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That sounds like a violation of affiliate t&c ? Wouldn't that nullify them, and even lead to lawsuits?

Human output is not money go in production come out. This is tired. Companies continue to headquarter in the most expensive cities in the world. Surely they would all REMOTE TO THE BALKANS by now if it were actually a viable option

This is great. Maybe before self driving becomes a thing we can convince our capital hoarding tech oligarchs who run the country we need more walkable cities to feed ai inputs

Of course it does, and is it any surprise the most innovative city and urban centers in the world are the most walkable?

That’s a fair take. What happened to google’s angular ? Facebook is also historically invested in php, why wasn’t php just good enough? Facebook also had flow, Microsoft typescript won.

Sure these companies have influence, but it’s not all or nothing.

I just don’t buy the whole mass hysteria and funding being responsible for reacts prevalence.

“Frontend purity” reeks of the tired, “lazy unskilled engineers should write software in C and assembly on 16kb memory like the old days”

Reacts success is not from being an air tight optimized and perfect abstraction, it succeeds because it has a scalable abstractions which have relatively good ROI when you learn it even with its warts.

Open source tech is a marketplace of ideas. If you have a more perfect alternative then it will prevail.

Granted none of these critics have a viable tried and true alternative. It’s easy to throw shade at any abstraction. None will ever be perfect!

That said, I welcome any new paradigms and ideas. But discounting how far we’ve come with what’s possible on the frontend with hand waves just doesn’t cut it for me.

This is interesting, anecdotally I have felt like I was having better luck with raw sqlite than using an ORM in a recent typescript project, using raw sqlite queries vs drizzle

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https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal

> Strong Federal privacy laws would make posts like this unnecessary, that’s the world I’d rather live in.

Amen.

Opal: Browser first feature-rich markdown editor, workspace and publisher

- https://opaledx.com - https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal

No logins or sign-ups, totally free, MIT Open Source

Integrates with git and github, publishes to aws, github, netlify, vercel, cloudflare, great drag and drop image integration

I wasn't expecting to see the outages being nearly the same even before the 2023 ai inflection point

Cool to see all the progress with Zed, but it feels a bit too tied to user accounts. Prominent 'Sign In' buttons and ads like 'Try our new agentic...' They do have to make money and that's fine - but too often incentives start out this way and begin to corrupt the application...

Whats next, ads inside file searches? (ubuntu blundered this way and soured the community) - "LQQKING for something? try new ai search by blah blah corp!"

So it's hard to 'invest' my time tweaking my editor and theme only to have it start to betray me in the future. VSCode has already gone down this path - signing commit messages with 'copilot'

I recently took a trip to Salamanca Spain, the sight of a regular bench, in the city center, without hostile anti sleeping measures. It was funny, something so plain could so be jarring to see. Could very well have been an elephant on the via.

when you consider the setup and infrastructure going to and fro the mega warehouse of dry and perishable goods, also considering the required equipment, (a sedan, or large car) - It begins to become apparent the genesis of costco largely rises out of Americas car culture and suburbia.

Alternatively elsewhere, small shops, many locally owned, butchers, vendors convenience stores replace the existence of 'costco'

In these facts, I dont know if its necessarily a bad thing, but there is something empty, soulless and anti social about it.

Maybe a few grape tomatoes for thought between the world salad of this article, "cognitive pattern. It is a jarring thoughtscape, remarkably compelling and nondiscursive and utterly hard to shake." - That is what the author too is getting at?

Do you think the complexity of auth in the browser, is because browsers don't do enough?

Tom's articles are always a good read.

Anyone remember Auth0 and passportjs?

The churn of auth services is never ending, but I suppose so are the standards.

So GitHub reached its tipping point, I guess vscode will follow

Needn’t worry, such incompetencies are rooted out by the 8th or 9th round of interviews.

time to add plugins to hn, automated measure of ai comments and submissions to be the first ;)

big fan of this project, been following on x. heads up, there's some escaping issue on the website, for instance " \u{00d7} 2 \u{2014}"

I honestly was surprised with the response I got, for what was basically a Sunday hack project: https://github.com/rbbydotdev/someday

I think people really like how it's free (runs on google app scripts) and open source.

I've personally moved onto google's free gmail calendar scheduling tool, which strangely took pretty long to come to market. Calendly stretches back to ... 2013?

Scheduling, oddly feels a little niche (maybe less so today?), when it shouldn't be. Maybe there some more opportunity there.

> ...he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

incredible.

… and this is not okay right?

it would be nice if flock did not and could not exist

I wonder what kinds of market hypotheses you could derive from the game theory here

Looks beautiful! Any plans to make it self compile?

I don't agree with this direction. There is entirely too much cognitive load in the interface. The challenge now is how to distill the massive output and information of agent work - this is just surfacing it all to you

Would really love to see a web api standard for on device llms. This could get us closer. Some in-browser language model usage could be very powerful. In the interim maybe a little protocol spec + a discovery protocol used with browser plugins, web apps could detect and interface with on-device llms making it universally available.

The wrinkle here is what exactly “win” means

It's tough, because I think outlawing 'vices' like gambling is an infringement on your individual freedom - but when it's done with an enterprise it's so much more problematic. Thinking about for instance tobacco companies vs locally grown in the backyard.