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Ask HN: Do you protect your client-side JavaScript? Why or why not?

1•nikitaeverywher•1h ago
I'm exploring building a JavaScript obfuscator and trying to understand if there's real demand — from indie devs to enterprise.

The reason: every web app ships source code to the browser — always been analyzable, copyable, patchable. Now with AI able to explain minified code in seconds, I'm wondering if attitudes are shifting.

If you own any web apps or games, do you genuinely care about protecting client-side code? If not, why? If yes, what do you use — or why don't existing tools work for you?

(Context: I'm building www.afterpack.dev — but genuinely want to understand if this is a problem people actually have or if it's rather a very niche problem)

Using RL to Double an Agent's Effectiveness in Production Debugging

https://www.dbow.me/rl.html
1•anyekwest•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DoceraX – Open "Please wait cannot display this document" PDFs Mac

http://fastHNReader.com
1•coolwulf•4m ago•0 comments

Can AI Pass Freshman CS? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJQm5nb0U
1•thethirdone•8m ago•0 comments

Explore medieval life and death with these 5 fun interactive maps (2023)

https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/explore-medieval-life-and-death-with
1•crescit_eundo•8m ago•0 comments

Migrating 13,000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/migrating-13000-comments-from-drupal-to-hugo/
2•zdw•9m ago•0 comments

An 800 year old prayer book that's decorated with puns (2023)

https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/an-800-year-prayer-book-thats-decorated
2•crescit_eundo•11m ago•0 comments

Air Force One Returns to Joint Base Andrews After 'Minor Electrical Issue'

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-trade-eu/card/air-force-one-returns-to-j...
1•thm•11m ago•0 comments

How Birds Got Human Names (2025)

https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/how-birds-got-human-names
1•crescit_eundo•13m ago•0 comments

Why Not Tail Recursion?

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-20-why-not-tail-recursion.html
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Incremental AI Adoption for E-Commerce – Arcturus Labs

http://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/01/18/incremental-ai-adoption-for-e-commerce/
1•JnBrymn•24m ago•0 comments

Everything Moe

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/01/20/everything-moe/
1•phpencil•24m ago•0 comments

Shingles vaccine may help keep older people biologically younger

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/shingles-vaccine-news-bz55zstn5
6•ValentineC•24m ago•1 comments

Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
10•AlphaWeaver•25m ago•2 comments

Create video resumes without any recording - perfectclips.netlify.app

1•perfectclips•26m ago•1 comments

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-information-court-filing
3•handfuloflight•28m ago•2 comments

ChatGPT recommended a scam and I spent $300

https://old.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/1qii7d5/soylent_aus_is_this_a_scam_i_just_spent_so_much/
2•aendruk•28m ago•0 comments

CT Scans of 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y23nfAOiXQ
3•notthetup•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ballparkguess.com

https://ballparkguess.com/
1•bkls•38m ago•0 comments

Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/how-instagram-solved-its-justin-bieber-problem/
2•teleforce•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Simple MCP Server That Lets Agents Talk to Users

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-speak/
2•pcbmaker20•41m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/20/elon-musk-buying-ryanair-ceo-tesla-michael-ole...
3•cycomanic•45m ago•2 comments

I rejected "Scalability" to build a logistics nightmare (works)

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/why-i-rejected-scalability-to-build-a-logistics-nightmare-that-...
1•rosiehong•47m ago•0 comments

I Burned $160k Trying to Solve "Online Tailoring"

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-burned-160-000-trying-to-solve-online-tailoring-the-engin...
4•rosiehong•48m ago•0 comments

Scientists in Dreamland

https://theamericanscholar.org/scientists-in-dreamland/
2•Hooke•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X Post Analyzer – Score posts using X's open-source algorithm

https://x.kano.codes
1•tonkotsuboy_com•54m ago•0 comments

App Store and Apple TV Experiencing Outage

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/20/app-store-apple-tv-down/
4•hughmandeville•56m ago•0 comments

Is PSA airlines network down anywhere besides DCA?

1•DubDouble•57m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are you sandboxing your coding agents?

2•kwar13•1h ago•5 comments

Are there laws of history? (2020)

https://aeon.co/essays/if-history-was-more-like-science-would-it-predict-the-future
2•Ariarule•1h ago•0 comments

Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced

https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
4•myahio•1h ago•1 comments