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by Puzzled_Cheetah | 2025-12-01 19:08:38+00:00
> Culture doesn’t reliably reward the serious. Neither does business. > It rewards the resonant. The clear. The human. The work that connects.

Enshitification is a very rewarding strategy, depending on which side of it you're on, and I think you'd struggle to argue that's, 'The resonant. The clear. The human. The work that connects.'

The fact of that matter is that business and culture reward a vast range of different approaches in different contexts, and this holds over multiple levels of abstraction. From the sort of staff you want in particular jobs, all the way through to your position as a company relative to the market. Do you want your payroll admin to be playful? Really getting down, feeling that vibe - pay them whatever man - it's all in the vibe dude? Or do you want them to do their job to a standard? Do you want your impression as a company producing finance software to be that you're all about the resonant, the clear, the human, the work that connects? Or do you want it to be that you help the organisation meet its audit burden?

And just as business rewards different things in different contexts - so does programming. I'm not going to do low level systems programming in Ruby. I'm not going to go and do graphics programming in Rust. I'm not going to engage in banging out a CRUD app in C. You choose the best tool for the job given what's reasonably accessible to you at the time the problem occurs. Sometimes it's because a particular language gives you good access and support to a set of libraries - sometimes it's because the code you're working with was already written in that language. Sometimes the features of the language are well suited to particular tasks.

It's not a matter of the tool being serious or not. People are serious or not. Languages are just things and what makes the language serious when you pick it up is whether you're approaching your work seriously or not.
by mtmclennan | 2025-12-01 19:08:54+00:00
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by PaulHoule | 2025-12-01 19:09:23+00:00
I dunno. The 6502 has been a $2 part for a long time but needs RAM and some glue logic, for a similar price you can get an AVR-8 [1] or ESP-32 [2] and get some RAM and GPIO.

[1] faster, more registers than the IBM 360, << 64k RAM

[2] much faster, 32bit, >> 64k RAM
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-01 19:09:25+00:00
Percentage wise profits might not increase, but 10% profits on a $2000 plan make an insurance company (and execs) more than 10% profits on a $200 plan. It's in their interests and income stream for costs to constantly go up so they can get their 10% take. Efficiencies and price savings would actually hurt them (can't have plan rates go back down and only get their 10% off of $200).
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-12-01 19:09:35+00:00
> Those examples of harm are not good ones.

I emphatically disagree. See you at the ballot box.

> but it's not a major practical concern for any end users so far.

My wife came across a post or comment by a person considering preemptive suicide in fear that their ChatGPT logs will ever get leaked. Yes, fear of leaks is a major practical concern for at least that user.
by donkyrf | 2025-12-01 19:09:59+00:00
"enthusiastic support"

https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/52279-net-favour...

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/10/03/how-american...

etc etc....

I'm not sure what collective West you're referring to; but apparently it excludes every major Western European nation, America, and Canada.
by mackross | 2025-12-01 19:10:10+00:00
An often overlooked extra advantage to Google is their massive existing ad inventory. If LLMs do end up being ad supported and both products are roughly the same, Google wins. The large supply of ads direct from a diverse set of advertisers means they can fill more ad slots with higher quality ads, for a higher price, and at a lower cost. They’re also already staffed with an enormous amount of talent for ad optimization. Just thus advantage would translate into higher sustained margins (even assuming similar costs), but given TPU it might be even greater. This plus the gobs of cash they already spin off, and their massive war chest means they can spend an ungodly amount on user acquisition. It’s their search playbook all over again.
by Groxx | 2025-12-01 19:10:11+00:00
I suspect we're in different niches then or something. If ya don't mind sharing / have links handy, do you have any examples? I'm curious what kind of channel it works well for.

I can try to hunt mine down, but most of the examples I've had were from a couple years ago, and YouTube's history is rather hard to search for stuff like that :| Not high odds of success.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 19:10:29+00:00
The entire snake oil industry was thriving and customers loved buying stuff that did nothing at all.

