FreakyT
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IMO, the old Android menu button wasn't great UX. It ended up just being a miscellaneous laundry list of random functions, and the users would just need to learn "spam the menu button randomly on every screen just in case the needed action is hiding in there."
Some screenshots would have been nice -- I assume this looks like Picasa did, but it'd be nice to be able to see it.
That said, I've been enjoying this trend of reviving software killed before its time! Someone recently did the same for Apple Aperture (RIP):
https://github.com/konzertblock/retrolux
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FreakyT on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:55AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://neoinbox.freakified.net/
12 years ago today (Oct 22, 2014), Google released Inbox by Gmail™, definitively solving email UX. Even now, 7 years after Google made the objectively incorrect decision to shut it down, almost nothing has come close to Inbox's elegant way of visualizing and organizing emails.(The best attempt by far was a cloud email service called Shortwave, which was at least initially intended as a true...
While I do agree with the author's overall point, I think that he inadvertently stumbles on the probable reason here:
> If I want to see the original Markdown syntax, I should be able to switch to that view just as easily.
This doesn't really map well to existing document opening conventions, so the author's hypothetical built-in Markdown viewer/editor doesn't really fit into any existing system app. For example, if Apple modified TextEdit.app to open Markdown files in the same way it handles RTF documents, it would cover the formatted display case, but not editing the source. They would have to add some third mode (or build an entirely separate app) to handle switching between Markdown source and formatted views, deal with displaying malformed syntax, etc. Not to mention handling the various differences between Markdown flavors.
> From my PoV, pretending you can feed outputs, test suites or APIs from existing code and have AI "rewrite it" so you can call it your own is just theft.If you replace “AI” with “a software engineering team”, does that change your argument? It seems like you’re essentially arguing that APIs should be copyrightable, which seems like a Bad Thing to me.
Molly is great; I use it for the same purpose.
I find the Signal devs' attitude so frustrating; they deliberately disable the ability to use Signal in secondary device mode for phone-sized-devices, because they know the Correct Way To Use Signal™ is to only use it on one phone-sized-device.
There are non-Chinese open LLMs (Mistral, LLama, etc), so I don't think that explains it.
It'd be weirder if they didn't, considering how much X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, prioritizes subscriber posts. The last time I checked my feed on X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, basically every surfaced reply was a paid user.
Parent comment asserted that "flying gets worse every year", which is a very different declaration than "flying got significantly worse after 9/11"
> the flying experience gets worse every yearPeople always say this, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's true. In my view, the flying experience at least in the US has actually gotten better over the last few years. United, for example, added free seatback IFEs. (About 10 or so years ago, you had to swipe a credit card to watch anything.)
That’d be really exciting if they managed to get a working Malaria vaccine out of this research. Would be useful in so many places.
To be fair, it’s the security team’s idiotic position on IMAP that prompted the parent commenter to find a workaround.
It’s like how having super draconian password reset and complexity requirements ends up being less secure because users will start writing their impossible-to-remember passwords on post-it notes.
Exactly this -- people have just seized on the the "not FDA approved" line because it sounds reasonable if you don't really understand how FDA approval works or what it really means. As soon as it's approved, the goalposts will absolutely move to "well, I don't trust the FDA".
For those "waiting for FDA approval", have you ever taken a vitamin supplement? Guess what, you're putting not-FDA-approved chemicals into your body.
The OG Rift is still pretty great -- unlike the newer products, it doesn't require a Facebook account, and you can use it with SteamVR if you want and not really even bother with the Oculus software.
It's really a shame what has happened to Blue Origin. They've gone from a promising space startup to yet another purveyor of perpetual vaporware.
Where is the BE-4 engine? Delayed, again and again. New Glenn, the rocket that could actually go into orbit? Same. So far their only functioning hardware (New Shephard) is, in effect, a glorified amusement park ride.
Considering that SpaceX has actually made it to orbit multiple times, any rational actor would clearly choose SpaceX over BO.
> Obviously it’s Tinder posting the fake profiles because they want men using their software.How is this at all obvious? I mean, even if we assume they're definitely fake profiles, wouldn't the more likely explanation be that they're individuals engaged in catfishing?
I really hope Epic wins that lawsuit against Apple, not because I particularly care about Epic, but because I'd like to see Apple forced to allow alternative web browsers.
Still don't get how it was a problem for Microsoft to "bundle" Internet Explorer, but it's apparently not a problem for Apple to bundle and also actively block any installation of competing browsers.
IIRC, unvaccinated are more likely to get infected and also typically have higher viral loads, which corresponds to higher infectiousness.
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're
not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise.
It's the same approach as with antivax parents -- don't want your kids vaccinated? Then you'll need to homeschool them.
The key difference between Toyota's approach and Tesla's was simple: Tesla built out their own charging infrastructure.
Just like with battery-electric-vehicles, there's a chicken and egg problem: no one will buy a car if there's nowhere to charge/fuel it, but no one will build fueling/charging stations if no one has that type of car. If Toyota was serious about hydrogen, they should have done what Tesla did, and built a countrywide network of hydrogen stations.
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You're getting downvoted, but it's true -- CEQA is a great example of how well-intentioned environmental legislation can be abused by basically anyone to stonewall any project for any reason.
A common-sense change might be requiring minimum quantities of local signatures to limit the potential impact of a small opposition.
The key argument against this is that many of the planned highways were
also supposed to go through richer neighborhoods, but never got constructed because the residents of those neighborhoods were able to successfully fight against them.
(For one example, check out the incomplete stub at the eastern terminus of I-70 -- I don't believe the cost of the land was a major factor in that case)
Exactly -- you can't build big projects without stepping on someone's toes. What we really need is equal-opportunity toe-stepping.
People on here seem to be missing the point — one of the (only 2) major political parties in the US has effectively declared that a
core party doctrine is “any election that we lose is, ipso facto, fraudulent”.
That sort of belief is what gets you to situations like what we see in Myanmar, with “declaration of fraud” being the only excuse for installing any leadership.
IIRC Skymall used to feature Hammacher Schlemmer products pretty often, so it's not surprising that there'd be a lot of overlap.
I feel like Apple's approach to hardware made their job much easier -- they just ensured that every retina Mac had a display with exactly 2x the pixels as its pre-retina equivalent, so they never had to deal with fractional scaling like Windows often does.