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"I don't care about the CEO's political stance, but Vercel's involvement with React has rubbed me the wrong way"

Something you'd only read on tech boards.



Increasingly bloated and complicated frameworks with intangible benefits used for webpages that are now just training data for LLMs is much more important.


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Usually that's indicative of an ad blocker firing in my experience.


I mean if it was the ad-blocker, I don't see how a refresh would fix that? But I'm not terribly knowledgeable here so feel free to correct me.


Ah you hadn't mentioned a refresh fixed it. That sure sounds like some kind of race in the JS.


Very fair! I only came back to edit it because right after leaving that comment I went to see if Best Buy had something I needed locally, clicked into search, typed, hit enter, and it fucking broke. Seemingly entirely, even the search button didn't work, so cmd+a, cmd+c, cmd+r, click in again, paste, enter, and that worked.

I just fucking loathe how common this experience is now. Amazon seems to be the only one that doesn't do it, but I've experienced this exact issue on Best Buy, Target, Etsy, Mercari, ebay, and it just DRIVES ME UP THE WALL.


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If it's protecting something then yeah it stinks.

In this case people are critical of other things also and want to voice those things for selfish reasons without getting into mud slinging contests with fanatics who are protecting everything shitty just because it's their favourite hater that is on one side.

Perfect is the enemy of good and an ally of fanaticism.


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> Are you suggesting that vercels CEO is to be compared with Adolf Hitler

No, Netanyahu.

Who Vercel's CEO recently posted for a selfie with on X, wishing "greatness for Israel" without mentioning the genocide being committed by that person right now.


Except that the genocide part is basically bullshit. That could be the reason why he is not mentioning it.


Please read through the legal definition of a genocide, and then tell me that that's not what's happening right now:

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...


> For me, Vercels CEO statements made me realize I am ditching Deno Deploy for Vercel. Finally some tech ceo with good values

Hands down one of the cringiest things I've ever read on this site. And it's why people don't take HN seriously. It's filled with a bunch of 13 year-old "edgy" narcissists who can't code.


"Ok dude". Weird that I have been 13 for over 20 years by now and I guess I haven't learned to code while working for as programmer for more than 15 years. I must be the best con artist in the world since I've been getting a paycheck for all this time.


Wait till you read their opinion on DOGE.


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"No basis in reality"

Do you really believe, he believes starving in Gaza is not real?

With all the top tier access to information he has in his position?


I think you're being way too charitable with Vercel's CEO. I don't doubt he came up with some way to justify to himself that what Israel is doing is completely necessary and reasonable. But I doubt you can get access to a press conference with Benyamin Netanyahu, then get close enough to shake his hand and take a selfie, then post the photo on social media with a tagline of the likes of "eternal glory to Israel" while having no idea of what is actually happening there. Either he's really that clueless about the world (in which case, how can he be CEO?), or he knows about the genocide and fully supports it.




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