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Re:Stop the Apple Music app from launching on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:17PM (#48494318)
I liked it but realised I couldn't watch anything on VLC while this ran. Too bad.
Re:Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:35PM (#48440761)
>Future me can suck it.

So...You will suck it ?

Re:Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:29PM (#48440737)
You will never know what could have been, only know that you were a wonderful parent for stepping up to such a challenge.
Re:Your Most Improbable Life on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:07PM (#48216949)
So, you liked nothing about the post ? What would you salvage from it ?
Go on, where is the evidence ? I am actually curious and open-minded about it.
Re:It's Cool to Care on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:00PM (#47786439)
Sometimes, I feel like conversation is just a way to talk to oneself, by using others as mirrors of what we want to believe. That article had that vibe.

I don't care about the show, the author doesn't know why she cares that much about the show, and I really, really don't understand what caring has to do with seeing the same show several times.

>Whenever somebody asks why, I don’t have a good answer.

I'll suggest the author (and everyone reading this) to really, really sit down and think of why they like the things they like. What are the variables that clicked for me when I interact with X ? The theme ? The way the thing is made ? The echo and specific resonance it has with my inner life ?

I would have gained much more from that article if the author had gone to the trouble of making me connect with the show in that way.

Re:A Theory of the World as run by large adult children on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:19AM (#47387616)
Its care. Us humans can feel when something was made with care vs when it’s made to check some lists people with ties made. Same with music, food, books, art, software, hardware, design, houses. Most stuff today is made to avoid some risks instead of being what it ought to be. Not trying to please anyone is the best way to make great things. Or maybe it is my hate of focus groups who spoiled it all (and I used to be a game user researcher…)
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:28AM (#47289050)
Curious about that reasoning : where do you draw the line ?

Are you a builder if there is an middleman ? If not, what if the middleman is a tool ? If you use autocad to build the plans, are you still a builder ? What if autocad has a prompt feature, are you still a builder ?

Unsure this would help, but maybe thinking in English Prime could be an interesting exercice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Re: on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:23PM (#46968504)
The goal of it all is to reduce the costs of labor (you, basically). On that, AI and robotics are doing just fine !
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:51PM (#46907136)
I'll have some of that coffee too, this is quite a sad time we're living where this is a proper use of our limited resources.
It takes some skill (that you seem to have) to learn to use those LLM. Sad that not everyone see it that way...
Re:Television is 100 years old today on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:01PM (#46769144)
I'd say we did, you need more and more for the same effect.

Here is the first ad ever, for a watch : https://youtu.be/ho2OJfXkvpI

For comparison, here is the latest ad for the best selling watch as of today : https://youtu.be/kdMTc5WfnkM

Re:Code Is Clay on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:17PM (#46572094)
The article did not do it for you. Do not apologize and thanks for sharing why he did not do it for you. It did not do it for me neither, for other reasons (I don't care that much about code, as a non-coder)

it's okay !

...We are going to have to fight against it at some point, will we ?
Not aiming at you specifically, but I am tired of seeing shitty behaviour that is dismissed as best as incompetence. I do not want to believe someone becomes the CEO of one of the strongest organization on earth without a strategy sixth sense. So, why would he be shoving AI everywhere ? What does he know that we don't about it ? Is it just plan surveillance ?
Re:My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @04:29PM (#46458225)
Working 8 years to get to more than 100,000,000 $ and saying no to that...Maybe I'm just too poor to understand that. Sure, this is hackernews, so the hustle mindset is stronger here, but the difference you could make in others people lives just with 10 % of that...

I mean, you could house, feed or educate people and you chose to...not do that ? To have more ? Is there a endgame you are not sharing with us, a special number that would make it OK to sell ?

Re:It’s been a very hard year on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:00AM (#46107492)
Sora's app has a 4.8 rating on the app store with 142K rating. It seems to me that the market does not care about slop or not, whether I like it or not.
Re:Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:39PM (#45960442)
Oof, nice one !

I was looking for some synths for my less-than-two-years kid, after seeing their face light up when I fiddle with my Lofi 12 XT in front of them.

I had all these criterias : -Something without any screens -Something simple enough -Something that could withstand some rough play

I looked and looked, was considering proper Aira Compact synths, but ended up with the antiquity of the Bliptronic 5000 from Thinkgeek. https://youtu.be/6rCfhF-fNb4 They love it, the buttons are beyond fun to them, but the knobs are quite hard to turn for a little kid (1st world problem, I know)

I felt they were too young for a Blipbox, and I also bought an Orba 2, we'll see how that one goes.

But I dreamed of such a device, with easy to turn knobs, and colorful display, something simple to modulate sounds and just hear melodies. Seeing how you created it is both inspiring and discouraging, as someone with limited free time and electrical knowledge, but, you never know !

Re:The history of Casio watches on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:20AM (#45900525)
Is innovation over ? It sure felt like this reading that entry
Re:Why friction is necessary for growth on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:33PM (#45420621)
>And I suspect that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find original ideas. That is a bias in itself, as originality should naturally grow with the number of people alive. The best time to catch one in a million ideas should be when we are more and more billions, no ?
Re:A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet on Saturday September 27, 2025 @08:04PM (#45400470)
This should have been a steam game. I played worse games there !
Re:ChatGPT Pulse on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:01PM (#45380896)
Bad take about blockchain. Being able to send value across borders without intermediaries is unheard of in human history.
Re:Is life a form of computation? on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:18PM (#45354579)
Love the work the Essentia foundation is doing, thanks for sharing !
Re:You Have to Feel It on Sunday August 31, 2025 @10:02AM (#45083207)
Truly, to each their own.

I couldn't bear to pour all my energy in something that, ultimately, is not mine. But I could feel your enthusiasm through your post, which made me a bit jealouse.

So, yeah.

Re:You Have to Feel It on Sunday August 31, 2025 @09:59AM (#45083193)
Yes.

If you didn't know about the case, Damasio's Eliott is the personification of this observation : you have to feel first.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250614042654/https://www.thecu...

Re:Google Opal on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:16PM (#44687186)
It's like going to a pub to complain about alcohol. Read the room ! /s
Re:Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move in to? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:38PM (#44599550)
Shhh don’t ruin the hype train ! We need to get the vc money in those startups going ! /s

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