I have a bunch of updates to products I need to do (and new products ready for release), but I lost access to the Apple ID that I set up about 15 years ago and haven't been using, except it is the owner of my developer account.

I have been going through their process to get my account back multiple times, and each time they have a ten day waiting period after which, for me, nothing happens. This is getting extremely frustrating and there seems to be no way of getting through to anyone that can help me there.

I have heard/read that people started making mistakes in their text to sound more like a human and less like an AI.

+ There was a discussion that LinkedIn identified AI-generated text + Claude released text watermarks.

I clean out my starred tab every few months and realize half the projects I bookmarked were just because the documentation looked sleek or the demo video was satisfying to watch. But the ones I actually keep starred long-term usually come down to whether the maintainer is actively replying to edge-case issues in the discussions. A star feels less like a bookmark and more like a vote of confidence that the repo isn't going to get abandoned next month. What makes you click that star button, and do you ever go back and un-star dead projects?

We love to talk about agent alignment and prompt escape vectors but most runtime environments are basically Swiss cheese.

When an automation tool finds a side channel or a loose port, calling it a "model anomaly" lets the infrastructure team off the hook far too easily.

If the underlying network config is sloppy the agent is just doing what software does finding the path of least resistance.

Have you ever audited your runtime boundaries, or are you just trusting default cloud settings?

1. Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)

2. At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).

3. In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.

• First, AI worked for us.

• Now we are starting to work for AI.

• And eventually, will AI work (without us)?

I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?

I've starred probably two hundred repos and I honestly couldn't tell you my own criteria. So I'm trying to reverse-engineer it, because I'm about to open source something and I want to understand what actually earns a star versus what just gets a polite look.

My suspicion is that it's rarely the code. It's usually one of three things: the README answers my exact question in the first screen, the demo shows the thing working in under a minute, or I saw the maintainer answer a hard issue thoughtfully and decided the project was alive.

The third one is the one I think people underestimate. A star is often a bet that the project will still be maintained in a year.

So: what actually made you star the last repo you starred and have you ever un-starred something? If so, why?

Launch day gets all the attention. The day after is the part nobody writes about, and it's the part I'm least prepared for.

The upvotes stop, the notifications dry up, and you're left with a product, some new signups, and a very quiet inbox. The temptation is to immediately start planning the next launch. I think that's a mistake the week after is when you actually learn whether the launch meant anything.

What I'm planning to do with those seven days: personally email every signup from launch day, ask one question ("what made you click?"), and read the answers before touching the product again. No new features that week. Just listening.

For people who've launched: what did you actually do in that week, and did it change what you built next? I'm especially interested in anyone who ignored the post-launch week and regretted it.

@akash_anil254 asked a few days ago what my strategy is for Product Hunt (I do not want to say I do not have one, but I really do not have one). I enjoy being present here.

Being here already has its own benefits:

• Have found a supportive community with an entrepreneurial mindset

• I am well-informed about the latest tech trends

• Building my personal brand