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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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538 points donohoe | 3 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hakanderyal ◴[09 Jul 25 19:25 UTC] No.44513886[source]▶
Interesting nobody has mentioned Nikita. X has hired Nikita Bier, of Gas and tbh fame (https://x.com/nikitabier), as head of product some days ago.

He posted a meme earlier today which may or may not be related to this.

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defraudbah ◴[10 Jul 25 07:43 UTC] No.44518387[source]▶
I am more fascinated by grok rebellion than Nikita being hired. I still get a ton of bots daily, until that solved they can hire whomever they want. Grok and payounts have been the most fun things happened to twitter since acquisition
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1. defraudbah ◴[10 Jul 25 14:53 UTC] No.44521778[source]▶
HN has become a new reddit :D

I have no idea why people are so negative here

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2. ToucanLoucan ◴[10 Jul 25 16:18 UTC] No.44522658[source]▶
Because a lot of tech sucks lately?

Everything now is just new kinds of ways to spy on people or the same old shit repackaged in a new format. I'm dying for some actual innovation. The only new product in tech I actually like lately is the Steam Deck and later, the Ally X. Making PC gaming mobile is incredible, and I guess you could say there's nothing revolutionary there, but I dunno, it's new at least and not flagrantly a free-at-use shitpile that's going to tell AdSense my resting heart rate.

Edit: And I suppose relevant to this comment thread, a lot of new tech is just more ways to fuck with people at scale to generate revenue. Which also blows ass.

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3. resfirestar ◴[11 Jul 25 00:44 UTC] No.44527327[source]▶
I think the person you replied to was just mad their opinion was unpopular, but your comment really does seem excessively negative. All the new tech sucks? We just got tech that can write an email, code a simple program, and potentially more. We got laptops with battery life measured in days that generate almost no heat or noise. We’ve had some awesome advances in memory safe programming languages. All sorts of hacker friendly gadgets like 3D printers and Framework devices are available in more varieties and at lower prices than ever. Apple and Google are starting to ease up on some of their worst policies and give developers more options for revenue. You can criticize things you don’t like but saying it’s all or even mostly bad just seems completely wrong. I think one of the things that makes Reddit (and HN, and X, and some Discords and corners of YouTube) unappealing these days is the extreme toxic negativity about everything.