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I wonder what the NYT will write about when FB and Trump finally stop being newsworthy?

Ah yes, more unsubstantiated claims about Chinese tech and culture on HN. Can you back up a single thing you've claimed?

In an alternate universe where Apple produces babies, they'll eventually become so thin they'll snap and bend if you look at them funny.

My office replaced our 2015 Macbook's with the "latest and greatest." I hate sitting next to my coworkers who use them now. They're good typists and prior to the switch I didn't ev…

The NYT editorial board seems to have a personal vendetta against FB/Amazon in particular. Twitter and Google get passes in mainstream media, for whatever reason. I wish they would…

The vast majority of Americans don't know/care what the active ingredient in Tylenol is because its effects have been extensively studied and tested and there's strong evidence con…

This is the Nirvana fallacy. You aren't addressing the main point of the article, which is even if marijuana is legalized its use perhaps shouldn't be widely promoted because its h…

I wish the NYT gave Equifax half the scrutiny they give FB.

Anecdotal, but I am not a heavy phone user at all. Within a year of purchasing my brand new iPhone SE, the battery capacity dropped from 100% to 82%, causing it to begin to lag con…

Not that there's anything wrong with reporting on the same topic by multiple publications, but this article just seems like a poor copy of this WSJ article published in August: htt…

You're right, but the aforementioned "12/13" years ago was only 2006. I don't think many significant changes have been made in that period, but I may be wrong.

I would also be interested in this. Many soft drink recipes are well-established and rarely adjusted because even small, well-intentioned changes can damage the brand and customer …

That sounds like poor parenting more than anything else. Also, the "sugar -> hyperactive ADHD kids!" thing is a myth.

My greatest accomplishment as a kid was beating BG2 on "Insane" difficulty as a solo character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8JV3z-Oeo I must have played through the game at l…

Nice resource, thank you for sharing. It's been a why since I've used Ocaml but this will be a good opportunity to review.

Elements of Programming Interviews in Python is excellent imo. The authors give a crash course in all of the data structures and all of the code is written extremely cleanly. Most …

The author's thesis is fundamentally flawed. They say it isn't clear why everyone was so excited to have a Facebook, but that's exactly the answer - because everyone had a Facebook…

I said this this morning and I'll say it again: There's a lot of indefensible stuff Facebook has done in the past 5-10 years that they rightly deserve to be criticized and called o…

Well in the latter the user specifically gives permission to Spotify when they choose to connect their FB account to Spotify's desktop app. NYT's wording makes it sound like they h…

I apologize if my argument wasn't clear enough. My issue isn't that they aren't being factually incorrect, it's that they're seemingly using "facts" to be misleading. Example: Sayi…

News organizations as established as NYT understand the weight of their words because every single one is scrutinized by a board of editors. "Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix…

They needed those permissions to allow for sending/receiving of payments over Messenger. NYT is being intentionally misleading with what "permissions" mean here.

1) This is just a duplicate of the NYT article already on the front page 2) NYT seems to intentionally not elaborating on the "access to users' private messages" part and conflatin…

Facebook isn't tapping your phones microphone 24/7. It's a nice little dystopian theory that's been disproven time and again. A far more probable and less exciting explanation is t…

They'll go right in the same comfy cell as the Equifax execs. Oh wait...