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It is actually incredibly clever and never thought about it until now. I can relate to so many services I have spent some time curating, managing, triaging, etc ... It helped me cr…

Couldn't disagree more with the first 2 paragraphs. It feels like saying Apple publishes a slightly different version of its iPhone every year. I think you will find plenty of diff…

There clearly was a discoverability issue with 3D Touch. When you knew which app supported the feature, it was awesome but there was no way of knowing in advance if there was suppo…

If I had to guess, I would say that the HN crowd is not fond of unverified claims that are not backed by any source other than the person personal opinion. > "Obj-C is a much bette…

The very first paragraph : > “ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working with Google and other U.S. tech giants to develop a new way of making semiconductors more powerful.…

QA here. The article is decent for someone who has little to no experience in the field and wishes to know more about QA practices or processes.

> then content creators realized that GR is stealing thunder and started dropping RSS, and then GR died and we ended up with no Reader and no RSS. Funny how anyone can define Histo…

Am I the only one seeing the irony of having The Verge talk about Firefox and privacy when the website is bloated with tracking scripts?

> Seriously, who cares about a warranty on a $6 thing? Just because you do not care doesn't mean it should apply to everyone. My parents would definitely use a warranty on a $6 thi…

The problem with this reasoning is that it doesn't apply to countries outside the US. Take Europe for example where the healthcare system is miles ahead compared to the US yet Euro…

The fact that iPad never had 3D Touch adds another argument as to why developers never truly adopted the feature.

and it reassigned thousands of engineers across the company to fix a security vulnerability earlier this year, delaying other Marcus products by months, The Journal reported. I won…

Ultimately people will vote with their wallet if they truly want this or not and no matter how long I look at this, I don’t see it being the future we are heading.

Maybe the goal was to find a way to get a lot of medical records and it didn't make much sense to continue Deepmind Health once that goal has been achieved - hence the move to Goog…

Yet another feature being removed that noone ever remembers using.

> WebKit that was forked by Google because they couldn't collaborate with Apple? You say "they couldn't collaborate" I say "Google really wanted to compete". Remember that it was G…

> There is no open source in iOS and the entire platform has an anti open source culture. People really have short memory and unfortunately have too much biais to even make a simpl…

And yet, IMHO, none of what you listed is a reason enough for creating this unseemly situation.

"Not sure what the HK protesters endgame is here." People are fed up about how the system works and about their life and the life of people they know. They want things to be "bette…

You should tell that to Jeff Bezos.

Same thing happens in France where police are filmed gazing and beating some people out (even old people)[1] Someone already lost an eye few months ago.[2] President guard is disgu…

"I'm honestly shocked that business travelers want to stay in AirBnBs." "it almost always makes more sense" "most of the time" "if the hotels are outrageously expensive for whateve…

I spoke with several of my friends who are doctors and for them, there is no general rule that applies to everyone ("you should drink at least X"). However, the most common rule is…

Amazon cares about counterfeit products as much as YouTube cared about copyright videos in its infancy. It's just here to enable growth until they start to fight it.