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The web being slow is a choice (and it's a stupid choice)

https://albanbrooke.com/slow-web/
1•speckx•58m ago

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palata•41m ago
Choice, or incompetence? Or maybe structural incompetence: those who decide what's being built only care about maximising profit, those who know how to build stopped caring because... why would they?

When whoever is in power finds it fine to build such terrible products full of ads, the only thing worth doing is the minimal amount of work required to get your salary, if you ask me.

WCSTombs•26m ago
> U.S. download speeds increased 174% from 2020 to 2024. 5 Gbps is almost 90,000x the bandwidth I had in 1996. So why are we’re still dealing with slow, bloated websites?

Yes, because the web is more bloated now than it ever was, but also because you're conflating latency and throughput. If the server takes multiple seconds to send the first bit of data, no amount of bandwidth will ever get you within the 0.1-second deadline.

Conflating latency and throughput is a surprisingly common error, and at my last job processing sensor data in real time, I had to make a huge effort to convince other people that latency was the performance metric that mattered, much more than throughput.

Xbox Cuts Jobs, Moves Game Studios Under Activision (1)

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/xbox-cuts-jobs-moves-game-studios-under-activision
1•frank_clover•38s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Slop Mop, a Chrome extension that mops your LinkedIn feed

https://slopmop.lol
1•tomfrazier•1m ago•0 comments

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

What I learned from building 50 side projects

https://smartsoft.lv/en/articles/experiments-and-side-projects/
1•absurdwebsite•2m ago•0 comments

Video Commander: The IDE for Video Engineers

https://video-commander.com
1•petecooper•3m ago•0 comments

Google Hasn't Even Acknowledged This Months-Old YouTube Bug

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/google-hasnt-even-acknowledged-this-months-old-youtube-bug
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7v4y45893go
1•theanonymousone•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Guerilla YouTube Playlist App

https://y2pilot.com/
1•lvidakovic•5m ago•0 comments

Jev Decision Index Leaderboard

https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/jev-decision-index
1•rgbrgb•7m ago•0 comments

Jev-Powered Advanced Autocorrect

https://levmiseri.com/nospace/
1•levmiseri•7m ago•0 comments

Big dumb moron explains Jev in March 2025 – and then does nothing about it

https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2025/03/31/supercharging-llm-classifications-with-logprobs/
1•JohnBerryman•9m ago•0 comments

Martha's Rule rolled out at every A&E department in England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6lyep7l7qppo
1•smusamashah•10m ago•0 comments

RAF launches first space squadron dedicated to defending Britain's satellites

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/raf-launches-first-ever-space-squadron-dedicated-to-defending-...
1•giuliomagnifico•10m ago•0 comments

The last time India counted caste, the protests were filed as proof it worked

https://rentry.co/2bu7ch7k
1•ka_lentha•11m ago•0 comments

GPT-6 Sol might acutally be GPT-6 Terra

https://twitter.com/eidzoku/status/2102672660379443335
2•partsch•12m ago•0 comments

Many guys are bad at messaging their friends–and it might be making them lonely

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/men-texting-men-loneliness/681076/
1•MattGrommes•12m ago•1 comments

What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade

https://www.ft.com/content/9cc479a6-8206-4af3-a6e5-77176b8d43c4
2•cjs_ac•12m ago•1 comments

Cortera Framework:agentic framework with containment for rogue agents and action

https://github.com/Cortera-space/Cortera-Framework/releases
1•Corteraspace•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hntui – Another Hacker News TUI (Built on OpenTUI)

https://github.com/ahmd-sh/hntui
1•ahmd-sh•15m ago•1 comments

Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260923752755/en/Hubble-Network-Opens-Satellite-Coverage-...
2•jmarbach•18m ago•0 comments

Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/even-americans-who-use-ai-every-day-are-worried-about-it/
1•speckx•19m ago•1 comments

Ontological Language Models (OLMs)

https://olmapp.ai/more.html
1•northlondoner•20m ago•1 comments

New SDK for Photonic Compute?

https://github.com/Q-ANT-GmbH/qant_native_computing_toolkit
3•TechHack202•20m ago•0 comments

Android Developer Verification vs. Play Console Verification: Sept 30 Deadline

https://submitsafe.app/appeal-checker
1•igrik•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Diff Pro Max – File Compare App

https://rkpg.net/diffpromax/index-en.html
1•rkpg•20m ago•0 comments

Slick: The most powerful and versatile Slack client mod

https://github.com/3kh0/slick
1•zachlatta•21m ago•0 comments

The state of MCP server security, after reading thirteen of them

https://les-k.github.io/field-notes.html
1•lesliekad•21m ago•0 comments

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

https://deepmind.google/blog/advancing-private-ai-compute-with-secure-server-side-memory/
1•borski•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A "talk to a real person now" video chat, self-hosted on Cloudflare

https://github.com/yoavshalev/live-video-chat
1•yoavshalev•22m ago•0 comments

KDE for People

https://kdeforpeople.com/
3•speckx•22m ago•0 comments