It took a hundred people, including young children, dying in sheer agony from a 100% preventable poisoning by a "medicine company" who's business was essentially dissolving off the shelf medicine powders in liquid and selling the result to really regulate chemicals meant for human ingestion. It took a president with a sympathetic ear and immense popular support for government in general to be a force for reigning in powerful corporations.

That company not only did not test that concoction on any living thing before bottling it up and selling to thousands of unwitting people, but the chemist in charge didn't even check the literature to see that the diethylene glycol he used was already thought to be lethal and had known kidney toxicity.

The company DID test its flavor and color and fragrance.

Why would they test anything else before selling it? You could be a hugely profitable company selling products that did nothing to the people who took it. Testing your products was a waste of effort and would not get you more business!

Your average consumer CANNOT judge accurately whether a medicine works. Your average doctor fails at the task, which is why we have to do blind studies in the first place.

What was true of consumers in the early 1900s is just as true today, and applies to all sorts of things that aren't medicine. Consumers will never be experts. Consumers will never be as equipped to evaluate something as the capital rich industry that produces it. There are inherent information asymmetries that make even idealized market theory fail.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 19:10:37+00:00
Yes and more normal people use Google - that is the default search engine for Android and iOS. AI overviews and AI mode just have to be good enough to cause people not to switch.

Google’s increasing revenues and profits and even Apple hinting at they aren’t seeing decreased revenue from their affiliation with Google hints at people not replacing Google search with ChatGPT.

Besides end user chatbot use is just a small part of the revenue from LLMs.
by raigol | 2025-12-01 19:10:52+00:00
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by _verandaguy | 2025-12-01 19:10:57+00:00
This take is almost as condescending as saying that Ruby isn't a serious language.

Ruby arose and became popular because it caters to a niche that was underserved by the competitors of the time (and while I'm no historian, I think Rails had a big role to play in Ruby's popularity).

Ruby is very ergonomic, and so is Rails. Frankly, almost 10 years after moving on from it, ActiveRecord is the yardstick by which I measure the ergonomics of all other ORMs in other languages, but what ergonomic means will vary from domain to domain.

With languages like Ruby and Python, it's very easy to get from nothing to an app that will work generally well enough almost straight away. A lightweight syntax, a lot of implicit functionality, and a flexible type system are all great for that, but in my current niche, I couldn't use it (I currently work with Rust, and the explicit control is a huge selling point, despite the much heavier syntax and more complicated semantics). That doesn't mean Rust was built without the human experience of using it in mind, though, and arguably the opposite's true.
by mackross | 2025-12-01 19:10:58+00:00
An often overlooked extra advantage to Google is their massive existing ad inventory. If LLMs do end up being ad supported and both products are roughly the same, Google wins. The large supply of ads direct from a diverse set of advertisers means they can fill more ad slots with higher quality ads, for a higher price, and at a lower cost. They’re also already staffed with an enormous amount of talent for ad optimization. Just this advantage would translate into higher sustained margins (even assuming similar costs), but given TPU it might be even greater. This plus the gobs of cash they already spin off, and their massive war chest means they can spend an ungodly amount on user acquisition. It’s their search playbook all over again.
by alwillis | 2025-12-01 19:11:00+00:00
> Why Apple don't just buy Intel?

Apple doesn't need a fab. They bought P.A. Semi in 2008, which got them microprocessor design talent that lead to Apple Silicon.

> That would allow better vertical integration.

Apple already ships devices with CPUs, GPUs, NPU's (Neural Processing Unit), modem and wi-fi chipsets all designed by them. I'll also add the H2 audio processor in the AirPods.

It's hard to get more vertically integrated than that.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/11/02/pa-semi-looking...
by brudgers | 2025-12-01 19:11:17+00:00
What you won't get is the haptic experience of a sports car.

Nor the potential aesthetic experience...potential because people have different aesthetic values.

But the haptic experience of a sports car can't be replicated in a mini-van or SUV because the suspension, driving position, acoustic and mechanical output, etc. are all vastly different from a sports car. And of course curb weight, suspension rates, and center of gravity.

