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1. habine+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-05 08:41:34
Startups have no users and no data to start with, and if they fuck up security, well, they just fail sooner than expected.

Once you get past a certain size, you have very different sorts of problems. Any idiot can vibe code a facebook lookalike, but the real one has to handle hundreds of millions of users and posts while being a target for state actors.

TLDR; yes you do need that many

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2. ground+fH[view] [source] 2026-02-05 14:26:04
>>habine+(OP)
> yes you do need that many

You absolutely do not. what do you think about the website we are using right now! It has half of the problems listed above.

> facebook

Your work project doesn’t have a billion users.

We were talking about what it would take to fix the technical problems resulting from taking a working program to something people use.

> Any idiot can vibe code

I didn’t say that either.

How is it the HN opinion that it’s impossible to make a web application a lot of people use?

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