The only thing I can ask is: Y ???

It's a combination of things really.

Zzz

This is even better in Spanish.

["Y?" is the equivalent of "And?"]

Much more original and superior

Thank you

SKK=I; K=XX; S=X(XX)

  Y=S(K(SII))(S(S(KS)K)(K(SII)))=S(K(S(SKK)(SKK)))(S(S(KS)K)(K(S(SKK)(SKK))))=
  X(XX)((XX)(X(XX)(X(XX)(XX)(XX))(X(XX)(XX)(XX))))(X(XX)(X(XX)((XX)X(XX))(XX))((XX)(X(XX)(X(XX)(XX)(XX))(X(XX)(XX)(XX)))))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31079130

YCombinator needs to rebrand as Y to compete in this new world.

I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.

>the next big thing which recently got disbanded

A redesign that only applies to 30% of the website? A new video player that's even more broken?

Shit. Don't give them any more ideas. Just wait until they finish the current "revamp of the awards system".

It just reminds me of Telegram. This page I mean, and that too visually it kinda resembles some Telegram product pages. However, unlike Reddit, Telegram app is epic good.

The money/coins/rewards everywhere, the childish avatars, the lies about privacy and "empowering" redditors...

Thanks, I hate everything about it.

There was also NHSX, which got merged into NHS Digital, which then got merged into NHS England.

Scrolling down, this looks like Google's X.

take a dramamine before scrolling down

It is.

> scrolling down

There are resources available. https://www.healthline.com/health/suicide-and-suicidal-behav...

Google X doesn't really need brand recognition, because they're supposed to pump out brands, not be the brand. IE Waymo, verily, etc.

"Google" is the brand name for enshittification.

mac os x

10 is actually a pretty special number

I suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown variable, and that's due to René Descartes according to:

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y...

There’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15.

I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X - conjuring up images of skunkworks, etc.

hmm:

mac os: numeral

generation: variable

google: eXperimental!

malcom: variable

elon: hey yo, check it out i tried to register x.com and actually got it!

the question is... chitter or xitter?

Am I the only one thinking of that picture of ten roman legionaries, captioned "The X Men"?

For me, the 90's X-Men theme doesn't work in the movie 300.

ten fingers, ten toes, base ten arabic numbers

OS X at least has the excuse of having come out during the time when Generation X were the young adult audience sought after by marketers.

In contrast, today we have Gen X executives who are seemingly trying to recapture the glory days of the late '90s.

I commented on Reddit's latest moves, downloaded their app just to use it for a while and give it a bad review. Deleted the app and haven't gone there in a while

Just because you comment on something doesn't mean you'll use it

God that thing is fucking terrible.

You can't change font size? But what if I don't like to read walls of tiny text?

And what the hell is with the video playback UI? I want to see comments under a video post, why do you take me to full-screen video playback no matter what I do? About 50% of the time I manage to tap something somewhere which makes it work on 3rd try, but I wish that percentage was higher.

"We should improve society somewhat."

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."

Heaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.

Low-effort comments are against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's possible to voice disinterest in a thoughtful and substantive way. The GP comment (and arguably your reply) does not.

Their comments seem fine to me? They pretty clearly explained the reason for their dislike of the name - if anything, their ability to do so concisely should be praised

I guess I find the name collision with Google X—quoting the guidelines again—to be "too common to be interesting." But one man's pithy is another's snarky, so to each their own.

Having a critique of a thing is orthogonal to being interested in the thing.

There are plenty of topics I find fun to engage in dialog about, despite having no interest in the topic itself.

We, as humans, seem to generally enjoy being a part of the zeitgeist, being swept away with whatever the latest fascination is, even if we aren't interested in the actual topic. And that's ok. We are allowed to enjoy that social experience on both the micro ("all my friends are getting really into houseplants, I will too!") and the macro ("lol, Elon Musk is an unbelievable idiot") scale.

Let's see if anyone is still commenting in a few years!

Mission successful...

This is not the same as "lol logo is bad" and "all news is good news" there's a legitimate case for confusion across these companies

WTH, I totally 100% thought this was Musk's new company. There is already a company called X by Alphabet, what a goof.

Musk's original web payments company was x.com, which he started in the late 90's. Then it did a very early merge with some other startup, and the combined company rebranded to PayPal. At some point, Musk bought back the domain from PayPal.

I do not understand why anyone would think that it's a great idea to do a this major rebranding of an existing company with a well-known brand.

This entire endeavour not sure whether conscious or unconscious is Musk trying to -- gosh, there's a word for this but my English is failing me -- to finally get even with Thiel, to show Thiel he can do everything Thiel did but better. Someone like Musk never fully recovers from getting fired from his dear X.com post-merge. Make no mistake: back then Musk was doing a stupid by trying to force a Windows tech stack on a payment company which was using Unix.

Thiel was one of the largest donors of Trump in 2016, is a true darling of the alt right so of course Musk must rub shoulders with them.

Between the erstwhile x.com and Confinity the company which launched PayPal, the latter succeeded, gobbled up x.com so now of course Musk must show to Thiel that he can make a successful payment company called x.com. He must.

That's the reason for all this bullshit, I am certain.

> gosh, there's a word for this

one-upmanship?

"Google X" actually made (and maybe still makes) a lot of sense.

The history is that around 2010 Google wanted to kick off experimental projects, in part because they were starting to lose top talent to startups. Since they had Google Maps and Google Images and Google Earth and Google Mail etc, they named the new org Google X as a space for the new and undefined projects.