They are doing this because they are losing control and are scared, do not confuse this with strength but for what it is, weakness.There are many significant decentralized initiatives worked on over the past decade that need final polishing to be done and make this all moot

imagine a fully integrated AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless. everybody around you is a superhuman living in the future but you violated TOS and now are cut off. your smart glasses that showed you a beautiful utopia? the color has left them. you are forced to live in a bleak gray world. you are forced to look your wife in her actual face and she is not happy with you. you are digging holes with a spoon while everybody else is building skyscrapers with an army of bots. this is the real doomer catastrophe open source is the only way to protect your freedom, your economic viability & your ability to tell these companies to fuck right off. a few months ago openAI and anthropic were desperately begging the admin to make it legal for them to collaborate. if they got their way, one TOS violation on either platform would send you directly to the sunken place.

turns out humans were putting slop inside the computer all along. the artisanal code argument never held up.

Cybersecurity and the Singularity This week's events have driven home to me and many others the importance of being ready for a few weeks of disruption to western civilization. The internet’s foundations are old and shaky. AI now finds the cracks faster than people can patch them and exploits them at a scale no human threat actor could match. Much of the system also runs through a few chokepoints: a short list of certificate companies, a handful of cloud data centers, a few pieces of shared plumbing. One failure at any of them cuts off millions at once. The answer isn’t panic; it’s making sure no single failure can cut you off from everything. If people suddenly can’t trust the internet, the economic effects will be real, and I expect stocks could take a significant hit. So far the market has gone the other way: security companies rose on the PHP news and the index was up on the day (Yahoo Finance). That could change quickly if a major breach or outage lands. As I write this, neither the Fox News nor the CNN homepage features any of this. That’s no accident: mainstream news has little incentive to cover something this scary to the mainstream population. There is some reporting here and there, but its scattered and below the fold, and almost nobody connects them into the bigger story: the rapidly degrading ability of the internet to serve as civilization’s backbone. What to do: be ready for two weeks of disruption The overall goal: no single failure should cut you off from your money, your accounts or the internet. Two weeks is a reasonable window for systems to be restored and life to stabilize, and it’s what West Coast earthquake planners have told households for years. With that cushion you can wait out a disruption instead of scrambling through it. - Turn on automatic updates for your phone, computer and browser. The eMudhra fix reached a billion browsers within days with no effort from their users. Everything that doesn’t update itself is still exposed. - Keep two weeks of supplies at home: food, water, medications. This gives you immense peace of mind in the situation that the supply chains are disrupted. - Keep gas tanks full and EVs charged. Pumps and chargers depend on power and card payments. - Spread your money across several banks, with a working card from each. If one goes down, you aren’t cut off from everything. - Rethink how much you keep in the market. The market disagrees with me today. I think it’s underpricing a major breach or outage, and the modest gains of the next few months may not be worth the risk of a sharp drop. In the more intense scenarios, the markets themselves could be inoperable for a time. It’s a judgment call, so weigh it against when you’ll need the money and the taxes on selling, but diversification is worth far more than it was a year ago. - Keep two independent ways online: Starlink on a battery or generator, plus a phone on a cell carrier. In a long outage, cell towers run out of backup power; Starlink on a generator keeps going. - Hold some crypto in a hardware wallet, as a hedge against banks specifically. The bugs that take down banks are different from the ones that threaten crypto you hold yourself, so the two are unlikely to fail together. It does not hedge an internet or power failure; cash does that. Buy the wallet from the manufacturer, keep the recovery phrase on paper or metal and offline, never type it into anything, and check every transaction on the device’s own screen. - Use a password manager and passkeys for email and banking, and print the recovery codes. Do email first; it can reset everything else. - Treat any urgent message about your money as suspicious: bank alerts, “security notices,” support messages, even a loved one who might be spoofed. Reach them through a channel you already trust, like the number on your card. Agree on a family code word. Video calls are harder to fake for the next few months; then they too will be fully fakeable. - Cash cannot be hacked. Worth having more than you typically do around. The future is beautiful, but there might be some bumps along the way as we adopt. I'm excited to help build it with all of you!

Gluttony driven decisionmaking

I truly hate how this platform rewards being a reply guy

I don't mean to get political but Clavicularr will never be Zyzz

All my codebases are becoming some version of a Zerg swarm at this point

Having YC in your bio is like having a McDonalds logo in there btw

Me when I have a platform to slow down the opps

"code licenses are completely meaningless now. One guy came on our forum, presented a slop but functional mod, I asked to clean up a few small things before merging and instead of doing so he asked AI do re program the whole thing from scratch to not use my framework."

Forget decompiling video games. You need to be gravestomping startups that haven’t formed yet before they’ve come close to running out of runway. You need to be open sourcing ideas Y Combinator people will have a year from now

Feels like we are entering a new "limewire" era where instead of sharing stuff, you can actually just re-build it

Having the source code freed for all these games is like the industrial revolution but for gaming. Good ideas/optimizations from each codebase will ripple into other games while also serving to make decompilation for other games easier improving LLMs at decompilation in a virtuous loop

Foldable phone? I need a foldable duel disk (watch)

Companies be like we are building the vertically integrated factory for vertical integration

Who are all these people who need agents to buy their plane tickets or products on amazon? who are these hyperconsumerists who are buying so much random trash that they need to offload this task to a robot? Human slop generators and consumers.

a world where everyone has a perfectly rational, tireless optimizer working on their behalf is much more adversarial than people realize. a lot of our existing infrastructure will not survive this transition.

i'm sort of surprised that AI isn't raising UX expectations for internal tooling i really expected people to be like "wow this is great i can make this bespoke internal app feel like a quality product now" but people are just making a larger number of mickey mouse tools