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idk, i’ve spent six figures on meta ads in the last few months and gotten tons of real users for my app. how is that a con?
Re:How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:37PM (#46064928)
pro tip: do not try this on a microwave you want to keep. if you are successful you will likely cause a fire in your microwave. (it is fun, though).

Ask HN: What do you actually do with your wearable health data?

My problem: I close my rings on Apple Watch, check my readiness score on Oura, see my HRV trends... and then what? All this data without clear guidance on what actions to take.For HN users with health wearables (Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Withings etc.):1. What frustrates you most about your current health tracking experience?2. What would make your wearable data actually useful for...

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congrats to you and the team!
Re:Welcome Home, Garry Tan on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:10AM (#32638462)
congrats garry! huge news!
Re:Having Kids on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:55PM (#21790874)
As a counterpoint, this essay resonated with me very deeply, and I earn a low salary for an engineer in NYC.

We do fine as a family and have to make compromises I couldn’t have imagined making prior to having kids, but it’s totally worth it.

This type of experience isn’t universal but doesn’t require massive wealth.

Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:42AM (#19218082)
This is a _really_ good point! I'm trying to find some data on this right now... might have to dig through e.g. Apple's previous phone releases to see trends over time.
Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:39AM (#19218038)
Cofounder of Chartable here, happy to answer any questions.

And, if you're looking for podcast recommendations, I recently analyzed 522 recommendations from 25 different critics' best-of lists to find the best of the best podcasts of 2018, also on the blog: https://chartable.com/blog/the-best-podcasts-of-2018

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019) on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:06PM (#18808977)
Chartable | New York, NY | Onsite or REMOTE in USA | Product engineer

Do you love podcasts?

Chartable's mission is to grow and serve the digital audio market, starting with world-class tools for the podcast industry.

We believe in the power of podcasts. We founded Chartable after we started our own, and we were surprised that there was so little data available to podcasters. So we set out to fix that.

We intend to build a lasting, sustainable company that we love to work at. We hope you'll join us.

Learn more about the company: https://chartable.com/about

Apply for the Product Engineer role: https://jobs.lever.co/chartable/782f1de9-3877-4fca-aafd-11bb...

Come be a part of the podcast revolution.

Hi HN, we wrote this post after the great response to Hacker Daily two weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16850689). Happy to answer any questions you might have. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:08PM (#16905882)
Never heard of it, but looks interesting - thanks for sharing. I probably should've been more clear that after decades of curating my MP3 collection, I've moved towards streaming and rarely dig deep into my library for the ripped tracks that aren't available to stream.
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:07PM (#16905871)
I agree that I should've framed my post better and I appreciate that feedback.

I do understand that iTunes is dealing with a long history of development, and that it has to support lots of use cases that probably explain a lot of the rough edges — I even allude to that in my post.

It's amazing that I can still use my decade-old iPod Shuffle with iTunes at all -- that must be a lot of work. But so much has changed since then, and iTunes as an Apple Music client is a genuinely frustrating experience.

I don't expect software to be perfect. But I want iTunes to be better than it is. I'm paying $10/mo for Apple Music, which actually has an incredible library and editorial playlists... they're just nearly impossible to find.

I'd love to have an amazing Apple Music experience that doesn't also need to manage podcasts, TV shows, audiobooks, and almost 2 decades of music players.

Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:54PM (#16905744)
Thanks for the counterpoint, I appreciate it. FWIW I've generally stuck with it since 2003, but I've been more and more frustrated with it recently.
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:53PM (#16905735)
Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:52PM (#16905732)
Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:51PM (#16905714)
Totally fair feedback, thanks. I thought about phrasing it in a different way, but ended up letting my emotions get the better of me.
Re:Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes? on Monday April 23, 2018 @11:39AM (#16904351)
agree, the modals are insane! iOS does better, it's pretty crazy how poorly the desktop has kept up.
Thanks, this is super-helpful feedback! We'll definitely keep it in mind as we get into the groove of doing these. :)
Good suggestion. I think our podcast host lets us embed something... I'll update after we post today's episode.
Thank you! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go.
Thanks! We're still experimenting with the format but we'll throw in some commentary here and there. If folks like it, we can certainly do more. :)
Thanks, we really appreciate it!
Thanks for the detailed comment! I just ordered the ATR2100USB and will give it a shot. I'll follow up with you re: hosting... it's something we're interested in and don't know that much about. Thanks again!
Thank you! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go. :)
Thanks! We'd love to hear your feedback as we go. :)
Thanks! I tried putting links to the original articles in the extended description; some players may not show that. Or maybe I messed it up. :)
Thanks for the suggestion! I put some towels up on the walls but I haven't tried the blanket trick yet...
Thanks for the feedback— the setup we have is less than ideal. We’re both using a Blue Snowball mic, and I’m recording in the supply closet of my shared office (finding quiet space in NYC is hard, especially with kids at home!)

Going to try switching to a dynamic mic with a tighter pickup pattern, but the one I tried on Amazon from CAD was faulty (crazy buzzing around 1khz), so waiting for the next delivery...

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