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Why the eyeglass form factor? As people have mentioned, fitting eyewear is no joke. Not everyone has a face for RayBans.

Why not simpler, more discreet electrode pads? Get nifty with flex PCB and wearables instead of another "Smart Glasses".

Sweatband, tiara, smart crown, halo.. No crowding here.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:55PM (#50344403)
It was bad in 2015. I have watched people leave and come back though, which says something.
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:07PM (#50339951)
If you had to manage what has become critical infrastructure around the globe using something like Launchpad, you'd understand.

It's not optional.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:04PM (#50339898)
and of all those patches, the ones that have staying power get upstreamed as Debian packages all over again.
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:03PM (#50339876)
They probably don't know Mint was based on Kubuntu. Or that they all - like DSL, Knoppix and others are all based on Debian and if you're brave, you can pivot to Sid from each of them.

When I worked at Canonical, the funnel I observed was Gamer Culture and the Chronically Online. They don't know from Debian.

Re:Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:19PM (#50328743)
Some part of me does, and then I go look at all the horrible UX experiments it enabled (mine included) https://ps.ucw.cz/e16/e16-themes-gallery/

One-shotted script-fu buttons and those gradients haven't aged well.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:15PM (#50308842)
AWS condensed 5 SMEs from the NOC into 1 expensive cPanel wannabe and so it goes, and will continue to go.

That ship (of Theseus) has sailed. Computing is going to become intensely personal again.

Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:38AM (#50287982)
NetBSD has beginners?
Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:45PM (#50283982)
He got one for free in exchange for making a video that glosses over the fact that it uses proprietary resin cartridges.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:43PM (#50283969)
I am so deeply banned from Reddit it feels retaliatory in some way.

Twitter, too for that matter, but for different reasons.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:33AM (#50243413)
Whomever controls the means of production (TSMC) controls the direction of progress.

Nobody is in control but Taiwan Semiconductor. Not Samsung, not Micron, not Nvidia.

Orders that can't be fulfilled get canceled. Canceled orders mean canceled plans and canceled companies follow.

Someone bigger will buy the husk and monetize it somehow - probably for gambling.

Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:23AM (#50242468)
Not a lot would happen, but we're still pushing the boundaries of the platform.
Re:What goes into making an animated film? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:37PM (#50237528)
Oh, CGI, not cell animation, like in an animated film.
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:31PM (#50237489)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

"BonziBuddy was described as spyware[1] and adware,[2] and was discontinued in 2004 after Bonzi Software, Inc. faced lawsuits and fines regarding the software.[3]"

It's just a matter of time before something like a "Zoltar screensaver for Basecamp" becomes an IP siphon.

Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:28PM (#50237463)
Cursed skeuomorphism
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:56PM (#50174769)
Being comfortable navigating a city like Dallas while feeling at home and welcome at the Perot and Aquarium did a lot of character building.

I grew up in Dallas in TAG and Montessori and one of the most impactful days ever was a trip Downtown in the wintertime, just to be in the middle of Downtown during the day developing situational awareness by navigating to and from Thanksgiving Square.

Sometimes once is enough.

Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:56PM (#50160016)
that's the joke
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:05AM (#50130824)
Bertone was not for sale, or not worth the authenticity, one.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:03AM (#50130794)
"So, next morning Daisy took off to serve breakfast at the Boar's Nest where they serve tough greasy cookies. Don't miss that if you can."
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:39PM (#50126256)
The cult is personality with this man requires him to keep stacking chips. Cow chips.
If you outlaw radios, only outlaws will have radios.

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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:21PM (#50124051)
They're probably all over X, but I wouldn't know.
Re:AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:19PM (#50112541)
Apologists. MAGA's single purpose is upheaval. There is no upside.
Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:04PM (#50105660)
I'd be into something as useful as Quartz Composer was for Desktop Widgets, but not a full skeuomorphic desktop.

Indigo Magic or CDE is as close as I'd want to go with that concept.

2004 was a long time ago, and I suppose what is old can be new (again).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPTtdzBig

Re:Doory – Open-Source Canva on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:54AM (#50056534)
Self-critique is absent today.

I have recently thought and written about the things shipped today that my grade 7 clique would have ground into powder and cast into the wind like so many ashes.

Where there is a lack of artistic critique and application of the scientific method, there is slop for slop's sake.

It's making me suffer, and my art is improving for it.

Re:Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:44PM (#49886519)
Is it a legit summary? Does it derail you?
Re:Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#49883148)
0:04 for the first , 0:02 for the second. I'm personally all done with that.
Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:16AM (#49877448)
Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

Re:The Copilot+ PC brand is dead on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:35PM (#49858144)
You're telling me all those laptops with the keyboard, trackpad and screen askew are tainted in another way?

Who is buying these?

What forecast suggests these BOMs are profitable?

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