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Again, the site needs more transparency. The amount of censorship is shocking with how bad it is. This stuff needs much more manual review

'Closed because scraping' is a big problem of hypocrisy Let's say in a pretend world where Facebook gives a shit about anything (so, they combat marketplace scams, they don't rando…

Zuck's DNA is clear. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRYnocZFuc4

I know full well what sarcasm is and I don't think he was being sarcastic given the rest of his behavior

It's the biggest fucking antitrust red flag of all time (ok, maybe not all time. Humans are scummy. I'm sure bigger examples exist in meatspace) Zuck buys company to steal phone nu…

> let instagram be instagram Like... give it back to the original founders? The company that was bought because Zuck said "they can hurt us"? Like not having a login wall on every …

That book is hilarious. In a bad way. (Not the book. I mean that it's a bit tragic) Zuck refuses to meet with WORLD LEADERS in the morning because he's tired from the night before.…

Check out the 'explaining react's license' thread and all the complaints over that

WHY was it an insightful comment Do you not realize that outside of that he said "If you need any info on people at Harvard just ask"? Or "I'm going to fuck them [the Winklevoss tw…

I can't get over his negative externalities Just like closed AI vs open AI, his views on the covid situation might be fine in a bubble (though even with AI they have apparently lie…

I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I thin…

Throwaway? Which one. "Dumb fucks"? "If you need information on anyone at Harvard, just ask"? "I'm going to fuck them [Winklevoss twins] in the ear"? Applies nowadays? Ok, when? Wh…

+1 The credulity amazes me but mixed in with the brilliant minds here are some real 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. It's embarrassing, all right.

The site itself is slow The site doesn't have... an identity. Other than "being fake" with everyone showing off corp-speak to everyone else. Which is a human thing, except that the…

> bans on encryption It's a bit of a tangent, but Meta actually really annoys me Is the general war on encryption bad? Yeah Meta? Meta forcibly upgraded people on Messenger. Now ch…

I grow increasingly skeptical of HN's "moderation"

Unaccountable flagging is a massive problem here and it's amazing the site doesn't have more protections for astroturfing Comments that people don't like, which are clearly not jus…

In a bad or good way

Youtube is annoying about it "aaaaaaaahahahahahaha" [translate to english]

FB can't even be absolved for Myanmar, first off because they try to actively be a monopoly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 (not restricted to India; multiple countri…

Fun, this is currently on the front page at the same time this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977 is

> When you have a billion users What if they make a shadow profile for you? Do you count as a user? What if you've tried to delete your account and you can't? (I meant a real accou…

Including this by the way Part a) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201306 part b) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776748

Yeah sure, I think we basically agree I'm just bemoaning the fact FB can't even pretend they care when they're so busy banning people for nothing

> and ran across Facebook, Threads, Messenger and Instagram. So it's the SAME AD PLATFORM? Even in MESSENGER? My god. Not only is this whole thing horrible but it's doubly so