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Another noteworthy annoyance is the increasing number of services that try to aggressively push you towards passkeys, without you ever asking. Every other time I open the Costco ap…

I am generally not in favor of adding regulation, but this is a place where I would support it. Anything that you BUY needs to be your property. This means you must have the abilit…

I think there's a case for a corporate class action lawsuit against Neal for employee productivity loss every time every time a new game is published.

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I'm curious about the environmental argument here. At face value it makes sense, but is there some hard data that shows that there is a meaningful number of consumers that buy new …

> [...]And because federal agencies were allowed to deploy the product during the review, GCC High spread across the government as well as the defense industry. By late 2024, FedRA…

I hope so too, but don't believe that's the ultimate intent here. The problem is that the tech independence is being pushed by government who want more control - not less. (Not spe…

100% agree. The level of tracking has gotten to absurd levels. I needed a couple of grocery items and happened to be next to an Amazon Fresh. Cool, let’s try it! Went in, found eve…

Looks like Microsoft is taking a page out of the cable companies' playbook. Next up, there will be "discounted" Copilot 365 or whatever: a 2 year contract with the "promotional pri…

+1! Please Google let me have a normal TOTP authentication. No SMS, no "open the gmail app on this other device and tap this prompt", no mandatory Google Authenticator, etc.

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There's still a "wow factor" associated with this. I live in a city that doesn't have Waymo. I recently had a work trip to a city that does. Waymo was 25% more expensive than Uber …

I had issues with wired CarPlay in multiple cars (and consistently on my Crosstrek) Turned out to be a loose lightning port on my iPhone. A 15 minute visit to my local Apple Store …

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Thank you Peter! (not just for this answer, but for doing these AMAs in a regular basis!)

Hey Peter. Is there any way to confirm whether a request to USCIS to bump a case from F2A to IR was recevied or acknowledged? We haven’t received any 797-C or any other confirmatio…

I agree. This is empowering people to program in the most superficial level. It’s about volume, not quality. It’s the same vein in which social media “empowers” social relationship…

Not GP, but feel similarly. I'll offer my 2 cents: > but with the dial turned down a little. Exactly for this reason. Yes, HN is a social network. And if it follows the same enshit…

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My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok. So the president can elect not to use said power.

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