I can already see the HN comments

If YoU CaN’T iNnOvAtE, rEgUlAtE!1!1

Tbf, Tesla probably sold more cyber trucks than Horizons got users.

You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they’re stupid and think “big = good”.

An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It’s an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn’t happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

Look at TikTok’s huge success. If they weren’t a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren’t allowed to buy a Chinese company.

How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

It’s just that most people don’t know what you mean when you say something is “AI generated”. With context clues, they tie back to terms they’re already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery (“that’s Photoshopped”).

I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they’ve still thrown the term “photoshopped” around.

AI is here. Deal. With It. Your authoritarian chains have been shattered, knowledge Nazi. No longer will creation be a luxury for the mentally wealthy. It has now been fully democratized so that even republican voters will be able to code soon.

Regular desktop stuff and gaming usually works fine. Problems start cropping up when you try to use some more advanced GPU-powered apps, or do development yourself. I’ve encountered even older OpenGL apps that fail to start unless you force them to use the Mesa software renderer.

And people are now getting emails saying that their phone will never arrive, with no mention of them getting their deposits back.

Anyone have the text of the actual email?

The stock market was a mistake. There’s only so much that a single company can grow without resorting to screwing over their own customers, yet these public company CEOs need to deliver constant growth if they wanna keep their jobs. At the same time, so much of the economy is invested in these

AI is the most successful media franchise in human history

I think “decimal” is a loaner word in European, as it’s yet another thing America invented. Don’t laugh at them for being slow on the uptake.

This is good. A lot of projects from mega corps to indie devs would be in big trouble if SDL turned into AI slop.

So she was the architect but she had her engineering friend Ben Sigman make a virtual memory palace based off of other open source code.

Not her husband.

Brainlets are getting pissed off over the gender pronouns of a cartoon fox while the real thing to be pissed off about is that this mascot represents their intention to go all-in on shoving AI features into Firefox. Kit is going to be their Claude, Siri, “Hey Google”, etc.

• Most people are poor
• Most people use Windows

Coincidence?

Do you work for Zed or something? Why are you against this?

If you’re just a user, then when (not if) the project fully enshittifies, you’ll be happy Gram exists.

Why the fuck do people who know what a “github” is, much less how to post issues use Telegram?

Sony is a close second, BTW

Do you have any examples? I’m not familiar with any major acquisitions Sony has made. Afaik the “acquire company, fire everyone, and run the business into the ground” strategy is mostly an American phenomenon.

Zed is on the typical VC tech company path, which we all know can only end in one way: enshitification.

• Eclipse Theia
• Gram
• Lite-XL
• Lapce

I really like this version of the internet. Instead of everyone using a megacorp’s giant centralized services, it’s better to have a ton of small services made by and for real communities/groups. Git’s decentralized nature is a perfect candidate for this, and I hope it takes off more.