Security firm hacked.

Security firm putting their source code on Github

A tale as old as time.

ClaudeForce in action!

This article is interestingly sympathetic to Mark Zuckerberg. The most absolve him of the teen mental health epidemic, Cambridge analytica scandal etc.

Altman and Musk have both shown support for this. Which itself is a worrying development.

It's worrying because they all agree, along with Turing Award winners like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, that this is indeed an existential risk to humanity.

This isn't recent, right?

The date on the help article is May 18, 2026.

Comments like these make me wonder if people don't understand the difference between engineering and business.

That’s what they said about Elon firing 80% of Twitter’s staff. But X is doing pretty well.

For some definition of pretty well which doesn't include human user numbers, revenue, profit, or ratio of humans to bots

Pretty well from an engineering perspective. But they've lost so many advertisers because it's intentionally not very moderated.

The site is currently running, yes. Don't forget it went down quite often immediately following the mass firing though. They seem to have fixed that.

There was certainly a ton of bloat to trim, but the haphazard "just pick 80% of the people and fire them" was incredibly stupid. Should have chosen whoever was producing the bloat, at least.

Pretty well if you don't mind some features being built twice or three times and appearing inconsistently at different screens, or users being able to bypass usage limits by pressing the back button on the usage limit sign...

The usage limit is trying to block scrapers and xcancel. It's already reset by the time your cursor gets to the back button.

Twitter was never a profitable business. You actually renforce his point.

(Maybe that was intended I might have missed some irony here)

I'm not sure why people keep repeating this when Twitter was profitable at the point that Elon bought it.

I'd be shocked if a ton of contractors haven't worked for X since then

most people don’t. that’s why they are employees.

OpenAI is on a quite offensive lately with pathbreaking discoveries.

This is a common strategy nowadays. Not sure of the rationale

I thought it was common knowledge that

1) there was a hiring glut during COVID-19 for SWEs [0] that is now seen as a period of overhiring

2) private equity and larger institutional shareholders are seeing their commercial property investments bleed out [1]. research points to increased (or at least not diminished) efficacy of being fully remote [2] so there's obviously a trade-off that's pushing companies to assume that risk and personally I'm not convinced that it's due to the anti-social desire by execs for high-control alone

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineer-jobs-fi... [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMREPUSQ159N [2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intentional-insights...

The least cynical take I've heard about RTO is that most managers are deeply under-trained to the point of being mostly incompetent. So forcing people into the office lets them do performative performance monitoring and project management. This makes their job "easier" in that they didn't know how to do it correctly in the first place.

Most managers aren't trained at all, and there's a massive shortage of good ones.

I would contend most corporations have a lot more managers than is necessary.

It appears that the Uber executive team agrees with you!

This is personal, not business.

Congrats on launching. This should get more attention

Thanks, YC launches have helped quite a bit with drawing attention. We're hoping HN will pronounce it more.

I'm impressed with your two other capitalists in addition to YC getting involved.

On first impression of course, but they don't seem like your run-of-the-mill VCs who often have much more money than brains.