Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward

kept by eddie nov 19, 25

Hacker News commenters analyze the escalating dispute between Rebble and Core Devices over Pebble app store data and open-source governance.

Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Rebble alleges Core Devices scraped its servers and relicensed community work under a restrictive license after earlier promising cooperation.
also on Core Devices, Eric Migicovsky, Rebble, #tech-community, #open-source
Cheap code means formal verification is reasonable now — Antfly Blog
The Antfly team shows how coding agents using TLA+ can formally model distributed systems to cheaply find and verify race conditions and other bugs.
also on Pebble
Loyalty Is Dead In Tech - by Nikunj Kothari - Balancing Act
Tech founders increasingly abandon their startups via licensing deals with Big Tech, leaving employees behind and breaking an unwritten oath of loyalty.
also on #startup, #tech-community, #business-strategy
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History - WSJ
OpenAI averages $1.5 million per employee in stock-based compensation, over seven times Google's pre-IPO pay and far above any major tech startup in history.
also on #startup, #tech-community, #business-strategy