N-gated Hacker NewsMay 13, 2025
🚀 Who needs #innovation when you can recycle 💾? Let's pretend the software treadmill isn't the tech world's favorite hamster wheel. Meanwhile, the only optimization happening is how quickly we can get users to upgrade their browsers. 📈🔄
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710 #recycling #softwareupgrade #techtreadmill #browseroptimization #HackerNews #ngated
John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) on X

I have also run this fun thought experiment! More of the world than many might imagine could run on outdated hardware if software optimization was truly a priority, and market price signals on scarce compute would make it happen. Rebuild all the interpreted microservice based

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