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Dare Obasanjo
carnage4life.bsky.socialDating app fatigue continues. Match saw a -5% decline in paying subscribers across its family of dating apps including Tinder, OK Cupid and Plenty of Fish. Hinge saw a massive -17% decline in paying users. Are people finding new ways to connect without apps or are people just lonelier?
Dare Obasanjo
carnage4life.bsky.socialInvestors woke up and decided the AI bubble is real. Palantir beat expectations and guided up yet fell -8% while Nvidia slid -4% after Michael Burry revealed puts: $187M on NVDA and $912M on PLTR tanking. If he’s betting $1B+ on an AI bubble, the market figures he might be onto something.
Lea Verou, PhD
lea.verou.me🔥 Hot take: I wonder if the Web’s Separation of Concerns should be about the Web platform *supporting* authors in being able to separate concerns in whatever way works for them, rather than forcing a specific type of separation dreamed up in the late 90s. 🤔 (*ducks to avoid objects thrown* 😅)
Thomas
thomasfuchs.atAny picture framers following me? I want to know what this metal frame profile is called exactly so I can find hangers for it. The channel on the back is 9/16" wide and the corner L brackets in the channel are 3/8" wide. If you don't know, instead of replying please feel free to repost for reach.
Josh W. Comeau
joshwcomeau.comThe wild experience of trying to log into Service A on a new device. You pick OAuth Provider B, but you’re not logged in there either, so they email you a link, so you open Email Client C, but to log into Email Client C you need a login code from 2FA App D… Authentication has become an Ouroboros 😂
Gergely Orosz
gergely.pragmaticengineer.comThe promise of AI chat assistants: they solve 90% of the problems users have (by looking up the docs and telling them) My reality: need to spend 10 minutes trying to get to a human, to solve an issue I need customer support to look into Around minute 8 I sign up to a competitor
![Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
247 points by stillatit 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 200 comments
Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link.
I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation.
Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after.
[0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092
[1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/bafkreia62cq7p2dn2o76cjuuzl5dpwaatnf5m5cl5bm7lmoprsavebgl4q@jpeg)
YoavCodes
yoav.codesToday in “Are they Trolling” we have AlttiRi who instead of reading the readme, docs, or code decided to bypass the CLI and “do it live” After bypassing downloading electrobun’s dependencies, bypassing building and bundling their code asks:“why doesn’t it work this way” github.com/blackboardsh...
