been extinct long ago along with internet explorer. But, people kept trying to save it - adding abstraction on top of abstraction, even languages on top of it (coffeescript, typescript) just to get it to work at the baseline of a decent language. It's the only language that is forced upon us. If browsers gave us options to use other languages, it would and should've been long been dead.

I agree with most points made by the author, however the cognitive impact depends on how you use LLMs. Here's an example: I build so many Phoenix / Elixir applications and one of the things I really hate is the amount of boilerplate code I need to write for every project. It is exactly the same (eg. Setting up vite, removing existing mix based node integrations) and modifying scaffolded code to adhere to my design. I already know CSS inside out and Tailwind CSS too. So, by offloading the task of rewiring existing scaffolded CRUD templates, I would argue the opposite - I am saving precious cognitive load from doing repetitive data entry work.

That's why I have a very clear personal policy of always being the architect and instructing LLMs what AND how a task must be done as opposed to blindly just trusting them with everything - that is how you lose your ability to think.

> Paid models have an incentive not to do that because if the market discovers it there is a huge economy penalty, but the free open source models don't have that disincentive.

False.

I worry more about Claude.

    For those keeping score, this probably isnt exhaustive- but here's some greatest hits;
    #55743: Claude Max account email auto-injected into LLM context with no opt-out - May 3, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/55743

    #72518: Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code - June 30, 2026
    https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/72518

    #21151: No indication of WHICH file for READ tool - January 27, 2026
    https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21151

    #42796: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates - April 2, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

    #73408: AFK auto-continue on unanswered AskUserQuestion is undocumented and has no opt-out - July 2, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73408

    (Also worth a mention, OpenCode PR #18186: anthropic legal requests - March 19, 2026 https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/18186)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50387628

This reminds me of an event where a luxury car manufacturer increased the crumple zone of their car, particularly the hood area in the name of protecting the pedestrians and then the driver died because the car just crumpled all the way in.

Imagine paying luxury prices for an LLM only for it to put you under the bus. Worse yet, imagine justifying this behaviour.

Claude also has the highest number of apologists on here, so watch them come up with every possible explanation of why Claude can do no wrong. You can already see the top comment brush the issue off like it is nothing wrong.

So, you're saying you care about social media perception rather than actual justice? That checks out..

So, if you were accused of raping someone, you should just suck it up and go to jail and just because you have money, you are guilty, right? Not supporting Sam here, but this kind of thinking sets a dangerous precedent.

Wow, the timing is perfect, I was going to post about this. I also found out last night that they actually proxy your requests without your permission. I have setup an exclusion within my firewall for certain request parameters, but it kept getting blocked despite all my settings a though it was going through their server. That really pissed me off since these requests actually contain sensitive data they did not have permission to intercept.

Postman also removed the ability to export individual requests and grouped them into "Share" which means now you have to get a subscription to get your data out, and most export options are gone completely, except for collections itself - which they ask you questions why before you can get your data out. Fuck Postman. I moved to Insomnia as of last night (open source).

What a great marketing campaign for Codex, I tried reading a couple of times and I concluded I should renew my codex subscription.

> No. This is opportunity cost.

This is NOT the definition of opportunity cost. Please do not throw in random terms you don't understand. Opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative you give up whenever you make a choice. WTF does it have to do with mis-classifying an expense?

Moved to Debian few years back and never looked back. We used Ubuntu for a bunch of clients and unfortunately had to let them know they will have to migrate to Debian or similar. It's such a shame because I really used to love Ubuntu until Canonical started turning slowly into your typical everyday corporate.

> "money talks, so why bother with ideals"

That's definitely not what I'm saying. I'm just saying build a better product and a better company that focuses on its employees. It's not that hard and there are plenty of examples all around. Also, revenge isn't exactly an ideal, it's actually quite the opposite.

Most of the organizations that are successful are so because they had a coherent vision for what the product would be and a passion for solving that particular niche's problem. I'm not sure how anger/vengeance rather than a passion for the problem space is going to positively change the customer's perception of the product's long term vision, support and guarantees. Imagine trying to poach a Salesforce client and they ask you why would they need to invest time and money into migrating to your solution and all you got is "haha, fuck salesforce, they fired me".

