Yes, people aren't going to use a search engine that politically skews the results. It will end up as a tiny website for a very narrow niche of person, similar to eg Mastodon.
I don't think will be relevant going forward, Safari already hides the URL beyond the domain name by default, and I presume other browsers do/will too.
"AI convergence is going to lay bare organizational deficiencies in a way previous revolutions didn't`'
Your quote really hit me. I trust Apple to respect my privacy when doing AI, but the thought of Microsoft or Google slurping up all my data to do remote-server AI is abhorrent. I can't see how Microsoft or Google can undo the last 10 years to fix this.
There's something odd about the four-day week movement; they'e always unable to be honest in their headlines. Germany is not trialing a four-day work week.
If even HackerNews can't have a rational discussion about Tesla then we're all doomed!