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Ink & Switch's 2025 'Malleable Software' essay resurfaces on Hacker News

Essay resurfaces on Hacker News front page

1 Yesterday 3:01 PM · 1d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 3

The essay reappears on Hacker News under user evakhoury, reaching a score of 40 with 9 comments, alongside a lower-traction duplicate posting via an HN Frontpage RSS aggregator.

Essay resurfaces on Hacker News front page
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“The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable.”

Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews, Ink & Switch researchers · hn ↗

Geoffrey Litt Co-author, Ink & Switch researcherJosh Horowitz Co-author, Ink & Switch researcherPeter van Hardenberg Co-author, Ink & Switch researcherTodd Matthews Co-author, Ink & Switch researcher

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

    first by HN Frontpage, 1d ago

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