Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

5•fandorin•9h ago

What’s your view? The original idea for Facebook was stolen, then he bought Instagram and Whatsup to stay afloat. Metaverse is/was an absolute disaster. And I’m not even talking about all the scandals from Cambridge Analytica era.

How bad CEO, in your opinion, is Mark?

Comments

rvz•9h ago

Not many people understand this but he is a billionaire.

Meta is profitable and he can afford to lose bets and can pay off the fines if it means that Meta gets an extra $10B for the next quarter.

ggm•9h ago

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility.

Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments.

He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

rl1987•1h ago

He does run some strange "capitalist philanthropy" thing with his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

tacostakohashi•1h ago

From his perspective, though, he's just responding to how society chooses to allocate capital. It's not his fault that society apparently values crappy websites more than hospitals, and if he didn't do it, someone else would have.

bdangubic•1h ago

> He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

Name one human for whom this answer would be true - just one please? (not defending Zuck, he is probably one of the most evil people in the history of the entire civilization)

ggm•29m ago

I don't know the name of my local hospital administrator, and nor do you I suspect. And, thats kind of the point.

Dumblydorr•17m ago

He’s a sociopath. Why ignore that obvious fact? He buys a Hawaiian island and builds a secret bunker there for when the wasted mouths are eradicated. These robber billionaires aren’t normal people.

chistev•1h ago

If it was that easy, other people should do it.

Dumblydorr•18m ago

They did, he stole the ideas or bought them. What did he actually do himself?

Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks

Batteries Included CLI Framework

Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?

Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?

Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS

Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?

Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?

How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial

Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?

Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?

Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day

Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?

GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores

Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work

Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?

How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?

Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?

Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking

Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded

Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?

Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?

Hey, it's Earth Day today

Can non-developer build commercial products with AI

Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?

Anthropic bans orgs without warning

Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?

Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?

Ask HN: What's a mind-blowing fact you know?

Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?

Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

Comments

Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks

Batteries Included CLI Framework

Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?

Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?

Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS

Ask HN: Anyone managed to get Google trends API?

Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?

How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial

Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?

Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?

Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day

Ask HN: Any recommendataions for exporting data from Amazon?

GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores

Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work

Ask HN: Anyone still using JetBrains products today?

How good is Mac Studio M3 Ultra for Trillion param models like DeepSeekv4?

Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?

Tell HN: Codex macOS app switches to Fast speed after update without asking

Tell HN: Anthropic won't reset usage limits for those who downgraded

Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?

Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?

Hey, it's Earth Day today

Can non-developer build commercial products with AI

Is possible a language easy as py, fast as C, more secure than Rust?

Anthropic bans orgs without warning

Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?

Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?

Ask HN: What's a mind-blowing fact you know?

Ask HN: Would you take a job programming VMS?