AWS took DuckLabs, Nvidia took Hugging Face for $13B, and OpenAI cut off Cursor after SpaceX bought it. 3,908 points and 1,745 comments across three threads, and the thing that decided the mood was not the acquirer.
AWS took DuckDB's company, Nvidia took Hugging Face, OpenAI cut off Cursor. Haiku shipped after two years. And a repo that did not exist three weeks ago is gaining 12,072 stars a day.
Beta6 landed 530 fixed tickets and 1 new committer. The 85-comment HN thread ignored all of it and argued about Haiku's AI ban instead, and the release notes turn out to be evidence for both sides.
Zero open issues, 891 watchers, and 14,460 commits on an 18-day-old repo. We checked all three against the GitHub API. The numbers hold up, and the ecosystem around it is the real story.
94 comments on Tao's warning about AI proofs, and most of them argue about whether orchestral musicians have side gigs.
The best comment nobody upvoted. Nobody answered it, and across 512 comments we found no benchmark comparing MCP against code mode on the same task.
The strongest anti-MCP argument anywhere in the three threads, because it is about token mechanics rather than taste.