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> At Formal, we hate secrets. Since day one, we’ve been on a quest to drive the number of long-lived secrets in our infrastructure to zero.

Pedantry alert: Private keys are secrets.

Not defending Mr. Mark but what’s the nepotism angle to his story?

> they could load URLs, but not interact with pages or send any data

stopped reading here as this is simply not true. at the very least agents sent headers.

Anyone noticed the trend of tools being more read than write, with writes shifting to agentic tools and natural language instruction?

It makes me wonder about the web a bit and whether it becomes glossier, more video driven but ultimately less directly maleable.

Do people prefer streaming text over static pages?

This hacker entered the thread thinking this was a good idea but leaves muttering “man, things are complicated.”

funny but presumably this law predates hn. is it actually attributable to him?

full disclosure, this user did not read the article.

> processing is not recording

Debatable and definitely semantic - at the very least this requires putting the audio into a buffer, so a newly mallocd block of memory. Sure, it’s not a recording in a conventional sense, but it is a copy of data.

The World Cup is broadcast in many different languages with the same video feed. That’s likely one of the main reasons audio fingerprinting is better than video. You also get better idea of the target demographics language preferences and that leads to more relevant advertisements.

> Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".

We’re one decade into cookie banners and privacy regulations by jurisdiction. There’s some vague similarities with interference here.

either way, maybe a portent for the times.

apple’s secrecy agenda has been defeated to an extent by the practicalities of ubiquitous technology?

One factoid about Norman Mailer: he stabbed his wife.

there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.

Chaos theory and all but my career in tech doesn’t happen without haxor economist. My Econ major collided with it somehow and a year later ended up with a CS degree.