As someone who's not in tech, I read this site so I can see what you insiders are going to enshitten next. :)
(You really should buy my book though. It doesn't exist and never will but I promise it's the most riveting thing you'll ever read.)
I will stand by with my credit card for that book though.
Well, what rises to your level of "specifically"? Because it's a lot of bookmarks with a couple keywords that I find meaningful enough to jog my memory, not conscious memory where I'm in the middle of lunch and wonder where That One Article went. And I've only been regularly reading HN for maybe a year.
Some of the stuff I marked might interest you though.
"Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on Youtube". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30694102 One might consider that interesting in light of the recent revelation that some of the FSD footage was staged without being honest about it.
"Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31011894 In just the past year, crypto's lost its luster, the metaverse flopped, etc.
Actually, one caught my eye that is quite timely given the new AI boom. "Economists are revisiting their views on robots and jobs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30078732 You'll have to follow the archive link though, there's a paywall.
1. Tesla: I have been following Tesla since like forever and lost a lot of my 2017 to following it on the short side (despite never shorting it nor anything else in my life). You say this Self driving might catch up to them...I say never bet against Teflon Elon just like you don't bet against Teflon Don. He will find a way to escape whatever mess he gets into and is probably thinking three steps ahead. He has been doing it for 10+ years now. No reason this is the year he falters just like no reason this is finally the year of Linux(spoiler: its not).
2. Web3: we have seen this coming for a while now. Jury is still out on crypto in my opinion. We may have just experienced the "Web 1.0 crash" of crypto
3. Wow I actually remember that article. In fact its date is making me wish I could go back to late 2021. Its crazy for me to realize how every year that passes I wish I could have gone back to that year rather than being here right now. I guess this might be the next enshitten given how people are freaking out about ChatGPT4 on the front page right now. I guess you get this one but it was a lucky guess! :)
Someone else asked me the same question and I just got finished replying over there. Here's my guess. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35161855
Easy potshot is all the generative AI. We get to write code and emails and homework and books faster. We also get more malware; and, when the realms of text, video, and voice are all convincing enough, we get that deepfake flood we're promised is coming, and so the breaking of a "shared reality" that snowballed with social media echo chambers becomes fully realized. So far the only "solution" I've seen is AI detection software. To me that sounds like a continuation of the same old cold war except it exhausts even more mental resources.
If you want a more novel guess, anything of the brain-computer interface ilk. It gets accurate and portable enough and it will get put into as many hard surfaces as Big Tech can stuff it, from trackpads to phone screens to more "public" terminals like ticket counters or automated fast-food restaurant booths. It starts with the novelty of generating Stable Diffusion images with just your brain, or streamlining navigation menus with thought. And then, just like big data fueled AI and proved very economically lucrative, every single thought anyone ever has will be stored just because we have the capability. FAANGs and the NSA have many redundant data centers. Every thought you have can be monetized. Or used to convict you of thoughtcrime. I can't really see the fabric of society withstanding that kind of floodgate.
As for your second point, seems like you are referring to neuralink? Are you also considering things like the upcoming Apple Glasses/Goggles? That seems like it will lead us to [1] (a video I totally despise because I dread it coming)
Although, you might find since times of yore ancient Howard Beale type actual techies have foretold of this dark dystopia and tried their best to prevent it. Their warnings falling on deaf ears.
The enshittening is ushered in by the managerial types, the MBAs, the marketing folks, run of the mill code monkeys and designers in fedoras. The enshitting is ushered in by the eager consumers, the influencers, the professionally outraged, and you.
This is/was the website for hackers. The type who disobey and mock the system for what it is. And lemmings for what they are.
No, this is and was a website for VC’s and their employees. A small subset of hacker culture at best.
Cleverly named though.