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We are a dying breed. A whole new generation has never known an App Store without ads. To them this is the norm.

Yes. My wife’s mother keeps buying crap in game using my card and I have no reasonable way of blocking her from doing so if I want to keep app purchase sharing. It’s insane. Does n…

At this point why even use spotlight? Raycast or a list of other maybe more minimalistic replacements would work great.

Didn’t oracle cloud offer something like that free forever?

There’s poor dental hygiene and then there is nuking all the bacteria in your mouth with mouthwash. You can have perfect dental hygiene and never use mouth wash in your life. Just …

In my personal, anecdotal experience... Once you get far enough in ANY sport, you start considering tradeoffs between risking long term health and improving performance. If you are…

BMW XM is a great example of how not to do this. Want to turn on your fancy seat vents? 3 taps on the large screen in the middle. Want to change some temps/fan speed? Swipe(not as …

This AI is basically a search engine layer for the wix library of components. It uses pre-defined colour palettes, with minor modifications. I hope you’re right, but I don’t unders…

We all project/assume based on the bubble we live in. In my 18 years of in-house software dev experience (several countries, companies of different sizes), not once have I even hea…

In this case it wasn’t a LLM, or AI. It was a pretty dumb chat bot script.

I picked up meditating daily in an attempt to address one of my mental disorders. Falling asleep is much easier for me now, whereas I used to struggle with it a lot. My thoughts us…

I am not sure if cloudflare is liked by HN this week, but so far, I’ve not had a bad experience with their registrar. Fast and cheap.

No. That’s still a lottery and you are basically saying I’m paying more, so I expect a better service. This does not guarantee results. At all. What you want is a third party. Some…

I ask because I got curious about sveltekit when the 1.0 release happened and am now trying to build a little app with it. My experience has been extremely frustrating. It feels li…

The new editing interface (Gutenberg) has been written in react and there are rumours about more of the backend being rewritten in it too. edit: I meant more of the admin area, sor…

They lag, because it makes the laptops more profitable. Older chips cost less. They are crushing the competition, their profits show that and profits are the ultimate goal.

Sadly, the NLP world is full of hot air. I've seen so many companies get funding for complete "written by a 12-year old" dogshit "industry leading IP", it's not even funny anymore.…

You are a single guy younger than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year Ding, except I'm in a long term committed relationship. Interesting that it thought I was single (I said no to…

Hey, I wasn't sure how correct it would be to try and self-promote on HN, was more looking for steps to take/routes to follow to help her on her way, but here is her Behance: https…

Short: my girlfriend is a good graphic designer, her account on Elance of 2 years got closed for no reason and now she doesn't know where to turn to. Long: I'm a developer (I do ev…

CBS Canada, did this about a year ago, very interesting watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0pYUdfGiw

This is awesome, but as others have said, the Blizzard legal team will come knocking on your door very soon. If I were you and if you're serious about continuing working on this, I…

We've been asked to provide logs which include:  Date  Time  IP Address  URL and Query (Domain will be found within the query string of the __utm.gif, as will Referrer of the p…

The first paragraph kind of ignores the homeless and the poor and even Mr Average Joe, who's got a list of medical conditions, which he can't afford to fix, so getting himself lock…