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> better off building a war chest and pulling a Valve

They tried, it's called the Epic Game Store

As the author points out, it's not really a "MP3 vs Uncompressed" conversation, it's a "which encoder are you using" conversation ...

because any of us from the late 90s/early 2000s who used the early versions of LAME will tell you in a second how easy it was to pick MP3 over raw, even at 320kb/s

> what happens at a company like Apple that leads them to not cancel this product and come up with something totally new

I'm in the suburbs of a middling Australian city, nothing special and not in particularly high socioeconomic areas

There is at least two people per bus wearing them (or at least very good comps), they're as common as Sony XM5 or XM6's and while they're not Airpods penetration, they're wildly popular for their pricepoint

"reefer madness" has put legitimate research of that plant back immeasurably

wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?

> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life.

And here we come back to the aged old "can you seperate an artist from their art" because I'd argue when you watch a movie you are watching a product of their life

Not all VISA or Mastercard transactions are credit backed, I'd argue that the large majority aren't anymore they're more commonly debit VISA/Mastercard

+1

For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost

I'm in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent, we have a backup desalination plant and water security is common on the political agenda - water is probably as expensive here than most places in the world

"The 2025-26 water use price for commercial customers is now $3.365/kL (or $0.003365 per litre)"

https://www.sawater.com.au/my-account/water-and-sewerage-pri...

> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'm really coming around to the idea for the lucky of us (and I'm assuming a lot about the average HN poster) AI really is a force-multiplying tool

This is SUCH a great story. Thanks for writing up both the human and technology parts with equal love and depth.

> I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them

The Network Effect.

That's it. Their friends are there so they're there.

You're using Discord to describe the same thing that could easily be applied to any social network.

Yes, it's borne of teenagers and gaming, but for all it's dark corners it's just the modern IRC. There are good servers, there are bad servers, there are servers full of idiots and there are servers full of very smart people.

(and we're way past monetisation kicking in, the first paid options launched almost 10 years ago)

BNW has proven to be far more prescient, and insidiously so, than 1984

I don't like that this is reminding me that I'm not in my mid 20s anymore

The aesthetic hasn't aged well, but the nostalgia hits great

This might be the single most 2026 headline i've seen yet

Curious timing https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

Probably worth flagging that Silver sold FiveThirtyEight to, and then worked at, WaPo's biggest competitor

Same. If I had a dollar for everytime I've said "hey siri where are my keys/airpods/phone" they'd have paid for themselves several times over.

Headlines like this are inversely proportional to how cheap flights into the US are right now, it's almost as if no-one wants to travel there.

Yes, but it's optional

Love this! All I've ever wanted is a modern version of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

The sooner this "communication as entertainment" era of humanity passes the better

Asgard's Wrath 2 got critical acclaim for being a good *game*, not just a good VR game.

If they can't make it work with something that got a 10 on IGN, then maybe they just can't make it work, but I think we're coming to the end of the age where tech companies can't just "start a game studio" and it be successful, looking at you Amazon and Netflix

An Aperture-like is still the stand out missing piece here, especially when you have the Garageband to Logic and iMovie to Final Cut progression

Photos isn't even close to the genuine Lightroom competitor that Aperture was

What if it's Military Grade Snake Oil?

Docker + Immich + Tailscale is the killer replacement to Google & Apple Photos, it's simply that simple

It is! It's why we advocate for a broader umbrella of dx for ASD.

There are kids who are are independant and almost functionally neurotypical, they probably don't even need "helpers", but still need assistance that they wouldn't get if they didn't get a dx under the "old" definitions

That's what I mean by "impacts of" :)

ASD isn't treatable with medication. Its impacts can, but Autism itself is largely pharmalogically untreatable