closes tab.

There will always be problems to solve with building software, regardless of the way it is written.

From code to no-code to vibe-code, to even more code. What we are seeing here is more of the same being built.

An example of this is "sandboxes". Everyone was writing "sandboxes" until it there was 1 vulnerability needed to break them and we will keep seeing this with developers vibe-coding infrastructure.

This is what happens when people say they will “donate” but will actually wait for others to do it and little to no one donates.

What you are seeing is the bystander effect. It is why projects like Nitter will end up raising capital from VCs as they actually have money.

This bounty payment looks very low for a serious bug that could have easily caused this cryptocurrency to crash more than 70% in seconds.

Now the games industry will try it again for real and find a way to rebrand cloud gaming and trick everyone to believe its better than running games on your own machine, only for them to stream the game back to you without you ever owning it.

Gaming: This will trigger the return of Stadia-like cloud gaming services.

Apps: Will begin to require online accounts to use them. Even for the most basic of apps and will made into a sass.

I agree. Please reverse engineer all of Nvidia's software including CUDA and do the same with Nintendo and Apple's proprietary software and make it "open source" because software is going to zero and it is "almost worthless".

Only a matter of time until we see "OpenWarden", just like we saw the migration from Redis to Valkey.

But let's be honest. "enshittification" here really means "I don't want to pay for my tools and I want it completely for free forever."

Just look at the reactions towards the single UI change made in Firefox on HN [0] and already the complaints are there. Even if you charge your users $1 to remove tracking it is somehow "enshittification" because $1 is too much to pay for software maintenance.

The real cost of maintenance is the amount raised in VC capital (Bitwarden raised $100M) or $600M a year (Google paying Firefox). Donations won't cover the capital needed to fund Firefox or Bitwarden's development at all.

"Open source" is only sustainable when someone else is paying for that maintenance. Small donations will only take you so far until one core developer says that they are underpaid.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892721

> Maybe it’s because the underlying economics have changed.

It hasn't. We just saw that OpenAI (who has the most debt out of all the other pure AI companies and borrowed more than Anthropic) signalled $20bn of ARR less than expected. [1]

Out of the hyperscalers, Oracle has over >$100BN of debt and has tangled Softbank in the mess with another >$100BN of debt.

One example (Anthropic) does not prove that anything has changed not is it even profitable. It just means that not only raising money isn't an option, both OpenAI and Anthropic have to IPO before interest rates start to increase (and they will) as borrowing becomes more expensive.

[0] https://global.morningstar.com/en-gb/markets/pitchbook-anthr...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/b66a9858-f8fb-46cb-b506-44bfe26fc...

But you are hosting it on Cloudflare? There is always a cost when running on someone else's platform that advertises itself as 'free-tier' and it can change at any moment.

So really closed-source compilers are a hindrance and you're subject to unspecified time-frames to even get to fix your issue rather than doing it yourself.

Intel and AMD have already open up theirs without question. Nvidia is the one who claims to be supporting openness in AI but can't even open up nvcc let alone CUDA.

Now there is no excuses to not use Rust and it just shows in raw performance alone.

Firefox is open source and it is also released for free ($0), but maintaining Firefox isn't done for free. The ones complaining are not paying for it at all, (Google is paying) and Mozilla owes them absolutely nothing.

If one has to get angry of a tiny "redesign" and they are not paying customers whilst still using it for free, maybe they are the problem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899947

Why? Because Claude and ChatGPT said so. /s

The only problem is the lawyers at all those companies will be readying their lawsuits, and given they have tons of money; they do not care and will come after anyone.

If anyone else came up with the same concept on a Reddit thread (they have) it no-one would care without those characteristics even if you are "first".

Rebranding, execution, marketing, ex- and mostly importantly, hype is what gets the investors scrambling into throwing money at you.

My point is, even if Bun stayed on Zig, Deno still struggled to compete regardless of the language used.

They would rather have Deno pursue an acquisition instead of shutting down and losing their investment.

The only questionable detail about this announcement is it was for an undisclosed amount. Make of that what you will.