To be clear, I am not saying there is anything wrong with SUV's and/or minivans. Only that the map is not the territory.
by thrivemycareer | 2025-12-01 19:11:23+00:00
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Ask HN: Looking for "invisible" OSS projects to donate to for Cybermonday
by Paradigm2020 | 2025-12-01 19:11:25+00:00
I was looking for some good discounts on software for BF and realized that I really should do the effort of sending a bit of money to the "hero-devs" who's free and oss software has made my (and others) life a bit better.

Started making a list of extensions, programs, etc etc and was like… I really need to make more money…

Then I thought of all the behind the scenes libraries etc that a lot of these projects depend on... I unfortunately don't have time to go through all the EULA's etc but I wanna support / show my appreciation for these guys as well.

There are offcourse the obvious ones like linux, ffmpeg,FSF etc. but more looking for the small guys who are just as essential (insert obligatory https://xkcd.com/2347/) but don’t hog the limelight.

If you are one of them, or know one of these please share here.

Note: Currently looking for a job so think appreciation coffee rather than life changing amount - I do wanna make this an annual thing and hope to give more next year / next job If you could use a free guide / walk through / description, basic UX analysis willing to do those for free / approx one hour per project each. Will donate to 20 programs I personally use and 20 “invisible heroes”.

Thx for your time / suggestions, happy december
by chrisweekly | 2025-12-01 19:11:25+00:00
"The cited countries, for example, are faltering in myriad ways"

... as if higher education is somehow to blame, or conceivably capable of preventing countries from having any problems? Your comment provides not a shred of evidence that "overeducation" is even connected to said problems, let alone the "elephant". Respectfully, the burden's on you there.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 19:11:32+00:00
I'm not seeing how this article is clickbait of any kind. Betteridge's Law really only works for articles that manufacture a provocative question out of nowhere to attract readership, and then have to sheepishly back down in the article body because obviously it's not true. But this article is formulated as a question because it has genuine speculation about the future that nobody is quite sure about. It has points for both sides of the argument. There's no Yes/No answer here. How else would you format the title of such an article?
by jsheard | 2025-12-01 19:12:00+00:00
> The reason it's necessary is because players want to be able to play with/against other players around the world. Matchmaking requires some form of anti-cheat. Running your own server as admin can't give you the degree of competitive global ranking that players enjoy today.

Case in point, Counter Strike is a rare example of a popular game which supports both the "modern" matchmaking paradigm and the classic community server paradigm... and for better or worse the playerbase overwhelmingly prefers matchmaking.
by Ataraxic | 2025-12-01 19:12:01+00:00
I love ruby. It's certainly not sentimental; I enjoy writing it and working in it, certainly a lot more than javascript.

I do feel like these sorts of attacks on ruby are quite weird. It's totally ok not to enjoy working in any particular programming language, but I wonder what the angle is to write about it is.

Arguments regarding ruby's successes are always so weird to me. Github, Twitter, Coinbase, and Shopify are all examples of great success. Challenges with scaling are successful problems.

It's a great tool and if you read this, consider and evaluate if ruby is appropriate for your next project. :)
by _dwt | 2025-12-01 19:12:13+00:00
I have the strangest feeling that at some point this received a 's/—/...' pass.

That aside, while I'm "old" enough to remember this kind of cultural/vibe-based rivalry between programming language communities, and read enough to know it predates the greyest of living greybeards (TIMTOWTDI vs the Zen of Python, "Real Programmers Don't Write Pascal", "BASIC considered harmful"), I am not sure that this works any more as an argument.

It's a bit tone-deaf to suggest that the difference between Ruby and other communities is that Rubyists are the (only?) ones who care about "how code feels"; that's a pretty core part of the sales pitch for every PL I've ever seen promoted. I am actually nervously awaiting the first big PL that advertises on the basis of "you may not like it, but LLMs love it".

