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This sort of nonsense is what I think will drive adoption of AI for personal apps. Tell it to create a ukulele tuning app and you get one without ads without subscription that you …

He doesn't need to work, and he isn't really retiring even now. He is leaving Google but will be working on the interplanetary internet

I don't know if he had to do technical interviews (I'd imagine not) but what he described was Eric Schmidt approaching him and asking him to leave MCI to work at Google. They asked…

From what I can tell AI, quantum, vaccines, cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health, nuclear energy, climate, food security, astrophysics, democratic resilience There isn't a full list …

Fair enough. I don't use Facebook at all because I don't respect or trust the company or it's mission. I do use Gemini and Claude though.

It isn't just out of the kindness of their hearts that they don't do this. There are laws and regulations. There is also legal risk and reputation. I have to go through a legal and…

A year ago I started moving away from Roku. I think they've always had ads on the home screen which I blocked with a DNS blocklist but the seasonal ad sections that continued poppi…

At my work at also got rid of build cop because that was considered offensive.

I've also seen water usage concerns.

Previous discussion on the article linked from the blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853277

When I was searching for a good copy of The Wizard of Oz to read to my kids it was impossible to use Amazon. Since the book is out of copyright but still popular the results are fo…

I don't know if you can change the icons with the default launcher, but you can with Nova Launcher. I changed pocket's icon to a taco. Not to make it visually distinct but because …

Quick search says it does not. What is your source for this claim?

This is why I subscribe to my local city and regional newspapers. Similar to emailing my representatives about political issues that are of interest to me. It isn't much and I'm ju…

Why are you choosing to compare inventing math to producing a movie? How does that help you advance your argument that it is reasonable for one to be under copyright and not the ot…

Why don't the ebooks include any of the original illustrations? This makes the children's books in particular very unattractive.

You're comparing apples and really big complicated apples. Books are protected by copyright and they only need a computer and 2 sqm of space, right? People make copyright protected…

This was something that I heavily focused on for my feature area a year ago - new user sign up flow. But the decreased latency was really in pursuit of increased activation and con…

I bought a framework 16 shortly after it came out. My one gripe is around the track pad and the modules on either side of it. The fit there is not great. I really wish they would s…

My kids watch and love the Peanuts TV specials. They also love the Peanuts movie that came out a few years ago.

I think the old friend is _her_ old friend, not the stalker's. The sentence is a bit ambiguous but that's what seems to make the most sense to me.

Reminds me of Babbage making allowance for meter. """ ... it is said that he [Babbage] sent the following letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a couplet in "The Vision of Sin": Ev…