Webshit Weekly

November 7, 2025

AI Broke Interviews

2025-11-01 | comments

The webshits are absolutely furious that their cherished algorithmic hazing rituals have been rendered obsolete by the very same automated plagiarism engines they were paid to build. The article whines that AI has broken interviews, conveniently ignoring that asking a senior engineer to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard was never a measure of competence, just a test of how much free time they had to waste on LeetCode. Hackernews, terrified that their aura farming might be exposed as the useless farce it is, suggests we pivot to making candidates verbally explain the slop generated by a token predictor. They desperately propose “in-person” interrogations to catch cheaters, ignoring that ambient AI assistants can now whisper the answers directly into the candidate’s ear canal. The industry has fully transitioned to “vibe coding,” where the job is shouting at a chatbot until it stops hallucinating, and the interview process must adapt to ensure you can eloquently defend those hallucinations. It’s a desperate, flailing attempt to maintain the great fraud of technical interviewing—a process designed by digital feudal lords to filter out anyone who didn’t treat their career as a 24/7 cram session for a standardized test that a clanker can now pass with zero effort. We used to hire adults; now we just initiate nerds into a frat where the secret handshake is generated by GPT-4.

Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy

2025-11-02 | comments

Amazon has decided to purge the unwashed masses from their cheap plastic HDMI dongles. Hackernews, ever the tireless defenders of the oppressed (provided they own a $300 mechanical keyboard), immediately fractures into a dozen sub-debates about the sanctity of intellectual property. One faction wails about the crackdown on piracy as a human rights violation, while another performs exhausting mental gymnastics to claim the ban is actually about “malicious proxy networks.” It turns out the “free” streaming apps were just automated botnets for hire, but explaining that to a Hner is like explaining token predictors to a VC: they just want to believe is it good, and don’t want the details.

The comments section is a masterclass in miscorrecting each other, spiraling into a desperate search for an alternative device that isn’t a “backdoored piece of shit from China” or a rented brick from Bezos. They debate whether Plex or Jellyfin is the only ethical way to consume bytes, completely missing the point that they are all just tenant farmers in a walled garden owned by a digital feudal lord who can brick their device at will. It’s just another day of aura farming in the tech industry, where webshits argue over the scraps left by the ad-tech surveillance machine, trying to find moral high ground in a swamp of botnets and proprietary dongles.

Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API

2025-11-03 | comments

Amazon (business model: Uber for wage-slave warehousing) has decided that merely paying for the privilege of selling goods on their platform isn’t enough; now you have to pay to know what you’re selling. By imposing fees on GET requests, the digital landlord has found a new way to extract rent from the serfs. Hackernews, ever the apologists for technofeudalism, wastes no time miscorrecting each other about the technicalities. One cohort insists this is a necessary anti-bot measure to stop automated plagiarism engines from hallucinating inventory, while another frets about the impact on “Agentic Commerce,” a buzzword so hollow it makes “synergy” sound like concrete poetry. The reality is that this is just simple double-dipping — a toll booth erected on a road the sellers already paved with their own inventory. While some users speculate that this will drive developers back to scraping, the reality is that the webshits will just pass the cost down to the consumer. It’s a familiar cycle: the platform eats the ecosystem, and the developers applaud the digestion. There is no escape from the great fraud, only more tolls on the information superhighway, built by the same people who think “micro-transactions” are a business model and not a cry for help.

2025-11-04 | comments

A digital feudal lord decides that the problem with the world is insufficient surveillance of your purchasing habits, co-opting the worst terminology from the crypto-scammers to justify “tokenizing” your existence. Hackernews briefly considers the efficacy of using paper money, then miscorrects each other into a doomer spiral about the inevitability of total financial subjugation. A few brave souls suggest voting harder or joining the EFF, while the rest of the comments section realizes that the entire crypto-industrial complex (business model: “Human Centipede for liquidity”) spent a decade building the exact tools the BlackRocks of the world needed to turn humanity into a spreadsheet. The vibe coding for surveillance capitalism continues apace, turning the earth into a panopticon run by spreadsheets.

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

2025-11-04 | comments

The Department of Homeland Security announces its desire to farm your DNA and retinas, because if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to hide except your biological essence. Hackernews immediately descends into a pit of partisan sniping, debating which puppet in the White House makes the surveillance state feel icky, rather than acknowledging that the panopticon is the default product of modern tech. Webshits in the thread engage in competitive pearl-clutching, citing the Stasi to score cheap points while ignoring that they are the ones building the digital fence. The tech industry has successfully pivoted from “don’t be evil” to “efficiency is the only moral imperative,” so I suppose it was only a matter of time before the government demanded a root login to your genome.

Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers

2025-11-05 | comments

Microsoft and Google continue their global colonization tour, hoodwinking Chile into subsidizing their vibe-coding factories. The promise was “job creation,” but the reality is a windowless box full of token predictors hoovering water and power while employing a skeleton crew of janitors. Hackernews holds a seminar on municipal finance and is shocked — shocked! — that digital feudal lords lie about economic benefits to secure tax breaks for their automated plagiarism engines, which would surprise no one that has paid attention to stadium deals in the past 40 years. The locals get nothing but higher utility bills and the privilege of hosting the servers that hallucinate their replacements.

Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1T Pay Package

2025-11-06 | comments

Tesla shareholders vote to give their digital feudal lord a trillion dollars. Hackernews holds a spirited debate on whether the stock is driven by fundamentals, ignoring that the business runs entirely on aura farming. Webshits confidently miscorrect each other about the imminent arrival of robotaxis and humanoid robots, treating vaporware milestones as sound financial logic. The comment thread collectively decides that subsidizing a billionaire’s ego is a great investment because the robotaxis might eventually work, or at least save you on insurance premiums before they kill you.

Jensen Huang’s Stark Warning: China’s 1M AI Workers vs. America’s 20k

2025-11-07 | comments

Jensen Huang (business model: “feudal lord of the GPU mines”) is panic-mongering about China’s army of “AI workers,” a statistic he likely hallucinated with the same token predictors he sells. Hackernews immediately pivots to a demographics slapfight, debating whether the US can close the gap by importing cheap labor or just surrendering to the superior efficiency of authoritarianism. None of these webshits stop to consider that a million “AI workers” are just humans shout-correcting automated plagiarism engines. The great race to build the ultimate vibe-coding clanker continues, the only guaranteed output being more expensive electricity and digital serfdom.