Legendary Hacker News comments that aged like milk, from Instacart doubts to Twitter obituaries
sahilypatel · x · 2026-11-11
sahilypatel collects legendary HN comments that aged badly: 2012 skepticism that Instacart's delivery economics could never work (with a rebuttal from founder Apoorva Mehta), and a 2023 prediction that Meta's Threads would grind Twitter 'to a fine powder' within months. A reminder of how confident tech takes go wrong.
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