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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:22PM (#49688850)
tl;dr; an internal thread that goes in the line,
A: Yo! did we do anything wrong?
B: No. someone else messed up. we're good.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:19PM (#49688825)
counter-counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism
Re:Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a ...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:35AM (#49681080)
A/B testing people's careers and lives at scale
Re:Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, ...
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @04:00AM (#48432816)
Putting politics aside, are any tech companies actually taking preventive steps in response to this new risk?
Re:The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:09AM (#48366647)
Meta has showed time and again, that they're not serious about anything including and not limited to customer privacy, security, and support.
If you still use Meta products in 2026, you kinda deserve it.
Re:Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:31PM (#48213690)
I've been clean for about 2 years at this point, and I have not missed anything!
Messaging apps like Signal are more than enough now a days to stay connected with the few people I need and want to stay in touch with.
Re:AI is making me dumb
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:17PM (#48139920)
also, chatting with AI makes me impatient and delusional.
Re:YC's Biggest Scandals
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:13PM (#48088687)
In the US, it's not a real scandal unless the scammers can cash out the story rights to Netflix
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:53PM (#48088493)
GBP (Google Business Profile) is getting extremely popular for B2C business marketing - e.g., https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
We just received the API usage approval from Google, and I'm integrating GBP to https://pinpost.io this week (our reliability first social media management tool)
Re:Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:51AM (#48032315)
Nice. Another step closer to the "dream" of filling the web with trash at scale
Re:Do_not_track
on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:19PM (#47991164)
I'd be interested in,
1. a SOME-TRUST model: a list of opt-outs for the known software that collect telemetry; so that I can just paste that into an env file and be done with it.
2. a ZERO-TRUST model [preferable]: where I control if an application can send any telemetry data; instead of depending on a flag that the distributor may or may not respect.
We (US Navy) are like pirates... it's a profitable business
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:29PM (#47883018)
Is Github losing any significant business from all these outages?
Curious because for a long time we as an industry maintained that reliability and brand value are business critical; but seems like they are cared very little now a days.
Happy to be corrected about my perception too.
Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:41AM (#47859102)
I'd be interested in this breakdown - what % of that is cursor's product(tech x customer) vs future tokens
Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]
Re:I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:52PM (#47744342)
All the title is telling me is that [M|A]RR has been so abused, they stopped making any sense.
A company selling dollar for cents would have infinite MRR, doesn't make it a "business", let alone a good business.
Instead, tell us how much do you make in profit/month, not your gross MRR.
Re:I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:44PM (#47744267)
but they can scale to 2x spending 1000x IF the business is scalable, no?
$20 x 1000 => $20,000 // not more than what they make a month even if "multiple" here means 2
Re:I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:40PM (#47744232)
this is dodgy at best.
Building a $10K MRR website is hard. Building multiple (assuming "multiple" here means >= 3) $10K MRR websites is extremely hard.
I don't know which investors they pitched to, but most investors seeing that number will write a 100-200K check to invest in THE PERSON pretty immediately; unless there was strong red flags in their business model (porn, drug, gambling, etc...)
A 1KB zero-dependency relative time formatter for UI systems
Show HN: A 1KB zero-dependency relative time formatter for UI systems
https://appents.com/tech/human-time
```import { formatRelative } from '@appents/human-time';const past = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60_000); formatRelative(past); // "5m ago"const future = new Date(Date.now() + 3 * 3_600_000); formatRelative(future); // "In 3h"```And```import { formatRelativeLong } from '@appents/human-time';const past = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60_000); formatRelativeLong(past); // "5 minutes ago"```
Re:A whole civilization might die tonight
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:39PM (#47679536)
I'd also ask what can we regular Joes and Janes do to avoid this disaster?
I can't think of anything other than going out and standing on a street with a placard. can we do anything better than that?
Re:A whole civilization might die tonight
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:28PM (#47679383)
As anticipated - this post got flagged.
An existential crisis as big as this can't be discussed on HN?
Re:A whole civilization might die tonight
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:46PM (#47678829)
USA has enough firepower to kill millions of people in short to mid term without needing any nukes.
A whole civilization might die tonight
US Army chief of staff fired by Hegseth
Re:AI for American-produced cement and concrete
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:57PM (#47605733)
Only (April) fools would trust Facebook's technology with anything as safety critical as construction work.
Re:Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:28PM (#47566355)
yes. Once some other company figures out how to build light cheap headsets, Meta can acquire or copy that tech - and scale.
That's indeed Meta's strength area.
Re:Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon
on Saturday March 28, 2026 @10:57PM (#47560006)
Facebook's strength has never been innovation, but adapting to the changes; mostly through acquisition.
With the 20/20 hindsight - I'd say the VR bet was too early for Facebook. Instead of trying to build a future tech, they should have acquired it another few years later, only after the tech has reached a more mature stage.
Meta still has a chance to catch up in the AI race given they are not trying to build afresh, but once again adapt by throwing cash at it (which has been the biggest strength of Facebook and Zuckerberg. see: instagram, whatsapp, reels, and many more...)
Re:If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:24PM (#47548451)
To Github's credit, they have been showing a banner consistently.
To my discredit - I never bothered to read that banner until I saw this HN headline