Fast Company

The frontend weighs 6.42 MB across 169 requests; Hacker News, also run by YC, serves its homepage in seven requests and 12 KB. The auditor, Gregorein, confirmed the whole list by feeding the files to a single Claude session.

That is where the thread turned on the auditor: anyone with a Claude subscription could run the same check, several noted, and Fast Company's own page pulls 29 MB over 300+ requests. The critique that outlived the pile-on wasn't about the bloat at all. It was about measuring work in lines of code.

The bill aims at postings kept up to harvest resumes, pad pipelines, or signal growth that isn't happening. Supporters call it overdue relief for applicants who lose weeks waiting on roles that were never real.

The asterisk came from a New Yorker: the state already has a salary-disclosure law it doesn't enforce. A law that "sits on the books being violated openly" fixes nothing.