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This was not the flex that DHH thought it was (programming.dev)
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From DHH's long-winded keynote at Rails World 2026. He was bragging that Hey's backend is so efficient because it's written in Rust (which he hates and refuses to read).

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[–] 34 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Ain't this the same guy who vibe coded a distro and somehow managed to land a shitton of money from that?

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  • [–] 40 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Basically started as a glorified bunch of dotfiles. Haven't checked whether or not it's actually a distro yet.

    But yeah, bunch of rich people threw a couple million at him, presumably because he's a racist and their interests align.

    I really can't imagine that being about his project, especially when there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of other critically-important and chronically under-funded open-source projects.

    IMO it's 100% who and 0% what.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 hours ago

    A racist who went all-in on AI. That's probably responsible for a lot of the investments - you can get Silicon Valley idiots to invest in anything right now so long as it has those two magic letters in front of it.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I remember when HEY first came out, I got to try it and thought it was kinda useless. Defining an entire email service by the removal of one step from any other email service seems silly. (Coming from a guy who’s actually written a unique email service.)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 50 minutes ago*

    I do appreciate some of the philosophy of Hey, like cherishing the human-to-human section of your inbox. But it's simply not worth the price tag. Also now that DHH has proudly proclaimed he does not read any of the code, I don't think it's even worth it for free, if I'm gambling with my data. I just self-host Stalwart and Bulwark.

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