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Re:Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessi...
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:04AM (#50313104)
Shoutout for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(podca...
A goofy, often NSFW podcast by two hosts who really like Star Trek.
Re:Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessi...
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:01AM (#50313086)
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Re:New iMac with M6
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:35PM (#50266823)
Don't forget a decent webcam and pretty good speakers. I roll these out at work and I don't like retiring them after seven years; however monitors don't last forever either.
There's something to be said about the aesthetic of having everything in one, not having speakers and Webcams strewn across the place.
Re:New iMac with M6
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:31PM (#50266790)
They also have fans in them, that's not necessarily good for longevity. Thermally, yes, until the fans clog up or start making noise.
Re:Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:28PM (#50253175)
Users are coming back. These aren't the sort of users to come back to a dying platform
Re:How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:29AM (#50221587)
If you're playing an ad supported game, you kind of know the deal already. It still is sad of course, but it is what it is.
Re:Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play
on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:25AM (#50114062)
Simon Willison:
Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work!
Build a two player competitive pong like game where two players use their phones close to each other and the game state is sent via audio noises which the web microphone API can interpret - but add graphical and gameplay twists to make it a lot more fun and intertwine than pong
Claude Opus 5.5 Extra in Claude Code.
Tags: game-design, ai, generative-ai, llms, claude-code
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompe...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:55PM (#49997242)
A reminder to listen to the Visa episode of Acquired Podcast if you truly wish to understand the scale of Visa and how it all works. Even at 3+ hours you'll love every minute of it.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:55PM (#49949828)
When searching to verify the veracity of this, this post made me laugh: https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/23/not-dead-yet-what-bob-cr... (Circa 2020).
Re:Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:25PM (#49860688)
Listen to the Visa episode of The Acquired Podcast, and you'll change your mind.
Re:Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:20PM (#49858623)
That could be part of the reason, but also I think insisting on chip all this time just really slows down a store that doesn't really spend on cashiering all that much. Tap to pay can shave off a few seconds on every transaction (ever been behind someone in the store who finally pulls out their wallet, finds the business end of their card, inserts it, waits 20 seconds...).
Millions of transactions a day, over thousands of stores, it can make a huge difference in time saved.
Re:Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:09PM (#49858496)
I get why the banks are not happy, but I can tell them that I am not going to use Chase Wallet, Bank of America Wallet, Citi Wallet...just pay the fee and be thankful for the reduced payment friction, which they invariably make money from. PS: Nobody is going to use Paze (yet another half baked wallet), other than to collect the free $10 to sign up for it.
Somewhat related, even Walmart relented and now supports Apple Pay/Contactless. Every big merchant has now relented (Kroger, Home Depot, Walmart).
Re:Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:21PM (#49851346)
When I read this post earlier, I immediately thought, "don't cross the streams."
Re:Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:27PM (#49839121)
https://www.howardluksmd.com/sometimes-our-joints-just-hurt-...
Many MRI “abnormalities” are, well… normal. “Age-appropriate” findings on MRI readings are vastly under-appreciated. If you are over 50, have no pain, and place you into an MRI, you have at least a …
A 20% chance of having a meniscus abnormality. An 80% chance of something being listed as an abnormality in your knee. A 10-15% or higher chance of having a rotator cuff tear. An 80% chance of having a disc bulge in your back or neck.
Re:Making Tailscale Faster
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:37PM (#49825533)
I use an Island Router with Wireguard server built in, it handles DDNS and even the base Island router is beefy enough to give me up to 954mbps or so of Wireguard to right inside my home network. It took 2 minutes to set up.
That being said, I do understand the appeal of Tailscale and have used it.
Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:04PM (#49782595)
I live in a small midwest market, and all the landscaping companies are locally owned and awful.
PE bought two of them, combined them into one, and now they, at about the same cost, do what they say they are going to do, answer the phone, hire competent people, and do a good job.
Likewise, PE has bought up most of the local plumbing and HVAC, and that's been a bit of a bummer, and gotten more expensive, but if you need someone right now, they are there (and answer the phone, etc), as opposed to the local concern who may be on vacation and can get back to you in 2 weeks.
There are some really good local small businesses/trades people, but like the 1950s, in a lot of aspects they are overly romanticized.
Re:Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy Culture
on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:42PM (#49762181)
Author authorized epub available here: https://github.com/gfscott/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aest...
Re:Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy Culture
on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:38PM (#49762152)
Being of that age, hearing about and then using ethernet in the dorms was sort of like discovering Oz after living in Kansas. I had so many questions! How did they manage all that traffic? It was like having a firehose after using an eye dropper all your life.
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:32PM (#49731774)
Firefox/Mozilla really lost the plot.
Remember when it was the fastest thing around and simple?
Now it's an also ran. AI doesn't help here. Focus on what made it great in the beginning, make it the most performant browser around. Put Fable on the case if need be. Do the browser thing well!
$49.99 a month, up to six family members (uses previous family sharing system), unlimited devices (with some carve outs for Vision Pro). Limit of six total claims a year seems low until you realize that's every 60 days.
Available starting September 14th, 2026.
Re:Apple Watch Series 12
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:48PM (#49634040)
I imagine it was ran past their likely large legal department.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:46PM (#49634005)
Having used a Z Fold 8, it's sort of a Mini. I'd love to see a non-folding phone in the same passport form factor, I think they'd sell a ton.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:45PM (#49633999)
You can easily turn it off - it's a security feature:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-face-id-and-at...
Re:The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:01PM (#49590913)
Saying you're not going put in a very popular feature (CarPlay) that probably doesn't cost that much to put in is one of the biggest self owns I can think of, especially when saying "we're going to do a better job." Has any OEM done a decent job with navigation, ever, perhaps aside from Tesla.
CarPlay is sort of like Apple Pay / Tap to Pay, even Home Depot, Kroger, and now Walmart capitulated. I hope there's fire to the smoke that Tesla will add Carplay, and I suspect if they do, Rivian won't be far behind.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:21PM (#49486595)
It's day job tasks/database CRUD, so I tell the LLM what I need. I used to write all my work apps in plain jane PHP/MySQL and I use that as a guide for the LLM, as in use this app as a guide on how I want things. The bonus of using plain PHP/MySQL/PDO is that the apps are small, so no issues with context windows or using complex frameworks.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released
on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:45PM (#49481186)
Before vibe coding was a thing, HTMX made it super easy for me to implement Ajax like features. It was the most approachable library I've ever seen, and I'll always be grateful for it.
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:09PM (#49437295)
The Neo keyboard just feels nicer than even an M5 Air.
Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:32AM (#49376079)
Just because it's easy for say you and me, does not mean it's easy for others to do. Helper seems like a more appropriate word here, consultant being a loaded term these days!
Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:11AM (#49375789)
Something seems off here, I don't see a huge climb in pricing. I feel $9 a month a seat is inline with SAAS pricing.
Today's pricing: https://www.getharvest.com/pricing
Pricing in 2023 (I looked at various years): https://web.archive.org/web/20230530052857/https://www.getha...