Deliberate?

If it was then HN would never live it down, but let's look at the timeline:

  13 months ago: Apple drops NSO Group lawsuit: https://nquiringminds.com/cybernews/apple-drops-lawsuit-against-nso-group-over-pegasus-spyware-concerns/

  2 weeks ago: NSO Group confirms it was bought by US interests: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors/

  Now: IOCs for Pegasus and Predator are removed from iOS in an OTA update.

No one gives a shit about anything anymore- Everything is just a job- either due to overmanagement or overwork. Look at how they recently butchered the new park hyatt tokyo redesign, one of the most iconic and enigmatic hotels in the world, reduced to "just another hotel". We're in a world where people have given up on going above and beyond, maybe because we're living in a society where intelligence and perceptiveness aren't rewarded and can't survive.

In optimising for AI it feels like we stopped optimising for everything else

It's not even optimising. It's just dragging AI by the hairs into everywhere, where it's not even clear whether it belongs there or provides any benefit. Just to get the company a reputation of "first mover".

Really, this is "blockchain" all over again, but 10x worse.

It's done a lot of damage to meritocracy and intellectualism that will take years to recover from. I don't look forward to having to play a role in fixing it.

Is this another nail in the gpu/ai stock market bubble coffin?

I love metacognitive approaches to learning- much more interesting for people like me who get bored by the actual material pretty quickly

It's weird that we're living in a time where this could be a taste of a prolonged future global internet blackout by adversarial nations. Get used to this feeling I guess :)

Can't log into tidal for my music

Navidrome seems fine

Just confirming what we all already know- we are all secretly robots.

Where did you put your funds? bonds are screwed but I'm thinking gold

There are plenty of non-US index funds, like EU, UK, Japan and others. There are also indices that track smaller companies rather than just the S&P500 or Nasdaq.

Or diversify in both directions - small US, and big and small international funds.

This incest investing is pretty telling. The whole economy is about to get burned- doubly so with DJTs tariffs and bonds not looking like the safe haven they usually are during turbulent times.

“We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year."