Shopify returns to native apps & OpenAI trust questions for researchers - Hacker News (Sep 11, 2026)
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Shopify returns to native apps & OpenAI trust questions for researchers - Hacker News (Sep 11, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 20265 min

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A company that once embraced cross-platform mobile development now says, AI made native apps the better bet again. Welcome to the Automated Daily, Hacker News edition. The podcast created by Generative AI.

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It's September 11, 2026, on Trend Teller, and today we're looking at how AI is changing software decisions well beyond the code editor, plus a trust issue for researchers, a major Rust milestone at Microsoft, and a few stories where technology shows up in unexpected places. This episode is brought to you by 11Labs. 11Labs lets you discover the future

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of AI audio with cutting-edge voice technology. Find the link in the episode notes. We'll start with Shopify, which says it is moving major mobile apps away from React Native and back to Natives Swift and Kotlin. What makes this interesting is the reasoning. Shopify says AI coding agents have changed the economics of building for both iOS and

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