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Putting politics aside, are any tech companies actually taking preventive steps in response to this new risk?

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.

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.

also, chatting with AI makes me impatient and delusional.

In the US, it's not a real scandal unless the scammers can cash out the story rights to Netflix

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)

Nice. Another step closer to the "dream" of filling the web with trash at scale

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.

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.

I'd be interested in this breakdown - what % of that is cursor's product(tech x customer) vs future tokens

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.

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

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...)

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?

USA has enough firepower to kill millions of people in short to mid term without needing any nukes.

Only (April) fools would trust Facebook's technology with anything as safety critical as construction work.

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.

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...)

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

Under privacy.

Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training

Idle speculation has led to baseless rumours of an OpenAI acquisition. I’m not convinced that makes sense but neither does the entire AI industry.

hmm, blog author doesn't know about Anthropic's Bun acquisition, and consequently shouldn't comment on "the entire AI industry"

you know what most of us end up doing on those other days? we start side tech projects that require even more effort for even little return.

You can't trust us with self-care. There's just too many shiny toys out there!

You fill the bottle with water, you put a fish in it, [some water overflows], you remove half of water...

That water overflow step is missing / implicit. But that's an observable event.

Inside Meta, engineers are one of the kindest group of people.

This thread would've been way more fun with a couple of middle managers and product managers in the mix ;-)

For me it happened around my first week after the bootcamp, so about 6 weeks from joining.

An important nuance - most Facebook engineers don't believe that Facebook/Meta would continue to grow next year; and that disbelief had been there since as early as in 2018 (when I'd joined).

very few facebook employees use their products outside of testing, which is a big contributor to that fear - they just can't believe that there are billions of people who would continue to use apps to post what they had for lunch!

And as a result of that lack of faith, most of them believe that Meta is a bubble and can burst at any point. Consequently, everyone works for the next performance review cycle, and most are just in rush to capture as much money as they could before that bubble bursts.

1. The only result I'd expect from posting on launch platforms/software directories is a huge number of spam in my inbox to take my product to the top of the list.

2. Selling lifetime deals is the easiest way to become a slave of small paying customers without even knowing if your product is going to find PMF ever.

3. You can't just go to a subreddit and post your product. And the ones that allow anyone to post, well, you can guess the expected outcome from those.

I run a full stack digital marketing service, and here's what I'd recon:

1. If you're developing for developers, HN is the best place to post. For both to collect feedback, and to get early customers.

2. If you're building a B2C business, start with a social presence. This is a must in today's ecosystem. DON'T LAUNCH TO THE VOID.

3. If you're building a B2B business, try to get into an accelerator like YC, who can make lots of customer intros in the early days. And given how hard it's to get into an accelerator - you should try Google ads, and maybe a couple of linkedin campaigns if you've a sharp First Target Customer Profile (not vague ICP) as fallback.

Acquisition headlines can be some of the most misleading signals in the startup ecosystem, especially acqui-hires masquerading as acquisitions.

The posted price rarely reflects what founders actually receive after dilution, investor preferences, and stock vesting are factored in.

If you’re a founder, don’t let the acquisition narrative distract you from building a durable business.

"Does a launch make any impact if there's no audience?"

We've found most early-stage startups ignore social media until after a launch. Things like “$0 spent on ads” sound cool, but they don’t help if no one knows your product exists.

I'm building Appents to provide a done-for-you social media solution for startups.

Would love feedback: https://appents.com/

Thanks for pointing this out. Updated my post

So, DoD has done what it said it would. And OpenAI has jumped on the opportunity.

I'm curious what'll openai signatories on notdivided.org do now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

Remain undivided in spirit while grinding for OpenAI?