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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:36PM (#49935520)
I skipped Tahoe and was surprised to have pixelated dock icons now all of a sudden. Bad news I guess that the bug is existing for so long already - I was hoping it's new and temporary.
I couldn't find out on the fly: does it support multiple humans?

A lot of these tools (paperclip) don't, but for our small, agent-supported team, that would be the feature we're looking for. I.e. the agents of different marketing roles talking to each other, with clearly defined 'human in the loop' decision making.

Re:OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:30AM (#47900304)
I find that very obvious too. It started (visibly) shortly after the Opus 4.6 hype.
Which is paywalled, so thanks for posting it here.
Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:22AM (#46717380)
We are quite happy with bunny(.net) stream. Very affordable and easy to use
Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:19AM (#46717364)
Try Bunny Stream, really super simple and affordable
Munich seems to have become the preferred destination for US companies opening their German office (most recent: OpenAI, Notion, Anthropic).

So if Microsoft would have paved that way, it would have been totally worth it for the city.

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:41AM (#43728013)
For me apps like Opal work really well.
Re:Show HN: App that asks 'why?' every time you unlock your phone on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @01:07PM (#42258200)
Opal is incredibly helpful for me. Exactly the right amount of control and annoyance to get me off social media.
Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:50AM (#33187699)
This will be missed and was a really nice growth hack. The following scenario just worked so well:

- Setting up phone for relatives

- Replacing Android Messages with Signal

- “So this is the App to send and receive SMS, and you can also send me and many others secure and free messages on there”

My optimism for Signal becoming mainstream just faded...

Re:Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:30PM (#32869359)
There’s a really good Podcast from FT on the payment issues with porn. It’s more complicated than the chargeback rates. If you want to go down that rabbit hole: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... The podcast is quite a nice history wrap-up on online payments. Episode 8 addresses the current situation with credit card companies most detailed.
Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:26AM (#32853499)
Sketch
Re:Jean-Luc Godard has died on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @10:32AM (#32837780)
Check out mubi.com for a more cineastic approach to streaming
Is yubnub not working anymore? Looks operational at first glance.
Re:Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:17PM (#24945821)
> what percentage of users actually care about using the OSX dictionary while working? They took out a bunch of space to show a user using the dictionary for the word "reading" - a use case that likely doesn't resonate with 99.9% of their users.

Indeed, what a ridicolous example that is! I've not once used the built in dictionary on purpose, only clicked it by mistake. And they chose the word "reading" to highlight some sort of usefulness?

I love Sketch and am a paying user with our company, but this article and discussion does not leave me hopeful for a bright future.

Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:10AM (#24071610)
Exactly my story. Had this with my retina MBP from 2015 and couldn't understand how this is supposed to be usable.

Tried everything, even resetting the OS.

Have a new MPB since Monday, tried Firefox again, no issues at all.

Re:Apple Faceshield on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:03AM (#22813017)
I don't know. But someone posted this in a previous comment, maybe it helps:

> The Czech 3D Printer company Prusa has been on it for a while: https://www.prusa3d.com/covid19/ and they have been open-sourcing the design. You can print it on a 3D printer.

Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:42PM (#21994411)
And the Tesla Cybertruck. I would bet on it falling in the exact same category: Being a Meme first, and a huge success later.
Re:Meetup.com alternatives on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:00PM (#21285301)
The mentioned $2 fee was just a test. Check out the offical statement from meetup.com (linked in the posted article): https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges

>We are not, I repeat not, in the process of making a massive payment change for our existing customers. The confusion was triggered by a limited test to a few hundred groups in two U.S. states. The payment options shared on social media will only apply to organizers who are part of this test. We apologize that the language on the page caused alarm and confusion. We would never make such a change without giving our customers advance notice.

Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:10AM (#20859533)
Leave alone collapsing comment threads. I end up on the commenters profile 50% of the time.
Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:09AM (#20859526)
I generally agree, but what a few lines of CSS would make it much more pleasant to read IMO:

- limit container width so lines don't get too long

- larger text and more line height

And not really CSS but:

- Making it easier to collapse comments on mobile

I know some of those changes would potentially destroy the look & feel that some seem to enjoy around here. However on mobile currently it's only possible to enjoy HN via a third party app though.

They just raised $100M last November, I wouldn't consider them dead... Probably busy hiring :)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airtable#section-fun...

Re:Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:27PM (#19422512)
I'd use this too :)
Re:Firefox 64 Released on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:56AM (#18663137)
Same here. Had hope, but the fans of my RMBP state otherwise.
Re:Firefox 64 Released on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:52AM (#18663109)
Always the same ritual:

- Read about new firefox version

- "I should give it a try again"

- Update and start new firefox

- Open spiegel.de and youtube.com (note: with pi-hole active!)

- Fans of RMBP go crazy, scrolling a news article lags like it's 1999

- "Well, let's hope for a better/usable performance with the next update. I'd love to use it after all..."

:(

Re:I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:34AM (#18543062)
I don't agree. Just because a phone needs foresight and charging, doesn't mean that it's not a massive disadvantage if other accessory also require the same effort. It's just an additional hassle and more things to charge.

That logic doesn't scale.

Re:Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:21AM (#18476091)
Airtable is great - I use it every day. It's perfect for anything in-between document and spreadsheet; when you have to deal with database-like entries that are awkward to handle with a word processor or spreadsheet.

I was hoping that Dropbox might acquire Airtable one day, and integrates it into Dropbox Paper. That would put them ahead of Quip, Coda and the like in an instant (for my use case).

Re:Firefox 62.0 Released on Friday September 07, 2018 @05:20PM (#17937748)
Agreed, and I'm confident to say that every power user would benefit from vertical tabs. After all you can still read the title text when having more than 10 tabs open.

I'm experiencing the retina macbook performance issue, hence I can't use FF + tree style tabs anymore, which was frustrating. Until I recently discovered the Vivaldi Browser (https://vivaldi.com/) which has it as a native option - plus it's built on Chromium. Most Chrome extensions work.

Good setup for me so far!

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