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Claims by an unidentified author(s) replying to comments with a 4-hour old HN account.. How did this make it to the front page other than the catchy name?

Totally agree - I don't find "stunningly thin and light design" to be a selling point any more. I want to hold a durable device without feeling like it might break or slip out of m…

Yes, agree that like any other technology, the artists typically get the short end of the stick regardless of the delivery platform. Even for the megastars, more money is raked in …

Yes, the rates vary by platform. In the US, there's a combo of statutory (or CRB-approved) rates on the publisher side, and negotiations on the label side. On the publisher/songwri…

And if publishers and/or labels were able to obtain better rates - via direct negotiations, the CRB, or otherwise - presumably some of those fractional cents per stream would trick…

Lost in all coverage of this battle of the middlemen is the effect on the artists actually making the product. How would lower prices make any difference in Spotify’s royalty rate …

It’s beyond laughable that the company didn’t better address these concerns beyond performative press releases without the need for regulatory intervention before rolling out in an…

Fueling clickbait conspiracy theories is one probable outcome that comes to mind. For example, even a winning candidate may claim that a "woke" employee sabotaged the site in an ef…

Somebody page Kanye to say something stupid so we can flush SA out of the news cycle already. Elon's just not up to par these days.

Xoogler here - Totally agree that the bulging middle management layers and lack of crisp CEO vision have dismantled the company's ability to weather the changes of "growing up". Ha…

You can still grab bl.ing for the promo price of $3,899! (11/1/23 ~3pm ET GoDaddy quote)

Great overview, thanks for sharing. Maybe this was unintentional, but I got a good laugh out of, "In 1952, the International Astronomical Union changed the definition of time"!

Release the lobbyists! Hopefully this moves forward without getting too watered down. Its limited scope is more promising than recent attempts at more comprehensive data protection…

Announced in a Friday-before-holiday email. The dollar amount isn't likely to break the bank for many users, but as a percentage it's just taking advantage of a captive user base. …

I've heard similar stories from others. My Nest doorbell has issues, too, unless someone is right on the porch. I'm ready to get cameras but waiting for the next Prime Day when I c…

Nice. Now do Xcode!

Don't forget the real estate binge.. even as more and more people were WFH'ing.

Me: "How about a printer where I can scan a QR code, like an IoT device, and it 'just works'"? Tech industry: "How about AR glasses?" While the complexity of translating screen -> …

While privacy policies are increasingly tailored to an app's actual data usage,* there are still FAR too many out there full of the same copypasta allowing a company to do whatever…

The bug tracker, deployment, and testing tools are very mature. It was the task tracking by spreadsheet on my teams that got to me, and lack of unified project management tooling a…

Since employees, (many) customers, and investors aren't happy, seems like time for a change. It's the layers between the puppet and army that cause the most issues IMO, but vision …

Putting aside the product concerns, from my recent Xoogler perspective, they absolutely need a new CEO. Start with a chaotic management style that is constantly reorg'ing and forci…

"No safety or surprise, the end" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI