One thing that always worried me about bluetooth headphones was their proximity with the brain, for prolonged periods of time. As such, for several years, I've already replaced my legacy Bose wired headphones 3 times, since I can only get them on eBay whenever the ones I own start failing for some reason. I am almost sure they are clones, but there is nothing that comes close to them on the market in terms of wired headphones with noise cancellation. I even wrote an article on this: https://lopespm.com/notes/2025/02/22/wireless-headphones.htm...
I've very thankful that we are coming back to wired headphones.
> It’s also clear that kids whose parents restrict phone use seem to have superpowers compared to those that don’t.
Love this phrase. What might happen is that the next generation, upon seeing this opportunity, will do the opposite of their elders and highly value focus, and more readily dismiss quick gains.
If my word is enough, this article was actually written by me. Although it would be quite ironic if it was written entirely by GPT, with no revisions whatsoever :)
Meetup suffers from a similar issue, where one cannot perform bulk changes to all the subscribed groups, which becomes unwieldy when one has over 100 subscribed groups.
Apart from this, it happened just a few months ago that these settings suddenly stopped working, so I received several non-solicited emails from notifications that should have been disabled.
Issues like this could have a significant negative impact in user experience and retention, in my opinion
> Christopher Null has a name that is notorious for breaking software code - airlines, banks, every bug caused by a programmer who didn’t know a type from their elbow has hit him.
This one made chuckle, and TIL that Null is a real life surname.
Apart from the different view you mentioned (added screenshot and top comments), I believe the other more subtle difference/advantage is that it picks up the most relevant stories on any given day, and filters out the others from previous days.
My experience around this is that when I check the latest "daily", I know from which day I can start reading, and all the stories starting from there will be new to me. Otherwise, checking the "best" stories, say, every day, I would have the added effort of filtering out the ones I've already seen.
"By contrast, reusable metal straws and canvas bags require something like 10-100x the energy and materials to manufacture, and need regular cleaning to avoid spreading disease. So unless you use them many times, they end up being worse for the environment. I lose them much faster than that, and have better things to do with my attention than remember to bring bags with me everywhere I go, so I just use those old-school plastic bags whenever I can."
This is not a valid argument. A bad habit should not be a justification for a devious behavior.
I would even argue it is easier to bring your reusable container of choice when going shopping, and if that habit is really formed, then you wont be able to exit your home or car without it, because something will seem to be missing.
Take for example the backpack or "granny cart". They are much more comfortable to use when compared to lugging around many plastics bags around your hands, and the granny cart is much better for your back.
A comment made before by another user about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outages offers an interesting perspective:
"This outage coincides with FBs PSC (performance summary cycle) time. I wonder if this is folks trying to push features so they get “impact” for PSC."[1]
I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon. If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it.
It is an interesting concept to have these borderless, less limited kindergartens. Another example is a Tokyo kindergarten which was architected to provide more freedom to children, and let them play and experiment as they wish[1]
Very good point. I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon.
If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it.
Same here, for years. It was the best way I could find to consume HN.
It does not require a newsletter subscription and one can consult it whenever he/she wishes.
I normally consult it once or twice per day, and make a conscious effort to focus my attention on that task for a continuous time amount.
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