I suspect the real problem is that data science + ML/AI drove (roughly) a bajillion people to Python and LLM training corpus makeup will keep them there. Meanwhile all the Rubyists (ok, I'm being a little inflammatory) that cared about performance or correctness went to Rust (or had already left for Erlang or Haskell or Elm or... whatever). Who's left over there in the dynamic-types-or-bust Ruby world? DHH? (Not an uncontroversial figure these days.)
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-12-01 19:12:21+00:00
Gonna agree with you, even Singapore has announced several policy changes the past few weeks to deal with all the fraud - more severe punishment and forcing apple to change how iMessage spam with .gov.sg domains is handled.

I don't think this new app will resolve India's fraud issues unfortunately, there probably needs to be more policy changes at banks/fincos. As much as India obsesses with KYC processes, it doesn't seem to be working/enough. I don't see this new app being required as something totalitarian, it would be much easier for the gov to ask for that type of stuff to be tacked on to UPI apps anyways.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-01 19:12:48+00:00
Some users might not mind the lack of control, but beyond a certain point it stops making sense to strive to be in that diminishing set and starts making sense to fix the bug.

We've always tolerated a certain portion of society who finds the situation unacceptable, but don't you suspect that things will change if that portion is most of us?

Maybe we're not there yet, idk, but the article is about the unease vs the data, and I think the unease comes from the awareness that that's where we're headed.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-01 19:13:26+00:00
> They were building simple fairly short structures that can only really kill you if the roof hits you on its way down and gave a whole lot of warning before that happened.

So, you don't believe roofs were invented until very recent times? The only building I've ever been in where roof collapse couldn't be fatal is my neighbor's chicken coop.

> Castles and cathedrals and city walls and the like don't fall down unless you intentionally ignore or obfuscate a ton of cracking a slumping and things moving, etc, etc.

Easily disproven. Here's one refutation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster

Seriously: your lack of knowledge about historical architecture is impressive.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-01 19:13:34+00:00
> I think it's pretty common to force employees to consent allowing their employers to manage their device to get access to work email on it.

Is it common? I've only been asked to do that once, and I declined. I explained that it's my policy to never use my personal equipment for work purposes or my work equipment for personal purposes. They provided me with a work phone to use, instead.
by bluchen217 | 2025-12-01 19:13:42+00:00
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by codyb | 2025-12-01 19:14:57+00:00
I've been using DuckDuckGo for the last... decade or so. And it still seems to return fairly relevant documentation towards the top.

To be fair, that's most of what I use search for these days is "<<Programming Language | Tool | Library | or whatever>> <<keyword | function | package>>" then navigate to the documentation, double check the versions align with what I'm writing software in, read... move on.

Sometimes I also search for "movie showtimes nyc" or for a specific venue or something.

So maybe my use cases are too specific to screw up, who knows. If not, maybe DDG is worth a try.
by SatvikBeri | 2025-12-01 19:14:58+00:00
I didn't mean the application is less performant (indeed, it might be even more performant since there are more things we can tweak), but that the overall build + upload process is noticeably slower. I remember it taking <1 minute to rebuild + deploy an uberjar in 2016, and on an application of similar complexity today it takes somewhere between 3-15 minutes. Admittedly, this is a different company, language, and setup, so there are a lot of other potential differences.
by jfengel | 2025-12-01 19:15:00+00:00
Of all of the people to pick as an example, Le Guin seems an odd choice. The author of The Left Hand Of Darkness was not leaving gender up to stereotypes. In building a sexist world of Earthsea, she was making a deliberate decision.

The article doesn't understand why "women extend this thinking to the fantastical", but surely it's obvious: speculative fiction is always about us, today. It can be about elves or aliens, but it's always really about humans.

TFA is absolutely correct that sexism is built deep into our cultural consciousness, and even writers seeking to exclude it will end up including it in ways that they don't realize.

But the author seems to deal mostly with novice writers, and Le Guin was anything but a novice. When she included sexism, it was a deliberate choice.

It does justify the title: feminists can build sexist worlds. But at least some of them do that because the current world is sexist and they want to say something about that.

If the author wants an example, try JK Rowling, who thinks of herself as a feminist, and in some ways she is. But Harry Potter's world is deeply patriarchal, in ways both obvious and much more subtle.