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Apple doesn't necessarily making the best hardware or software, but they are definitely the best at branding and public relations.
https://unrollnow.com/status/1825068918509072852
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I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me.
I block privacy-abusing domains... AlphaGoogle links etc are inaccessible.
I won't disable my adblocker... many commercial sites linked here no good to me.
No Chrome browser... many other sites here don't work.
Maybe it's crazy to expect the net to contain interesting websites that don't have wall-to-wall ads, tracking, require a subscription, or are limited to one specific browser. On the other hand, the web is an order of magnitude larger today than when I used to find such sites.
If it were up to me, each link on HN would have a 'bad ux flag' button, and account settings would have a 'hide bad ux' filter. Then I would have the choice to browse HN without sifting through bad links myself.
> 4/10 The External Link Account Entitlement? It's like they're actively trying to make it sound complicated. WTF this even is? I have no idea what could "The External Link Account Entitlement" mean.
Entitlements are flags (like AndroidManifest permissions) for apps allowing them to do things. It’s not something a user will ever encounter. In this case it is a flag indicating to the reviewer etc that the app links to a website for account creation and management rather than doing it all within the app.
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HN policy is that submissions always link to the primary source. Alternative proxy links (Thread Reader, archive.today, archive.org) are welcome in the comments, but as they are not the primary source, they should not be submitted as the HN topic.
And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
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And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you?
I would guess that they get upvoted because people aren't aware of the concern, people are aware but disagree, people are aware and at least sorta disagree but didn't notice this time, or there's shill upvoting.
Regardless of the reason, in theory, HN might have the power to change the behavior of Twitter/X posters.
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This doesn't stand up to reality. You can't market your way into billions of sales over such a long period while a superior product exists at a lower price sold literally right next to it. You just can't hide the lack of signal for that long. The "iPhones are a status symbol" hasn't been true for a long time because everyone has them. They are the better software and hardware product full stop. Whether that makes the…
> You can't market your way into billions of sales over such a long period while a superior product exists at a lower price sold literally right next to it. Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" would like a word with you...
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And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you?
> 4/10 The External Link Account Entitlement? It's like they're actively trying to make it sound complicated. WTF this even is? I have no idea what could "The External Link Account Entitlement" mean.
Entitlements are flags (like AndroidManifest permissions) for apps allowing them to do things. It’s not something a user will ever encounter. In this case it is a flag indicating to the reviewer etc that the app links to a website for account creation and management rather than doing it all within the app.
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I don't want an X account, so X links are useless to me. I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me. I block privacy-abusing domains... AlphaGoogle links etc are inaccessible. I won't disable my adblocker... many commercial sites linked here no good to me. No Chrome browser... many other sites here don't work. Maybe it's crazy to expect the net to contain interesting websites that don't hav…
And yet individual tweets can be read without an account. Of course, that doesn't work in this case as you will only see the first tweet in the thread, but you still can read a lot of HN submissions from Twitter.
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And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. If there's things on Twitter that are interesting, they may be submitted. Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Furthermore, most people don't go to Twitter to get HN upvotes; they're going there for likes and retweets.
Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions.