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Capital Wants a Monopoly

https://larrysalibra.com/capital-wants-a-monopoly/
6•larrysalibra•42m ago

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Frieren•16m ago
It is called feudalism. You have lords owning the land and everybody else needs to rent it. That is what capital is afterwards. You will own nothing, fight.
steveBK123•4m ago
Right it started with SaaS and content subscriptions. We also have all the gamification, enshittification and up-selling in the physical-world Uber-For-X business models.

They've made all the delivery slower and added an option for you to pay $5 more to make it arrive at the speed it used to. We've jacked up fees and added a monthly subscription that reduces some of those fees back down.

As they take a larger cut from restaurants, many have increased in-app prices so you are paying multiple premiums&fees.

First non-cherry picked example I checked first restaurant in-app: $16 dish is $19.20 in-app , $5 delivery fee (flat-ish per order), $2 marketplace fee (scales with order size) to make it $26.80 pre-tax. +70% increase on direct retail in-restaurant price.

ForHackernews•10m ago
Bizarre take:

> The USA needs an equivalent of China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). This regulatory body generally prevents this tech platform monpoly nonsense

I guess the author is completely unfamiliar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

steveBK123•3m ago
Maybe author means we should actually enforce our antitrust laws that are on the books, on their merits.

Rather than the multi-decade consensus "if it lowers consumer prices in short term its ok" or 2024+ "if they donate to my ballroom, they get a pass".

Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto

https://witnessory.org
1•parthod0x•12s ago•0 comments

Rising water is forcing this French town off Newfoundland to move

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/rising-water-is-forcing-this-french-town-off...
1•Teever•20s ago•0 comments

Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/alphabet-heads-for-a-500-billion-drop-in-market-value-t...
1•rawgabbit•33s ago•0 comments

Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by Chinese spy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/29/nvidia-ceo-targeted-chinese-spy
2•Wingy•3m ago•0 comments

Anthropomorphize Your AI Agent for Fun and Profit

https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/anthropomorphize-your-ai-agent-for
1•idopmstuff•3m ago•0 comments

The Registry Under the Ballot – yaso.is – pckt

https://blog.yaso.is/the-registry-under-the-ballot-y009e17
1•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Are Stochastic Parrots Alive?

https://stefano.petrilli.xyz/are-stochastic-parrots-alive/
3•stefanopetrilli•4m ago•1 comments

I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers

https://github.com/arterialist/kube32
2•Arterialist•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Lif – A calm, offline iPhone app for water, focus, eye rest, sleep

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lif-habit-water-tracker/id6805542426
2•maflabs•6m ago•0 comments

Writing Contests That Allow the Use of AI

https://jamesyu.org/writing-competitions-that-allow-ai-use/
1•jamesjyu•8m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c63djl148n3eo
2•eternalreturn•8m ago•1 comments

One Sine Wave, Four Runtimes: Eliminating ULP Drift Across Native, WASM, and TS

https://anankelabs.io/blog/one-sine-wave-four-runtimes-portable-topology-determinism/
2•waltergreefkes•9m ago•0 comments

How Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok Have Changed Their Views on AI

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/how-tyler-cowen-and-alex-tabarrok-have-...
2•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Luma – smart launcher for you, and your AI agent

https://github.com/sakurartro/luma
1•sakurartro•10m ago•0 comments

Some favorite lesser-known books

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/some-favorite-lesser-known-books
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Scaling Reliable AI Agents

https://productnow.ai/blogs/scaling-reliable-ai-agents
1•kadhirvelm•11m ago•0 comments

Emotion regulation capacity lacks a shared neural signature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11203-1
1•PaulHoule•11m ago•0 comments

A New Kind of Chemistry

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-new-kind-of-chemistry
1•crescit_eundo•11m ago•0 comments

TikTok Is Changing Politics (Perhaps for the Better)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/opinion/tiktok-politics-social-media-hopescroll.html
1•paulpauper•11m ago•1 comments

MotherDuck Launches Dive Apps

https://motherduck.com/blog/dive-apps-superpowers-for-ai-builders/
1•skadamat•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?

3•xiaomaijj•12m ago•0 comments

What was the turning point for Postgres?

https://planetscale.com/blog/what-was-the-turning-point-for-postgres
1•theanonymousone•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?

2•arm32•12m ago•0 comments

Joe Louis: The King as a Middle-Aged Man

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1962/6/1/joe-louis-the-king-as-a-middle-aged-man
1•georgex7•13m ago•0 comments

Full Remap of Periodic Table of Elements, by Group and Density Within Groups

https://bsky.app/profile/blenderheadill.bsky.social/post/3myutrq4takjz
1•theanonymousone•13m ago•0 comments

Dropbox plans 9% workforce cut, technology chief to exit

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/dropbox-plans-9-workforce-cut-technology-chief-exi...
4•theanonymousone•14m ago•1 comments

Skill to Manage GitHub Boards

https://github.com/aaitor/skill-github-projects
1•aaitor•17m ago•1 comments

Elliptic curves are not generic [pdf]

https://github.com/bochum-crypto/subexponential-ecdl/blob/main/subexponential-ecdl.pdf
2•porridgeraisin•18m ago•0 comments

It's the Memory Latency, Stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
1•maor10•18m ago•0 comments

Reading a van's check-engine codes with a $30 Bluetooth OBD-II adapter

https://rowbose.com/auto-center/
1•nddipiazzarobos•18m ago•0 comments