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spkingon The Great Enshittening

“But to get that new, good internet, we have to support technologists of good will and character by terrorizing their venal and cynical colleagues by hitting them where they live: in their paychecks.”

Is the suggestion here an organized boycott of enshittified platforms? Support for government anti-monopoly efforts? I think both of those are unlikely to gain enough traction or have much impact, for all of the reasons outlined in the article.

spkingon The Fallout from the Weirdness at OpenAI

https://archive.ph/pfhpl

spkingon OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role

Shouldn't it be written by ChatGPT?

spkingon The Cassette-Tape Revolution

Within seconds of loading the page, a giant toast taking up half the bottom of the screen, and a separate modal overlay with some other message to subscribe pop up and completely obscure the article. And that's with ad blocking.

https://deathtobullshit.com/ more relevant than ever.

spkingon Plastic Recycling Doesn't Work and Will Never Work (2022)

https://archive.ph/ChFHe

spkingon Monsanto Ordered to Pay $1.5B in Roundup Case

https://archive.ph/NqEom

spkingon Show HN: I made a silly personal landing page

Awesome! Reminds me of the Peter Gabriel video for Sledgehammer.

spkingon Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning

https://archive.ph/agffT

spkingon Daring Fireball, John Gruber, and Threads

HN hug of death…site is down for me.

spkingon The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job (2019)

I used to think that the older I got, the easier it would be to knuckle down and get an hour or two of meaningless work done so I could move on to something more important or interesting. But actually the opposite has been the case, possibly due to overall declining energy levels.

spkingon A New CEO Says Employees Can’t Work Remotely After All, and They Revolt

https://archive.ph/yiH3N

spkingon A Housing Bust Comes for Thousands of Small-Time Investors

https://archive.ph/8wJUp

spkingon The Disappearing White-Collar Job

https://archive.ph/PJ4mR

spkingon Amazon has approval from FTC to acquire One Medical primary-care clinics

Carl's Jr: "F--k you, I'm eating!"

spkingon Apple Needs to Take Its Time with Augmented Reality

https://archive.ph/oTqrd

spkingon US Halts Flights Nationwide After Key FAA System Goes Down

https://archive.ph/Vqh4o

spkingon Ask HN: Do you use a bookmark manager?

https://mymind.com

I like that I don't have to organize anything. I just chuck it in there and let the system organize it for me.

spkingon Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history

That's for sure. My kiddos play with my old childhood Fisher Price and Mattel toys from the late 1970s/early 1980s and they are still in great condition despite decades of abuse. They really were built to last compared to the cheap instant landfill fodder that lines store shelves today.

spkingon Top Holiday Toys from the Year You Were Born

1940: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

spkingon Raising her father’s grave: An interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart

The last survivor of the Titanic died in 2009:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/01/last-titanic-s...

spkingon Mac OS 9

Prince of Persia as well. There goes my whole day.

spkingon Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

I've been using mymind.com (paid), but I like the automatic linking/resurfacing feature of this app.

spkingon Cheat Codes for Life I Know at 36 That I Wish I Knew at 26

I found this list by a 70 year-old to be significantly more interesting and useful:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-k...

spkingon Ask HN: 10k hours rule to master anything. Could I switch career when I am 43?

Best advice, plus best delivery of said advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

spkingon Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009)

I agree, and I think that's a big part of why so many people got excited for the Cybertruck, as an attack on aesthetic blandness.

80s-era movie and TV vehicles were a helluva lot of fun too:

A-Team van, Ninja Turtles party wagon, K.I.T.T., Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308.

And since you mentioned the Countach: https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?t=115

spkingon Show HN: Place to support and validate early startup ideas

This was executed nicely. The ability to include screenshots, a video or link is especially helpful to communicate a concept.

One idea that could be cool would be some kind of forced ranking of features/functionality that idea posters could include so that interested users could indicate what would be most important to them. That would take it beyond high-level elevator pitch and into feature-product fit insights.

spkingon Show HN: Squiggle – A Sketch library for making low-fidelity wireframes

Same as my comment above re: Figma version. The converter seems to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I just don't know what I don't know about XD to ensure quality. Definitely open to an XD power user porting the kit and splitting revenues on it.

spkingon Show HN: Squiggle – A Sketch library for making low-fidelity wireframes

Thanks! I'm new to Figma so I have been relying on a really nice converter as a starting point (https://xd2sketch.com/), but I'd really like to take to take advantage of the auto layout feature and there still seems to be a lot of manual tuning required to get everything 1:1 with the Sketch version.

If a Figma expert wants to take that on I'd be more than happy to partner with them and split revenues on Figma version sales.

sean@squiggle.co

spkingon Show HN: Squiggle – A Sketch library for making low-fidelity wireframes

Hey thanks! Looks like you were/are involved with Discuss.io and you're in the Seattle area too (I'm in Mill Creek).

I have a SaaS product in the UXR space that I'd love to show you. Is the phone # on your site the best way to get in touch?