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Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:48PM (#50173754)
> I thought I was going into the tech industry and it turns out I'm really in the addiction industry. I now know a lot about how to deliver hits of dopamine at scale that bump up daily engagement

You could've got out sooner once you caught a whiff of this?

And where do you place the people at the US Capitol on January 6th?
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:11PM (#50081938)
Do you work for their marketing department?

This commercial fell completely flat for me. It's cringe like they're trying to be a sitcom, but all the jokes miss. It's not cool or aspirational. I don't leave thinking I need this new thing in my kitchen.

Thanks for looking into it!
Yeah HDPE is/was generally recognized as safe.

In America, most milk comes in HDPE jugs unless you opt for the glass bottles (much more expensive), or paper cartons (PFAS lining concerns).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_milk_container

So one would hope HDPE is still GRAS (i.e. there should be a focused study on LD/HD PE).

Please check aquifer levels and let us know if they're back to historic norms.
Re:Almost no skill required to cook a steak on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:28PM (#49199701)
Interesting, the NYT had a tip on flipping every 90s, but it was with a cast-iron pan and not a "cold sear". That was too smokey for our weak kitchen exhaust, so it was the last time I tried flipping multiple times.

But Lam Lam's cold sear video doesn't seem to make that much smoke on a non-stick, so I'll give this a shot again.

(Personally the reverse sear has been my idiotproof go-to.)

Thanks!

I beg to differ: over-easy is more difficult because the egg whites stick more readily because there's no fat there. And you really can't mess up scrambled eggs.

Everyone here seems to drown their over-easy eggs in oil to make them not stick to the pan.

I can cook an over-easy egg with less than a teaspoon of oil on a non-stick.

If I do it on cast-iron, it's easily twice that. That adds up to a lot of oil being throw away in a year. And while I love butter on bread, I don't want the taste of it with my eggs.

If you watch the videos, folks use a very generous amount of oil and butter. They basically "shallow"-fry their eggs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070419

Re:So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:12PM (#49014164)
Logging in is enough friction to prevent me from browsing casually. Especially when I'm on a work computer.

One benefit is my productivity had a temporary boost this week until I find another site to read.

Unfortunately Germany phased out nuclear power, but continues to burn coal.
Re:Tidal AI Policy on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:10AM (#48719496)
Listeners will likely want to avoid it.

But "creators" pushing AI music won't tag their slop as such because they want to monetize (surprise, they're not doing it for the love of the game).

So this hinges on Tidal being able to reliably identify AI-generated music.

> They are criminals, and they are committing crimes, but everyone knows that.

77.2 million people in America don't seem to know, or don't seem to care.

Re:What it feels like to work with Mythos on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#48464675)
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Re:Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:56PM (#48297033)
Yubikeys could be cheaper. In addition to the two I have, I bought two more to store offsite with friends and family for redundancy (with access to my password manager + important email accounts).
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:00PM (#48011447)
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:35AM (#48010044)
I agree with you this was not Dale Carnegie's intent when he wrote the book, but alexmuresan probably takes issue because the "red pilling" crowd have used Carnegie's advice to manipulate people.

Personally, salespeople have randomly complimented me and repeated my name over and over, and on the receiving end it weirded me out. So the problem is that in certain situations there is an overarching "what did you want to get out of that person?". Don't be those people.

Strike up conversations because you enjoy people and their stories.

Yeah, I don't know how this dupe is making it to the front page when the first-party blog post with mitchellh posting in the thread is right there.
Re:SFO Quiet Airport (2025) on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:12PM (#47895194)
Unfortunately there's also a large subpopulation of people flying who wear noise-cancelling headphones and have their eyes glued to their phones; choosing to be disengaged from their immediate surroundings.
Re:Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:42AM (#47850397)
Luckily there are two lines: the Air and the Pro.

The issue people had was from 2016-2019, the Macbook Pros sacrificed a lot of usability for thinness, when that should only happen for the Airs.

Re:Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind on Sunday April 19, 2026 @01:07PM (#47825791)
Yeah, this is highly dependent on the child and parent. Some kids just require attention, are more stubborn, or are just terrible sleepers and that's definitely gonna take a greater toil on the parents.

Sure there's Bringing up Bébé, sleep training, etc. but sometimes you just get difficult kids at no fault of the parents. And some people are just okay with the chaos of children.

Re:I still prefer MCP over skills on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:00PM (#47713102)
> Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but can you explain this more? I've been using skills for repeatable tasks. Why an MCP instead?

Keep in mind this is a Forbes "Site", so basically a personal blog with some minor vetting.
One would hope there would be some sanitization of attachments to prevent this.

I also wish there was a regular option in iOS Messages to disable link previews.

Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:56PM (#47252124)
In my experience, USB-C ports are more fragile than 3.5mm audio jacks for repeated plugging in / unplugging cycles.
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:55AM (#47249350)
Hey, it took courage to remove that headphone jack.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/

Re:Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:18PM (#47243000)
Thanks!
Re:Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:46PM (#47237857)
What’s MTE? I couldn’t find a reference to this anywhere in the press release or spec comparisons.
Re:The happiest I've ever been on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:59PM (#47200168)
Also, I think for a good number of people, their first job out of college is oftentimes one they will look fondly back on because they've just finished ~17 years of school, have financial independence with a salary, and are still bright-eyed about all the possibilities.

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