My takeaway is that enough capital trumps all engineering, legal and other considerations.
Typescript is cool though. Not like cool cool, but definitely an improvement to plain Javascript.
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#12Kind of feel like saying that HN didn't/did love those projects is a bit too black and white. Many of those submissions do have a lot of dismissive comments, but lots of them also have a lot of comments praising the project one or another way, explicitly or implicitly. Some of the highlighted comments also aren't even the top 3 comments, yet they're used as indicative of what the HN community loves or not. But I gues…
Pshar, this comment will be on hackernews.love in three years when hackernews.love has it's 10 billion dollar IPO
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#13Don't hijack scroll.
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#14Duckduckgo is begging the question that their name didn't hold them back. 600m is nothing really in that market. I still feel daft saying their name
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#15A clear "survival's bias": no one knows/talks about the thousands who died.
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#16My takeaway is that enough capital trumps all engineering, legal and other considerations. Typescript is cool though. Not like cool cool, but definitely an improvement to plain Javascript.
This is a valid observation. Capital breeds more capital and just like water seeks the lowest point capital will seek to enable those who are willing to bend or even break the rules. This is embodied in YC's application questionnaire in interesting ways, it is effectively capital testing for exactly those properties. I think 'ethical' should be made explicit in your list, and not lumped in with 'other'. Because that is one of the more important ones and it usually is also the first to be thrown out.
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#17At a glance, most of them remain bad ideas.
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#18This website makes the error of assuming that being criticized on HN automatically implies your idea is not marketable. Every point about ChatGPT and Claude Code is true. Not only is their material value detached from reality (as tends to be the case in hype cycles), but a few of the criticisms, especially the first about ChatGPT are about the social impact and not how much money the idea can make. Feels dishonest to…
It's a viewpoint issue: how you define success is what makes the difference here.
To someone that just made a few billion and who externalized the cost of that billion, say 100 billion onto society they are successful. From the point of view of society they just cost us all a fortune. But we don't judge the winners by social impact but by the size of their bankroll.
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#19Does the author not know the difference between Git and GitHub?
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#20What an infuriating website. I know complaining about bad websites is frowned upon, but they are actively making it hard to read and click through the links, yet that is the entire service. What is the point of keeping this online if a HN comment or a README offers a superior product? ;/