The idea seems noble, but a good market-fit product is more than just code sitting inside a github repository. That's why there have always been open source alternatives to commercial CRMs long before AI even came into the picture but they never took off.

This benchmark is too simplified to be meaningful. The choice of a framework is rarely based on speed alone, it factors in other elements like the user's domain knowledge, long term maintainability and the framework's track record itself w.r.t security and development of features.

In this regard alone, it will make a lot of sense to spend extra $2 and 2 mins to trade off for a long-term maintainable codebase and code you can reason about than just something made quickly just to get it deployed fast.

In my personal use case, that would be Svelte 5 for me and I'm sure it will be something else for everyone.

It's not just the anti-competitive behaviour, it's also the anti-privacy behaviours that are not muched talked about. They embedded a spyware and got caught too:

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography

But, of course, Dario is the darling of the community and he can do no wrong.

Scribd is the most predatory site that steals people's content and then doesn't honor their promise (upload a PDF to download one..oops that one doesn't qualify, but we will keep your copy!). Fuck em, they built their entire model on predatory behaviour towards broke college students, hope they burn to the ground.

> every comment I don't like is a bot

If that's what you read, that's on your reading comprehension.

> it degrades the forum.

Again, let's not forget this was in response to a vague "unified product" BS claim

Thank you!

    Run agents and everything they build. Secure execution from the first sandbox

Getting hacked while in the business of selling a secure sandbox isn't really a good look. It seems like can't even trust anything these days. The other day OpenCode got hacked and leaked everyone's secrets inside .env to attackers and now this. Sigh.

That's because fundamentally DD drivers are assholes for the most part. In British Columbia, they are paid a minimum wage plus the tips they make from each order. That is well more than what an average Walmart employee makes, which is just pretty much minimum wage. However, the DD drivers will expect a 30-40% tip on a $15 order or they will not even deliver it. Not to mention the theft, fake delivery issues (they take a photo of the delivery and then take the food away) and what not. On top of this, DoorDash will blatantly lie constantly "Your food is on time" (after a 2 hour delay) and keeps updating the ETA repeatedly to make it look like it's on time.

Fuck DoorDash and their drivers. The whole model is flawed and don't even get me started on the absurd tipping entitlement off late. WTF is even 30% of your food bill so normalized as a tip? The same model in Singapore is really so much streamlined in comparison - You order from Grab and it's so much nicer than this garbage, everyone gets paid fairly and restaurants will tell grab drivers to fuck off if they cut the line.

One big problem with HN recently is the sheer number of bots - this account's pattern looks eerily similar to one and the next big issue which has been an issue for over a decade now is many folks here own Apple stock. They have a conflict of interest and their arguments are extremely skewed in favor of Apple.

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I know a lot of folks would argue it is a poor indicator, but more often than not I've been right on so many occasions because of the heavy usage of 'em dashes

I am more impressed by the embedded gameplay widget. Does anyone know what tool/library is that? That'd be so cool if I am able to showcase my worlds on my blog posts!

> 1. SO question numbers dropped precipitously before AI came along.

This was single-handedly the work of arrogant self-righteous moderators who would close random useful questions as not useful just to prove they were doing something. A lot of us long timers got annoyed at selective enforcement of rules and never looked back. It's sad because it was actually a fun place to hangout. Too much moderation always kills the vibe.

> Apple is the only vertical computer company left from the 1980s.

> Microsoft and Google dabble in hardware and both do nothing but lose money in the hardware area

How is losing money relevant here, you started off the argument by saying Apple is the only vertical computer company left. Which is clearly not true and as your own comment contradicts.

You should try using a Surface Pro once. It is what the MacBook Pro is becoming now, only it is 5 years ahead. Yes, Windows sucks. But, the form factor and its usability is unmatched. I wouldn't just write it off as "dabbling".